Month: April 2018

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Maximum emotion in the national J80 that takes place in Baiona

 

· The third day played this Monday in the framework of the Repsol Trophy of the Monte Real Yacht Club turned the classification upside down and the podium remains open for the final rounds that will be held tomorrow

· The Cantabrian team from Maui Jim Sunglasses , led by Javier Aguado and wearing a pendant from the Real Club Marítimo de Santander, rose to first place in the championship, ousting the Basques from AD Grupo Garatu

Olympian Jaime Piris’s Mercury slipped into second place, leaving Javier de la Gándara’s Okofen and Jesus Amaliach’s La Gallofa tied on points in third and fourth position

· After a day of rest, the rest of the fleet participating in the Repsol Trophy will return to the water tomorrow, Tuesday, to participate in the final test and the awards ceremony that will be held in the afternoon at the Monte Real Club de Yates

 

Maximum emotion in the Spanish Championship of the J80 Class that is being held these days in Baiona and that lived its third and penultimate day this Monday marked by a great rivalry in the water, with the crews giving their best to win the great state award.

After the bad weather conditions recorded on the second day, with a lot of rain and rough seas, the day dawned today sunny but with very little wind at the scheduled time for the start of the day, which caused several postponements before being able to give the starts to the three tests that were finally held.

Among the fleet, a lot of irregularity and very different positions in the contested races. There was no clear protagonist, and there were many upsets in the provisional classification, which left the podium wide open for the final day that will take place tomorrow, Tuesday.

The Cantabrians of Maui Jim Sunglasses , led by Javier Aguado, and wearing a Real Club Marítimo de Santander pendant, rose to first place in the championship, unseating the Basques from AD Grupo Garatu , which fell to fifth place. “We like to see ourselves in the lead and we will try to play our cards well for the final, but there are still tests and everything is very close” assured Aguado after seeing himself as the winner.

The leader of Maui Jim found the wind roles registered today in the Bay of Baiona complicated, something that Galician Javier de la Gándara also suffered with his Okofen. After first crossing the finish line in the first test, he suffered two bad rolls that prevented him from achieving the results he expected. “It is a very strong fleet, very competitive, says Gándara., and when the wind drops, it compacts and navigation becomes complicated”.

The Galician team is third behind the Mercury of the Olympian Jaime Piris; and tied on points with the fourth classified, which is La Gallofa de Jesus Amaliach, both from the Real Club Marítimo de Santander.

Thus, the Cantabrian fleet is, for the moment, the strongest in the national J80 that takes place in Baiona, with three boats cast in the Top Five, two of them with provisional gold and silver.

The competition ends tomorrow, Tuesday, with the last tests of the championship, on a day in which the rest of the boats participating in the Repsol Trophy will go out on the water again, both in the ORC classes (cruiser-race, cruiser and two) and the Figaro class.

The final point will be the awards ceremony for the winners that will be held at four in the afternoon at the facilities of the Monte Real Club de Yates, which acts as host and organizer.

 

(( Information and photos: Rosana Calvo · MRCYB Press · prensa@mrcyb.com · 626 523 977 ))

 

REPSOL TROPHY PROVISIONAL CLASSIFICATION AFTER DAY 3

J80 CLASS SPANISH CHAMPIONSHIP REPSOL TROPHY

1. MAUI JIM SUNGLASSES JAVIER AGUADO RCM SANTANDER
2. MERCURY JAIME PIRIS RCM SANTANDER
3. OKOFEN JAVIER DE LA GANDARA MONTE REAL YACHT CLUB

 

The rest of the fleet rested on this third day, so their classifications remain identical pending what happens tomorrow, Tuesday, on the last day:

 

  • REPSOL TROPHY RACING CRUISE CLASS

1. BOSCH SERVICE SOLUTIONS SANTIAGO ESTEVEZ CM CANIDO
2. ORAL GROUP GALIMPLANT PEDRO PAZOS RCN SANXENXO
3. YOUKOUNKOUN EDUARDO SEGADE CN PORTONOVO

  • REPSOL TROPHY CRUISE CLASS

1. BALEA DOUS · LUIS PÉREZ · RCN RODEIRA
2. FEND LA BISE JEAN CLAUDE SARRADE MONTE REAL YACHT CLUB
3. ALBARELLOS · FERNANDO REY · PORTONOVO CN

  • REPSOL TROPHY CLASS A2

1. SALAÑO · JACOBO VECINO / BRENDA MAURE · RCN VIGO
2. Q TALENT CONSULTANTS JAVIER REY/JORGE JUSTO MONTE REAL YACHT CLUB
3. AY CARMELA JUAN MARTINEZ-PAZO/RAFAEL MARTINEZ-ALMEIDA PORTONOVO NPP

  • REPSOL TROPHY J70 CLASS

1. NEWS · JOSÉ MARÍA TORCIDA · RCM SANTANDER
2. MARINA RUBICÓN · ALFREDO GONZÁLEZ · TECHNICAL CD AND RACES
3. MARNATURA · LUIS BUGALLO · RCN VIGO

  • REPSOL TROPHY FIGARO CLASS

1. SERRALLEIRAS ELENA RAGA MONTE REAL YACHT CLUB
2. ERIZANA · ALBERTO IGLESIAS · MONTE REAL YACHT CLUB
3. TUTATIS OCTAVIO VILLALBA MONTE REAL YACHT CLUB

 

 

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Hard fight between Basques and Cantabrians for the J80 Spanish Championship

 

· On the second day of the competition held this Sunday in Baiona, the Cantabrians from Maui Jim Sunglasse came within just one point of the Basques from AD Garatu , who continue to lead the national one-design race

· Two other boats from the Real Club Marítimo de Santander, La Gallosa and Mercury , took positions to take over the podium, placing third and fourth, unseating Javier de la Gándara’s Okofen from Galicia.

· In the competition of the ORCs that compete for the maximum emotion Repsol Trophy with Bosch Service Solutions and the Oral Group Galimplant tied on points in the cruiser-regatta class, and the Balea Dous and the Fend la Bise tied in the cruiser class

In the rest of the classes, the leaders of the provisional classification are Salaño Dos de Vigo (A Dos), Noticia de Santander (J70) and Serralleiras de Baiona (Fígaro).

· Tomorrow, Monday, the J80s return to the water to compete in the third and penultimate day of testing while the rest of the fleet rests to race the final stage during the May Day holiday

 

Hard fight between Basques and Cantabrians for the J80 Spanish Championship that this Sunday saw its second day in the waters of the Bay of Baiona, framed in the Repsol Trophy of the Monte Real Yacht Club.

On a day of overcast skies, many downpours and rough seas, the Cantabrians of the Maui Jim Sunglasses , from the Real Club Marítimo de Santander, managed to come within just one point of the Basques of the AD Garatu , who are still leaders despite signing a fifth and sixth place today in the two contested races.

“We would have signed before leaving to finish the day like this, as leaders” , assured the Gipuzkoan skipper, Iker Almandoz, after finishing today’s tests. “The regatta starts again tomorrow and it’s going to be a lot of fun, because there are boats that are fighting very hard for the championship. I can only say that the atmosphere is great and that there are many crews sailing really well”.

Favored by the application of a discard, another team from Santander, La Gallofa , took possession of the third position in the championship this afternoon, from which they ousted Javier de la Gándara’s Okofen who, in fifth position, continue to be the best placed in all the Galician fleet.

And completing the top five of the classification, in fourth place, is another Cantabrian boat, the Mercury of the Olympian Jaime Piris, who seeks to repeat a title they achieved in 2011 after having failed last year, in which they were runners-up.

Other monotypes competing for the Monte Real Repsol Trophy, the J70s, returned to compete this Sunday at the Cíes Islands anchorage, where two tests were held with very changeable conditions, with a lot of wind at times and calm at others.

El Noticia de José María “Pichu” Torcida sentenced the day with a brilliant performance and two first places that helped him rise from fourth position to the head of the classification. Luis Bugallo’s Marnatura , which came first, fell to third place and Alfredo González’s Marina Rubicón remained second.

In the cruise competition, which faced a longer route than in the initial stage, sailing to the Tofiño lighthouse, the crews that were in second position managed to jump to first place. They are, yes, tied on points with the seconds, so the emotion is maximum for the final day on Tuesday.

Bosch Service Solutions from Canido, which was second in the cruiser-regatta class, is now in the lead after unseating Oral Group Galimplant from Sanxenxo. And the Balea Dous de Rodeira managed to take first place in the cruiser class, beating the Fend la Bise de Baiona.

In class A Two, all the participants repeated the same positions they had achieved on the first day, so the general classification remains intact, with the Salaño Dos by Jacobo Vecino and Brenda Maure in the lead, followed by Q Talent Consultants , from the Monte Real Yacht Club; and of Oh Carmela from the Bouzas Maritime Lyceum.

In the Figaro class, pending what happens on the final day on Tuesday, the provisional podium is occupied by Elena Raga’s Serralleiras, Alberto Iglesias’ Erizana and Octavio Villalba’s Tutatis , all from Monte Real Club de Yates.

Tomorrow, Monday, will be a rest day for the entire fleet, except for the J80s, which will continue to compete in the Spanish Championship starting at eleven in the morning. In the afternoon, starting at five o’clock, the Monte Real Yacht Club will once again offer participants a seafood dinner and a tasting of beers and gin and tonics.

 

(( Information and photos: Rosana Calvo · MRCYB Press · prensa@mrcyb.com · 626 523 977 ))

 

REPSOL TROPHY PROVISIONAL CLASSIFICATION AFTER DAY 2

 

  • J80 CLASS SPANISH CHAMPIONSHIP

1. AD GARATU GROUP IKER ALMANDOZ AD GARATU
2. MAUI JIM SUNGLASSES JAVIER AGUADO RCM SANTANDER
3. LA GALLOFA · JESUS AMALIACH · RCM SANTANDER

  • REPSOL TROPHY RACING CRUISE CLASS

1. BOSCH SERVICE SOLUTIONS SANTIAGO ESTEVEZ CM CANIDO
2. ORAL GROUP GALIMPLANT PEDRO PAZOS RCN SANXENXO
3. YOUKOUNKOUN EDUARDO SEGADE CN PORTONOVO

  • REPSOL TROPHY CRUISE CLASS

1. BALEA DOUS · LUIS PÉREZ · RCN RODEIRA
2. FEND LA BISE JEAN CLAUDE SARRADE MONTE REAL YACHT CLUB
3. ALBARELLOS · FERNANDO REY · PORTONOVO CN

  • REPSOL TROPHY CLASS A2

1. SALAÑO · JACOBO VECINO / BRENDA MAURE · RCN VIGO
2. Q TALENT CONSULTANTS JAVIER REY/JORGE JUSTO MONTE REAL YACHT CLUB
3. AY CARMELA JUAN MARTINEZ-PAZO/RAFAEL MARTINEZ-ALMEIDA PORTONOVO NPP

  • REPSOL TROPHY J80 CLASS

1. AD GARATU GROUP IKER ALMANDOZ AD GARATU
2. MAUI JIM SUNGLASSES JAVIER AGUADO RCM SANTANDER
3. LA GALLOFA · JESUS AMALIACH · RCM SANTANDER

  • REPSOL TROPHY J70 CLASS

1. NEWS · JOSÉ MARÍA TORCIDA · RCM SANTANDER
2. MARINA RUBICÓN · ALFREDO GONZÁLEZ · TECHNICAL CD AND RACES
3. MARNATURA · LUIS BUGALLO · RCN VIGO

  • REPSOL TROPHY FIGARO CLASS

1. SERRALLEIRAS ELENA RAGA MONTE REAL YACHT CLUB
2. ERIZANA · ALBERTO IGLESIAS · MONTE REAL YACHT CLUB
3. TUTATIS OCTAVIO VILLALBA MONTE REAL YACHT CLUB

 

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Brilliant start for the Basques from AD Grupo Garatu in the national J80

 

· The Gipuzkoan team skippered by Iker Almandoz won three first places in the three races held this Saturday in the Spanish J80 Championship, which is being held until next Tuesday in Baiona as part of the Repsol Trophy

· The Menorcans from Maui Jim Sunglasses with Javier Aguado at the helm and the Galicians from Okofen led by Javier de la Gándara from the Monte Real Yacht Club placed second and third respectively

· In the rest of the Repsol Trophy tests, the Oral Group Galimplant (cruiser-regatta class), the Fend la Bise (cruiser class), the Salaño Dos (class A Dos), the Marnatura (J70 class) and the Serralleiras ( Figaro class)

· The competition continues tomorrow, Sunday, with the second day of tests, which will be a little early in the morning with departures at eleven o’clock in the Bay of Baiona (J80), at twelve o’clock at the Cíes Islands anchorage (J70) and at one o’clock again in Baiona (cruise ships and Figaros)

 

The forty-first edition of the traditional Monte Real Yacht Club Spring Regatta got off to a strong start, which this year is once again the Repsol Trophy and hosts the J80 class Spanish Championship.

On the first day of tests for the national title, held this Saturday in Baiona, the contenders for the title of the J80 monotypes competed for three tasks inside the Bay of Baiona. They did so in very good conditions, on a day with little cloudiness with a northwesterly wind that remained stable and always above 12 knots, even reaching 15 at times.

The Basques from the AD Grupo Garatu, armed by Juan Vázquez, were the protagonists of the day, with a brilliant performance in all the tests. With Iker Almandoz at the helm, the sailboat manned by Íñigo Jáuregui, Íñigo Sánchez and Borja Ponte, signed three first places in the three routes and became leader of the classification.

In second position was another of the favorites to win the championship, Javier Aguado’s Maui Jim Sunglasses. The Menorcans, with aspirations to revalidate the title they won in 2016, started somewhat weakly, with a fourth place in the first test, but managed to overcome the following ones and with two seconds they took over the provisional silver.

The Galician crew of the Okofen, led by the historic Javier de la Gándara, closes the provisional podium. Wearing the organizing club’s pendant, Gándara and his team demonstrated why they were the best J80 Galician team last season.

In addition to the J80s that are competing for the Spanish Championship of the class, cruisers, figaros and J70s participate in the Repsol Trophy this 2018, and all of them took to the water on this first day of competition. For the former, the regatta committee designed a route of just over 13 miles through the Vigo estuary, which was hotly contested in the cruising-regatta and cruising classes.

The Oral Group Galimplant of the Real Club Náutico de Sanxenxo, skippered by Pedro Pazos, won on this first day by just 7 seconds, which it managed to beat Bosch Service Solutions of the Club Marítimo de Canido, which is second overall in the cruise class- race. One of the boats that promised to put up a fight in the competition, Rui Ramada’s MBA Atlántico, had to withdraw shortly after the start due to a problem between the Carallones and La Negra beacons.

In the cruise class, the leadership is for the Fend la Bise of Jean Claude Sarrade, of the Monte Real Club de Yates; which is closely followed by one of its biggest competitors, the Balea Dous of Luis Pérez, of the Real Club Náutico de Rodeira.

In class A Dos, after a spectacular start and start of the route, Victor Carrión and Ana Sardiña’s Menudeta had to withdraw from the test due to a problem with the spy, leaving Jacobo Vecino and Brenda Maure’s Salaño Dos and Q Talento Javier Rey and Jorge Justo fighting for first place. Finally it was the Salaño who was placed at the top of the provisional podium.

In the Figaro class, which also completed a coastal route of about 13 miles, the victory of the day went to Elena Raga’s Serralleiras. The Erizana skippered by Alberto Iglesias and the Silleiro of José García de Miguel, are second and third respectively.

And in the J70 competition, which took place at the Cíes Islands anchorage, the provisional classification was very close, with the first four boats separated by just one point of difference. José Luis Freire’s Marnatura, skippered by the young Luis Bugallo, is in the lead with 8 points. It is followed by the Marina Rubicón of Alfredo González, with 9; and Denis Cherevalenko’s Joy Full, who arrived from Tallinn, closes the provisional podium with 10.

The Repsol Trophy continues tomorrow, Sunday, in Baiona with the second day of tests at an earlier time. At eleven o’clock in the morning, the starting horn will be given, inside the bay of Baiona, to the first of the three races scheduled in the J80 Spanish Championship. An hour later, at twelve noon, the tests of the J70 will begin at the Cíes Islands anchorage; and at one o’clock it will be the turn of the cruisers and the figaros, who will once again dispute a coastal tour of the Rías Baixas. In the afternoon, once the competition on the water is over, the Monte Real Yacht Club will offer the crews participating in the Repsol Trophy a seafood dinner and a beer and gin and tonic tasting.

(( Information and photos: Rosana Calvo · MRCYB Press · prensa@mrcyb.com · 626 523 977 ))

REPSOL TROPHY PROVISIONAL CLASSIFICATION AFTER DAY 1

J80 CLASS SPANISH CHAMPIONSHIP

1. AD GARATU GROUP IKER ALMANDOZ AD GARATU
2. MAUI JIM SUNGLASSES · JAVIER AGUADO · INDEPENDENT
3. OKOFEN JAVIER DE LA GANDARA MONTE REAL YACHT CLUB

REPSOL TROPHY RACING CRUISE CLASS

1. ORAL GROUP GALIMPLANT PEDRO PAZOS RCN SANXENXO
2. BOSCH SERVICE SOLUTIONS SANTIAGO ESTEVEZ CM CANIDO
3. YOUKOUNKOUN EDUARDO SEGADE CN PORTONOVO

REPSOL TROPHY CRUISE CLASS

1. FEND LA BISE JEAN CLAUDE SARRADE MONTE REAL YACHT CLUB
2. BALEA DOUS LUIS PÉREZ ROYAL YACHT CLUB OF RODEIRA
3. ALBARELLOS · FERNANDO REY · PORTONOVO CN

REPSOL TROPHY CLASS A2

1. SALAÑO TWO · JACOBO VECINO / BRENDA MAURE · RCN VIGO
2. QTALENTO CONSULTANTS · JAVIER REY/ JORGE JUSTO · MONTE REAL YACHT CLUB
3. AY CARMELA · JUAN MARTINEZ – PAZO / RAFAEL MARTINEZ-ALMEIDA · LM BOUZAS

REPSOL TROPHY J80 CLASS

1. AD GARATU GROUP IKER ALMANDOZ AD GARATU
2. MAUI JIM SUNGLASSES · JAVIER AGUADO · INDEPENDENT
3. OKOFEN · JAVIER DE LA GANDARA · MONTE REAL

REPSOL TROPHY J70 CLASS

1. MARNATURA · LUIS BUGALLO · RCN VIGO
2. MARINA RUBICÓN · ALFREDO GONZÁLEZ · TECHNICAL CD AND RACES
3. JOY FULL DENIS CHEREVALENKO DC TALLINN

REPSOL TROPHY FIGARO CLASS

1. SERRALLEIRAS ELENA RAGA MONTE REAL YACHT CLUB
2. ERIZANA · ALBERTO IGLESIAS · MONTE REAL YACHT CLUB
3. SILLEIRO JOSE GARCÍA DE MIGUEL MONTE REAL YACHT CLUB

 

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The J80 national title in contention

 

· Cantabria, the Balearic Islands, Galicia and the Basque Country will participate in the contest for the national J80 that will be held until May 1 in the waters of Baiona

· The Galicians De la Gándara and Lago, the Cantabrian Piris or the Balearic Chacártegui and Aguado are among the favorites to win the title

· After a day of measurements and revisions, tomorrow, Saturday, the competition begins in the framework of the 41st Spring Regatta of the Monte Real Yacht Club

· In addition to the national J80, the Galician Rías Baixas will host until May 1 the cruiser, Figaros and J70 competitions for the Repsol Trophy

 

Traditionally, the J80 class does not sell its national and international titles cheaply and everything indicates that the XII Spanish J80 Championship, which will be held starting tomorrow Saturday in Baiona as part of the Repsol Trophy of Monte Real, is going to present a tough contest between the boats that will haggle for the scepter.

Cantabria with four J80 monotypes, the Balearic Islands with two, Galicia with nearly a fortnight and the Basque Country with one representative, present credentials for the dispute over the Spanish Championship for the competitive J80 boats.

The intense activity that the Cantabrian, Galician and Basque fleets have developed throughout the autumn and winter, under an intense program of regattas in their respective venues, presumes intense competition. After a day of measurements and reviews, the tests for the national title begin this Saturday at three in the afternoon.

Favorites with impeccable track record

The local Javier de la Gándara and his team aboard the Okofen and the J80 Virazón de Miguel Lago will put their great performance in recent months and their knowledge of the area’s regatta course into play against other rivals who will go all out.

This is the case of the Cantabrian Mercury of Jaime Piris, runner-up in Spain 2017, or the Maui Jim Sunglasses of the Menorcan Javier Aguado who closed the national podium last year. In addition, we must take into account the AD Garatu Basque team skippered by Juan Vázquez, third classified in the prestigious French regatta Spi Ouest 2018.

From the Balearic Islands, Ibo.es de Chacártegui will try to revalidate the national victory it achieved in 2016. The two-time world champion team from Cantabria, Aila, normally skippered by José María Torcida, will present a new skipper in the fight for the national title.

In total, more than twenty J80 monotypes that until Tuesday, May 1, will fight relentlessly to register their name in a national benchmark at a sporting level due to their great competitive level and that is part of the Repsol Trophy of the Monte Real Yacht Club. from Baiona.

Cruisers, figaros and J70 compete for “spring”

Forty-one years in 2018 one of the competitions with the longest run of the Monte Real Yacht Club, the Spring Regatta, which once again becomes the Repsol Trophy thanks to the sponsorship of the energy company, turns forty-one years old.

In this forty-first edition, in addition to the contest for the national J80, we will see some of the most outstanding cruisers in the Galician nautical scene compete, such as the Fend la Bise by Jean Claude Sarrade or the Gaias Clinic by José María Peinó, both champions Galician solitaires and two.

Also competing for the three scheduled coastal cruisers will be the recent winners of the Monte Real Winter Regatta, the Atlantic MBA of the Portuguese Rui Ramada; the Oral Group of the Real Club Náutico de Sanxenxo skippered by Pedro Pazos; and the Balea Dous by Luis Pérez, wearing the Rodeira nautical pendant.

Among the J70, which will compete at the Cíes Islands anchorage during the weekend, renowned sailors such as Pichu Torcida, Rayco Tabares or Luis Bugallo, in addition to the Pérez Canal brothers. Completing the classes of the trophy are the Figaros, a fleet in which the monotypes of Monte Real will be the protagonists.

TEST SCHEDULES

• SATURDAY 28 APRIL

14:30 – Coastal ORCs and Figaros (departure from the Bay of Baiona)
14:30 – Barlosotas J70 (at the Cíes Islands anchorage)
15:00 – Spanish J80 Championship (barlosotas in the Bay of Baiona)

• SUNDAY 29 APRIL

11:00 – Spanish Championship J80 (barlosotas in the Bay of Baiona)
12:00 – Barlosotas J70 (at the Cíes Islands anchorage)
13:00 – Coastal ORCs and Figaros (departure from the Bay of Baiona)

• MONDAY 30 APRIL

11:00 – Spanish Championship J80 (barlosotas in the Bay of Baiona)

• TUESDAY MAY 1

11:00 – Spanish Championship J80 (barlosotas in the Bay of Baiona)
11:30 – Coastal ORCs and Figaros (departure from the Bay of Baiona)
16:00 – Award ceremony (village of Monte Real Yacht Club)

COMMUNICATION DEPARTMENT – Information and contact:

  • Rosana Calvo (MRCYB Press) – 626 523 977 – prensa@mrcyb.com
  • Helena de la Gándara (Spanish Press Association J80) – 609 481 394 – helenadelagandara@gmail.com

 

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Victory of the Atlantic MBA in the Comunica Trophy

 

Outstanding Portuguese skipper Rui Ramada led the Atlantic MBA crew to victory in the first major cruise competition of the spring season

· The MBA won the Vigo-Baiona route along with Luis Pérez’s Balea Dous, who took one of the competition’s gold medals to Rodeira for the second consecutive year

· Pedro Pazos’ Oral Group once again demonstrated its power in the water and was the best on the Sanxenxo-Baiona route, achieving another of the trophy podiums

· In the J80 class the winner was Juan Luis Tuero’s Luna Nueva, and the Erizana skippered by the very young sailor from Vigo Marta Rego won the Figaro class

The Atlantic MBA skippered by the outstanding Portuguese sailor Rui Ramada was proclaimed the winner, this Saturday in the Rías Baixas, of the Comunica Trophy, the first major cruise competition of the spring season, organized by the Monte Real Yacht Club with the collaboration of the Royal Sanxenxo Nautical Club and the Royal Nautical Club of Vigo.

In the trophy, which this year changed its design and was held with a double start format from Sanxenxo and Vigo, more than 200 sailors participated aboard the 34 registered boats. A fleet that had to face complicated conditions due to the wind, which disappeared at times and left them floating in calm conditions that lasted up to an hour and a half.

The boats that started as favorites stood out from the first moments. After the start honk in Sanxenxo, Pedro Pazos’ Oral Group was quickly placed at the head of the fleet, and with a very good navigation managed to revalidate the victory achieved in the previous edition. Adolfo Castro’s Youkounkoun, from the Portonovo Yacht Club, came third in the classification for the Sanxenxo-Baiona track, which is almost 16 miles long.

The route was shorter for the sailboats that started in Vigo at two in the afternoon, one hour after the ones from Sanxenxo. They sailed just over 9 and a half miles to Carallones, where the regatta committee decided to shorten the course after suffering a great calm in Toralla.

Divided into two classes according to their competitive ability, those who finally took the victory were the Atlantic MBA of Rui Ramada del Monte Real; and Luis Pérez’s Balea Dous, who came ready to repeat his triumph, and took Rodeira back with the gold he had already achieved in 2017.

Behind the Atlantic MBA were La Burla Negra by Juan José Martínez, from Monte Real; and the Bosch Service Solutions of the Club Marítimo de Canido, skippered by Ramón Ojea. And below the Balea Dous, in the second class of the Vigo-Baiona route, were the Juliana by Deep Blue by Vicence Cid, with a pendant from the Real Club Náutico de Vigo; and the Q Talento of Javier Rey, from the Monte Real Yacht Club, silver and bronze of the Comunica Trophy.

In the J80 class, victory went to Juan Luis Tuero’s Luna Nueva; and second and third place for Cansino by Manuel Fernández and Boy de Canto by Carlos Hernández.

The Erizana of the very young sailor from Vigo, Marta Rego, prevailed in the Figaros competition, ahead of the Ladeira of Carlos Castelao and the Silleiro of Ramón Palao.

At the awards ceremony for the winners, held at the Monte Real Club de Yates once the competition in the water had finished, several executives from Comunica, the company sponsoring the trophy, participated. Among them were its executive director, Roberto Lira; the financial director, Jorge Berridy or Vânia Marlise, art director of the visual communication firm.

After putting an end to the Comunica Trophy, the Monte Real Yacht Club is now preparing for another of its great events this year, the Repsol Trophy, which will be held next weekend. The traditional spring regatta of the Baionese club hosts this year the Spanish Championship of the J80 class, which will be attended by monotypes from all over the peninsula. The appointment is on April 28, 29 and 30, and May 1.

 

WINNER OF THE COMMUNICA TROPHY 2018

ATLANTIC MBA RUI RAMADA MONTE REAL YACHT CLUB

COMUNICA TROPHY WINNERS SANXENXO – BAIONA

1. ORAL GROUP PEDRO PAZOS ROYAL YACHT CLUB OF SANXENXO
2. YOUKOUNKOUN ADOLFO CASTRO PORTONOVO YACHT CLUB

COMUNICA TROPHY WINNERS VIGO – BAIONA (1)

1. ATLANTIC MBA RUI RAMADA MONTE REAL YACHT CLUB
2. THE BLACK MOCK · JUAN JOSÉ MARTINEZ · MONTE REAL YACHT CLUB
3. BOSCH SERVICE SOLUTIONS RAMÓN OJEA MARITIME CLUB OF CANIDO

COMMUNICA TROPHY WINNERS VIGO – BAIONA (2)

1. BALEA DOUS LUIS PÉREZ ROYAL YACHT CLUB OF RODEIRA
2. THE JULIANA BY DEEP BLUE VICENTE CID ROYAL YACHT CLUB OF VIGO
3. Q TALENT · JAVIER REY · MONTE REAL YACHT CLUB

COMUNICA TROPHY WINNERS J80 CLASS

1. NEW MOON JUAN LUIS TUERO MONTE REAL YACHT CLUB
2. CANSINO MANUEL FERNÁNDEZ MONTE REAL YACHT CLUB
3. SINGING BOY · CARLOS HERNÁNDEZ · MONTE REAL YACHT CLUB

COMUNICA TROPHY WINNERS FIGARO CLASS

1. ERIZANA MARTA REGO MONTE REAL YACHT CLUB
2. LADEIRA CARLOS CASTELAO MONTE REAL YACHT CLUB
3. SILLEIRO RAMÓN PALAO MONTE REAL YACHT CLUB

 

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The Rías Baixas will witness this Saturday the dispute of the Comunica Trophy

 

· More than 200 sailors aboard the 31 participating sailboats will compete in the first major cruise competition of the Monte Real Yacht Club in 2018
· Among the contenders for the title, the Oral Group of Pedro Pazos (Sanxenxo) and the Balea Dous of Luis Pérez (Rodeira) repeat winners of the previous edition
After leaving Sanxenxo (1:00 p.m.) and Vigo (2:00 p.m.), the fleet is scheduled to start crossing the finish line in the bay of Baiona at five in the afternoon

The Rías Baixas will witness tomorrow, Saturday, the dispute over the Comunica Trophy, one of the most outstanding cruise events in the spring nautical calendar in Galicia, in which more than 200 regattas will participate aboard the 31 sailboats registered so far. This is the first major cruise trophy of the Monte Real Club de Yates in 2018, which also has the collaboration of the Real Club Náutico de Sanxenxo and the Real Club Náutico de Vigo, hosting the departures of the fleet in front of their facilities.

The double start, from Sanxenxo and from Vigo, is the main novelty of this year’s Comunica Trophy, and it will take place one hour apart. At one in the afternoon the horn will sound in the vicinity of the Juan Carlos I marina, in Sanxenxo; and an hour later, at two o’clock, it will be the start in front of the port of Vigo. Both fleets will end up coming together on a route that will end in the bay of Baiona.

Among the contenders for the title we will see the winner of the previous edition in the cruiser-regatta category, the Oral Group, from the Real Club Náutico de Sanxenxo, who returns to the competition with Pedro Pazos at the controls and eager to repeat victory. The winner of the previous year in the cruise category will also compete, Luis Pérez’s Balea Dous, who will try to win one of the trophy prizes from the Real Club Náutico de Rodeira.

Among the J80 participants will be some of the monotypes that at the end of the month will compete in the Spanish Championship of the class held in Baiona, such as Javier de la Gándara’s Okofen, Fernando Yáñez’s Cansino or Luis de Mira’s Namasté . And in the Figaro class we will see some of the youngest sailors, since the sailboats will be crewed mainly by students from the Monte Real Club de Yates Sailing School.

If everything goes according to plan, the navigation of the fleet will be more or less agile and the fastest ships could have completed the journey in just over three hours, so that from five in the afternoon they would begin to see the first candles in the vicinity of the Baiones breakwater, where the finish line will be placed.

For all those who wish to follow the competition, the Juan Carlos I marina and the beaches closest to that area will be the points with the best visibility to see the departure of the fleet from Sanxenxo, while the departure from Vigo can be seen from the surroundings of the boat. The Costa de la Vela, the westernmost of the Morrazo peninsula, will be another of the places from which to enjoy sailing the sailboats, as well as the interior of the Bay of Baiona, the end point of the route.

 

Friday, April 20, 2018

From 10:00 to 20:00:

Enrollment and registration
Presentation of documentation
Delivery of Instructions

Saturday, April 21, 2018

13:00 – Start test SANXENXO-BAIONA

14:00 – Test start VIGO-BAIONA

19:00 (approx.) – Awards Ceremony at the MRCYB

 

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Sanxenxo, Vigo and Baiona united by the Comunica Trophy

 

· The cruise competition of the Monte Real Yacht Club changes its format this year and adds the Sanxenxo-Baiona coastal route to the Vigo-Baiona route that was being held

· Both tests will be held next Saturday afternoon and one-design sailboats of the J80 and Fígaro class will also be able to participate

· The visual communication company of A Guarda Comunica sponsors and names for the second consecutive year the trophy that opens the cruise calendar in Baiona

 

The Comunica Trophy will unite this Saturday the fishing towns of Sanxenxo, Vigo and Baiona in what will be the first major cruise competition organized by the Monte Real Yacht Club in 2018.

With the collaboration of the Real Club Náutico de Sanxenxo, the Real Club Náutico de Vigo and the Galician Sailing Federation, the Baiona club changes the format of the trophy this year and adds a new coastal route to the Vigo-Baiona route, between Sanxenxo and Baiona.

There will therefore be two starting points with different distances to the same arrival point. The sailboats that listen to the starting line in the port of Lilac will have to complete about 18 miles to the bay of Baiona, and those that do the same from the Vigo yacht will have a journey of about 12 miles ahead of them.

If the wind is allied with the organization and allows the scheduled program to be fulfilled, the regatta committee will start at one in the afternoon for the Sanxenxo fleet and at two for the Vigo fleet, and will set some obligatory points of passage until the finish line, which will be located near the Baiona breakwater.
In addition to cruiser and cruiser-regatta type sailboats, J80 and Fígaros class one-designs may participate in the competition, which will take place in real time; and there will also be an Open class for boats with less competitive capacity.

In the absence of several days for the registration period to close, which will remain open until the day before the development of the tests, some of the most outstanding sailing cruisers in Galicia have already confirmed their presence in the competition, such as the Fend la Bise by Jean Claude Sarrade, current Galician champion of solitaire and two; La Burla Negra, by Juan José Martínez; or the Bosch Service Solutions, of Commodore de Canido, Ramón Ojea. A large number of J80s will also participate, as they continue to prepare for the Spanish Championship of the class to be held in Baiona at the end of April.

Once the trophy tests are finished, the prizes will be awarded to the winners, in an event that will be held at the Monte Real Club de Yates and in which, among others, representatives of the organizing club and Comunica, the sponsoring company, will participate. It is a visual communication firm that offers its services throughout Galicia from the municipality of A Guarda, where its headquarters are located.

In the last edition of the Comunica Trophy, the Oral Group Galimplant, from the Real Club Náutico de Sanxenxo, skippered by Pedro Pazos; and the Balea Dous of the Real Club Náutico de Rodeira, led by Luis Pérez; in the Cruise-Regatta and Cruise categories respectively. In the one-design competition, the prizes stayed in Baiona, with the victory of two boats from the Monte Real Club de Yates. Manuel María Cunha’s Marías won in the J80 class, and Silleiro, with Santi Meigide in the lead, in the Figaro class.

Friday, April 20, 2018

From 10:00 to 20:00:

Enrollment and registration
Presentation of documentation
Delivery of Instructions

Saturday, April 21, 2018

13:00 – Start test SANXENXO-BAIONA

14:00 – Test start VIGO-BAIONA

19:00 (approx.) – Awards Ceremony at the MRCYB

 

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El Miudo wins the Infinitus Rent Trophy

 

· The sailboat built by the Portuguese Rui Ramada and skippered by his daughter Francisca Barros won the J80 one-design league organized by the Monte Real Club de Yates since last January

Miguel Lago’s Virazón and Javier de la Gándara’s Okofen won silver and bronze in a competition that maintained great excitement until the final day, when the winners’ podium was decided

· The Infinitus Rent Trophy has served the Galician J80 fleet as training for the Spanish Championship of the class to be held in Baiona at the end of the month as part of the Repsol Trophy

The Portuguese sailboat Miudo, armed by the prominent Portuguese sailor Rui Ramada and skippered by his daughter Francisca Barros, won this weekend the Infinitus Rent Trophy, the J80 one-design winter league organized by the Monte Real Yacht Club from last January.

After more than three months of competition, the championship said goodbye to Baiona with the sixth and last day of tests, in which the participating sailboats disputed the last three regattas that ended up defining the winners’ podium. Three races that were held in very good conditions and that allowed the excitement to be maintained until the end, with the crews giving their best on the water.

The grand prize of the Infinitus Rent Trophy was finally won by the Miudo, a boat from the BB Douro club in Vila Nova de Gaia that sails through the Monte Real Club de Yates, in which Francisca Barros and Afonso Leite alternated at the helm. Both skippers, the youngest in the competition, kept the Miudo in the positions of honor during practically all the tests and resolved the championship on the last day, ascending to the first position.

Javier de la Gándara’s Okofen, who reached the final among the favorites to win, tied on points in the standings with Miudo, once again sneaked onto the winners’ podium, but this time with the medal bronze. The silver of the Infinitus Rent Trophy went to Miguel Lago’s Virazón, who fought throughout the competition to stay in the positions of honor and finally succeeded.

El Cansino of the commodore of Monte Real, Fernando Yáñez; and the Meltemi of the Real Club Náutico de A Coruña, skippered by Guillermo Blanco; They maintained the fourth and fifth position that they had dragged from the penultimate day.

The end of the competition was put by a fellowship dinner held in Baiona, which was attended by shipowners, sailors, collaborators, regatta committee managers and the organizing club. Also present were the operations manager of Infinitus Rent, Luis Ángel Martín; the company’s business development director, Alberto Rodríguez; and Jorge Otero, commercial delegate in Spain and Latin America of the sponsoring firm, a company born from the union of four technology leasing marketing companies in Spain, with more than 7 years of experience in the sector and an annual turnover of around 12 million of euros.

Prepared for the Spanish Championship of the J80 class

The Infinitus Rent Trophy has served the Monte Real Yacht Club in preparation for the Spanish J80 Championship, which the club will host at the end of next April. Its one-design fleet, the largest in Galicia and one of the most outstanding in the peninsula, will participate in its entirety in the national class, to which the club’s crews attend with aspirations of winning the title.

Baiona will begin to receive the sailboats arriving from different parts of Spain in the last week of April and, after a previous day, reserved for the registration and weighing of the crews, the competition will begin on Saturday the 28th, and will continue for 4 days. The national J80, framed in the Repsol Trophy, will end on May 1st with the last races and the awards ceremony for the winners.

The J80 make way for the rest of the classes

The J80 monotypes opened the sports calendar of the Monte Real Club de Yates for this 2018, a program that includes a total of 15 competitions. After the Infinitus Rent Trophy, held between January and March, April will be the month of the Comunica Trophy and the Repsol Trophy, the traditional spring regatta that the club has been holding for more than 40 years.

The classic 6m sailboats will be the protagonists of the month of May, in the regatta 525 anniversary of the arrival of the caravel La Pinta; and in June the Galician Championship of Solitaires and Two will be held in Baiona. The club’s two major events, the Conde de Gondomar Trophy and the Príncipe de Asturias Trophy, maintain the same dates as in previous years, and will be held at the end of July and the beginning of September.

FINAL GENERAL CLASSIFICATION (Top5) INFINITUS RENT TROPHY

1. MIUDO Rui Ramada We Do Sailing 22 points
2. VIRAZÓN · Miguel Lago · Monte Real Yacht Club · 30 points
3. OKOFEN Javier de la Gándara Monte Real Yacht Club 31 points
4. TIRED · Fernándo Yáñez · Monte Real Yacht Club · 38 points
5. MELTEMI · Guillermo Blanco · Royal Yacht Club of A Coruña · 46 points

 

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Tomorrow the final of the Infinitus Trophy is celebrated

 

· The bay of Baiona will host the last tests of the J80 class Winter League that the Monte Real Club de Yates has been holding since the beginning of the year

· The Portuguese crew of the Miudo and the Okofen led by Javier de la Gándara from Vigo lead the classification tied on points

· The three regattas scheduled for the final day will be held starting at 3 in the afternoon and the prizes will be awarded at night at a fellowship dinner

 

Tomorrow, Saturday, the final day of the Infinitus Rent Trophy, the J80 class Winter League that the Monte Real Club de Yates has been holding since the beginning of the year, will be held in Baiona. The last three tests scheduled in the competition program will begin at three in the afternoon inside the bay of Baiona, in a regatta field in which the committee will design a pole course that the fleet will have to go around twice on each sleeve.

The Portuguese crew of the Miudo, skippered by Afonso Leite; and the Okofen of Javier de la Gándara from Vigo, arrive at this sixth and last day as leaders of the championship, tied at 13 points in the first places of the classification. Behind them, with 18 points, is Miguel Lago’s Virazón, another of the big names in the trophy, also a contender for gold in the competition.

Further apart from them in the ranking, at a distance of 10 points or more, are the rest of the sailboats participating in the Infinitus Rent Trophy, a total of 17 J80 one-designs, most of which sport the Monte Real pendant Yacht Club, the organizing club and one of the great promoters of this class in Galicia.

El Cansino, owned by Commodore del Monte Real, Fernando Yáñez, with 28 points, ranks fourth; and in fifth and sixth position are Guillermo Blanco’s Meltemi, with 31 points, and Luis de Mira’s Namasté, with 34.

After the celebration of the tests in the water, the crews will participate in a fraternization dinner in the framework of which the prizes will be awarded to the winners of the competition. It will be attended, in addition to the sailors, by several directors of the Monte Real Yacht Club, members of the regatta committee and Alberto Rodríguez, director of business development for Infinitus Rent, the company that sponsors the trophy.

 

CLASSIFICATION (Top5) INFINITUS RENT TROPHY

1. MIUDO Afonso Leite We Do Sailing 13 points
2. OKOFEN Javier de la Gándara Monte Real Yacht Club 13 points
3. VIRAZÓN · Miguel Lago · Monte Real Yacht Club · 18 points
4. TIRED · Fernándo Yáñez · Monte Real Yacht Club · 28 points
5. MELTEMI · Guillermo Blanco · Royal Yacht Club of A Coruña · 31 points

 

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