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The Snipe is a racing sailboat, with early examples built with wooden hulls and more recent ones with hulls made from fiberglass. It has a fractional sloop rig, a spooned raked stem , an angled transom , a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller with an extension and a retractable daggerboard .
When the fleet is large enough, the Snipe Nationals are held in two parts. The first is an elimination series called the Crosby Series , where the Crosby Memorial Trophy is awarded. After three races, the top 33 boats sail in the Heinzerling Series which determines the national champion.
The following is a partial list of Snipe fleets. Fleets are the basic organizational structure of the Snipe class, [1] a 2-person, one design racing dinghy governed by the Snipe Class International Racing Association (SCIRA), and recognized by the World Sailing as an International Class. The Association consists of sailors organized into Fleets ...
The Snipe having failed to be selected for Olympic Games, it was hoped that a modern, high-performance boat might succeed. [ 1 ] At the time, scows were very much the thing, especially the Fireball , and so Holt drew up a flat-bottomed planing design, considerably lighter than the International Snipe, with a pivoting centreboard and a bold new ...
The Force 5 is a small one-design racing sailboat that is similar to the more well known Laser but with a hard chine aft. Although it is designed for single-handed racing, two people can easily fit into the large cockpit. The boats are products of Weeks Yacht Yard on Long Island, New York. [1]
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The following is a partial list of sailboat types and sailing classes, including keelboats, dinghies, and multihull (catamarans and trimarans). Olympic classes [ edit ]
Snipe (dinghy) (2 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Sailboat type designs by William F. Crosby" This category contains only the following page.