Open Snipe World Championship

The Open 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.

Entry is limited to the best national boats under an established quota based on the number of properly registered boat owners submitted to the SCIRA office by each National Secretary on the dues paid members for that year.

The following formula is used ("Registered Boats" must include: owner's name, address, fleet number and hull number to which the member has paid dues upon):

Additionally, the following skippers have an automatic entry to the championship that is not included in their home country's quota:

• Last World Champion, European Champion, Western Hemisphere & Orient Champion, Women's World Champion and first and second place in the Junior World Championship.
• Any former Commodore Hub E. Isaacks Trophy winning skipper.
• One additional skipper from the host country, providing that it does not have among its other representatives the Junior or Senior World, European or Western Hemisphere & Orient Champion.
• One additional skipper from the host fleet.

If the total entrants do not meet a total of 80 boats, those unassigned entry slots will be re-allocated to a pool of qualified entrants by SCIRA and the organizing authority.^[1]

1959

1961

1963

1965

1967

1969

1971/2013

1973

1975

1977

1979

1981

1983

1985

1987

1989

1991

1993

1995

1997

1999

2001

2003

2005

2007

2009

2011

2015

2017

2019

2022

2024

Host cities of the Open Snipe World Championship

Edition			Hosts			Sailor			Boats				Ref.
No	Day/Month	Year	Host club	City	Country	No.	Nat.	Cont.	Boats			Mix
01	16-25 Oct	1959	Clube dos Jangadeiros	Porto Alegre	Brazil	32	16	4	16				[2][3]
02	16-22 Sep.	1961	American Yacht Club (New York)	Rye	United States	36	18	4	18				[4][5]
03	7-14 Sep	1963		Bendor Island	France	38	18	4	24				[6][7]
04	8-14 Sep	1965	Real Club Náutico de Gran Canaria	Las Palmas	Spain	50	25	4	25				[8][9]
05	5-10 Nov	1967	Coral Harbour Yacht Club	Nassau	Bahamas	48	24	4	24				[10][11]
06	24 Oct -1 Nov	1969	Clube Náutico da Ilha de Luanda	Luanda	Angola	48	23	5	24				[12][13]
07	8-15 Oct	1971	Iate Clube do Rio de Janeiro	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	44	21	5	22				[14][15]
08	12-20 Oct	1973	Real Club Mediterráneo	Málaga	Spain	84	22	5	42				[16][17]
09	28Nov - 5Dec	1975	Yacht Club Punta del Este	Punta del Este	Uruguay	60	16	4	30	28	0	2	[18][19]
10	21-28 Aug	1977	Skovshoved Sejlklub	Copenhagen	Denmark	74	20	4	37				[20][21]
11	12-19 Aug	1979	Northern Yacht Club	North Sydney	Canada	60	17	4	30				[22][23]
12	3-12 Sept	1981	Alamitos Bay Yacht Club	Long Beach	United States	72	19	4	36				[24][25]
13	6-12 Sep	1983	Sport Club do Porto	Porto	Portugal	74	18	4	37				[26][27]
14	23 Nov - 1 Dec	1985	Club Náutico San Isidro	Buenos Aires	Argentina	70	19	4	35				[28][29]
15	31Aug - 4Sep	1987	Société des Régates Rochelaises	La Rochelle	France	98	16	4	49				[30][31]
16	22-28 Aug	1989	Saga Prefecture Yacht Harbor	Karatsu	Japan	88	15	4	44	38	2	4	[32][33]
17	2-10 Aug	1991	Tønsberg Seilforening	Tønsberg	Norway	100	20	4	50				[34][35]
18	Nov	1993	Clube dos Jangadeiros	Porto Alegre	Brazil	92	17	4	46	40	0	6	[36][37]
19	3-9 Jul	1995	Club Nautico di Rimini	Rimini	Italy	96	18	4	48	35	0	13	[38][39][40]
20	13-18 Sep	1997	Mission Bay Yacht Club	San Diego	United States	104	20	4	52	39	0	13	[41][42][43]
21	3-11 Sep	1999	Real Club de Regatas de Santiago de la Ribera	Santiago de la Ribera	Spain	114	21	4	57	47	1	9	[44][45][46]
22	24 Nov - 2 Dec	2001	Yacht Club Punta del Este	Punta del Este	Uruguay	122	19	4	61	53	0	8	[47][48][49]
23	2-9 Aug	2003	Borstahusens Segelsällskaps	Borstahusen	Sweden	116	18	4	58	40	0	18	[50][51][52]
24	23-30 Jul	2005	Kaiyoh Yacht Harbor	Gamagori	Japan	102	15	4	51	39	0	12	[53][54][55]
25	8-15 Sep	2007	Clube de Vela Atlântico	Porto	Portugal	114	17	4	57	47	0	10	[56][57][58][59]
26	7-11 Sep	2009	San Diego Yacht Club	San Diego	United States	98	18	4	49	34	0	15	[60][61][62][63]
27	6-13 Aug	2011	Royal Danish Yacht Club &  Espergærde Sejlklub	Rungsted	Denmark	118	17	4	59	37	1	21	[64][65][66]
28	21-29 Sep	2013	Iate Clube do Rio de Janeiro	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	154	15	4	77	66	0	11	[67][68][69][70]
29	12-26 Sep	2015	Circolo della Vela Talamone	Talamone	Italy	166	18	4	83	61	2	20	[71][72][73][74][75]
30	5-11 Aug	2017	Real Club Náutico de La Coruña	Corunna	Spain	170	18	4	85	62	0	23	[76][77][78]
31	8-12 Oct	2019	Lars Grael Sailing School	Ilhabela	Brazil	140	11	4	70	49	1	20	[79][80][81][82][83]
32	18-25 Aug	2022	Clube Naval de Cascais	Cascais	Portugal	170	19	4	85	60	1	24	[84][85][86]
33	24 Oct - 2 Nov	2024	Yacht Club Argentino	Buenos Aires	Argentina	168	12	4	84	59	0	25	[87][88] [89]

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1946 Chautauqua Lake Yacht Club, New York	United States Bob Davis Ken Davis	United States Victor Larson	United States Bob Carrick	[90]
1947 Société Nautique de Genève, Geneva	United States Ted A. Wells Art Lippitt	Argentina Jorge Emilio Brauer Roberto García Guevara	Norway Felix V. Roznieki	[90]
1948 Real Club Náutico de Palma, Palma de Mallorca	Argentina Carlos Vilar Castex Jorge Vilar Castex	Spain Antonio Pérez Rodríguez Antonio Ferrer Tur	Portugal Antonio Jose Vilardebó Jaime Sacadura	[90]
1949 Larchmont Yacht Club, New York	United States Ted A. Wells Marjorie A. Wells	Argentina Jorge Vilar Castex Carlos Vilar Castex	Norway Per Skjønberg	[90]
1951 Miramar Yacht Club, Habana	Argentina Jorge Vilar Castex Carlos Vilar Castex	United States Francis Seavy	Cuba Jorge Mantilla	[90]
1953 Société des Régates, Monaco	Portugal Antonio José Conde Martins Fernando Lima Bello	United States Tom Frost	Cuba Clemente Inclan	[90]
1955 Real Club Marítimo de Santander, Santander	Italy Mario Capio Lorenzo Podestà	Cuba Jorge Mantilla	Portugal Helder Soares Oliveira	[90]
1957 Clube Naval de Cascais, Cascais	Spain Juan Manuel Alonso-Allende Gabriel Laiseca	Switzerland Raymond Fragniere	United States Fred Schenck	[90]
1959	Denmark Paul Elvstrøm Erik Johansen	United States Gonzalo Diaz	Japan Masyuki Ishii	[90][91]
1961	Brazil Axel Schmidt Erik Schmidt	United States Harry Levinson Alan Levinson	Spain Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba Luis Triay	[90]
1963	Brazil Axel Schmidt Erik Schmidt	Brazil Reinaldo Conrad	Bahamas Basil Kelly	[90]
1965	Brazil Axel Schmidt Erik Schmidt	United States Harry Levinson Alan Levinson	Puerto Rico John Hoyt Hovey Freeman	[90]
1967	Brazil Nelson Piccolo Carlos Henrique de Lorenzi	United States Earl Elms David Ullman	Yugoslavia Anton Grego Simo Nikolić	[90]
1969	United States Earl Elms Mike Shear	Brazil Reinaldo Conrad Mário Buckup	Portugal Paulo Santos Fernando da Silva	[90]
1971	United States Earl Elms Craig Martin	Brazil Ralph Conrad João Pedro Reinhard	Spain Félix Gancedo Antonio Burgos	[90]
1973	Spain Félix Gancedo Rafael Parga	Denmark Per Brodsted Steen Brodsted	Sweden Erik Thosell Claes Nordwall	[90]
1975	Spain Félix Gancedo Manuel Bernal	United States Agustín Diaz Gonzalo Diaz	Finland Peter Bjurstrom Hakan Bjurstrom	[90]
1977	Brazil Boris Ostergren Ernesto Neugebauer	United States Tom Nute Randy Smith	Brazil Marco Aurélio Paradeda Luiz Pejnovic	[90]
1979	United States Dave Chapin Tim Dixon	United States Mark Reynolds DeAnn Wright	Brazil Bóris Ostergren Ernesto Neugebauer	[90]
1981	United States Jeff Lenhart Patrick Muglia	Spain Félix Gancedo Carlos Llamas	Brazil Torben Grael Lars Grael	[90]
1983	Brazil Torben Grael Lars Grael	United States Craig Martin Kenyon Martin	Spain Jorge Haenelt Laureano Wizner	[90]
1985	Argentina Santiago Lange Miguel Saubidet	Argentina Johnny MacCall Sergio Ripoll	Japan Miyuca Kai Akio Kaneko	[90]
1987	Brazil Torben Grael Marcelo Maia	Argentina Santiago Lange Miguel Saubidet	Uruguay Horacio Carabelli Luis Chiapparo	[90]
1989	Uruguay Ricardo Fabini Harol Meerhoff	Brazil Torben Grael Marcelo Maia	Japan Nobuhiro Utada Noriaki Sugitani	[90]
1991	Argentina Axel Roger Jorge Quiroga	Finland Hakan Bjurstrom Rikard Bjurstrom	Norway Birger Jansen Janett Krefting	[90]
1993	Argentina Santiago Lange Mariano Parada	Brazil George Nehm Fernando Krahe	Argentina Guillermo Parada Sergio Ripole	[90]
1995	Argentina Santiago Lange Mariano Parada	Argentina Guillermo Parada Gonzalo Martínez	United States Douglas Hart John Rogers	[90]
1997	Brazil Maurício Oliveira Eduardo Neves	Brazil Alexandre Paradeda Flavio Fernandes	Russia Andrey Kirilyuk Galina Kirilyuk	[90]
1999	Cuba Nélido Manso Octavio Lorenzo	Brazil André Fonseca Rodrigo Duarte	Spain Fernando Rita Larrucea Javier Sintes Rita	[90][45]
2001	Brazil Alexandre Paradeda Eduardo Paradeda	Brazil Federico Vasconcellos Felipe Vasconcellos	Argentina Christian Noe Alejandro Noe	[90][48]
2003	United States Augie Diaz John Rogers	United States George Szabo Brian Janney	Spain Francisco Sánchez Ferrer Marina Sánchez Ferrer	[90][51]
2005	United States Augie Diaz Pamela Kelly	Japan Shigeru Matsuzaki Hiroyuki Sugiura	Uruguay Pablo Defazio Eduardo Medici	[90][54]
2007	United States Tomas Hornos Enrique Quintero	Japan Kenji Abe Hiroshi Yamachica	United States Peter Commette Sheehan Commette	[90][91][58]
2009	Brazil Bruno Amorim Dante Bianchi	Spain Gustavo del Castillo Felipe Llinares Pascual	United States Ernesto Rodriguez Megan Place	[90][91][62]
2011	Brazil Alexandre do Amaral Gabriel Borges	Brazil Alexandre Paradeda Gabriel Kieling	Brazil Bruno Amorim Dante Bianchi	[90][91][65]
2013	Brazil Bruno Amorim Dante Bianchi	Brazil Mário C. Urban Rafael Sapucaia	Brazil Alexandre Paradeda Gabriel Kieling	[90][91][69]
2015	Brazil Mateus Tavares Gustavo Carvalho	Argentina Luis Soubié Diego Lipszyc	Spain Álvaro Martinez Iribarne Gabriel Utrera Thompson	[91][74]
2017	Puerto Rico Raúl Ríos Maximiliano Agnese	Spain Gustavo del Castillo Rafael del Castillo	Spain Rayco Tabares Gonzalo Morales Quintana	[91][78]
2019	Brazil Henrique Haddad Gustavo Nascimento	Brazil Alexandre Paradeda Gabriel Kieling	Spain Damian Borrás Jordi Triay	[92][82]
2022	Spain Alfredo González González Cristian Sánchez Barreto	Brazil Alexandre Paradeda Gabriel Kieling	United States Ernesto Rodriguez Kathleen Tocke	[86]
2024	Argentina Julio Alsogaray Malena Sciarra	United States Ernesto Rodriguez Taylor Scheuermann	Brazil Bernardo Peixoto Gustavo Baiano	[89]

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1934 New Rochelle Yacht Club, New Rochelle	United States William E. Bracey	United States F.M. Ellsworth	United States Karl Haimerl	[90]
1935 Dallas Sailing Club, Dallas	United States Perry Richardson Bass Jimmie Maxwell	United States H.S. Thompson	United States William E. Bracey	[90]
1936 Oshkosh Yacht Club, Wisconsin	United States Philip Benson, Jr. Bill Benson	United States George Q. McGown	United States A.M. Deacon	[90]
1937 Sea Cliff Yacht Club, New York	United States Authur M. Deacon	United States William Leo	United States Cort Ames	[90]
1938 Wawasee Yacht Club, Indiana	United States Charles Gabor	United States Cleo Payne	United States Henry Schuette	[90]
1939 Los Angeles Yacht Club, Los Angeles	United States Walter Hall	United States Darby Metcalf	United States Ray Hopkins	[90]
1940 Canandaigua Yacht Club, New York	United States Darby Metcalf Fred Schenck	United States Ted Varalyay L. Varalyay	United States Don Cochran	[90]
1941 Fort Worth Boat Club, Texas	United States Darby Metcalf George Lounsberry	United States Steve Bechtel, Jr.	United States Ted Varalyay	[90]
1942 Crescent Sail Yacht Club, Michigan	United States Clifford Heinzerling Ralph Heinzerling	United States Gail DeJarnette	United States Ted A. Wells	[90]
1945 Chicago Corinthian Yacht Club, Illinois	United States Bob White Betty White	United States Don Cochran	United States Don Borough	[90]

Commodore Hub E. Isaacks and O'Leary Trophies are the main trophies awarded at the Open Snipe World Championship. The Commodore Hub E. Isaacks Trophy is awarded to the fleet of the winning skipper,^[93] while the O’Leary Trophy is awarded to the person who crews for the winning skipper in the majority of races sailed in the World Championships.^[94]

Another two perpetual trophies are presented in the championship: The Earl Elms Perpetual Trophy is awarded to the fleet of the winning skipper of the final race of the World Championship, and the Bibi Juetz Perpetual Trophy to the highest placing mixed team.

This competition is held every two years in the odd numbered years since the year 1949. Previously, it was held every year since 1934.^[95] It is named after Hub E. Isaacs, of Dallas, Texas, first commodore of the Snipe Class International Racing Association (SCIRA), who donated the trophy.

The O'Leary Trophy is awarded since 1961 and it was donated by Cathy O’Leary y Helen O’Leary Hall.^[96]

Year	Skipper	O'Leary Trophy Crew	Commodore Hub E. Isaacks Trophy
			Skipper's Fleet	Club
1934	William E. Bracey		1	Dallas Sailing Club
1935	Perry Bass	Jimmie Maxwell^	34	Wichita Falls Sailing Club
1936	Philip A. Benson, Jr.	Bill Benson^	4	Sea Cliff Yacht Club
1937	Arthur M. Deacon		3-Western Long Island Sound	Horseshoe Harbor Yacht Club
1938	Charles Gabor		10	Lake Mohawk Yacht Club
1939	Walter Hall	Bob Hall^	62	Lake Merritt Sailing Club
1940	Darby Metcalf	Fred Schenck^	90	Los Angeles Yacht Club
1941	Darby Metcalf	George Lounsberry^	90	Los Angeles Yacht Club
1942	Charles Heinzerling	Ralph Heinzerling^	112	Lake Lackawanna Yacht Club
1945	Bob White	Betty White^	94-Newport Harbor	Balboa Yacht Club
1946	Bob Davis	Ken Davis^	94-Newport Harbor	Balboa Yacht Club
1947	Ted A. Wells	Art Lippitt^	93-Wichita	Wichita Sailing Club
1948	Carlos Vilar	Jorge Vilar^	274	Club Náutico San Isidro
1949	Ted A. Wells	Marjorie A. Wells^	93-Wichita	Wichita Sailing Club
1951	Jorge Vilar	Carlos Vilar^	274	Club Náutico San Isidro
1953	Antonio José Conde Martins	Fernando Lima Bello^	216-Centro de Vela da	Mocidade Portuguesa
1955	Mario Capio	Lorenzo Podestà^	404-Spalturno
1957	Juan Manuel Alonso-Allende	Gabriel Laiseca^	151	Real Sporting Club
1959	Paul Elvstrom	Erik Johansen^	585	Hellerup Sejlklub
1961	Axel Schmidt	Eric Schmidt	477-Saco de São Francisco	Rio Yacht Club
1963	Axel Schmidt	Eric Schmidt	477-Saco de São Francisco	Rio Yacht Club
1965	Axel Schmidt	Eric Schmidt	477-Saco de São Francisco	Rio Yacht Club
1967	Nelson Piccolo	C. Henrique de Lorenzi	426-Rio Grande do Sul	Clube dos Jangadeiros
1969	Earl Elms	Mike Shear	495-Mission Bay	Mission Bay Yacht Club
1971	Earl Elms	Craig Martin	495-Mission Bay	Mission Bay Yacht Club
1973	Félix Gancedo	Rafael Parga	146	Real Club Mediterráneo
1975	Félix Gancedo	Manuel Bernal	146	Real Club Mediterráneo
1977	Boris Ostergren	Ernesto Neugebauer	427-Cristal	Veleiros do Sul
1979	Dave Chapin	Tim Dixon	91	Island Bay Yacht Club
1981	Jeff Lenhart	Patrick Muglia	495-Mission Bay	Mission Bay Yacht Club
1983	Torben Grael	Lars Grael	477-Saco de São Francisco	Rio Yacht Club
1985	Santiago Lange	Miguel Saubidet	274	Club Náutico San Isidro
1987	Torben Grael	Marcelo Maia	477-Saco de São Francisco	Rio Yacht Club
1989	Ricardo Fabini	Harol Meerhoff	506	Yacht Club Uruguayo
1991	Axel Rodger	Jorge Quiroga	737	Club Universitario de Buenos Aires
1993	Santiago Lange	Mariano Parada	274	Club Náutico San Isidro
1995	Santiago Lange	Mariano Parada	274	Club Náutico San Isidro
1997	Mauricio Oliveira	Eduardo Neves	159-Rio de Janeiro	Iate Clube do Rio de Janeiro
1999	Nélido Manso	Octavio Lorenzo	22-La Habana
2001	Alexandre Paradeda	Eduardo Paradeda	426-Rio Grande do Sul	Clube dos Jangadeiros
2003	Augie Diaz	Jon Rogers	196	Coconut Grove Sailing Club
2005	Augie Diaz	Pamela Kelly	196	Coconut Grove Sailing Club
2007	Tomas Hornos	Enrique Quintero	244	Cottage Park Yacht Club
2009	Bruno Amorim	Dante Bianchi	159-Rio de Janeiro	Iate Clube do Rio de Janeiro
2011	Alexandre do Amaral	Gabriel Borges	368-Baia de Guanabara	Clube de Regatas Guanabara
2013	Bruno Amorim	Dante Bianchi	159-Rio de Janeiro	Iate Clube do Rio de Janeiro
2015	Mateus Tavares	Gustavo Carvalho	662-Salvador de Bahia	Yacht Clube da Bahia
2017	Raúl Ríos	Max Agnese	591	Club Náutico de San Juan
2019	Henrique Haddad	Gustavo Nascimento	159-Rio de Janeiro	Iate Clube do Rio de Janeiro
2022	Alfredo González González	Cristian Sánchez Barreto	623	Real Club Náutico de Arrecife
2024	Julio Alsogaray	Malena Sciarra	575	Club Náutico San Pedro

^Crew did not receive the O'Leary Trophy because it was not established yet

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