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2010 Sarcoma Cup - SF

2010 Sarcoma Cup – SF

This past weekend the Vipers attended the Sarcoma Cup hosted by Berkeley Yacht Club on San Francisco Bay. There were 5 vipers in attendance, 3 of which were from the SoCal area, making it the largest fleet of vipers on the bay to date. Team Viral drove up on Thursday night and rolled into South […]

SPONSORED SPINNAKERS AT THE HPDO

  EFG Bank International are “practitoners of the craft of private banking” crafting global solutions for private individuals around the world. EFG Bank International are also generous sponsors of the sport of sailing and they crafted an exciting Pan American Championships for the Viper 640 Class. Those of us who were at the Bacardi Cup in Miami […]

Vipers on Puget Sound

Okay, this is it!  For those of you Viper sailors that are used to your boats and know what they can do, the following will be only interesting in as much as there are sailors out there like me that haven’t been exposed to the modern technology “blow your socks off” sailing excitement.  We newbies […]

Vipers at the US Sailing Junior Championships Regional Qualifier

I am happy to report the Vipers were a huge success . We had junior 5 (triple handed) teams race 5 loaned Vipers boats where each team raced each boat at least once. The Mystic River “Mudheads” won the regatta with 5 bullets, they are now heading California where they will sail Lightnings in a […]

NOOD Through the Eyes of Viper Noobies

Joe Healey picked up Viper #121 from Justin Scott less that 2 weeks before the Marblehead NOOD. He arrived at the regatta never having rigged up his new boat, never mind having sailed it before! Here’s his regatta report- My first introduction to the Viper V40 was back in 1997 when it was chosen as […]

2010 High Sierra Regatta

This past weekend 7 Vipers traveled to Huntington Lake for the 57th High Sierra Regatta. After 6-hours on the road and no AC, Team Viral arrived around 12:30 Thursday evening. The drive through the San Joaquin valley smelled strangely similar to Texas and it was just as hot there too. Tim Carter, Bryan Milne, and […]

Momentum – Vipers in Texas

Last weekend Texas viper sailors kicked off the 2010 championship series in Houston Tx.  The first stop of this three-regatta series was hosted by the Lakewood Yacht Club, run in conjunction with their “shoe” regatta.    On-line registration for the event opened on April 27th and by the 28th eight Viper 640’s were registered for the […]

2010 Long Beach Race Week

Written by Stacey Loula aka Venomiss Long Beach Race Week 2010 had one of the biggest turn outs yet with 144+ boats in 18 different classes! That being said, the Viper class saw  boats on the line including boats from Arizona and Texas with crews stretching as far away as Canada and Rhode Island. Here’s […]

Long Beach Race Week 2010

Sailing with Grace – Savannah, Ga MacIntosh Cup Regatta Report

Written by Jay Harrell On the heels of big fleets and big wind in Miami and Charleston, I invited Scott Findlay to come sail the SYC MacIntosh Cup. He had mentioned before that he would like to get his  daughter on a Viper, so I suggested that he bring her along too. The Mac is probably the […]

Wickford, RI Regatta Report

Thanks Skip Whyte and crew for running a delightful, down-to-earth regatta! Viperers, Wickford definitely puts on a worthy event. Five Vipers made it out, all regional boats.  Despite being unusually becalmed on Sunday, we got off four good races on Saturday in 8-12knots.  The water was just short of flat, with tidal currents and land-influenced […]