Snipe (dinghy)

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. 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W. D. Schock Corp records indicate that they built 165 boats between 1963 and 1970.{{cite web|url= http://wdschock.com/history/boatlist.htm|title= Boats built by W.D. Schock|access-date= 9 August 2022|author= W. D. Schock Corp|author-link= W. D. Schock Corp|work= wdschock.com|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100221183356/http://wdschock.com/history/boatlist.htm|archive-date= 21 February 2010|url-status= dead}}

Today the boat is built by Jibetech in the United States, Zeltic in Spain and DB Marine in Italy.{{cite web|url= https://sailboatdata.com/builder/jibetech-usa|title= Jibetech|access-date = 10 August 2022|last= McArthur| first = Bruce |work = sailboatdata.com|year = 2022|archive-url= https://archive.today/20201018210708/https://sailboatdata.com/builder/jibetech-usa|archive-date= 18 October 2020|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url= https://sailboat.guide/jibetech|title= Jibetech|access-date= 10 August 2022|author= Sea Time Tech, LLC|work= sailboat.guide|year= 2022|archive-url= https://archive.today/20220810182411/https://sailboat.guide/jibetech|archive-date= 10 August 2022|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url= http://75.103.93.49/?page_id=59|title= Snipes|access-date= 10 August 2022|author= Jibetech|year= 2022|archive-url= https://archive.today/20220811003215/http://75.103.93.49/?page_id=59|archive-date= 11 August 2022|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url= http://zeltic.es/snipe/|title= Snipe|access-date= 10 August 2022|author= Zeltic|work= zeltic.es|year= 2016 |archive-url= https://archive.today/20220810193521/http://zeltic.es/snipe/|archive-date= 10 August 2022|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url= http://www.dbmarine.it/product-category/snipe/|title= Snipe|access-date= 10 August 2022|author= DB Marine|work= dbmarine.it|archive-url= https://archive.today/20220810193538/http://www.dbmarine.it/product-category/snipe/|archive-date= 10 August 2022|url-status= live}}

More than 31,000 Snipes have been delivered.

File:Tabares and Morales 2011 Snipe.JPG

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 {{convert|380|lb|kg|0|abbr=on}}.

The boat has a draft of {{convert|3.25|ft|m|abbr=on}} with the daggerboard extended and {{convert|6|in|cm|abbr=on}} with it retracted, allowing operation in shallow water, beaching or ground transportation on a trailer.

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.{{cite web|url= https://www.sailing.org/tools/documents/SNICR20210101-[26861].pdf|title= Class Rules|access-date= 10 August 2022|author= Snipe Class International Racing Association|author-link= SCIRA|work= |date= 1 January 2021|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220507090127/https://www.sailing.org/tools/documents/SNICR20210101-[26861].pdf|archive-date= 7 May 2022|url-status= live}}

The boat has a Portsmouth Yardstick D-PN handicap of 91.9 and an RYA-PN of 1117.{{cite web |url=http://offshore.ussailing.org/Portsmouth_Yardstick/Current_Tables/Centerboard_Classes.htm |title=Centerboard Classes |publisher=US Sailing |access-date=10 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120816160142/http://offshore.ussailing.org/Portsmouth_Yardstick/Current_Tables/Centerboard_Classes.htm |archive-date=16 August 2012|url-status=dead}}{{cite web |url=http://www.benfleetyachtclub.org/files/Portsmouth_HC/2004_PY_Dinghy_Handicaps.pdf |title=The RYA Portsmouth Yardstick Number List for 2004 |publisher=Royal Yachting Association |access-date=10 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304001754/http://www.benfleetyachtclub.org/files/Portsmouth_HC/2004_PY_Dinghy_Handicaps.pdf |archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}

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.{{cite web|url= https://sailboatdata.com/association/snipe-class-international-racing-association|title= Snipe Class International Racing Association|access-date = 10 August 2022|last= McArthur| first = Bruce |work = sailboatdata.com|year = 2022|archive-url= https://archive.today/20220810182322/https://sailboatdata.com/association/snipe-class-international-racing-association|archive-date= 10 August 2022|url-status= live}}{{cite web|url= https://sailboat.guide/snipe-class-international-racing-association|title= Snipe Class International Racing Association|access-date= 10 August 2022|author= Sea Time Tech, LLC|work= sailboat.guide|year= 2022|archive-url= https://archive.today/20220810182427/https://sailboat.guide/snipe-class-international-racing-association|archive-date= 10 August 2022|url-status= live}}

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."{{cite web|url= http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1070864/index.htm|title= For Hustle And Plain Fun|access-date= 10 August 2022|last= Atkinson |first= Thomas |work= Sports Illustrated|date= 3 August 1959|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121102222327/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1070864/index.htm|archive-date= 2 November 2012|url-status= dead}}

File:Snipe sailing in northern Spain.jpg

• Snipe World Championships
• Snipe European Championship
• Snipe North American Championship
• Snipe South American Championship
• Snipe Western Hemisphere & Orient Championship
• Sailing at the 2011 Pan American Games – Snipe
• Sailing at the 2015 Pan American Games – Snipe
• United States Snipe National Championship

• List of sailing boat types

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• [http://www.jibetech.com/ Jibetech official website]
• [http://zeltic.es/snipe/ Zeltec official website]
• [http://www.dbmarine.it/product-category/snipe/ DB Marine official website]

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