SNIPE. Courtesy Gerber's Boat Works. 



SNIPE 



In March 1931 at Sarasota, Florida, the West Coast Racing Association 

 had a meeting. It was decided that the time was ripe for a small racing 

 sailboat which "could be carried about the State on a trailer the same as 

 outboard race boats had been handled." The class was to be known as the 

 Trailer class, a more distinctive name then than it is today when traiHng 

 sailboats has become standard procedure. The boat was to be not over 16 

 feet nor carry over 100 square feet of sail. William F. Crosby of Rudder was 

 present and promised to get up the design of such a boat and publish it in 

 his magazine. In the July 1931 issue appeared the plans of a Trailer-class 



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