Snipe (dinghy) explained

Snipe
Insignia:File:Sailing snipe.svg
Insignia Size:110px
Image Boat:File:Snipe_dinghy.svg
Designer:William F. Crosby
Location:United States
Year:1931
No Built:31,000
Builder:AX Boats
Chantier Aubin
Cantiere Nautico Lillia
DB Marine
Eichenlaub Boat Co.
Grampian Marine
Jack A. Helms Co.
Jibetech
Lofland Sail-craft
Nickels Boat Works
W. D. Schock Corp
Zeltic
Role:One design racer
Draft:3.25feet with daggerboard down
Displacement:3800NaN0
Hull Type:monohull
Construction:fiberglass
Loa:15.5feet
Lwl:12.67feet
Beam:5feet
Keel Type:daggerboard
Rudder Type:transom-mounted rudder
Rig Type:Bermuda rig
Sailplan:fractional rigged sloop
Sailarea Total:128square feet
D-Pn:91.9
Rya-Pn:1117

The Snipe is an American sailing dinghy that was designed by William F. Crosby as a one design racer and first built in 1931.[1] [2] [3] [4]

The boat is a World Sailing recognized international class.[5]

Sailboatdata.com summarizes the design as "one of the most popular sailing dinghies ever. (In its heyday, the largest sailboat racing class). Origins in the US. Built, sailed and raced around the world to this day."[1]

Production

In the past the design has built by Grampian Marine in Canada; Eichenlaub Boat Co., Jack A. Helms Co., Lofland Sail-craft, Nickels Boat Works and W. D. Schock Corp in the United States; Cantiere Nautico Lillia in Italy; Chantier Aubin in France and AX Boats in Spain.[1] [2] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23]

W. D. Schock Corp records indicate that they built 165 boats between 1963 and 1970.[24]

Today the boat is built by Jibetech in the United States, Zeltic in Spain and DB Marine in Italy.[25] [26] [27] [28] [29]

More than 31,000 Snipes have been delivered.[1] [2]

Design

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. It displaces 3800NaN0.[1] [2]

The boat has a draft of 3.25feet with the daggerboard extended and 6inches with it retracted, allowing operation in shallow water, beaching or ground transportation on a trailer.[1] [2]

For sailing downwind the design may be equipped with a whisker pole to hold the jib out, but neither a spinnaker nor a crew trapeze are permitted in the class rules.[30]

The boat has a Portsmouth Yardstick D-PN handicap of 91.9 and an RYA-PN of 1117.[31] [32]

Operational history

The boat is supported by an active class club that organizes racing events, the Snipe Class International Racing Association (SCIRA), which has a large number of Snipe fleets across many countries.[33] [34]

In an August 1959 review for Sports Illustrated, Thomas Atkinson reported, "Unlike many class boats which were designed as pure racing machines, however, the Snipe offers more than speed and thrills. It is a miniature yacht as well as a racing boat, and despite the fact that newer and faster classes continually appear, the Snipe is more in demand than ever. Snipes, in fact, are so much fun they have become the most popular boat in the world. Today there are more than 8,000 of the little 15-footers in commission, sailing out of 250 active racing fleets from Trieste to Tokyo and even in such Iron Curtain countries as Poland, and last year over 400 more were added to the class."[35]

Events

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Snipe sailboat . 10 August 2022. McArthur. Bruce. sailboatdata.com. 2022. https://archive.today/20220810182223/https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/snipe. 10 August 2022. live.
  2. Web site: Snipe. 10 August 2022. Sea Time Tech, LLC. sailboat.guide. 2022. https://archive.today/20220810182352/https://sailboat.guide/snipe. 10 August 2022. live.
  3. Web site: William F. Crosby 1891 - 1953. 10 August 2022. McArthur. Bruce . sailboatdata.com. 2022. https://archive.today/20220322225004/https://sailboatdata.com/designer/crosby-william-f. 22 March 2022. live.
  4. Web site: William F. Crosby. 10 August 2022. Sea Time Tech, LLC. sailboat.guide. 2022. https://archive.today/20220322225002/https://sailboat.guide/william-f-crosby. 22 March 2022. live.
  5. Web site: Boat Class Snipe. 10 August 2022. World Sailing. World Sailing. sailing.org. 2022. https://archive.today/20220810182556/https://www.sailing.org/classes/snipe. 10 August 2022. live.
  6. Web site: Schock W.D.. 10 August 2022. McArthur. Bruce . sailboatdata.com. 2022. https://archive.today/20200718211515/https://sailboatdata.com/builder/schock-wd. 18 July 2020. live.
  7. Web site: Schock W.D.. 10 August 2022. Sea Time Tech, LLC. sailboat.guide. 2022. https://archive.today/20211223180511/https://sailboat.guide/schock. 23 December 2021. live.
  8. Web site: Grampian Marine. 10 August 2022. McArthur. Bruce . sailboatdata.com. 2022. https://archive.today/20220303141303/https://sailboatdata.com/builder/grampian-marine. 3 March 2022. live.
  9. Web site: Grampian Marine. 10 August 2022. Sea Time Tech, LLC. sailboat.guide. 2022. https://archive.today/20220723173416/https://sailboat.guide/grampian. 23 July 2022. live.
  10. Web site: Nickels Boat Works, Inc. (USA). 10 August 2022. McArthur. Bruce . sailboatdata.com. 2022. https://archive.today/20200909200036/https://sailboatdata.com/builder/nickels-boat-works-inc-usa. 9 September 2020. live.
  11. Web site: Nickels Boat Works, Inc.. 10 August 2022. Sea Time Tech, LLC. sailboat.guide. 2022. https://archive.today/20220810182409/https://sailboat.guide/nickels-boat-works. 10 August 2022. live.
  12. Web site: Lillia (Cantiere Nautico Lillia). 10 August 2022. McArthur. Bruce . sailboatdata.com. 2022. https://archive.today/20211114003955/https://sailboatdata.com/builder/lillia-cantiere-nautico-lillia. 14 November 2021. live.
  13. Web site: Cantiere Nautico Lillia. 10 August 2022. Sea Time Tech, LLC. sailboat.guide. 2022. https://archive.today/20220810182355/https://sailboat.guide/lillia. 10 August 2022. live.
  14. Web site: Helms - Jack A. Helms Co.. 10 August 2022. McArthur. Bruce . sailboatdata.com. 2022. https://archive.today/20201018210649/https://sailboatdata.com/builder/helms-jack-a-helms-co. 18 October 2020. live.
  15. Web site: Jack A. Helms Co.. 10 August 2022. Sea Time Tech, LLC. sailboat.guide. 2022. https://archive.today/20220808185906/https://sailboat.guide/helms-jack-a-helms. 8 August 2022. live.
  16. Web site: Aubin (Chantier Aubin). 10 August 2022. McArthur. Bruce . sailboatdata.com. 2022. https://archive.today/20220810182248/https://sailboatdata.com/builder/aubin-chantier-aubin. 10 August 2022. live.
  17. Web site: Aubin. 10 August 2022. Sea Time Tech, LLC. sailboat.guide. 2022. https://archive.today/20220810182409/https://sailboat.guide/aubin-chantier. 10 August 2022. live.
  18. Web site: AX Boats (ESP). 10 August 2022. McArthur. Bruce . sailboatdata.com. 2022. https://archive.today/20220810182301/https://sailboatdata.com/builder/ax-boats-esp. 10 August 2022. live.
  19. Web site: AX Boats. 10 August 2022. Sea Time Tech, LLC. sailboat.guide. 2022. https://archive.today/20220810182416/https://sailboat.guide/ax. 10 August 2022. live.
  20. Web site: Lofland Sail-craft Inc.(USA). 10 August 2022. McArthur. Bruce . sailboatdata.com. 2022. https://archive.today/20211030155316/https://sailboatdata.com/builder/lofland-sail-craft-incusa. 30 October 2021. live.
  21. Web site: Lofland Sail-craft. 10 August 2022. Sea Time Tech, LLC. sailboat.guide. 2022. https://archive.today/20220810182427/https://sailboat.guide/loftland. 10 August 2022. live.
  22. Web site: Eichenlaub Boat Co.. 10 August 2022. McArthur. Bruce . sailboatdata.com. 2022. https://archive.today/20220810182304/https://sailboatdata.com/builder/eichenlaub-boat-co. 10 August 2022. live.
  23. Web site: Eichenlaub Boat Company. 10 August 2022. Sea Time Tech, LLC. sailboat.guide. 2022. https://archive.today/20220810182418/https://sailboat.guide/eichenlaub. 10 August 2022. live.
  24. Web site: Boats built by W.D. Schock. 9 August 2022. W. D. Schock Corp. W. D. Schock Corp. wdschock.com. https://web.archive.org/web/20100221183356/http://wdschock.com/history/boatlist.htm. 21 February 2010. dead.
  25. Web site: Jibetech. 10 August 2022. McArthur. Bruce . sailboatdata.com. 2022. https://archive.today/20201018210708/https://sailboatdata.com/builder/jibetech-usa. 18 October 2020. live.
  26. Web site: Jibetech. 10 August 2022. Sea Time Tech, LLC. sailboat.guide. 2022. https://archive.today/20220810182411/https://sailboat.guide/jibetech. 10 August 2022. live.
  27. Web site: Snipes. 10 August 2022. Jibetech. 2022. https://archive.today/20220811003215/http://75.103.93.49/?page_id=59. 11 August 2022. live.
  28. Web site: Snipe. 10 August 2022. Zeltic. zeltic.es. 2016 . https://archive.today/20220810193521/http://zeltic.es/snipe/. 10 August 2022. live.
  29. Web site: Snipe. 10 August 2022. DB Marine. dbmarine.it. https://archive.today/20220810193538/http://www.dbmarine.it/product-category/snipe/. 10 August 2022. live.
  30. Web site: https://www.sailing.org/tools/documents/SNICR20210101-[26861.pdf Class Rules]. 10 August 2022. Snipe Class International Racing Association. SCIRA. 1 January 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20220507090127/https://www.sailing.org/tools/documents/SNICR20210101-[26861].pdf. 7 May 2022. live.
  31. Web site: Centerboard Classes . US Sailing . 10 August 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120816160142/http://offshore.ussailing.org/Portsmouth_Yardstick/Current_Tables/Centerboard_Classes.htm . 16 August 2012. dead.
  32. Web site: The RYA Portsmouth Yardstick Number List for 2004 . Royal Yachting Association . 10 August 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304001754/http://www.benfleetyachtclub.org/files/Portsmouth_HC/2004_PY_Dinghy_Handicaps.pdf . 4 March 2016. dead.
  33. Web site: Snipe Class International Racing Association. 10 August 2022. McArthur. Bruce . sailboatdata.com. 2022. https://archive.today/20220810182322/https://sailboatdata.com/association/snipe-class-international-racing-association. 10 August 2022. live.
  34. Web site: Snipe Class International Racing Association. 10 August 2022. Sea Time Tech, LLC. sailboat.guide. 2022. https://archive.today/20220810182427/https://sailboat.guide/snipe-class-international-racing-association. 10 August 2022. live.
  35. Web site: For Hustle And Plain Fun. 10 August 2022. Atkinson . Thomas . Sports Illustrated. 3 August 1959. https://web.archive.org/web/20121102222327/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1070864/index.htm. 2 November 2012. live.

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