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Report by Dave Hughes North Wins 2008 Tag Heuer Snipe Winter Championship For more information about our Snipe sails, please contact our Snipe Experts. Snipe Sails
Report by Brian Bissell If there was one job you were really grateful you didn't have it was being the PRO at Snipe Nationals on Lake Dillon, CO. I've never sailed in a place more difficult to run good races. 180 degree windshifts were common. Wind velocity would go from 18 to 0 and back to 18 on the same leg. The lake is so deep in some spots that anchoring marks is near impossible. Nevertheless, Frank Keisling with the help of Brainard Cooper did the absolute best with what they were given. For more information about our Snipe sails, please contact our Snipe Experts. Snipe Sails
Report by Brian Bissell We are excited to report that the new AP-4 Snipe main powered Chad Coberly to win the 2007 Midwest Districts this past weekend!!!! See below Chad's comments about the new sails... "I am happy to report that the new sails paid off- we Won the Districts this weekend! We felt pretty fast- it was blowing 12-17 - we won 3 out of 4 races - a couple in pretty convincing style- that new main definitely worked well in that medium breeze- It flattend and twisted off nicely and I just played the vang as you have been saying and we were trucking upwind and down for that matter- It was a pretty good fleet of 24 boats and we felt we had speed even on Mike Blackwood who is usually faster than us especially when it starts to blow given our light weight- we were pretty much pulling away from everyone on all points of sail!" For more information about our Snipe sails, please contact our Snipe Experts. Snipe Sails
Report by Brian Bissell . Photo/content source Scuttlebutt.
The young team from Mexico of Jorge Murrieta and Andres Akle dominated the action on the water. Their Pan Am training program is strict and they are rounding into excellent form. Snipe sailing around the world is undergoing a resurgence based on the participation of top caliber youth sailors and these young gentlemen are emblematic of that process.
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Report by Robby Brown We sailed the Dead of Winter regatta last weekend in very light breeze on Saturday and the sailing had to be cancelled on Sunday due to very big breeze. In the end Colin and Karen Park sailed an excellent regatta wining with a comfortable lead exhibiting superior sailing and great boat speed followed by David Mendelblatt also comfortably in second. Third, fourth and fifth were hotly contested between Jim Richter, Chris Klotz and Robby Brown with the three positions being decided by a point. Robby wanted to get some sailing in on Sunday really looking forward to the breezier conditions and needing two more races to allow him to drop an OCS. As it were, Jim Richter beat Chris on a tie breaker and Robby by a point. Congratulations to everyone on a nice regatta and especially to the North Sailors on their strong showing.
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Interview by Brian Bissell
PD: Three important points to make these three championships were: 1. To sail consistently,2. to run equally in the whole championship, and 3. to never give up the objetive! I think that we have also a great group of friends and sailors in Uruguay that support us all the time, and it's very important. As the North Sails representative in Uruguay, which designs did you sail with for each of your three latest victories?
PD: We use the AP-4 Main with a BR1D+ Jib in the Pre Panamerican Games and in the Western Hemispheres. I believe you saw a wide range of wind and wave conditions throught those three regattas. Which is your favorite condition to sail in? PD: My Favorite conditions to sails are between 10 and 14 knots and we have really good results in these conditions. Do you practice very much in the snipe or do you mainly just race these days? What does your training consist of? PD: I've been sailing with Eduardo for 3 years. We had a year of hard training that was the first year. And then we compete in all the championships that we could, national and international as Hemisphere 2004, World 2005, South Americans Champinship and other regatas in the last 3 years. Last year we sailed all the championships, but due to work we didn't have time to practice much. In these days the training only consist in sailing and add hours in the boat What is your favorite thing to do besides sailing? PD: I don`t have any other favorite thing to do, only sailing, It's my hobbie. I enjoy so much! Also, I was looking over your tuning notes and I noticed that your spreader length measurements are a little longer than what we are used to. Just to make sure we are comparing apples to apples, where are measuring from to get 44cm. That measure is from the side of the mast, to the centre of the hole of the spreader top. Thanks a lot Pablo and one more time congratulations for winning the 2006 Western Hemispheres!
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Report by Brian Bissell The 2006 Snipe North Americans took place this past weekend on Gull Lake in Kalamazoo, Michigan. It was a very well organized event thanks to Chad and Michelle Coberly as they complimented the seriously tough lake sailing with seriously fun on-land activities. The first day of racing was very light. The race committee was only able to get one race off before the breeze completely shut off. Day two had medium to heavy breeze with the true wind direction coming down the lake lengthwise. We remained consistent but were only able to break the top 5 in one race. This put us in 7th overall but the top 10 were all very close. On the last day, the wind direction switched so that windward and leeward marks were very close to shore. This made for some very puffy and shifty conditions. It was the type of sailing where two boats could almost be sailing the same angle on opposite tacks. This meant that you were never out of a race, but you were never securely in it either. One bad shift or sailing into a hole could cost you 10 boats. My crew, Bryan Stout, a local high school sailor from Annapolis and very good Snipe skipper himself, did an excellent job of finding the puffs on the lake. The combination of good boat speed, connecting the puffs and staying in the pressure enabled us to win both races on Sunday. This jumped us up to 3rd place overall and qualifies us for the Snipe World Championship in Portugal, September '07. The real story of the regatta was that all 4 of the Stout family were crewing on different boats and all ended up in the top 10. When Augie Diaz, in his trophy acceptance speech, mentioned that he thought it was great that the youngest Stout won the family award by half a point, Bryan's dad Alex promptly shouted "He's so grounded!" We were using the AP-5 main and a BRD1H jib. Henry Filter, who finished in 5th, used the AP-5 main, the mylar jib and a BRD1H+ jib. Top 5: For more information about our Snipe sails, contact the North's Snipe Experts!To order your fast Snipe sails online, click here. Snipe Sails
Tyler Sinks and Ben Todter, both of San Diego Yacht Club, won the 2006 Snipe Jr. Nationals held last weekend at Erie Yacht Club in Erie, PA.. Tyler and Ben are two hot, upcoming junior sailors and are just off a second place finish in the 420 division of the 2006 US Sailing Youth Championships. This win qualified Ben and Tyler to sail in the 2007 Snipe Junior Worlds. Tyler and Ben used the North AP-3+ main and BR-1D+ jib to power their boat to the win. Look for more good news from this team in the near future. Nice going guys!
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The 2006 Colonial Cup took place this weekend in Annapolis at the Severn Sailing Association. People came from as far away as New Jersey, Georgia and Florida for the event. There were 21 boats in attendance. It was close racing the whole time with the exception of the free clinic provided by Augie Diaz on Saturday in the 18-25 knot breeze and triangle, windward, leeward courses. He won all 4 races!! Saturday was medium to light air and shifty. My crew Alexis Rubin and I, both sailing our first Snipe regatta, were able to hit a few shifts correctly and put a few good races together. We climbed from 4th overall on Saturday to 2nd by the end. We used the new AP-5 Main and felt fast in every range of breeze. In the 18-25, the flatter bottom section and twist up top let us depower just enough. In the lighter wind, it was nice having a twistier main as well to keep from stalling the leech. As a newcomer to the Snipe fleet, I was impressed with how friendly everyone was. Peter Commette led a debrief at the end of Saturday's racing where everyone asked Augie and Peter questions about how they went so fast. There weren't any secrets and I think everyone walked away from it a better snipe sailor. Thank you to Principal Race Officer, Steve Podlich and his crew for running a great regatta.
Report by Greg Fisher There were 27 boats sailing the Snipe Colonial Cup in Annapolis this past weekend. Many of the heavy hitters were sailing...Pete Commette, Henry Filter, Augie Diaz to name a few. Unfortunately the wind was just too light to make it happen on Saturday but Sunday allowed three races in some of the toughest conditions Annapolis can toss out- light, lumpy with every Tom, Dick and brother Harry out in their powerboat. When the smoke cleared, Hal Gilreath of Jacksonville won, followed by John McRae of Boston. Nicolas Grannucci was third followed by Commette (4th), Diaz (5th), Filter (6th), Bryan Stout (7th), Lee Griffith (9th). A special note should be made about Bryan Stout who is 14 years old and obviously already a tough sailor. He came up through the Optimist ranks and sailed this regatta with his Dad Alex crewing. Alex crewed this same regatta over 20 years ago for Jonathan Bartlett of North sails Chesapeake! Congrats Bryan!
Report by Chris Snow
27 Snipes gathered October 30/31 for what has become a traditional rite of Fall here in Southern California, the Carolyn Nute Regatta at Mission Bay Yacht Club. Whether they came for Saturday night costume party or the tight racing on Mission Bay you can be sure a lot of fun was had by all. The motto of the Snipe class is “Serious Sailing…Serious Fun” and this event takes that to the limit. The theme of this year’s event has to be the youth movement in the class. Two of the top five finishers are still in High School. The team of Adam Roberts and Nick Martin won the event. These guys are hot off finishing 5th in the Nationals and are on their way to Japan next summer for the World Championships. Adam is one of the top skippers on the Point Loma HS Sailing Team that has won both the Fleet and Team Racing HS Nationals the last two years in a row. 4th overall was another PLHS driver, Tyler Sinks. Tyler and Briana Provancia are a solid team (Briana crewed on the winning boat at the Snipe Junior Nationals). Tyler is hot off winning both the Sabot and CFJ Nationals. These guys were pushed are by some “more experienced” sailors in the top five. Chuck Sinks and long time Snipe sailor and master of Mission Bay finished second with Aine Fretwell crewing. Aine has been working with us here at North Sails One Design and is an excellent skipper in her own right. Dave Tillson and John Fretwell were third. These guys have been making the rounds on the circuit. They sailed the whole winter circuit last year as well as the Western Hemispheres in Brazil. Look for them to make a move to the top Nationally soon. 5th overall was Doug Hart with Snipe class executive director Jerelyn Biehl upfront. Doug had a couple of missteps in this regatta as he is always challenging right at the front of the fleet. Doug also is qualified for the Worlds in Japan next summer and is starting his training program now. All the top five in this regatta used North Sails from our loft here in San Diego. The AP-3+ main and BR-1D+ jib are currently the combination of choice. We have been refining the details on these sails and feel at the moment that we have a very good all around set of sails the work well for a wide range of crew weights and conditions. For more information on North Sails for your Snipe please contact Chris Snow or Greg Fisher. Complete results at http://www.obyc.com/snipe/fleet495/results/2004/halloween.html.
Report by Chris Snow
Doug Hart and Zack Brown, using North Snipe sails
won the Herb Shear Spring Invitational sailed last weekend in San Diego,
CA at Mission Bay YC. Doug and Zack used the North
AP-3+ main and BR-1D+
jib. Conditions for the regatta were suprisingly mixed. 25 boats raced
in this season opener for the California Snipe fleet. Boats came from
ad far away as San Francisco.
Report courtesy North Sails Argentina We have just came back from the Snipe South American Championship, in Porto Alegre Brazil. The results:
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Report by Chris Snow Snipe District 6 is Snipe sailing what Texas is to high school football. A lot of good Snipe sailors come from these parts… Last weekend District 6 held it’s annual Championship. This year the venue was across town from the San Diego fleet’s roost on Mission Bay. The regatta was held out of San Diego Yacht Club and competed for in the open water of the Pacific Ocean off Zuniga Jetty. 24 boats raced in the event with many of the boats making the long trek over Point Loma from Mission Bay! Furthest traveled in the regatta has to go to Charles Heimler who drove all the way down from the Bay are to sail with his daughter Elizabeth. Charles is a great competitor and always a lot of fun to sail with. One of the big high points of this event was the large number of junior sailors competing. Anyone watching high school sailing knows that Southern California sailors are hot and having them sailing Snipes is great! Among the local juniors sailing were Brian Van Der Spek, Caleb Paine, Graham Biehl, Zach Brown, Danielle Richards, Nick Martin and Adam Roberts. These kids are the ones to look out for in the future! The regatta overall was won by the new team of Doug Hart and Jerelyn Biehl. These names are synonomous with the Snipe class, Doug is a National Champion in the class and is always at the top of the standings in any Snipe regatta be it a local Mission Bay event or the Worlds or Western Hemispheres, events he has represented the US in a number of times. Jerelyn is the Executive Director of the class and, yes, she can sail like she means it! Jerelyn not only does a great job running the class but is a top competitor herself, placing high in many International events. Doug and Jerelyn used the standard North set up of the BR-1D+ Jib and AP-3+ main sail. Second overall was the junior team of Adam Roberts and Nick Martin. Adam is hot of winning both the High School fleet racing Nationals AND Team Racing Nationals with his team from Point Loma High School. With scores of 1, (23), 19, 1,1,2,2, for a total of 26 point the Nick and Adam show was only 6 points behind Doug and Jereyln counting their 19th. These guys used a new set up we have been working which is basically a flatter set up for flatter water and lighter teams. While these sails are still in the development stages, the results so far look pretty promising and we hope to have these sails out and ready for sale in the very near future. Our idea here is that a lot of Snipe sailing is done on inland lakes and bays and a little flatter set of sail should help with pointing and generally make the sails easier to trim. Complete results for this event are available at http://www.sdyc.org/raceinfo/event_pages/snipe_districts.htm For more information on the best sails for your Snipe contact North’s Snipe experts.
Women Snipe Sailors invade San Diego Bay!
North 1,3,4,5,7 at the 2003 Las Vegas Regatta!
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This year’s fleet contained representatives from six countries and was sailed by the current SCIRA Commodore and four past SCIRA Commodores. The wind was a steady 18 knots the whole time.
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You just won the 2006 Snipe Western Hemispheres, Snipe Argentinian Nationals, and the Snipe Pre PanAm Games. Can you name three common factors that have helped you in your recent winning streak?
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