Iberian Championship Class 2.4mR 2016
24-06-2016
The Monte Real Yacht Club organizes, one more year, with the sponsorship of Vitaldent , the Iberian Championship of the 2.4mR class , the most important adapted sailing competition in Spain, included in the IV Iberdrola Paralympic Sailing Circuit . It is the fourth year in a row that the club from Baiona is involved in one of the key events on the sailing scene, which is attended by numerous sailors from different parts of Spain and Portugal.
In this new edition of the championship, the fishing village of Baiona will be the scene of three days of tests, a first of training, on Friday the 24th, and two more of competition during the weekend. Some 15 boats will take to the water, fighting for victory in several windward-leeward routes marked with buoys inside the bay.
A maximum of six races will be held, to which the regatta committee will start, both on Saturday and Sunday, at twelve noon. The weather forecasts announce sun and good wind, conditions that will allow both participants and the public to enjoy the competition.
This Vitaldent Adapted Sailing Regatta , in which the champion of the 2.4mR class will be decided, is also the second stage of the IV Iberdrola Paralympic Sailing Circuit, which began last April in Murcia, and which will continue in July and October. in Biscay and Malaga.
Among the participants will be the representative of Spain at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games in the 2.4mR class, Arturo Montes, and the current national champion of the class, Rafa Andarias. Sailing at home and representing Galicia in this Iberian Championship of the 2.4mR Class will be Fran Piñeiro and José Manuel Otero, from the Club Deportivo Vela Escota de Vigo.
The competition organized by the Monte Real Club de Yates with the sponsorship of Vitaldent and the collaboration of the Galician Sailing Federation and the Portuguese Sailing Federation, will end on Sunday 26 at five in the afternoon with the distribution of prizes to the winners, a delivery that will be made in the facilities of the Baionese club.
- Friday, June 24
10:00-19:00> Formalization of registrations
16:00> training regatta
19:30> Pattern meeting
20:00> fellowship dinner
- Saturday, June 25
12:00> Tests
- Sunday, June 26
12:00> Tests
five pm> Awards
The Monte Real Club de Yates organized, in 2015, the Spanish Championship Class 2.4mR: