US Snipe Sailor As this is being written Snipe sailors in the Northeast are digging out of the toughest winter most of them remember…and another storm is on the way. Facebook has shown Snipes and their trailers covered up with snow drifts.
mine). His point is a good one. We ignore the several hundred Snipe sailors out there in the USA who do not attend many, if any, of the so-called “big events,” but who support us financially and otherwise and deserve to be part of the conversation when we discuss the state of our Class.
Ah –ha, but Spring is on the way. And along I hope to see many of you in Florida at the with Spring, for Snipe sailors, Spring means Circuit. - bc the time for The Snipe Winter Circuit is at hand. Clearwater, Miami, Nassau. What P.S. Snipe sailors reading the Randy Wayne could be a better way to shed those White action novel “Hunter’s Moon” get a winter blahs than to sail with your friends Brainard Cooper, real kick to find former National Secretary US National Secretary in one, some, or all of these historic Snipe Bill Welch, his wife Sherry, and Mizzen, events? All of the venues offer some of the best their “nautical setter” mentioned as friends of the sailing anywhere and give Snipers the opportunity protagonist, a semi-retired naturalist and part-time to participate in some of the most historic events government James Bond. Perhaps life on the west in our sport. And they all offer a chance to sail in coast of Florida is more exciting than we thought! international competition. This year will mark the 77th sailing of the Clearwater Midwinter Championship. As February comes to a close, news from our administrator’s office is heartening. Membership renewals are coming in at an encouraging rate, as have contributions to the Perpetual Fund.
And they’re not the first. Former Snipe Commodore and US National Champion Ted Wells appeared as a competitor in the 1929 Cleveland National Air Races in the E. K. Gann novel “Gentlemen of Adventure.” Ted, in fact, had raced successfully in a very fast clipped-wing Travelair in those races.
All positions on the Snipe USA Board of Governors have been filled with the exception of a vice national secretary. Later this Spring, we once again, will sponsor an educational clinic at the US College Sailing Championships in Newport based on the theme, “Congratulations on your collegiate sailing career. Now where do you go from here?” District One sailors who wish to assist should contact Art Rousmaniere or Danielle Richards in the Snipe USA Office. Graduating collegiate sailors are a prime target for growth within our class, offering as we do, tight competition and international exposure in a technical boat that has stood the test of time. And, speaking of the “test of time,” one of your National Secretary’s correspondents has cautioned us, properly, that one our priorities is making sure that we remain valid to our “local yokels” (his wording, not
SCIRA USA 2812 Canon Street San Diego, CA 92106 619-222-0252 Danielle Richards, Executive Administrator danielle@odmsail.com Sherri Campbell, SCIRA Finances sherri@odmsail.com Jerelyn Biehl, SCIRA Executive Director jerelyn@odmsail.com or scira@snipe.org
Spring 2015