Brainard Cooper - Snipe Measurement

Brainard Cooper has been involved in keeping the Snipe a strict one design boat for many years. He's seen the class make many changes to the boat. The driving force for those changes has always been: "Will it make the class more competitive and is it a change the sailors want?" He's been involved in the change to the hankless jib, the reduction in weight to the center board and the overall reduction in weight to the boat. There was even a time, when the Snipe Class thought it might introduce a spinnaker. That was an idea whose time has never come.