The Masters Snipe World Championship is an annual international sailing regatta for Snipe (dinghy), organized by the host club on behalf of the Internal Snipe Class Association and recognized by World Sailing, the sports IOC recognized governing body. The trophy awarded for the World Championship is Commodore Hub E. Isaacks and O'Leary Trophies. The class got recognised status by World Sailing in 1958.
Trophies Id Crook Memorial Trophy is the sailing trophy awarded at the . The Id Crook Memorial Trophy is awarded to the winning skipper and crew. Canada donated it to the Snipe Class International Racing Association (SCIRA). It's named after Canadian Id Crook, SCIRA's commodore, in 2000.
The regatta venue rotates among North America, Europe, South America and Japan. No races to be run in wind velocity exceeding 15 knots.
The helm must be at least 45 years of age in the year of the regatta. The combined age of the skipper and crew must be at least 80 years in the year of the regatta.
As well as the main title there are four sub divisions awarded prizes for helms with the following ages: Apprentice Master Division (45-54 years) Master Division (55-64 years) Grand Master Division (65-74 years) Master Legends Division (75 years old and onwards)
The Master Legends Division was created in 2015
Events
Edition Hosts Sailor Boats No Day/Month Year Host club City Country No. Boats Mix 1 21-25 Oct 1986 Acworth 2 1987 São Paulo 3 - 1988 Oakville 4 - 1991 Santiago de la Ribera 5 - 1992 Vilamoura 6 27-31 Jul 1994 Gamagori 7 - 1996 Oslo 8 - 1998 Villa Carlos Paz 56 9 4 28 21 0 7 9 - 2000 Horsens 126 14 4 63 46 0 17 10 - 2002 St. Petersburg 11 2-7 Aug 2004 Lake Bracciano 166 16 4 83 44 2 37 12 3-7 Oct 2006 Nassau 70 9 3 35 16 2 17 N/A - 2008 Malmo INSUFFICIENT ENTRIES EVENT CANCELLED https://web.archive.org/web/20080827144207/http://www.snipe.org/regattas/schedule/2008/masters-worlds.php 14 - 2009 & Trieste 132 14 4 66 13 19-26 Sep 2010 Rio de Janeiro 106 7 4 53 38 0 15 14 10-16 Sep 2012 Santiago de la Ribera 154 14 4 77 54 0 23 15 25-31 Aug 2014 Fukuoka 72 9 4 36 33 0 3 16 - 2016 Nassau 70 10 5 35 19 1 15 17 24-30 Jun 2018 Vilamoura 154 15 4 77 50 1 26 N/A 2020 St. Petersburg CANCELLED DUE TO COVID N/A 8-15 Aug 2021 St. Petersburg CANCELLED DUE TO COVID 18 16-22 Oct 2023 El Puerto de Santa María 222 16 4 111 70 1 40 19 9-13 Dec 2025 Frutillar 108 9 3 54
Winners Year Skipper & Crew Country 1986 Ken Simons & Bill Simons 1987 Ivan Pimentel & Ricardo Lebreiro 1989 Ivan Pimentel & Luis Pesnovich 1991 Félix Gancedo & Carlos Llamas 1992 Paulo da Silva Santos & Fernando Silva 1994 Kazunori Shinka & Tetsuji Nakatani 1996 Birger Jansen & Marianne Stigar 1998 Bibi Juetz & Felipe Vasconcellos 1999 Flemming Christiansen & Morten Ullmann 2002 Augie Diaz & John Kehoe 2004 Augie Diaz & Lisa Griffith 2006 Augie Diaz & Pam Kelly 2008 (1) EVENT CANCELLED 2009 (2) NO TITLE AWARDED 2010 Paulo da Silva Santos & Rodrigo Inacio 2012 Augie Diaz & Justine O’Connor 2014 Takeyasu Sugiyama & Hirotaka Kaneda 2016 Ernesto Rodriguez & Kathleen Tocke 2018 Damián Borrás & Jordi Triay 2020/21 (3) CANCELLED COVID 2023 Damián Borrás & Sara Franceschi 2025 Ernesto Rodríguez & Taylor Scheuermann 1) The 2008 Masters Worlds was scheduled as part of the multi sports European Master Games in Sweden but there were insufficent entries 2) to replace the 2008 event a masters was scheduled in 2009 but due to both to much and to little wind, only one race completed with at least three races required to be award the Championship title. 3) The 2020 championship was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
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