Latest Viper 640 Class News

This is from Arizona Boating Magazine. Boat is Timbos #104 with the Rondar works boat #149 in the background. Great Press!

Ben Steinberg picked up Will Ricketson, one of the US Sailing roadshow crew as a last minute fill-in for Friday of the Marblehead NOOD. Will had some very good stuff to say about racing in the Viper Class on the Roadshow blog… Check it out.

HIGH SIERRA REGATTA – JULY 15-17, 2011 For anyone that has never attended this Fresno Yacht Club event at Huntington Lake, in the Sierra Mountains of Central California, there are many reasons to add it to your “must-do regatta” list. For those of us in Arizona the excuse is very simple – it is a […]

That picture by new Viper 640 owner Ben Jacobsen truly warms my heart- 3 boats to 10, seemingly in the blink of an eye. Thanks to Vinnie at Sail Newport, lining them up together makes a bit of statement, eh? Much greater thanks to the Newport, RI true believers/early adopters Zach Freeborn and and Matt […]

Lost Viper Sailor Alert   If you are new to the Texas Viper fleet (post MGRW) then you may not know Dr. Drake Borer. But, you will soon.  Mr. Borer owns “Sea Monkey” out of Austin, Texas and after Mardi Gras in March, has had to spend time studying for his boards in lieu of sailing.  […]

I was back racing at Marblehead yesterday. It has been close to 12 months since I have raced with the local fleet. I can only describe it as delicious.   The first gun was at 12.00. Despite four classes on the line, the RC banged off four races for the Vipers. 1 mile windward/leeward twice around […]

The 2011 Long Beach Race Week was the perfect venue to kick off our EFG Pan American Pacific West Coast Championship. We had 15 Vipers on the line and some really great competition. We had several new boats, all sporting different colors from mint, yellow and purple. I don’t know what it is about the […]