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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 .
Snipe (dinghy) (2 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Sailboat type designs by William F. Crosby" This category contains only the following page.
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.
Privateer Yacht Club has a facility that includes twenty eight acres, a clubhouse, one boat ramp and a dinghy hoist, wet slip docks for 80 sailboats, 110 dry slips for “dry sailed” boats and/or trailers, two maintenance hoists, a covered rack for a dozen kayaks, and a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-mile wooded trail. [2]
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 ...
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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 ...
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