Marcello Montis will be the Principal Race Officer for the Snipe European Championship. Former sailor on Flying Juniors and 470 during young age, then on Laser (both standard and radial), now active sailor on keel boats. International Race Officer since 2014, he had been National trainer for Race Officials. Currently he is appointed as RO Observer for the Italian Sailing Federation. Marcello has already been PRO in the Italian National Ranking Snipe regattas.

César Sans is no stranger to the Snipe Class or the sailors!  He is confirmed as the jury chair for the 2023 European Championship - 

• Snipe sailor between years 1985 and 1993 several participations in National Championships.
• National Judge, Race Officer and Umpire since 1996.
• International Judge since 2000 and International Race Officer since 2001.
• Involved with Snipe Class in National and International events as Europeans, Worlds and other as Judge and Race Officer in several events. Last one in the world Championship in Cascais as Jury Chairman of the International Jury.
• Also involved with other Classes as Optimist, J80, IQ Foil and others.

The European Championship Organizing Committee foresees a large participation in the event which will take place in Gargnano (Lake Garda - Italy).

Under agreement of the European General Secretary and the Chief Measurer, to facilitate the measurement process the following procedures are strongly recommended

All boats entering the European Championship are requested to be measured in their Countries by an appointed measurer.

The Organizing Committee will post on the official web page (euro.snipechampionships.org) the Equipment Inspection Sheet (EIS) to be filled in and send to the National Secretaries the stickers to mark the measured equipment (rig, appendages, hull, etc.)

Each National Secretary will send a list of the appointed measurers to the Organizing Committee before the beginning of the event. If no measurer is available in the home Country, all associated boats will be controlled on site according to the NoR.

At the Championship, to proceed with the measurement, competitors shall present the EIS filled in the appropriate spaces (@home controls) together with their Measurement Certificate (MC) to the Chief Measurer

Those boats with both EIS and MC shall be checked according to the EIS and the sails verified (sails must be presented already measured and stamped by a SCIRA or Sailing Federation appointed measurer; please remember that according to RRS Appendix G no digital-like numbers are accepted). All other boats will be measured in full according to the NoR.

Growing up in the "nautical" business, my father owned motor boats, when I met the reality of the Circolo Vela Gargnano, intrigued, I started sailing at the age of 7.

I shortly moved to Optimist competition, where as a Junior I got my first results, especially in the women's rankings.

In the same year I discovered the RS Feva. In 2011 I won the Italian Nationals helming for Gianluca Virgenti and I finished 20th at the World Championship in Holland.

I continued to compete in RS Feva until 2013, when I began crewing for Margherita Porro, winning the Women's World Cup (6th overall) and the Italian Nationals overall.

In 2014 I switched to 29er, always crewing for Margherita, winning the Italian Nationals overall, the Women’s and U19 Championships.