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Archive for April, 2008

First sail on the Viper 640

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 Posted in sailing, viper 640 | No Comments »

This past weekend we finally launched the Viper for the fitst time.  After several hours on Saturday getting the new carbon mast stepped, rig tuned (approximately) and a bunch of other little rigging projects done, we put the boat in the ...

Got a new boat!

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 Posted in sailing, viper 640 | No Comments »

You may know that we sold our Capri 22 keelboat last year, and had been looking for a new race boat.  I settled on a Viper 640 sportboat as the ideal blend of speed, simplicity, and family-friendliness (in lighter air).  ...