Yachting is a sport that Brazil had even constantly reach good results in world championships, but doesn`t have recognize for the major public. Crews often can`t find more specialized research studies about the theme. Snipe class was chosen once is one of the more traditional, and also because it is considered by the practitioners as the more technical one. For this research, it was tried to find out the discomfort caused by sailing and how is the relationship between practitioners and their equipment. It was carried out a field research, using tests and discomfort evaluation, and also questionnaires and interviews with the sailors. Although the results show risks, in the sailors´ opinion, boat design, including deck layout, had just few bad critics. This information means that sailors are satisfied with the equipment, including their possibilities of variation in the deck and its limitations concerning to space and comfort. Conclusion is that Snipe sailors don`t consider discomfort caused by equipment, affirming that it is not as important as the pleasure of sailing. Practitioners also comment that they consider themselves as privileged if compared to other sailing dinghy classes. Agreeing to the results in this research, equipment isn`t a cause of injuries if properly used.