Juniors love to sail Snipes

The Snipe Class has always believed that its future is in the Junior sailors who migrate to the Class. From its earliest roots, the Snipe Class has had the Jr. National Championship as part of its yearly National regatta. Many of the winners have gone on to win National Championships in the Snipe Class and other competitive dinghy classes. In 1939 the Jr. Nationals was won by Stephen Bechtel Jr. In 1968 & 70 it was won by Augie Diaz who went on to win the World Championship in 2003 and the Star World Championship that same year. In 2006 it was won by Tomas Honos who won the Worlds in 2007. Twenty years ago, a new competition started in the Class. The Special Juniors match up a junior skipper with a senior crew. This past year, eleven year old Christian Filter sailing with his dad came in 2nd overall in the Jr. Nationals regatta and won the Special Jr's.