Snipe
With no spinnaker and no trapeze, Snipes reach the mark almost together. The gap is not made by speed, it is made by tacking on the right shift — and that shows up on a map of the whole fleet at once.
Designed in 1931 and deeply rooted in Spain, sailed two-up and without a trapeze, so it can be crewed at any age. A tactician’s class: the boats are alike and the differences are small.
The heading of every boat at once says where the wind was coming from better than any forecast: if half the fleet is on one tack and half on the other, the bisector is the wind. From there you can see who used which shift.
In a fleet that stays together, thirty seconds on a shift decides the race. The replay says who moved first and who followed.
Leg by leg, which half of the course gave more. It is the conversation after the race, with the map in front of it instead of everyone’s memory.
Strapped aboard before launching. No power and no installation, so a whole fleet is fitted out in the time it takes to get the boats down the slip.
We have not tracked a Snipe race yet. The device is the same and does not depend on the boat, so it works just as well; what changes is what is worth looking at afterwards. If your club sails the class, we will set the first one up with you.
Devices are handed out before launching and collected on the way back in: nothing changes about how you run the race. If you would rather see it before deciding, write to us and we will set it up on one of your own races.
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