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  • Better Know a Viperer: Dawn Kozak

    Better Know a Viperer: Dawn Kozak

    Now that we’re into October and on the wrong side of the class’s Annual General Meeting where our class officers were reappointed for another term, we’ve decided that it’d be worth the effort to get to know some of them better for the latest in the “BKAV” series — our officers hail from New Jersey,…

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  • Better Know a Viperer: Doug Stumberger

    Better Know a Viperer: Doug Stumberger

    If you’re in the Viper class and you know Doug Stumberger, then either: You’re from Seattle; or You pay incredibly close attention to class activities and get a gold star. Doug owns the newest Viper in the Pacific Northwest, seen here (below) picking up Viper 174 in late 2011 from Garrett Greenhalgh of Spinnaker Sailing.…

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  • Better Know a Viperer: Pat Gibson

    Better Know a Viperer: Pat Gibson

    The Viper 640 class has presidents past and present, fleet captains, sparkplugs and various other dignitaries.  It does not have many commodores, but Pat Gibson is here to change that.  After taking delivery of Viper 152 in early 2011, Gibson also took the top spot at Houston YC, host of the 2013 Viper NAs.  Everything…

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  • Pieter Taselaar and Bliksem Team Win 2012 NAs

    Pieter Taselaar and Bliksem Team Win 2012 NAs

    Press release attached.  More photos and videos to come in the following days.

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  • Day 3 of NAs: Bigger Breeze and Swells Separate Standings

    Day 3 of NAs: Bigger Breeze and Swells Separate Standings

    Press release for Day 3 posted. Quick video from Day 2 by Leighton O’Connor Photos from Days 1, 2 and 3 on the Viper 640 Facebook page.

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  • Day 2 of 2012 NAs: Down Under On Top

    Day 2 of 2012 NAs: Down Under On Top

    Press release posted.

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  • 2012 Viper NAs: Taselaar and Locke Tied for the Lead

    2012 Viper NAs: Taselaar and Locke Tied for the Lead

    Day 1 is in the books in Marblehead.  Press release here, photos by Leighton O’Connor here, results here.

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  • Start Your Engines: 2012 Viper NAs Set to Begin

    Start Your Engines: 2012 Viper NAs Set to Begin

    MARBLEHEAD, Mass. (September 6): After months of planning, over 45 Viper 640s have returned to the class’s unofficial home in Marblehead, Massachusetts to compete in the fleet’s largest North American Championship to date. Teams are signed up from five countries and eleven states and provinces, including two teams from Western Australia who will be chartering…

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  • Better Know a Viperer: Deborah Wilusz

    Better Know a Viperer: Deborah Wilusz

    Any time your Viper sailing spouse has as his forum profile quote “Don’t Piss Deborah Off……..please”, you know you’ve found a candidate for your next installment of “Better Know a Viperer.”  Deborah Deats-Wilusz has made a strong impression on the class in a short period of time.  She and husband Craig finished a strong 9th…

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  • Better Know a Viperer: Kay VanValkenburgh

    Better Know a Viperer: Kay VanValkenburgh

    Next up in our series is Viper veteran Kay VanValkenburgh, better known to some folks in the class as “the really tall guy with the blonde ponytail.”  And while that is accurate, you may also soon know him as “Viper Class Governor,” since Kay has been nominated by the class’s Executive Committee and existing Governor…

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