Month: June 2014

During the summer months, the Monte Real Yacht Club of Bayonne organizes cruise courses for all those who want to learn to sail, improve their technique or simply spend a different kind of holiday, enjoying the sea with friends.

The courses are weekly, from Monday to Friday , with three and a half hours of navigation each day, in the morning (10:00 – 13:30) or in the afternoon (16:00 – 19:30) . There is also the possibility of taking an intensive course over a weekend .

Although the classes are essentially practical, to learn how to maneuver and make decisions at sea, they also include theoretical knowledge to become familiar with nautical nomenclature, the parts of the boat and how it works, and the basic concepts of sailing. Always with a coach on board, you start sailing in the calm waters of the Bay of Baiona and end up heading out to the open sea.

The courses are suitable for people of any age and no special material is required, although it is advisable to wear comfortable shoes, a jacket that protects from the cold and wind, sunglasses and sunscreen. Boarding takes place at the Monte Real Club de Yates facilities, located within the walled enclosure of the Parador de Baiona.

The price of the courses (weekly in the morning, weekly in the afternoon or intensive at the weekend) is 125 euros , with a special discount for club members. To register or receive more information, you can call 986 385 000 / 625 261 586 or send an email to secretaria@mrcyb.com . The courses will be held as long as there is a minimum of 4 people signed up.

We also have LIGHT SAILING COURSES for boys and girls from 7 years old .

The Monte Real Yacht Club Sailing School organizes courses throughout the year for all types of audiences. From the age of 7 , anyone who wants to, whether or not they are a member of the club, can learn to sail or improve their technique on different types of boats, with qualified trainers and facilities and materials adapted to the needs of the students. .

The Monte Real has a classroom to teach theoretical classes, changing rooms, and a warehouse to store all the material and equipment provided to the participants.

The School operates at full capacity throughout the year. In summer, in the months of July and August , classes for beginners and advanced are given, during the weekend (Saturday and Sunday mornings, from ten to two) and during the week (Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, from four at eight in the evening).

Starting in September , the course times change to the weekend to adapt to school hours and so that students can combine the activity in the club with their classes at school or institute.

Hundreds of boys and girls from the municipalities of the area have already passed through the Monte Real facilities to participate in one of the Sailing School courses, in which, in addition to receiving nautical training, they can share experiences with other classmates while enjoying of good times at sea.

To register or receive more information about these courses, you can call 986 385 000 / 625 261 586 or send an email to secretaria@mrcyb.com

We also have CRUISE SAILING COURSES for people of any age . They are weekly courses (from Monday to Friday, in the morning or afternoon) or intensive on weekends .

The Monte Real Yacht Club of Bayonne hosted this Sunday the closing acts of the 2013-2014 Season of the Sailing School, with various activities at sea and on land.

The students of the Optimist class participated in the last Social League regatta, an internal competition that took place in the club throughout the season. The winners were Anxo Carril, Iago González and Lucía Arana for the Green Group, and Elena Molares, Rosalía Martínez and Pedro Salgado for the Blue Group.

Together with them, the rest of the young sailors from the school also went out to sail, those of initiation and those of the Cadet and 420 classes. In total, more than 20 boats and about 50 future promises of the sailing world, between 7 and 15 years old, showed what they are capable of in the bay of Baiona.

In the afternoon, all the children received their awards and diplomas at the club’s facilities, in an act in which family and friends also participated.

Atlantic Galician Spirits and the Monte Real Club de Yates de Bayona have just reached an agreement whereby Nordés Atlantic gin, the first and only one made and distilled in Galicia, with 100% Galician products, will be the official gin at the events of the baion club.

A series of common values such as professionalism, ethics or excellence and a desire to promote the image of Galicia beyond our borders are some of the aspects that have led to this collaboration agreement.

Tradition and modernity thus come together, a club with years of history and a gin that, despite its youth on the market, has already broken numerous records. With just one year of life, in 2013 Nordés became the most valued gin in Spain according to the specialists of www.ginebras.net , one of the reference pages in the sector.

After breaking into the Spanish market with force, Nordés is currently successfully exported to a dozen countries on four continents, and is also the third best-selling gin in Portugal.

Part of its success is due, according to its producers, to its peculiar characteristics, which differentiate it in the gin market in Spain. Nordés uses Albariño wine and a selection of Galician herbs as an alcoholic base, including lemon verbena, laurel, toxo or caralleira herb. Also salicornia (a marine plant), juniper, cardamom, quinine, ginger, hibiscus, licorice, lemon peel or tea, among others.

Defined by its producers as an Atlantic Galician Gin -Galician Atlantic gin-, Nordés is macerated and distilled slowly and calmly, following traditional methods. It has an alcohol volume of 40 percent and is presented in a 70 cl bottle. wide body and white, in which Galicia is once again the protagonist, standing out on a world map over the rest of the countries.

Thanks to the collaboration agreement signed between Atlantic Galician Spirits (Nordés gin, Nordés vozka and Nordesía vermús) and the Monte Real Club de Yates de Bayona, in all the events that are organized in the Bayonne club during the summer months there will be gin tasting Nordese.

· The podium was completed by sailors from the Real Club Marítimo de Punta Umbría, Arturo Montes, and Borja Melgarejo

· The Galicians Fran Piñeiro and Antonio Eudoro, from the Escota Sailing Club in Vigo, placed fourth and sixth overall

· The championship, organized by the Monte Real Yacht Club of Bayonne, is included in the II Iberdrola Paralympic Sailing Circuit

The Spanish 2.4mR Class Champion Rafa Andarias won the Vitaldent Adapted Sailing Championship organized by the Monte Real Club de Yates de Bayona and held this weekend in Baiona.

The young sailor, 24 years old, managed to win a competition that was very close from the start. Of the six contested races, all very close, Andarias achieved two first places.

Today’s was a perfect day for sailing, with ideal sea and wind conditions. An average of 14 knots facilitated the progress of the fleet, which completed the routes quite grouped. Proof of this is that in the last of the races all the sailboats reached the finish line in just 30 seconds.

Despite this equality between the sailors, Andarias managed to prevail and ratify the provisional victory achieved on Saturday, on the first day of competition. The second and third position of the general had a marked Andalusian accent, that of Arturo Montes and Borja Melgarejo, both from the Real Club Marítimo de Punta Umbría (Huelva). The Galicians Fran Piñeiro and Antonio Eudoro, from the Escota Sailing Club in Vigo, managed to achieve fourth and sixth place.

The award ceremony held this afternoon at Monte Real was attended by the Managing Director of the Spanish Paralympic Committee, Alberto Jofre. The 2.4mR Class Adapted Sailing Vitaldent Championship is included in the II Iberdrola Paralympic Sailing Circuit.

· The young sailor from Xábia, 24, got a first place and two seconds in the tests held today in the bay of Baiona

The Galician Fran Piñeiro, from the Escota de Vigo Sailing Club, came out ready to give the Valencian a fight and managed to win in the third round

· The championship, organized by the Monte Real Yacht Club and included in the II Iberdrola Paralympic Sailing Circuit, continues tomorrow, Sunday

The young sailor from Xábia and Spanish Champion of the 2.4mR Class, Rafa Andarias, is the provisional leader of the Vitaldent 2.4mR Adapted Sailing Championship after the tests held this Saturday in the Bay of Baiona.

Andarias, from the Club Náutico de Jávea, dominated for much of the route. He won the first round, got two second places in the rest, and finally took over the temporary leadership of the competition.

Waiting for what happens tomorrow, Sunday, the provisional podium is completed by the sailor from Huelva, Borja Melgarejo, from the Punta Umbría Club, and the Galician Fran Piñeiro, from the Escota Sailing Club in Vigo.

Today’s day was marked by the wind, which allowed the first test to be carried out as planned, but which considerably delayed the start of the second. It took a long time to settle and forced to modify routes, but it finally stabilized and allowed a second and third tests to be carried out with more than favorable conditions.

The Vitaldent Adapted Sailing Championship, included in the II Iberdrola Paralympic Sailing Circuit, continues tomorrow, Sunday, starting at noon, in the waters of the Bay of Baiona. In the afternoon the awards ceremony will take place at the Monte Real Club de Yates de Bayonne.

· The Monte Real Yacht Club organizes the 2.4mR Class Adapted Sailing Vitaldent Championship, included in the II Iberdrola Paralympic Sailing Circuit

· The sailor Rafa Andarias, from Xábia, will try to defend the leadership of the 2.4mR class that he achieved in the Spanish championship held in May in Valencia

· The fleet will include sailors from all over Spain. Defending the Galician flag will be Fran Piñeiro, from the Escota de Vigo Sailing Club

The Monte Real Yacht Club of Bayonne is organizing this weekend the Vitaldent 2.4mR Adapted Sailing Championship, framed in the Iberdrola Paralympic Sailing Circuit. It is an open regatta for all boats in the 2.4mR class in which some 15 boats from Galicia, Catalonia, Valencia, Madrid, Andalusia and the Basque Country will participate.

Although there are already training sessions this Friday, the official tests will begin tomorrow, Saturday, at 12 noon in the Bay of Baiona and will include a series of routes between buoys, a program that will be repeated on Sunday at the same time. That last day, the awards ceremony will also be held at the Monte Real Club de Yates, starting at five in the afternoon.

The Spanish 2.4mR sailors arrive in Baiona after passing through Valencia, where the Spanish Championship was held last May. There, the sailor from Xábia and member of the Spanish preparatory team Rafa Andarias won the victory, who seeks to maintain the leadership of the 2.4mR class in the tests this weekend. The Galician Fran Piñeiro, from the Club de Vela Escota de Vigo, will try to prevent him and make a podium in Galicia.

The Vitaldent Adapted Sailing Championship is included in the Iberdrola Paralympic Sailing Circuit, which this year celebrates its second edition. It was launched with the aim of promoting and publicizing the class and Adapted Sailing in Spain.

After this first test in Baiona, sponsored by Vitaldent, the regatta program will continue in Santander and Barcelona, in the months of July and September. In October the Iberdrola Trophy will be held in Valencia, which will be a European championship.

At the closing of the first adapted sailing course at Monte Real, the vice president of the Xunta, Alfonso Rueda, highlighted the effort made by the club for the integration of disabled people

· The Regional Minister of Labor and Welfare, Beatriz Mato, unveiled a plaque with the distinction that the ADEAC awarded this year to Monte Real for its work in removing architectural barriers and caring for people with disabilities

· The president of Portos de Galicia, José Juan Durán, and the mayor of Baiona, Jesús Vázquez Almuíña, were in charge of raising the blue flag that is already flying at the club’s facilities

The vice-president of the Xunta, Alfonso Rueda, presided today in Baiona at the closing ceremony of the first Adapted Sailing Course of the Monte Real Yacht Club, in which various disabled associations from the Val Miñor region participated.

In his speech, Rueda highlighted the effort made by the club for the integration of disabled people in the world of sailing. A work that, as he assured, must continue to be promoted in many other areas of society.

The more than 50 students of the course received their diplomas and also listened to the words of the Minister of Work and Welfare, Beatriz Mato, who encouraged them to continue participating in this type of initiative. “Societies are valued for how they treat vulnerable people, and Monte Real – assured the minister – is an example to follow”

Vice-commodore Alejandro Retolaza spoke on behalf of the club. He thanked Iberdrola and Fundación Repsol for their support in making this initiative a reality and encouraged public administrations to join the project, so that it can continue in the coming years. “The sea belongs to everyone and for everyone,” he concluded.

The Adapted Sailing School of the Monte Real Yacht Club of Bayonne was born in 2012 with the aim of bringing people with disabilities closer to the world of sailing. Since its launch, several associations for the physically and mentally disabled in the Val Miñor region have carried out various activities at the club. They are the Encaixamos Association, of people with disabilities from Val Miñor, the Juan María de Nigrán Center, the Avelaíña de Gondomar group and the Vontade de Tomiño association.

Elimination of architectural barriers and care for disabled people

Once the closing ceremony of the course was over, the Councilor for Work and Welfare, Beatriz Mato, was in charge of unveiling a plaque with the distinction that the ADEAC awarded this year to Monte Real for its work in removing architectural barriers and care for people with disabilities. A recognition that rewards initiatives such as the Adapted Sailing School.

Blue flag to the marina

The president of Portos de Galicia, José Juan Durán, and the mayor of Baiona, Jesús Vázquez Almuíña, raised the blue flag that will fly over the club for the next year.

The Association for Environmental and Consumer Education awarded the Monte Real marina this distinction for the environmental care of its infrastructure, the quality of its waters and the excellence of its nautical services.

The prestigious award, which has the support of UNESCO and the World Tourism Organization, recognizes the good management that the club carries out in its facilities through a specific environmental plan, which includes actions related to water, waste, energy consumption, safety or health, among other actions.

Adapted Sailing Championships

The Monte Real Club de Yates de Bayona contributed its grain of sand to further the practice of sailing among people with disabilities by organizing the Iberian Championship of 2.4mR class of adapted sailing, in which thirty sailors from Spain and Portugal participated. , in the year 2013.

In this 2014 it organizes the Vitaldent Championship of Adapted Sailing Class 2.4mR, a regatta that will be held next weekend (June 20 and 21) in the waters of the Bay of Baiona and that is included in the national circuit of the Paralympic class. 2.4mR. It is an opportunity for the young members of the adapted sailing school to have the opportunity to witness a sailing competition at the highest level.

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· The Portuguese Rui Ramada and Pedro Pinto, aboard the Fifty, won the regatta held this weekend in the Rías Baixas

· The skill of the Portuguese sailors and the favorable weather conditions allowed them to cover the 52-mile race in just 7 hours

· José María Peinó, in the solo category, and Fernándo González and Ignacio Ecearro, in two, became the new Galician Champions of these modalities

The Portuguese Rui Ramada and Pedro Pinto, aboard the Fifty, won this weekend the Rafael Olmedo President Cup, organized by the Monte Real Club de Yates with the sponsorship of Don Pedro de Soutomaior.

The Portuguese sailors led the competition from the first moment, and managed to travel the 52-mile test through the Rías Baixas in just 7 hours, an impressive mark that was helped by the unbeatable weather conditions recorded during the day on Saturday.

The Fifty, overall winner, also won the Category A Two. In the Solitaire category, first place went to José María Peinó aboard the U-47, and in the J80 classification in real time, Miguel Lago and Juan Lago won gold.

The classification of the Don Pedro de Soutomaior Regatta also raised José María Peinó as the new Galician Solitary Champion, and Fernándo González and Ignacio Ecearro as Galician Two-handed Champions.

The next appointment with the regattas of the Monte Real Club de Yates de Bayonne is next weekend, with the 2.4mR Class Vitaldent Regatta Adapted Sailing Championship, in which sailors with some type of disability will compete. It will be held on June 21 and 22 in the bay of Baiona.

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· The boat, skippered by the Portuguese Rui Ramada, completed 30 of the 52-mile regatta in just 3 hours

· The second position is disputed by the Castrosúa and the Marka, and the rest of the boats sail grouped at a certain distance

Rui Ramada’s Fifty and grímpola of the Monte Real Yacht Club of Bayonne leads the Galician Solitaire and Two-Handed Championship – Don Pedro de Soutomaior Regatta, which takes place this Saturday in the Rías Baixas.

The sailboat, which sailed at high speed from the first minutes of the test, managed to complete half of the 52-mile course in just 3 hours, and everything indicates that it will finish the test in record time.

The good state of the sea and the wind, which is beginning to increase in intensity, with gusts of up to 25 knots, is helping sailboats navigate. The Castrosúa and the Marka follow in the footsteps of the Fifty in a close duel between two, and the rest of the boats are sailing together at this time.

The competition can be followed live, minute by minute, through the Internet, on an online platform created especially for the regatta by the Valencian company TraceMyWay.

The final results will be known, predictably, after midnight. The awards ceremony will be held tomorrow, Sunday, at noon, at the facilities of the Monte Real Club de Yates de Bayonne.

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· The good state of the sea and very favorable wind conditions could allow record times in the crossing of the Rías Baixas

· About 30 boats, with crews of one or two sailors, will make a journey of about 60 miles through the Vigo, Pontevedra and Arousa estuaries

· The competition can be followed minute by minute via the Internet thanks to an online platform created especially for the regatta

Winds of up to 25 knots and a perfect state of the sea will allow records to be broken in the Galician Solitaire and Two-Handed Championship – Don Pedro de Soutomaior Regatta, which takes place this weekend in the Rías Baixas. The boats will be able to reach good speeds and finish the planned route, reducing the times recorded in previous editions.

The Galician Solitary and Two-handed Championship is one of the most prestigious nautical events in Galicia and quite a challenge for sailors, because they face a long route with a reduced crew, one or two sailors at most. There are 60 miles of crossing through the Vigo, Pontevedra and Arousa estuaries, starting and finishing in the bay of Baiona.

The competition, which will start tomorrow, Saturday at 11 am, with the participation of some 30 boats, can be followed minute by minute via the Internet thanks to the technology developed by the Valencian company Tracemyway .

A GMS geolocation system with a tracker on board the boats will allow anyone who wishes to know the exact position of the boats at all times or relive the development of the test once it has finished, as if it were a repetition . Real-time monitoring can be done through a computer or smartphone, accessing an online platform created especially for the regatta.

The Galician Solitary and Two-Handed Championship – Don Pedro de Soutomaior Regatta is organized, for the third consecutive year, by the Monte Real Club de Yates de Bayonne, and has the collaboration of Nordés gin and Nordic Mist tonic.

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· The Monte Real Club de Yates de Bayona organizes for the third consecutive year one of the most prestigious nautical events in Galicia

· The boats, with crews of one or two sailors at most, will make a 60-mile journey through the Vigo, Pontevedra and Arousa estuaries

· The test is integrated into the celebration of the XXIII President Rafael Olmedo Cup, the traditional event with the Solitaires and A Dos of the Baionese club

The Monte Real Club de Yates de Bayona organizes for the third consecutive year the Galician Solitary and Two-handed Championship, one of the most prestigious nautical events in Galicia, with the added attraction of being a challenge for the most experienced sailors due to its length and the complexity of managing vessels with a reduced crew.

Sponsored by Don Pedro de Soutomaior, the competition will take place in the waters of the Bay of Baiona and the Vigo, Pontevedra and Arousa estuaries. The boats will sail with crews of one or two sailors maximum and must complete a course of about 60 miles. The planned itinerary includes a route departing from the bay of Baiona and passing through the Carallones and La Negra beacons, the Cíes Islands, the Picamillo, Fajilda, Esqueiros and Ter marks, the Ons and Onza Islands and the Islote dos Viños.

After a meeting of patrons on Friday afternoon, with tasting of Nordés gin and tonics and Nordic Mist, the competition will begin on Saturday the 14th at eleven in the morning and will last until Sunday the 15th. The public that wishes to follow it will be able to see the passing of sailboats from the Costa de la Vela and the O Grove peninsula. At the end of the regatta, scoring for the Galician Circuit of Solitaires and A Dos 2014, the awards ceremony will be held at the Monte Real headquarters, with a subsequent tasting of the Albariño Don Pedro de Soutomaior.

The Don Pedro de Soutomaior Regatta is once again integrated this year into the celebration of the Rafael Olmedo President Cup, the traditional event with the Solitaires and A Dos del Monte Real, which the club has been organizing for twenty-three years in honor of its president, Mr. Rafael Olmedo Limases.

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