Do you want your home club to host the Viper North American Championship? The class is seeking expressions of interest for the 2015 and 2016 North American Championships by March 15, 2013. To throw your hat in the ring, please send an email to the Class President (prez@viper640.org). Recent and future NA venues include: 2008: […]
I trekked out to Long Beach for the second straight year for SCYA Midwinters. Does two years make a habit? Maybe, and as SCYA Midwinters shows, not all habits are bad. The forecast was “terrible”, so naturally that meant Santa Ana winds in the morning caused brief Race Committee panic, and a nervous Timbo wondering […]
Can you tell that Viper season is nearly upon us? Hopefully the flurry of activity in the class forums and on the front page of the website in the past week has given some hint. The season always starts first in Arizona and Southern California, and you can’t talk about Viper sailing in those places […]
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 […]
Easy to get sailing and up to speed, yet all the one design competition you can handle.
