International series sailing dinghy : SNIPE
SNIPE Lillia

- 3.66m

12' 0"ft

The snipe it was born then in the 1931, when it came commissioned to Bill Crosby, publisher of the "Rudder", the planning of a boat from easy transportable regatta. Crosby had an excellent idea and gave the start to this class designing and publishing the plans of the boat in its review. The Snipe name was chosen second the custom of the review to call all its designs as marine birds and acquati and the plans to us of the Snipe you appeared in the number of July of "Rudder" that came exhausted quickly. Perhaps it could not imagine happened that its - Snipe- would have had in the United States and the rest of the World of the Sail! Planned in order to be easy constructible, also from not professionals, it quickly had the consent of regatanti that gasped to move themselves in the several fields of regatta without large difficulties. After the Americas, it was the time of Europe and Asia. In Italy, it arrived towards the half of years Thirty and quickly it conquered the Nautical Circles of the center-north that together saw in the Snipe a perfect boat school to Dinghy 12 '.
The Snipe, boat to chine much stable one for two persons, armed with extremity and ribbon, is used all over the world from velisti comprised between the 14 and 80 years! The Snipe Class has had moreover large succeeding after to have introduced the World-wide Championship Master for over the 45 that dispute every other year.
The first Snipes was constructed with wood tables, but through the years the plywood and the glass-reinforced plastic were accepted which materials of construction. The majority of the boats now is constructed from professionals and is of glass-reinforced plastic but the wood in tables and the plywood still are used and the amateurs can construct boats from obtainable plans from the Office of the S.C.I.R.A or to acquire boats in glass-reinforced plastic in kit, for being ended in own.