The Great Lakes Viper fleet is growing — we know the “Great Lakes” is an obscenely large geographic region with sizable travel distances, but it’s also home to some of the best sailing venues in North America: Kingston, Detroit, Sarnia, and now, Chicago. Two Vipers entered The Windy City this winter: the legendary Viper 55 […]
Happy New Year to Viper 640 sailors everywhere! With the turn of the calendar comes the time to join or renew class association membership for 2013. If you missed the blast e-mail from the class earlier this week, here’s why you should be a part of the class association… We all share the fun and […]
With the holidays here, we decided to bring back the Better Know a Viperer series as a present to everyone in the class and to give folks something to read if they’re tired of watching Christmas specials and college football bowl games. The only natural choice to break this spell was Viper 640 supercrew Lee […]
Alamitos Bay Yacht Club is host to one of the largest annual small boat regattas on the West Coast, the annual Turkey Day Regatta. I remember doing this regatta as a youth in Lasers in freezing cold weather in 30kts of breeze and knew the conditions would dictate the event. Local Viper rep Tim Carter […]
The last Viper regatta on Western Long Island Sound for 2012 had no entry fee, no recorded scores, no trophies, the smallest turnout of the year, and had boat owners in a panic derigging boats to avoid a hurricane that was closing in on the area. Yet it might have been the most successful regatta […]
Dave Nickerson is the Viper 640 class’s Technical Committee chairman. Dave, along with his Tech Committee colleagues Ben “Carbon Mongoose” Steinberg, Tim “Timbo” Carter and Professor Bob Matthews, are the keepers of the sword, inspecting Vipers with rulebooks in hand and ruthlessly burning tow lines that are a millimeter too thin and declaring that the […]
Garrett Johns is the secretary of the Viper class. At the risk of insulting those of you who have the Class Constitution memorized, “the Secretary shall be responsible for taking minutes of meetings, maintaining records including a record of class members and class registered boats. The Secretary shall ensure that the Executive Committee pursue objective […]
Keith Magnussen (above, Sailmaker at Ullman Sails and West Coast Viper Rock Star) and Phil Toth (Aussie Olympic Star contender, below) will be hosting a Viper tuning and boat mechanics clinic at ABYC on Friday before the Turkey Day regatta in November. Friday November 16th. They will have a coach boat and videos. Keith writes “This […]
Easy to get sailing and up to speed, yet all the one design competition you can handle.
