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· With more than twenty years of experience in business management, the man from Madrid assumes the management of one of the most traditional yacht clubs in the country

· Master’s degree in business administration and management from the University of Oxford, he also has an extensive sports career in which he has been rowing world champion.

· In the field of sailing, Calero has been a J80 sailor, a class that the Monte Real Club de Yates has been promoting for years through the acquisition of boats and the organization of specific competitions for these monotypes

The rowing world champion, Óscar Calero from Madrid, has just been appointed as the new manager of the Monte Real Club de Yates. With a Master’s degree in business administration and management from the University of Oxford and an extensive career of more than twenty years in business management, Calero assumes the management of one of the most traditional yacht clubs in the country.

He does so with a CV in which, in addition to his professional experience in the field of business, his extensive background in the sports world stands out. In addition to being world rowing champion in 2009, he has been a coach, technician and development advisor for different federations.

In the field of sailing, Calero has been a J80 sailor, a class that the Monte Real Club de Yates has been promoting for years through the acquisition of new boats and the organization of specific competitions for these monotypes, such as the Winter League that these months are celebrated in Baiona.

Looking to the future, the new manager will work to bring to fruition the guidelines of the club’s Board of Directors, currently chaired by José Luis Álvarez. Some guidelines that involve the implementation of new lines of action in different areas, with the aim of improving the services and benefits that Monte Real offers today to its members and visitors in Baiona.

The promotion of nautical tourism, the organization of sports competitions and the commitment to training through the MRCYB Sailing School and the Adapted Sailing School for people with disabilities, will continue to be, one more year, strategic axes in the different actions of the club.

· Three first places in the three races held this afternoon in the bay of Baiona gave victory to the boat skippered by the ocean sailor

Okofen thus leads the J80 Class Winter League of the Monte Real Yacht Club followed by Miguel Lago’s Virazón and Enrique Porto’s Ferralemes

· The one-design competition continues on the 28th of this month of January with the second of the six days scheduled until the end of March

Three victories in the three races held this afternoon in Baiona place Javier de la Gándara’s Okofen in the lead of the J80 Class Winter League, organized by the Monte Real Club de Yates in the waters of the Bay of Baiona.

The competition opened today with ideal weather conditions, wrapped in a sunny and very cold day, but with good wind for the sailboats, since, with few exceptions, it blew above ten knots practically at all times.

At three in the afternoon, punctual according to the scheduled time, the members of the regatta committee started the first of the tests. The ten participating sailboats, all from the J80 class, had to complete a windward-leeward double loop course, which also included an offset. Almost three miles of distance per task that would give the crews enough margin to demonstrate their good work on the water.

And that was precisely what Javier de la Gándara’s Okofen did. The sailboat skippered by the historic ocean sailor and crewed by his son Jaime de la Gándara, Diego Fernández and Hugo Ferreiro, managed to overcome a couple of small problems that arose throughout the regatta, and always crossed the finish line first.

On certain occasions, Fernándo Yáñez’s Cansino and Tiago Roquete’s Miudo by Storax managed to overtake him, but Okofen very soon managed to regain their leadership position and take the lead again.

Thus, De la Gándara’s men lead a competition that leaves Miguel Lago’s Virazón with his usual crew, formed by Gerardo Alonso, Juan Lago and Javier Lago, on the second step of the provisional podium. On this first day they achieved three third places and are six points behind the leader.

In third position, three points behind the second and nine behind the first, is Ferralemes, skippered by Enrique Porto, and manned by Damián Puebla, Alberto Martín and Roberto Fontán.

Completing the classification after this inaugural stage are Cansino by Fernándo Yáñez, Miudo by Storax by Tiago Roquete, Namasté by Luis de Mira, Pazo de Cea by María Campos, Mondo by Bernardo Macedo, Luna Nueva by Juan Luis Tuero, and Willy Caamaño’s Alumisel.

The J80 Class Winter League will continue on the 28th with the second of the six competition days scheduled until the end of next March.

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The J80 Class Winter League of the Monte Real Yacht Club opens this weekend the 2017 regatta season in Baiona. The competition is one of the eleven included this year in the sporting calendar of the Baiona yacht club, along with other historic ones such as the Conde de Gondomar Trophy or the Príncipe de Asturias Trophy.

The Winter League will be held over six days during the months of January, February and March . Exclusively, J80 class sailboats will compete in it, monotypes that Monte Real has been promoting for several years, through the acquisition of new boats by its partners and its inclusion as a class in all the competitions it organizes.

This Saturday, the J80 will be in charge of loosening the moorings of the regatta season with the first stage of tests, starting at three in the afternoon in the bay of Baiona. The participating crews, made up of a maximum of four sailors, with the possibility of including a fifth as an observer , will sail as a fleet and compete in real time.

The regatta committee will establish a windward-leeward course for them, which will depend on the weather conditions and which the crews must complete in several laps, proving their worth in each of the manoeuvres. With a maximum of three tests per day and six stages to complete, the teams will add points for the final classification from which the winner of the league will come out, which will be known at the end of next March.

Among the participating boats are, among others, the winners of the previous edition: the Miudo of the Portuguese Francisca Barros, the Virazón skippered by Miguel Lago and the Luna Nueva of the Oviedo Juan Luis Tuero. Javier de la Gándara’s Okofen, winner of the J80 Class Autumn League, will also repeat; and Luis de Mira’s Namasté, who came second in the same competition.

There will be a total of ten boats that will take to the water this Saturday to compete in the J80 Class Winter League. After the inclusion last November of the Cansino of Fernándo Yáñez and Ignacio Sánchez Otaegui in the J80 fleet of Monte Real, in this month of January another boat is added, the Mondo, armed by Bernardo Macedo.

The first of eleven Monte Real competitions in 2017

The J80 Class Winter League is the first of the eleven competitions that the Monte Real Club de Yates will organize throughout 2017. After its celebration, the Winter Regatta and the Spring Regatta – Repsol Trophy will arrive in April, leaving May for the youngest, with the Baitra Children’s Sailing Trophy .

The Galician Solo and Two Championship will open in June, a month in which the Social Cruise Regatta and the AXA Trophy – Iberian Championship Class 2.4mR will also be held. In July, Monte Real opens the month with the celebration of the Baitra-MRCYB Social League Final , and closes it with one of its classics, the Conde de Gondomar Trophy .

The other great event for the Baiona club will be in September with the Prince of Asturias Trophy , in which the Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards will be awarded again. To close the calendar, a new edition, the third already, of the Solidarity Vertiathlon , and the J80 Class Autumn League .

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The Monte Real Club de Yates calendar for 2017 is an extensive sports program that includes 11 nautical competitions at the highest level, among which are historic regattas such as the Conde de Gondomar Trophy and the Príncipe de Asturias Trophy, which this year celebrate their forty-second and thirty-second editions respectively.

The celebration of the Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards and the third Solidarity Vertiathlon are other events marked on the agenda of the club from Baiona, which opens this month of January with the Winter League . It is a championship intended exclusively for the J80 class, booming throughout Spain, which will be held in the Bay of Baiona over six days, on January 14 and 28, February 11 and 25, and February 11 and 25. of March.

In April two of the most traditional races arrive at Monte Real, the Winter Regatta and the Spring Regatta – Repsol Trophy. Both include novelties with respect to previous editions. The Winter Regatta is reduced in this 2017 to a single day, on April 22, in which the participating sailboats must complete a coastal route between Vigo and Baiona.

The Repsol Trophy – Spring Regatta , in which the crews tune up their boats to face the strong part of the regatta season, will once again be held to coincide with the May 1 long weekend. There will be three reggae days from April 29, with different tests depending on the type of boat. There will be windward-leeward routes for the J70, J80 and Figaros fleets; and coastal for the rest of sailboats. The novelty in this 2017 is that it will be held exclusively in the Ría de Vigo, with departure and arrival in the bay of Baiona.

In May the event is for the youngest, with the Baitra Children’s Sailing Trophy . Faithful to its commitment to grassroots sports, the Monte Real Club de Yates organizes once again, with the sponsorship of Baitra Accesorios Navales, this championship aimed at those who are just starting out in the world of sailing. It will be held on May 20 and 21 and the participation of numerous sailors from the most important yacht clubs in Galicia and the north of Portugal is expected.

On Saturday, June 10, the Social Cruise Regatta will take place, a new proposal from Monte Real for this 2017, aimed at the ORC fleet, about which the club will announce new details very soon.

The third appointment of the Monte Real Club de Yates for the month of June is an adapted sailing regatta, the AXA Trophy – Iberian Championship Class 2.4mR . There will be three days of competition, on June 16, 17 and 18, in which sailors from different parts of Spain and Portugal, with and without disabilities, will compete under equal conditions in the bay of Baiona. This is the fifth consecutive year in which the Baionese club deals with one of the key events of the peninsular sailing scene.

In July, Monte Real opens the month with the celebration of the Baitra-MRCYB Social League Final , on days 1 and 2. The league is an internal competition that is held throughout the year by the students of the club’s Sailing School, and which ends with a weekend of regattas in the bay and the subsequent awards ceremony. to the winners.

Also in July, on the 22nd, 23rd, 24th and 25th, coinciding with the Apóstol bridge, one of the mythical competitions of the Baionese club arrives, the Conde de Gondomar Trophy , which in 2017 celebrates its forty-second edition. It will be the Spanish Height Championship and will include, as usual, the Baiona-Fisterra-Baiona route, over 100 miles long, going around the mythical Carrumeiro Chico lighthouse.

Along with the Conde de Gondomar Trophy, the other great event on the Monte Real Yacht Club’s racing calendar is, without a doubt, the Príncipe de Asturias Trophy . Considered one of the most important nautical competitions in Spain, its previous edition featured the participation of King Emeritus Don Juan Carlos, who competed in the 6m class. In this 2017, the regatta turns thirty-two years old and will once again include, on September 1, 2 and 3, sporting events of the highest level and numerous leisure activities for the participants.

Within the framework of the Prince of Asturias Trophy, one more year, the Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards will be presented, awards that recognize the work of people and institutions in favor of the world of sailing, as well as their human values and sports.

The Solidarity Vertiathlon reaches its third edition in 2017 and will be held on September 16 under the organization of Monte Real and the Baiona City Council, with the sponsorship of Verti Seguros and the collaboration of the Galician Triathlon Federation. It will once again raise funds for the MRCYB Adapted Sailing School for people with disabilities, the only one in northern Spain that operates throughout the year, and with which the club provides services to various associations of people with physical, psychosocial, and cognitive disabilities. and sensory.

And starting in October, the J80 Class Autumn League , to be played over four days on October 14 and 28 and November 11 and 25 , will be in charge of closing the 2017 sports season at Monte Real Yacht Club.

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January 14 and 28, February 11 and 25, March 11 and 25

J80 CLASS WINTER LEAGUE

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April 22

WINTER REGATTA

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April 29 and 30 and May 1

REPSOL TROPHY SPRING REGATTA

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May 20 and 21

CHILDREN’S SAILING BAITRA TROPHY

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June 10th

SOCIAL CRUISE REGATTA

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June 16, 17 and 18

AXA TROPHY 2.4mR CLASS IBERIAN CHAMPIONSHIP

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July 1 and 2

BAITRA MRCYB SOCIAL LEAGUE FINAL

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July 22, 23, 24 and 25

COUNT OF GONDOMAR TROPHY

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September 1, 2 and 3

PRINCE OF ASTURIAS TROPHY

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september 2

TERRAS GAUDA NATIONAL SAILING AWARDS

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16 of September

III BAIONA SOLIDARITY VERTIATHLON

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October 14 and 28, November 11 and 25

J80 CLASS FALL LEAGUE

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Now that the end of the year is approaching, we want to look back to remember some of the good times lived at the Monte Real Club de Yates and the MRCYB Sailing School throughout 2016. And we do it with two videos in which we collect some of the images that he left us this year that is about to end.

Dear Friends,

As always on these dates, I am pleased to address all of you to convey, on behalf of the Board of Directors of the Monte Real Club de Yates, our most cordial congratulations this holiday season and our best wishes for the coming New Year 2017.

Christmas is the perfect time to take stock and remember everything that has happened, and from the club we do it knowing that we gave our best, and that thanks to the dedication and support of members, workers, collaborators and sponsors, we were able to achieve the goals we set for ourselves.

About to end a year full of events such as 2016, we can only show our deep gratitude to all the people who, in one way or another, have made it possible. To all those who have allowed us to consolidate our traditional nautical events, return to international regattas or expand the services we offer in the club and in our Sailing School.

We live in times that require us to face new challenges and it is our commitment to do so with the utmost responsibility, to comply with our partners, with the sponsors who make our competitions possible, with the sailors who participate in them and with all those who bet on Monte Real. Yate club.

Thank you, once again, for putting your trust in us. We sincerely wish you a very Merry Christmas surrounded by your family and friends and a happy New Year full of hope, peace and prosperity. We also want to send an endearing memory to the families of all those who have left us throughout this year.

Happy Holidays! Happy 2017!

Jose Luis Alvarez

President of the MRCYB

· The sailor from Vigo sentenced the competition this Saturday in Baiona after winning the last test of a trophy in which he prevailed forcefully

· The Namasté led by Luis de Mira and the Miúdo skippered by the Portuguese Francisca Barros took silver and bronze in the one-design championship

· With the Banco Sabadell Class J80 Trophy, the Monte Real Club de Yates puts an end to the 2016 regatta season and is now preparing for 2017

Baiona, November 26, 2016.- On board the Okofen and with complicated conditions for navigation, the historic sailor from Vigo Javier de la Gándara won this Saturday in Baiona his victory in the Banco Sabadell Class J80 Trophy, a competition organized by the Monte Real Club de Yates with the sponsorship of the Catalan banking entity.

With Diego Fernández, Hugo Ferreiro and Jaime de la Gándara completing the crew, Okofen sealed the one-design championship with three first places and one second in the six races held in the bay of Baiona throughout the months of October and November.

His worst result, a sixth place obtained on the fourth day, was finally annulled thanks to the application of a discard, which led De la Gándara to further widen the distance with respect to his rivals, surpassing them by 11 points.

With 17 points, Namasté led by Luis de Mira, and Susana Baena, Javier Torroja, Luis Gutiérrez and Amparo Mollá completing the team, managed to stay in second place that they had been dragging since the previous day and won the silver of the trophy.

The third position, with 19 points, went to the Portuguese Miudo, who after changing crew several times throughout the competition, achieved bronze on this last day with the very young Francisca Barros, Joao Cunha, Alfonso Leite, Rita Rocha and Matilde Pinheiro.

Fourth place went to Pazo de Cea by María Campos, fifth to Virazón by Miguel Lago and sixth to Alumisel by Willy Caamaño. Luna Nueva by Juan Luis Tuero, Ferralemes by Enrique Porto and Cansino by Fernándo Yáñez completed the classification.

This Saturday’s regatta day ended with a fraternization dinner organized by the Monte Real Yacht Club for the entire J80 fleet that participated in the trophy, and in which José Celada, representing the sponsoring entity, was also present. director of private banking Galicia Sur of Banco Sabadell.

During it, the vice-president of the club from Baiona, Alejandro Retolaza, thanked Banco Sabadell for its commitment to Monte Real, making possible – he said – one more year, the celebration of the club’s one-design league, to which each more and more boats.

With the award ceremony of the Banco Sabadell Trophy, the Monte Real Club de Yates puts an end to the 2016 regatta season, in which, in addition to holding its most traditional competitions, such as the Príncipe de Asturias Trophy or the Conde Gondomar, the club returned to international regattas with the Baiona Angra Atlantic Race.

Looking ahead to 2017, Monte Real already has a good number of regattas and activities on the agenda with which it wants to continue betting on promoting sailing in Galicia, both through nautical competitions and training from the base, through its Light Sailing and Cruising Schools, and its Adapted Sailing School for people with disabilities.

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· The competition organized by the Monte Real Club de Yates closes the 2016 sailing season in Baiona with its last test day

Javier de la Gándara’s Okofen in first position and separated by 7 points from its rivals is the boat that is closest to winning

Waiting for what happens this Saturday, the Namasté skippered by Luis de Mira and the Miudo of the Portuguese Tiago Roquette complete the provisional podium

This Saturday the Banco Sabadell J80 Class Trophy is decided in Baiona, a competition organized exclusively for these monotypes by the Monte Real Yacht Club with which the Baiona club closes the 2016 sailing season.

The trophy sponsored by Banco Sabadell comes to an end with the last tests scheduled in the program, some regattas that will be held from three in the afternoon in the waters of the bay. If the wind allows it, several windward-leeward rounds will be held in which, in addition, a discard could come into play, which would allow the crews to eliminate their worst result from the classification with the aim of improving their position in the table.

Waiting for what happens on the water and the changes that may arise after the application of this possible discard, Javier de la Gándara’s Okofen is the boat that is closest to winning. In first position since the opening day, the crew led by the sailor from Vigo managed to separate themselves from their rivals in the last stage and remains in the lead with 11 points.

Seven and eight points behind Okofen, the provisional podium is completed by Namasté, skippered by Luis de Mira, who after his good performance the previous day managed to climb from fourth to second place, and remains on 18 points; and the Portuguese team of Miudo, led by Tiago Roquette, who despite dropping a step in the standings in the last stage, remains in the top three with 19 points.

Somewhat further down, Javier Rey’s Pazo de Cea closes the competition table, with 22 points; Willy Caamaño’s Alumisel, with 26; Miguel Lago’s Virazón, with 27; Luna Nueva by Juan Luis Tuero, with 30 points; and the Ferralemes run by Enrique Porto and the Cansino run by Fernándo Yáñez and Ignacio Sánchez Otaegui, who participated in only one day, with 34 and 47 points respectively.

After the celebration of the last tests of the Banco Sabadell Class J80 Trophy, the Monte Real Club de Yates will host a fellowship dinner for the participants and, at the end of it, the award ceremony for the winners. Participating in it, on behalf of the sponsoring entity, will be the director of private banking Galicia Sur of Banco Sabadell, José Celada; and the director of Galicia Sur business banking, Ramón Correa.

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· With the results achieved this Saturday in Baiona, the sailor from Vigo distances himself from his rivals and places Okofen one step away from winning the trophy

Luis de Mira’s Namasté completed two good races today and managed to sneak into second place on the provisional podium closely followed by Miudo

· The Banco Sabadell Class J80 Trophy organized by the Monte Real Club de Yates will be decided at the end of the month with the last day of testing on Saturday 26

Baiona, November 12, 2016.- Aboard the Okofen, the historic sailor from Vigo, Javier de la Gándara, consolidated his leadership this Saturday in the Banco Sabadell Class J80 Trophy, which disputed its third day in the Bay of Baiona with very complicated conditions for navigation.

Very intense showers at times and a very light and very shifty wind greatly hindered the work of the regatta committee, which was able, despite everything, to start two tests for the J80 fleet called by the Monte Real Club de Yates in its league of autumn

There were two windward-leeward routes in which the monotypes, with few exceptions, achieved very different results. In the first race, Miguel Lago’s Virazón clearly prevailed, moving away from the rest of the boats from the opening minutes and comfortably crossing the finish line in first position.

In the second race, however, Virazón had less luck and fell to fifth place, just the opposite of Javier de la Gándara’s Okofen, who rose from sixth to first and reaffirmed their leadership of the competition.

With 11 points in the general classification, De la Gándara’s crew moves away from their rivals and Okofen is one step away from winning the Banco Sabadell Class J80 Trophy, which will be decided at the end of the month on the last day of tests.

As for the rest of the qualifiers, it is worth noting the performance of Luis de Mira’s Namasté, who entered the provisional podium after abandoning the fourth place that he had been dragging since the start of the championship and moving up to second, unseating Miudo from that position, skippered by Tiago Roquette from Porto.

Also to be distinguished on this third day are the crew of Enrique Porto’s Ferralemes, one of the most regular, with two second places in the two races held; and the incorporation of a new boat to the J80 fleet of Baiona, in Cansino, owned by Fernándo Yáñez and Ignacio Sánchez Otaegui, which will compete from now on with the rest of the monotypes.

Thus, with De la Gándara’s Okofen in the lead, Luis de Mira’s Namasté and Tiago Roquette’s Miudo in second and third position separated by just one point, and the rest of the fleet more grouped in the rest of the positions , the excitement continues to know who will finally win the Banco Sabadell Class J80 Trophy from the Monte Real Yacht Club.

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· The one-design regatta organized by the Monte Real Yacht Club crosses its equator this Saturday with Javier de la Gándara leading the trophy

On board the Okofen, the sailor from Vigo was placed at the head of the provisional classification after winning the first day of tests held in October

· The Portuguese crew of the Miudo will try to improve their position in the table and close the gap of just two points that separates them from the provisional leader

The Banco Sabadell Trophy returns to Baiona this Saturday with a new day of regattas for the J80 monotypes, which will be held from three in the afternoon in the waters of the Bay of Baiona.

The competition, organized by the Monte Real Club de Yates, crosses its equator with Javier de la Gándara leading the trophy. The sailor from Vigo was placed at the head of the provisional classification after winning, aboard the Okofen, in the first stage of tests, held last October.

After the suspension of the second day due to lack of wind, the regatta committee hopes to be able to start, this Saturday, several windward-leeward routes, in which the one-design fleet will compete in real time. If the weather forecasts are met, the wind this time will not be an impediment for the sailboats to compete in the scheduled tests.

In addition to Javier de la Gándara’s Okofen, who leads the table with 4 points, we will also have to pay close attention to the Miudo’s Portuguese crew, led on this occasion by Tiago Roquette, who will try to overcome the barely two points that distance them from pride of place.

Somewhat lower in the provisional classification, although separated by more than 5 points from Okofen and Miudo, are Pazo de Cea, skippered by Javier Rey; and the Namaste by Luis de Mira.

After this Saturday’s day in Baiona, the Banco Sabadell Class J80 Trophy will only have one last day of tests left before the final awards ceremony, which will be held on the 26th at the Monte Real Club de Yates.

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The lack of wind forced the suspension of the second day of testing for the Banco Sabadell Class J80 Trophy, which was to be held this afternoon in the Bay of Baiona. Waiting for what happens on the third day, scheduled for November 12, the classification remains as it was. Javier de la Gándara’s Okofen leads the competition and the provisional places of honor are completed by Pedro Paula Pinto’s Miudo and Javier Rey’s Pazo de Cea.

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· The one-design competition organized by the Monte Real Yacht Club celebrates its second day of tests this Saturday in the bay of Baiona

· The sailor from Vigo Javier de la Gándara will try to maintain the leadership of the competition after his victory on the opening day aboard the Okofen

Baiona will be the scene this Saturday of a new day of sailing at the hands of the Banco Sabadell Trophy, a competition organized by the Monte Real Club de Yates exclusively for the J80 monotypes, one of the fastest growing boats in Spanish territory in the last years.

The tests, which will give continuity to those that opened the championship a fortnight ago, will be held from three in the afternoon in the waters of the interior of the bay, where the sun is expected to shine and temperatures that are more than pleasant for this time of year.

The participating boats will compete, competing in real time, on several windward-leeward routes in a maximum of three tests that can be followed from the sandbanks that surround the bay, as well as from the Monte Boi promenade, in the Parador Nacional area.

Skippered by Javier de la Gándara from Vigo, Okofen will try to maintain the leadership of the competition after its victory on the opening day, where the crew led by the historic ocean sailor achieved two first places and one second, and placed at the top of the general classification.

Just two points away from the team from Vigo are the Portuguese from Miudo, with Pedro Paula Pinto in the lead. Despite having completed the regattas of the first stage with very good performance, they were not the ones to win the provisional gold, for which they will fight again this Saturday.

A little further down the ranking, although separated by more than 5 points from Okofen and Miudo, are Pazo de Cea, skippered by Javier Rey; and the Namaste by Luis de Mira.

The Banco Sabadell Class J80 Trophy will put the sporting note on the All Saints Bridge in Baiona, where the good weather forecasts herald a weekend with a large influx of tourists and visitors.

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· The historic sailor from Vigo took the lead in the competition after winning on board the Okofen the first day of regattas held in the bay of Baiona

· His crew had a tough one-on-one with the Portuguese team of the Miudo that finally had to settle for second position

· The Banco Sabadell Class J80 Trophy organized by the Monte Real Yacht Club continues on the 29th with the second of the four scheduled days

The historic sailor from Vigo Javier de la Gándara leads the Banco Sabadell Class J80 Trophy after winning the first day of the one-design competition organized by the Monte Real Club de Yates and held this Saturday in Baiona.

At the helm of the Okofen, De la Gándara led a crew that was very united and that demonstrated its good work in the three races held on an afternoon of clouds and showers, but with good wind for navigation.

The eleven knots that were recorded on average, with peaks of up to 14 at times, allowed the Okofen to “fly” over the waters of the bay, and achieve two first places and one second in the windward-leeward courses designed by the regatta committee .

That last first place that escaped De la Gándara’s men was snatched away by Pedro Paula Pinto’s Miudo, his most direct rival on this opening day of the trophy. The Portuguese kept a tough hand in hand with the Galician throughout the competition, but finally had to settle for provisional silver.

In third place in the Banco Sabadell Class J80 Trophy is Javier Rey’s Pazo de Cea, closely followed by Luis de Mira’s Namasté and Willy Caamaño’s Alumisel, fourth and fifth after the first tests held this Saturday.

They are followed in the classification by two of the boats that initially started as favorites after winning in previous editions, the Luna Nueva of Juan Luis Tuero from Oviedo, and the Virazón of Miguel Lago, skippered this Saturday by Gerardo Alonso.

Enrique Porto’s Ferralemes completes the classification of a competition that, predictably, will keep the excitement going until the end, due to the quality of the participating sailors and the characteristics of the one-designs, very fast in navigation, even with little wind.

The Banco Sabadell Trophy, organized by the Monte Real Yacht Club with the sponsorship of the Catalan banking entity, continues on October 29 with the second of the four days scheduled for this autumn.

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· The one-design competition organized by the Monte Real Club de Yates will be held over four days during the months of October and November

· The tests begin next weekend in the bay and the Virazón de Miguel Lago, winner of the previous edition, will participate among others.

· The Banco Sabadell Class J80 Trophy marks the end of the Monte Real regatta season, which included 10 competitions throughout the year

The J80 class will be the protagonist, starting next weekend, of the Banco Sabadell Trophy, the last of the competitions that the Monte Real Club de Yates organizes this year, and the regatta that will put an end to the sailing season of the 2016 in Baiona.

The trophy, intended exclusively for the J80 monotypes, will be played in a league format over four days, on October 15 and 29 and November 12 and 26. The boats will sail as a fleet, will compete in real time and will carry out a maximum of 3 tests per day, predictably windward-leeward routes, with two upwind and two stern, although everything will depend on the weather conditions of each stage.

Among the boats that have already confirmed their participation in the Banco Sabadell Class J80 Trophy are the crews that managed to get on the podium of the previous edition. Miguel Lago’s Virazón, champion in 2015, will try to repeat victory, and in 2016 he returns to the water with his usual team, formed by Juan Lago, Javier Lago and Gerardo Alonso.

Asturian Juan Luis Tuero’s Luna Nueva, who won silver in the last edition, will be another of those competing this year in the Monte Real autumn league. On board the boat, led by Tuero, will be Miguel Cidrás, Rogelio Torres and Pedro Núñez.

Another of the regulars at the J80 class competitions held in Baiona, the Alumisel, will also fight for victory, with Willy Caaamaño at the helm, and Marcos Alonso, José Quiñones and Jacobo Vecino completing a crew that came third last year. Among the rest of the fleet, the Namasté of Luis de Mira, the Ferralemes of Enrique Porto or the Pazo de Cea of María Campos, among others.

The Banco Sabadell Trophy is part of the Monte Real Club de Yates project to promote the J80 in Galicia, organizing two competitions exclusively for this class, and including the monotypes as a class in the rest of its competitions, with independent start and classification.

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· The inscriptions of the 215 participating athletes made it possible to raise 5,375 euros for the Monte Real Adapted Sailing School for people with disabilities

· Jacobo Crego and Aida García placed the Vedra Olympic Club at the top of the podium by winning the absolute male and female categories

· The Spanish triathlon runner-up José Luis García Serrano “Jota” participated in the competition and the paralympic athlete Susana Rodríguez Gacio was the godmother

The fishing village of Baiona hosted this Saturday the second edition of the Solidarity Vertiathlon, a competition organized by the Baiona City Council and the Monte Real Club de Yates with the sponsorship of Verti Seguros with the aim of raising funds to promote adapted sailing in Galicia.

Two hundred and fifteen athletes from different parts of the country lined up behind the starting line to compete in the three tests of a sprint triathlon. They completed a 750-meter swim in the bay of Baiona, cycled 20 kilometers through the streets of Baiona and ran 5 kilometers on the Monte Boi peninsula, surrounding the historic Parador Nacional.

The fastest took just one hour to complete the entire route and cross the finish line. It was Jacobo Crego, from the Vedra Olympic, winner in the absolute men’s category. His teammate, Aida García, took the victory in the women’s category, both lifting the Vedrense club to the top of the podium of this II Baiona Solidarity Vertiathlon.

In second and third position were, in the men’s category, Ricardo Rey, from Nosporlimit; and Iago Vara, from the Sireno Triathlon Club; and in the women’s category, Ángela Chapela, from the Vedra Olympic team, and Nuria Álvarez, with a license for one day.

In the veterans category, the victories went to the province of A Coruña. The Nosporlimit from the city of glass was placed first in the men’s category by Ricardo Rey; and Aida García, from the Vedra Olympic team, climbed to the top step of the women’s competition. Carlos Coira (Vilagarcía Triathlon / Atenas Running) and Cristobal Cacheda (Team Corbelo) completed the men’s podium; and María José Velázquez from Vigo and Sandra Santodomingo from Baiona, the feminine one.

In the cadet category, the victory went to José Benito Silva, from the Beariz Triathlon, who could not be beaten by Marcos González (Mar de Vigo Triathlon Club) and Alejandro Crespo (Beariz Triathlon), who had to settle for second and third place .

In addition, prizes were awarded to the best classified registered in Baiona, who were Antonio Liébanas, who last June had already won the Baiona popular triathlon, and Sandra Santodomingo.

Once the distribution of prizes was finished, the General Director of Verti Seguros, Enrique Flores, was in charge of delivering, to the Monte Real Club de Yates, the check for the amount collected with the registrations of the Vertiathlon. Five thousand three hundred and seventy-five euros that the Baiona club will allocate entirely to its Adapted Sailing School for people with disabilities.

Created in 2012 under the slogan “Sailing for all”, the school’s main objective is to bring people with all kinds of disabilities closer to the sea, so that they can sail under equal conditions, in facilities without barriers and on board adapted boats. . The work carried out since then has earned it, among other distinctions, recognition from ADEAC, the Spanish Association for Environmental and Consumer Education.

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· The competition will raise funds for the Adapted Sailing School of the Monte Real Yacht Club, which provides services to associations of people with disabilities in Galicia

· Participants must complete a swimming test in the bay of Baiona, a cycling test through various streets of the town and a race around the Parador

· The Olympic Susana Rodríguez Gacio will be the godmother of the event in which the blind athlete, runner-up of Spain in the triathlon José Luis García Serrano “Jota” will participate

· The second edition of the Solidarity Vertiathlon is once again organized by Monte Real and the Baiona council with the collaboration of Fegatri and the sponsorship of Verti Seguros

More than 200 athletes will participate this Saturday in the second edition of the Solidarity Vertiathlon, a competition organized by the Monte Real Club de Yates and the Baiona council with the sponsorship of Verti Seguros to raise funds for the Monte Real Adapted Sailing School, which provides services to associations of people with disabilities throughout Galicia.

The tests, coordinated by the Galician Triathlon Federation, will begin at four in the afternoon with a swim between the beaches of Barbeira and A Ribeira, in the urban center of Baiona. After completing those 750 meters of swimming, the athletes must pick up their bicycles in the La Palma area to pedal 20 kilometers and complete several laps between the Baredo and Santa Marta roundabouts. The last race of the day will be a 5-kilometre race along the trails of the Monte Boi peninsula, where the Parador Nacional is located.

More than 200 athletes from different parts of Galicia and Spain will participate in this second edition of the Solidarity Vertiathlon. Among them, the presence of the Spanish triathlon runner-up and member of the Spanish paratriathlon team, José Luis García Serrano, better known as “Jota”, stands out. Blind since the age of 29, the athlete from Madrid will complete the different tests of the Vertiathlon tied by a rope to his guide.

And although she will not participate in the tours, this year the Olympian Susana Rodríguez Gacio will also be present in Baiona, who is sponsoring the Vertiathlon again. She will be in charge of kicking off the competition and handing out the prizes to the winners.

At the awards ceremony, which will be held at a quarter to seven in the afternoon at the Monte Real Club de Yates facilities, Verti Seguros managers will present the club from Baiona with the check with the amount collected from the registrations of the more than 200 participants. A money that the club will allocate, entirely, to its Adapted Sailing School, in which people with disabilities from all over Galicia sail throughout the year.

In the first edition of the Vertiathlon, in which the winners were Brais Misa from the Porriño Athletics Club and Mar Villar from Trinorth Nogasa, 5,750 euros were raised.

Official presentation this morning in Baiona

The II Solidarity Vertiathlon of Baiona was officially presented this morning in Baiona, at a press conference in which the vice president of the Monte Real Yacht Club, Alejandro Retolaza, thanked Verti Seguros for its sponsorship and the collaboration of numerous firms and companies that have put their grain of sand so that more and more people with disabilities can approach the sea and navigate under equal conditions. The vice president of the Baiona club also dedicated a few words to the more than 150 volunteers who will help on Saturday in the different stages of the Vertiathlon.

The mayor of Baiona, Ángel Rodal, also took part in the presentation, who highlighted the solidarity aspect of a competition that he predicted would be a great success in the future. “Of all the sporting events that are celebrated in the town, this is – said the alderman – , one of the most special due to the solidarity that it implies between sports”.

The Xunta de Galicia’s General Secretary for Sport, José Ramón Lete, also had an impact on this solidarity, a characteristic to which he added those of inclusion and equality. That is why –he assured- that I am here today, “because from the Xunta de Galicia we are committed to sport for all and for all”.

Also present at the press conference were the deputy for sports from the Pontevedra Provincial Council, Consuelo Besada; the mayor of Nigrán, Juan González; and the president of the Galician Triathlon Federation, Oscar José Surís.

Special traffic operation for Saturday

In order to guarantee the correct celebration of the II Solidarity Vertiathlon, the Baiona Local Police will cut off the PO-552 between the Puga roundabout and the Rocamar roundabout. The cut will last for two hours, from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., at which time the cycling event is expected to end.

There will be, yes, alternative itineraries for drivers. Vehicles that want to enter or leave downtown Baiona can access via the EP-2202 (ascent to the Virgen de la Roca), via the EP-2201 (ascent to Baíña) and via the EP-2203 (Baredo); and those who want to go towards Oia or Vigo, can use the AG-57 ring road.

Two more changes that will take place during the Vertiathlon will affect the taxi rank, which will be moved to Brasil Street, and the ATSA bus stop, which will be located next to the Monte Real service station.

TECHNICAL DETAILS II BAIONA SOLIDARITY VERTIATHLON

• TECHNICAL MEETING> 11:00 at the House of Navigation Museum (Rúa Ventura Misa, 15)
• DELIVERY OF DORSALS> 14:00 – 15:30 at the Monte Real Yacht Club
• MATERIAL CONTROL> 14:30 – 15:45 next to Barberira Beach
• FEMALE DEPARTURE> 16:00 in Ribeira Beach
• PT5 OUTPUT> 16:01 in Ribeira Beach
• MALE DEPARTURE> 16:06 in Ribeira Beach
• AWARDS> 18:45 at the Monte Real Yacht Club

· The 33-year-old blind athlete and member of the Spanish paratriathlon team is one of the most recognized athletes in this discipline

· On October 8, he will compete in the Vertiathlon to raise funds for the Monte Real Adapted Sailing School for people with disabilities.

· Sponsoring the event will be Susana Rodríguez Gacio, from Vigo, who has just fulfilled one of her dreams by competing in the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games

· This Tuesday a new registration period opens to complete the last 35 places and reach the maximum of 250 that the Fegatri allows

The Spanish triathlon runner-up, José Luis García Serrano, will participate on October 8 in the second edition of the Baiona Vertiathlon, a charity event that will raise funds for the Monte Real Club Adapted Sailing School for people with disabilities of yachts.

The 33-year-old athlete from Madrid, blind since he was 29, will be one of the 250 athletes who will participate in the competition, for which a new registration period opens tomorrow, Tuesday, to cover the last 35 places.

Known in the sports world as “Jota”, José Luis García won silver this year in the Spanish triathlon championship and the paratriathlon world series held in Australia, as well as a bronze in the world series in South Africa. Member of the Spanish paratriathlon team, he is currently one of the most recognized athletes in this discipline.

In Baiona, Jota will compete against other athletes without disabilities. Attached by a rope to his guide, he will try to complete, in the shortest time possible, the 750-meter swim, 20-kilometer bike ride and 5-kilometre run that are included in the program of the II Solidarity Vertiathlon. A circuit that will be carried out, in its entirety, in the town of Baiona, including the waters of the bay for the swimming test, several streets in the center for the bicycle section and the surroundings of the Parador Nacional for the walking test.

Sponsoring the event will be, one more year, the paratriathlete from Vigo Susana Rodríguez Gacio, who has just fulfilled one of her dreams by competing, this very weekend, in the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, where she achieved an Olympic diploma by being in fifth position.

In the first edition of the Solidarity Vertiathlon, held in September 2015, 230 people participated, whose registrations raised 5,750 euros for the Adapted Sailing School of the Monte Real Yacht Club, whose main objective is to bring the world of sailing closer to people with some kind of disability.

This second edition is once again organized by the Baiona yacht club and the Baiona town hall, with the collaboration of the Galician Triathlon Federation and the sponsorship of Verti Seguros.

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The monarch emeritus also collected one of the Storax 6m class prizes from the Baiona club, in which he sailed aboard the Gallant and achieved second place overall

· Aceites Abril, Movistar, Bunda and Aeris won in the ORC classes, Deep Blue in Open, Pingüino Uno in Classics, Alibaba II in 6m

· In the HELLO! Ladies Cup was won by the crew skippered by Elena Saez of the Real Club Náutico de Barcelona and in J80 the Okofen of Javier de la Gándara del Monte Real

The Fifty by Storax led by Rui Ramada won the Fourth Atlantic Cruise Circuit trophy and the Count of Barcelona Don Juan de Borbón award

This afternoon in Baiona, King Juan Carlos presided over the awards ceremony for the Prince of Asturias Trophy, organized by the Monte Real Yacht Club and the Naval Military School of Marín. The monarch emeritus also collected one of the prizes in the 6m Storax class, in which he sailed with Pedro Campos aboard the Gallant, achieving second place overall.

Ahead of the King in the 6m classification was Miguel Lago from Vigo who, aboard the Alibaba II of the Royal Thames Yacht Club, completed two fantastic regattas in this thirty-first edition of the Príncipe de Asturias. Erica de Violeta Álvarez, who ran for the Royal Yacht Squadron, closed the class winners’ podium.

In the competition for the big boats, the victory went to the Aceites Abril, owned by the brothers Luis and Jorge Pérez Canal, from the Náutico de Vigo. They won the Optica Studio ORC 1 class leaving the second and third place on the podium to Fifty by Storax of the Portuguese Rui Ramada, from Monte Real; and the Arroutado by José Manuel Pérez, from Portosín.

In the Aceites Abril ORC 2 class, the Movistar, intractable in all the tests, once again prevailed in the Bayonne trophy. Skippered on this occasion by Willy Alonso, those from Sanxenxo beat Solventis led by Malalo Bermúdez, from Monte Real; and Fran Edreira’s Inosa, from Marina Sada, who came second and third respectively.

Jacobo Solorzano’s Bunda, from the Real Club Náutico de A Coruña, was the clear winner in the Gadis ORC 3 class. Two boats from the organizing club completed the podium, Juan José Martínez’s Burla Negra and Luis Manuel García’s Unus.

The victory of the Coca Cola ORC 4 class went to the Aeris of the Royachts Club, with Mariano Dios at the controls. The Portuguese Frederico Lopes, achieved the second position aboard his Margem do Azul III; and Fernando Rey’s Albarellos got a creditable third place.

In the Bel and Bel ORC Open class, victory went to Vigo, led by Vicente Cid’s Deep Blue. The Pitoucho of the Liceo Marítimo de Bouzas, skippered by José Carlos Ruiz, won the silver and the bronze went to Villano’s people from Coruña, with Luis Bodelón at the helm.

Penguin One by Carlos Romero, from Canido; Belisa by José Manuel Cores, from Agabace; and the Navy’s Arosa, skippered by Oscar Ortega, were the winners in the Vanguard Classics class.

In this thirty-first edition of the Prince of Asturias Trophy, the J80 monotypes also went out on the water, which were able to compete in a total of seven tests in the three days that the competition lasted. The winner was Javier de la Gándara’s Okofen, who ran wearing a pendant from Monte Real. Pablo Martínez’s Marina Coruña and Francisca Barros’s Miudo by Storax closed the winners’ podium.

In the HELLO! Ladies Cup, in which some of the best patron saints in Spain competed, won the ¡HOLA! led by Elena Saez, from the Real Club Náutico de Barcelona. The HELLO! Fashion Monthly by Marta Ramada and the Fashion ¡HOLA! of Amparo Mollá, also collected a trophy, as second and third classified.

At the awards gala held in Baiona, the Conde de Barcelona Don Juan de Borbón trophy was also awarded to the best ship with a Portuguese crew and the ciborium of the IV Atlantic Cruise Circuit. Both awards went to Fifty by Storax by Rui Ramada, from Monte Real.

The Baionese club also gave a special mention to the students of the Juan María de Nigrán Center for people with disabilities, some boys and girls who sail at the Monte Real Adapted Sailing School throughout the year, and who this weekend also participated in the competition. They received the distinction from the hands of King Juan Carlos, the star without a doubt of the thirty-first edition of the Prince of Asturias Trophy.

Having concluded its most emblematic regatta, which it has organized uninterruptedly since 1986, the Monte Real Club de Yates is already setting its sights on its next competitions, which return in the autumn with the J80 league.

WINNERS OF THE 31ST PRINCE OF ASTURIAS TROPHY

WINNER OF THE FOURTH ATLANTIC CRUISE CIRCUIT

FIFTY BY STORAX – RUI RAMADA – MRCYB

OPTICAL CLASS STUDIO ORC 1

1. APRIL OILS – LUIS AND JORGE PÉREZ CANAL – RCN VIGO
2. FIFTY BY STORAX – RUI RAMADA – MRCYB
3. ARROUTADO – JOSÉ MANUEL PÉREZ – RCN PORTOSÍN

CLASS OILS APRIL ORC 2

1. MOVISTAR – WILLY ALONSO – RCN SANXENXO
2. SOLVENTIS – MALALO BERMÚDEZ – MRCYB
3. INOSA – FRAN EDREIRA – MARINA SADA

GADIS ORC 3 CLASS

1. BUNDA – JACOBO SOLORZANO – RCN CORUÑA
2. THE BLACK MOCK – JUAN JOSÉ MARTÍNEZ – MRCYB
3. UNUS – LUIS MANUEL GARCIA – MRCYB

COCA COLA ORC CLASS 4

1. AERIS – MARIANO DIOS – ROYACHTS CLUB
2. MARGEM DO AZUL – FREDERICO LOPES – MRCYB
3. ALBARELLOS – FERNANDO REY – PORTONOVO CN

BEL AND BEL OPEN CLASS

1. DEEP BLUE – VICENTE CID – RCN VIGO
2. PITOUCHO – JOSÉ CARLOS RUIZ – LM BOUZAS
3. VILLAIN – LUIS BODELON – RCN CORUÑA

STORAX CLASS 6M

1. ALIBABA II – MIGUEL LAGO – ROYAL THAMES YC
2. GALLANT – HM KING JUAN CARLOS – RCN SANXENXO
3. ERICA – VIOLETA ALVAREZ – ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON

CLASSIC VANGUARD CLASS

1. PENGUIN ONE – CARLOS ROMERO – CM CANIDO
2. BELISA – JOSÉ MANUEL CORES – AGABACE
3. AROSA – OSCAR ORTEGA – CR ARMADA

SOLVENTIS J80 CLASS

1. OKOFEN – JAVIER DE LA GANDARA – MRCYB
2. MARINA CORUÑA – PABLO MARTINEZ – RCN CORUÑA
3. MIUDO BY STORAX – FRANCISCA BARROS – WE DO SAILING

¡HELLO! LADIES CUP

1. HELLO! – ELENA SAEZ – RCN BARCELONA
2. HELLO! FASHION MONTHLY – MARTA RAMADA – WE DO SAILING
3. FASHION HELLO! – AMPARO MOLLÁ – FEMAVE

COUNT OF BARCELONA DON JUAN DE BORBÓN AWARD

FIFTY BY STORAX – RUI RAMADA – MRCYB

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