Latest Viper 640 Class News

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. […]

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 […]

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

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.

Press release posted.

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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The Double Damned Race is a rite of passage for sporty sailors in the Pacific Northwest — 42 miles, point-to-point, usually downwind, on the scenic Columbia River from Cascade Locks to the dam at The Dalles.  It’s The Oregon Trail, and while you shouldn’t get dysentery, the windy run may give you the runs as […]