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Snipe Bulletin – Summer 2020

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Já saiu a edição Summer 2020 do Snipe Bulletin. Segue a tradução da nossa participação desta edição. (com links para tudo que fizemos nesta quarentena)

Como está nosso ano até agora? Aqui no Brasil, olhando para trás, tivemos a sorte de realizar o Campeonato Brasileiro na última semana de janeiro, antes que essa grande confusão começasse.
Em fevereiro estávamos todos voltando para casa, lidando com o início do ano letivo, e normalmente não temos regatas no carnaval. Alguns de nós também planejávamos ir ao Uruguai para o Campeonato Sul-Americanos.
No começo de março tivemos o Campeonato Paranaense e aquela foi a última regata antes da imposição da quarentena.
Desde então tivemos que adiar vários campeonatos e cancelar muitas regatas.
O que fizemos durante a quarentena? Bem … ficamos em casa, principalmente! Mas também nos envolvemos em …
Muitas e muitas lives! Vamos destacar algumas delas:
Com o ex-Comodoro Ricardo Lobato BLU sobre regras de regata todas as sextas-feiras à noite;
Com Roberto Paradeda sobre regulagens e ajuste de velas;
Com os campeões mundiais Bruno Bethlem (Bebum) e Xandi Paradeda sobre como se tornaram campeões mundiais;
Também cantamos e fizemos nosso próprio vídeo “cante em casa”: “Como uma Onda”, que foi sensacional;
Paralelamente, aproveitamos a permanência dos velejadores em casa e pedimos que encontrassem resultados de regatas antigas, pedimos também que encontrassem suas fotos do pódio para que pudéssemos criar o “Hall da Fama do Brasil” em nosso site (não tínhamos um )
A última ação começou há um mês com uma série de palestras ao vivo sobre os construtores brasileiros de Snipe contando sua história, e essa série de lives está nos ajudando a registrar uma parte da nossa história que não foi perdida, mas estava muito espalhada em muitos lugares … temos agora as histórias dos fabricantes brasileiros de Snipes: Pierre de Mattos, Lineburger, Bruder, Carajás, Torben e Lemão, que são os grandes responsáveis ​​pela força e sucesso da classe Snipe no Brasil.
Em meados de julho, vários estados brasileiros começaram a permitir a volta dos velejadores aos seus iates clubes. E começaremos a realizar nossas primeiras regatas no final de julho.
Oh, também tivemos vários velejadores aliviando suas tensões e aprimorando suas táticas em regatas virtuais, mas nada se compara a voltar a velejar em nossos Snipes e fazer aquele “serious sailing” novamente. Esperamos poder retomar ao “serious fun” também em um futuro não muito distante.
Paola Prada
SnipeDiva e Secretária Nacional SnipeBRA

  • Como Uma Onda
  • Xandi e Bebum
  • Roberto Paradeda
  • Nossa página no Snipe Bulletin
  • BLU – Regras de Regata

Snipe Bulletin Fall 2019

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Neste Snipe Bulletin tem entrevista com o Gigante, tem estatísticas sobre os equipamentos usados pelos melhores do mundial, spoiler alert: LEMÃO É O BARCO!

Pra quem quiser se programar já começaram a aparecer as datas de campeonatos internacionais!

Snipe Bulletin – Summer 2019

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Snipe Bulletin – Spring 2019

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Snipe Bulletin – Spring 2019

Abaixo temos os links para os artigos que foram enviados para o Snipe Bulletin:

Copa Vela SP

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I invited Alberto Hackerott to write about the 5th year of the Copa Vela, a regata formula that he created analyzing the needs of the sailors, and that is a big success here at Guarapiranga.
 
“Serious Sailing, Seriou FUN!
 
Snipes have been part of his life since 1984 when 5 year old Alberto sailed with his father Frederico Hackerott for the first time.
Today, 35 years later he continues to sail Snipes, “in his opinion the best sailboat for Brazilian reality: competitive, technical, democratic (for the whole family) and locally produced (completely feasible for a normal guy)”.
 
Family spirit created by the snipe class is sincerely present in weekend regattas at the Guarapiranga dam in São Paulo, Brazil. 
 
“In 10 years we could boost our Snipe fleet from 5 boats to 30 regular boats joining weekend regattas”. The recipe? Simple:
 
1) a fleet coordinator who was passionate for his duty (Mr Pedro Quezada), who taught many inexperienced sailors and stimulated them to join the Snipe Class between 2008 and 2013. His successor since 2014, Mr Alonso Lopez, was capable of keeping the good momentum.
 
2) the 311’s snipe fleet led by Alonso Lopez, Leonardo Prioli and Paola Prada, whose proactive spirit brought important championships to our location, like Southeast Regionals in 2017, Brazilian Nationals in 2019, and Women’s World Championship (to be held) in 2020. 
 
3) The willingness of a yacht club to recognize its genuine purpose to organize regattas and host events which could bring up sailors together: between 2014 and 2017 Copa Vela YCP hosted at YACHT CLUB PAULISTA offered around 80 events for 18 different sailboat classes. 
 
Can you think of which class grew quickly and sustainably with this move? Yes, the Snipe class.
 
“In 2014 we thought about an event format which could bring sailors together for some hours, aiming to make them socialize and recognize things in common besides saying “hello” at sailing course or shacking hands at prize giving, when everybody is rushing to leave quickly”, says Alberto. 
 
“We found out that just regattas are not enough to sustain a good momentum and expectations of “what’s next”. Not everybody will win a regatta or a prize. 80% of Sailors in general sail for fun. And fun means competition, integration, socialization and knowledge transferring”. 
 
The ideal sailing event should combine above ingredients, plus good food prepared to sustain the event’s image and a spokesman who will teach other sailors about his abilities to sail Snipes. 
 
That means usually subscription fares are not enough to cover event’s marginal costs: “the events are responsible to keep yacht clubs alive. If clubs think an event must be profitable, they are not thinking BIG”, states Alberto. “20 additional Snipes mean 40 additional sailors which will support to sustain the heavy fixed costs usually a reality for yacht clubs in Brazil. 
 
“We are conscious that the Snipe Class was responsible for saving our club’s economy in 2015 when a terrible economic crisis hit our country. Today we have at Yacht Club Paulista the biggest Snipe fleet in São Paulo with 35 boats and 20 regularly active”.
 
Text: Alberto Hackerott
Images: Will Carrara e Lidia Rossini
 

Snipe Day Tupiniquim – Rio de Janeiro

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[story by Mario Eugenio Tavares]
 
The 368 fleet, Baia da Guarabara, has it’s base at Clube de Regatas Guanabara, at a very privileged location inside Enseada do Botafogo between the “Pão de Açucar” (Sugar Loaf hill) and Corcovado.
 
At our hangars we have space for only 24 boats and we predict to keep at least 12 of then in good terms with Scira. The other boats have been abandoned by their previous owners and that now belong to the club, and are going to be restructured to serve for the sailing school and chartering. A couple of them belong to some non competitive sailors only interested in the serious fun. 
 
On February 17th our rich neighbor the fleet 159 promoted a 6 hour regata “6horas da Baia de Guanabara”, a very festive regata where each boat has 2 different crews that take turns each making a complete round between Urca and Botafogo, always passing in front of the two clubs.
 
The 368 fleet took advantage of the tranquil waters and great visibility of this event to promote it’s SnipeDay.
 
Opti sailors, opti parents, new not experienced snipe owners were invited, one week prior to the regata there was a clinic where the boat was presented, the basic regulations explained as the way of sailing a snipe. A boat was assembled and all the present could sail and get to know the snipe. 
 
The next weekend, on Saturday prior to the regata all the teams were divided, two boats and 8 sailors, being 2 of them experienced skippers.
 
it was a lot of fun, the one that was on serious sailing mode got a 5th place and the other crew that was on the serious fun mode got the last place. objectives fully achieved, to understand and appreciate the snipe sailing. As a result: more people interested in joining the snipe class.
 

A flotilha 368, Baia da Guanabara, está sediada no Clube de Regatas Guanabara, em privilegiada localização na enseada de Botafogo, entre  o morro Pão de Açúcar e Corcovado., 

No nosso hangar só cabem 24 barcos e nossa previsão é mantermos  ao menos 12 em dia com a SCIRA. Os demais são barcos abandonados pelos antigos donos que passaram a pertencer ao clube e em breve servirão a nossa escola de vela e para aluguel, ou são de pessoas interessadas no Serious Fun que o barco proporciona.  Sem interesse em regatas.

No dia 17/2 o ICRJ, nosso vizinho rico, a flotilha 159, promoveu as 06 horas da Baia da Guanabara, regata festiva que propõe duas tripulações por barco, se revezando a cada volta, trocando no pier de embarque do clube, durante as 6 horas, num percurso  entre a Urca e Botafogo sempre passando em frente aos dois clubes.

Aproveitamos esse evento de grande visibilidade e em águas tranquilas para promover nosso Snipe Day.  Convidamos os velejadores de Optimist, seus pais, os novos e inexperientes proprietários de Snipe e os demais interessados e fizemos uma semana antes da regata, uma clinica onde apresentamos o barco, suas regulagens básicas, modo de velejar e montamos um barco onde todos puderam durante o fim de semana  conhecer  o Snipe. No outro fim de semana, sábado, véspera da regata, dividimos as tripulações e dois barcos, oito pessoas com dois timoneiros experientes  fomos para a água.

Foi uma diversão;  um correu no modo serious sailing ficou em¨5º , o outro no modo serious fun, ficou em ultimo mas  o objetivo foi plenamente alcançado; apreciar e entender a velejada. Como resultado:  temos novos interessados entrando para a classe…;)

70th Brazilian Nationals Literally “Rocked”

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Text: Luis Borba      Photos: Will Carrara and Paola Prada 

The 70th edition of the Snipe Brazilian Nationals will go down in history as one of the most Serious Sailing, Serious Fun regattas that the Snipe Class has ever witnessed. After returning to the class in 2016, this was my first appearance at the Nationals since 1992, so I was obviously psyched to race against Brazil’s best sailors and, even more so to have some serious fun during the week-long event.

The 2019 National Championship was hosted by the Yacht Club Paulista in São Paulo’s Guarapiranga Reservoir, a notably shifty and very technical race venue. And with 79 boats battling it out on a single course, the Serious Sailing aspect was guaranteed. Brazil has one of the strongest Snipe fleets worldwide, and this year was exceptionally fierce since spots for the coming Worlds in Ilhabela to be held in October were at stake. To give you an idea, the roster included three different World Champions, in addition to previous Western Hemisphere, Pan Am, European, South American, National, as well as Women’s and Junior world champions. The series had seven races, with seven different winners, and Alexandre “Xandi” Paradeda won his impressive 13th National Title without winning a single race!

However, the Serious Fun side was just as outstanding, with lots of fun and socializing for every single sailor. Like most Snipe regattas, we had that incredible and unique mixture of men and women; young and old; experienced and apprentice; as well as new, old and returning sailors. So, obviously, lots of stories, laughters and learnings were shared. But, this year, Yacht Club Paulista’s exceptional Organizing Committee took the Serious Fun to an unprecedented level that will be tough to beat. On the second to last night of the regatta, we had a live rock concert. And what made it even more special was that the lively “Rocksy” band was led by returning sailor and participant Wagner Bojlesen; and to top it off, the show was held inside one of the club’s beautiful boat hangers! The dancing rock tunes, the incredible acoustics and lots of fully rigged Snipes and other sailboats as a backdrop provided a surreal experience in which even people in crutches were dancing like fools!

There is no class like the Snipe Class, and there is no better motto than Serious Sailing, Serious Fun!

 

  • Xandi and Bolinha
  • The first place crew Gabriel “Bolinha” Kieling and the helm 13 times Brazilian Champion helm Alexandre “Xandi” Paradeda
  • Rush hour at the mark
  • The starting line, 79 snipes!