His Majesty King Juan Carlos I arrives at the Monte Real Yacht Club to participate in the Prince of Asturias Trophy

His Majesty King Juan Carlos I is already in Baiona to participate as a sailor in the thirty-first edition of the Prince of Asturias Trophy, organized by the Monte Real Club de Yates and the Escuela Naval Militar de Marín, sponsored by Storax, Terras Gauda , HI THERE! and Galician Sport.

The monarch emeritus arrived at the Baiona yacht club after eleven o’clock in the morning accompanied by his friend and racing partner, the Galician Pedro Campos, with whom he will compete in the Storax 6m class. They will sail aboard the Gallant, owned by José Cusí, a 1947 sailboat with a track record that highlights a World Championship and a European Championship.

Upon his arrival at the Monte Real Yacht Club, Don Juan Carlos was received by the president of the Monte Real Yacht Club, José Luis Álvarez, the president of the naval regatta commission of the Military Naval School of Marín, Vicente Rubio; and the president of Bodegas Terras Gauda, José María Fonseca Moretón.

The King Emeritus will sail in the Prince of Asturias Trophy today and tomorrow, and will preside over the awards ceremony for the winners on Sunday at six in the afternoon at the Monte Real facilities.

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The Prince of Asturias Trophy shines in Baiona with the presence of King Juan Carlos I

· The competition was attended this Saturday by the monarch emeritus aboard the Gallant who managed to get on the provisional podium of the Storax 6m class

· The Aceites Abril, the Movistar and the Bunda lead the classification of the big boats that the scarce wind only allowed them to compete in a single race

· In the Solventis J80 class, Pablo Martínez’s Marina Coruña took the lead and in the ¡HOLA! Ladies Cup tops the rankings on HELLO! by Elena Saez

The Prince of Asturias Trophy that is being held these days in Baiona under the organization of the Monte Real Yacht Club and the Naval Military School of Marín today featured a luxury sailor among the fleet, King Juan Carlos. The monarch emeritus sailed in the Storax 6m class and managed to get on the provisional podium after the two races held in the bay of Baiona.

On board the Gallant, and accompanied by Pedro Campos, the king achieved third place overall, behind the Royal Thames Yacht Club’s Alibaba II, skippered by Miguel Lago, who won both races held in what was the first day of regattas for the 6m. In second place was the Erica of the Royal Yacht Squadron, skippered by Violeta Álvarez.

The 6m competition took place inside the bay, with good conditions considering the forecast, which announced a day with very little wind. The big boats, of the Optica Studio ORC 1, Aceites Abril ORC 2, and Gadis ORC 3 classes, haggled outside, with somewhat more complicated sailing conditions. The start was delayed several hours compared to the scheduled time and the northwest wind, of low intensity, shifty and with some bald spots, only allowed the holding of one test.

In the baton disputed by the ORC 1, with three upwind and three stern, the Fifty by Storax of the Monte Real Club de Yates won, skippered by Rui Ramada, but the Aceites Abril of the brothers Luis and Jorge Pérez Canal, of the Real Club Náutico de Vigo, continues to lead the general classification. The Marnatura Pairo, with Luis Bugallo leading the crew, entered the provisional podium today with a third position in the absence of tomorrow’s tests.

In ORC 2, Willy Alonso’s Movistar, from the Real Club Náutico de Sanxenxo, remains at the forefront of the Príncipe de Asturias Trophy after another victory today. Yes, there were changes in second and third place, which were exchanged between Solventis, from Monte Real, skippered by Malalo Bermúdez, who came third on the first day and rose to second place overall; and Julio Rodríguez’s Starfighter, also from Monte Real, which holds the provisional bronze.

In the Gadis ORC 3 class, the Bunda, from the Real Club Náutico de A Coruña, signed a new victory this afternoon in Baiona, which distances it even further from its competitors. Tied on points in second and third position are Luis Manuel García Trigo’s Unus and Jean Claude Sarrade’s Fend la Bise, both with a Monte Real pendant.

Mariano Dios’s Aeris won the Coca Cola ORC 4 class, leaving provisional silver and bronze to Margem do Azul, owned by Frederico Lópes, from Monte Real Club de Yates; and to the crew of the Alabarellos, from Portonovo, skippered by Fernando Rey.

The ORC 4 completed a 16-mile journey from the interior of the bay to the Cíes Islands, passing through Carallones, La Negra, Bondaña, Salgueirón and Subrido, ending at the islet of Viños. Identical layout for Bel and Bel Open class, in which Vicente Cid’s Deep Blue, from Náutico de Vigo, won. In second and third position are the Pitoucho by José Carlos Ruiz from the Liceo Marítimo de Bouzas and the villain by Luis Bodelón from the Real Club Náutico de A Coruña.

Coastal regatta also for the classics on its first day of competition, which began with little wind at first but increased in intensity as the test progressed. The Penguin Uno of Carlos Romero, the Belisa of José Manuel Cores and the Arosa of Oscar Ortega were the boats that managed to sneak into the provisional podium.

In the Solventis J80 class, the wind was more favorable than in other race courses and allowed the fleet to contest four races inside the bay. Pablo Martínez’s Marina Coruña, winner of the previous edition of the Prince of Asturias Trophy in this category, managed to take first place today. He leads the provisional classification ahead of Javier de la Gándara’s Okofen, from the Monte Real Club de Yates, and Guillermo Blanco’s Meltemi, from the Real Club Náutico de A Coruña.

In the HELLO! Ladies Cup the Catalans of ¡HOLA!, led by Elena Saez, ousted the Portuguese of Hello! Fashion Monthy from first place, leaving Marta Ramada and her crew with the provisional silver of the trophy. In third position are the women from Madrid led by Amparo Mollá, on board the Fashion ¡Hola!.

The Prince of Asturias Trophy ends tomorrow, Sunday, with the last tests of the competition in the morning and the awards ceremony for the winners in the afternoon. It will be held at the Monte Real Club de Yates facilities and will be presided over by King Juan Carlos.

PRINCE OF ASTURIAS TROPHY CLASSIFICATION AFTER THE SECOND DAY

OPTICAL CLASS STUDIO ORC 1

  1. APRIL OILS – LUIS AND JORGE PÉREZ CANAL – RCN VIGO
  2. FIFTY BY STORAX – RUI RAMADA – MRCYB
  3. MARNATURA PAIRO – LUIS BUGALLO – RCN VIGO

CLASS OILS APRIL ORC 2

  1. MOVISTAR – WILLY ALONSO – RCN SANXENXO
  2. SOLVENTIS – MALALO BERMÚDEZ – MRCYB
  3. STARFIGHTER – JULIO RODRÍGUEZ – MRCYB

GADIS ORC 3 CLASS

  1. BUNDA – JACOBO SOLORZANO – RCN CORUÑA
  2. UNUS – LUIS MANUEL GARCIA – MRCYB
  3. FEND LA BISE – JEAN CLAUDE SARRADE

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. ERICA – VIOLETA ALVAREZ – ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON
  3. GALLANT – HM KING JUAN CARLOS – RCN SANXENXO

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. MARINA CORUÑA – PABLO MARTINEZ – RCN CORUÑA
  2. OKOFEN – JAVIER DE LA GANDARA – MRCYB
  3. MELTEMI – GUILLERMO BLANCO – RCN CORUÑA

¡HELLO! LADIES CUP

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

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Baiona dresses up to reward the best in the sailing world

· The Monte Real Yacht Club hosted this Saturday the Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards 2015 – 2016 award ceremony

· The Olympians Támara Echegoyen and Berta Betanzos, the Paralympian Arturo Montes, the Canarian Rayco Tabares or ABANCA were some of the winners

· The winners took as a trophy a reproduction of the Monte Real signal mast that bears the name of its historic president Rafael Olmedo

Once again this year, the Monte Real Yacht Club of Bayonne hosted the award ceremony for the Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards, awards that recognize the work carried out by different people, companies and institutions in favor of the world of sailing.

The Olympians Támara Echegoyen and Berta Betanzos, world champions in the 49erFX class and Olympic diploma at the Rio 2016 Games, undoubtedly received the great ovation of the night. The Ourense and the Cantabrian received the award for the best female regatta team from the president of Bodegas Terras Gauda, José María Fonseca Moretón, and the president of the Monte Real Yacht Club, José Luis Álvarez, and received applause from the most than half a thousand attendees at the gala. They also brought their coach, Pepe Lis from Buenos Aires, to the stage, to whom they dedicated their award for being, they said, a fundamental part of the successes achieved.

Another of the Olympians awarded tonight in Baiona was Sevillian Arturo Montes, who was given the award for the best Paralympic athlete of the year. The sailor was unable to attend the gala because he was training in Rio, where he will compete in a few days in the 2.4mR class, and the president of the naval regatta commission of the Naval Military School of Marin, Vicente Rubio, presented him of the award to the delegate of the 2.4mR class, Luis de Mira, who collected it and thanked on behalf of Montes.

The Catalan shipowner, Rafael Carbonell, also passed the stage of the gala, receiving from the Mayor of Baiona, Ángel Rodal, and on behalf of his entire crew, the prize for the best boat, the Rats on Fire, winner of seven Trophies Conde de Godó and four King’s Cups, in addition to several Spanish and World Championships.

The vice president of the Xunta de Galicia, Alfonso Rueda, was in charge of awarding the Terras Gauda National Sailing Award to the best skipper, which went to Rayco Tabares. The Lanzarote native, barely 32 years old, wrote his name in the history of sailing in Spain in 2016, having won his third world championship in the J80 class.

ABANCA and MARCA were the two distinguished companies of the night. The Galician bank received the award for the best sponsor of the year for its commitment to grassroots sailing, through the support it provides to numerous sailing schools, clubs and organizations related to nautical activity. The director of ABANCA’s commercial network, Gabriel González, collected the award from the General Secretary for Sports of the Xunta de Galicia, José Ramón Lete.

The sports communication group MARCA, the undisputed leader of the sports press in Spain, won the Mariano Aguado Communication Award, which was collected by the deputy director of the newspaper, Gerardo Riquelme. This year’s Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards wanted to recognize the work of the Editorial Unit header to bring the competitions and all the latest sailing news to its more than two million three hundred thousand readers.

All the winners received as a trophy a reproduction of the signal mast of the Monte Real Yacht Club, which bears the name of the person who was president of the entity for more than forty years, Mr. Rafael Olmedo Limeses, who died in 2015 at the age of 99. age.

At the end of the National Sailing Awards ceremony, once again sponsored by Bodegas Terras Gauda, and after a seafood dinner at Monte Real, attendees were able to enjoy a party with fireworks.

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Grand opening day of the Prince of Asturias Trophy

· The Arroutado de Portosín, the Movistar de Sanxenxo and the Bunda de A Coruña won the coastal regatta contested by the largest boats in the fleet

· The Pazo de Cea del Monte Real won the J80 one-design competition and We Do Sailing’s HELLO FASHION MONTHLY in the ¡HOLA! Ladies Cup

· The Prince of Asturias Trophy continues tomorrow with the presence of the King Juan Carlos I fleet that will sail with Pedro Campos in the Storax 6m class aboard the Gallant

Great opening day of the thirty-first edition of the Prince of Asturias Trophy, which is being held these days in Baiona, organized by the Monte Real Yacht Club and the Naval Military School of Marín. Despite the weather forecasts, which announced a difficult day due to lack of wind, all the classes called for this first stage were able to compete in their tests and begin to outline the provisional podiums of the trophy.

On time according to schedule, the ORCs coastal regatta began, which took place with a west-southwesterly wind of about 6 knots on average. In the Optica Studio ORC 1 class, the winner on this first day was the Arroutado from the Real Club Náutico de Portosín, with the 49er Rio 2016 Olympian Iago López Marra among the crew. The sailboat skippered by José Manuel Pérez took just over an hour to complete the six and a half miles of coastal route, which the regatta committee was forced to shorten due to a calm wind recorded at the end of the race. In second place was the Aceites Abril de Luis and Jorge Pérez Canal, from the Real Club Náutico de Vigo; and in third, the Xekmatt of the Cascalense José Carlos Prista, of the Lisbon Naval Association.

In the Aceites Abril ORC 2 class, victory after today’s first race went to the Movistar of the Real Club Náutico de Sanxenxo, with Willy Alonso leading the crew in the absence of Pedro Campos, who will sail tomorrow with His Majesty King Juan Carlos in the Storax 6m class. In second and third position of the ORC 2, two boats from the Monte Real Club de Yates, the Starfighter of Julio Rodríguez and the Solventis skippered by Malalo Bermúdez.

In the Gadis ORC 3 class, the Real Club Náutico de Coruña placed its flag in the highest position. Jacobo Solorzano’s Bunda won the stage after completing the 6.56-mile route in two hours. Behind the people from Coruña, after the opening day, are Luis Suarez’s Maracaná I, from the Real Club Náutico de Vigo; and the Fend la Bise by Jean Claude Sarrade, from the Monte Real Club de Yates.

The Solventis J80 class monodesigns sailed this afternoon in the interior of the Bay of Baiona, in real-time competition. They left punctually according to the scheduled time and took part in two races with a constant west-northwesterly wind of about 7 knots on average. On the provisional podium, three boats from the Monte Real Club de Yates, the Pazo de Cea by María Campos, the Okofen by Javier de la Gándara and the Alumisel by Willy Caamaño.

In the same regatta field, with identical wind and sea conditions, the HELLO! Ladies Cup, which started just five minutes apart from the J80. After two races, the victory went to the Portuguese Marta Ramada, from the We Do Sailing club, aboard the HELLO FASHION MONTHLY. The HELLO! of the Real Club Náutico de Barcelona, skippered by Elena Saez, managed to place itself in second position and left third place for HELLO! by Conchi de Pedro, who competes for the Real Club de Regatas de Alicante.

After all the tests this Friday, the Prince of Asturias Trophy continues tomorrow Saturday with the second day and the entire fleet is already in the water. 80 boats and more than half a thousand sailors in competition will guarantee, if the wind allows it, the spectacle in the Vigo estuary.

Among them, King Juan Carlos I, who will sail in the Storax 6m class aboard the Gallant, one of the 5 sailboats built between 1929 and 1946 that participate in this thirty-first edition of the trophy.

Also making their debut tomorrow, together with the Storax 6m class, are the Coca Cola ORC 4 class boats, Bel and Bel Open and Vanguard Clásicos, in tests that will take place starting at noon in the bay of Baiona and the anchorage of the Islas Cies.

At night, the appointment is with the Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards, in a gala that will be held from eight in the afternoon at the Monte Real Yacht Club. At the end of it, the Baionese club has prepared a party for all the participants, which will include a fireworks display starting at eleven o’clock.

The Prince of Asturias Trophy will end on Sunday with the last day of tests and the awards ceremony for the winners, in a ceremony that will be presided over by King Emeritus Juan Carlos I.

PRINCE OF ASTURIAS TROPHY CLASSIFICATION AFTER THE FIRST DAY

OPTICAL CLASS STUDIO ORC 1

  1. ARROUTADO – JOSÉ MANUEL PÉREZ – RCN PORTOSÍN
  2. APRIL OILS – LUIS AND JORGE PÉREZ CANAL – RCN VIGO
  3. XEKMATT – JOSÉ CARLOS PRISTA – AN LISBOA

CLASS OILS APRIL ORC 2

  1. MOVISTAR – WILLY ALONSO – RCN SANXENXO
  2. STARFIGHTER – JULIO RODRÍGUEZ – MRCYB
  3. SOLVENTIS – MALALO BERMÚDEZ – MRCYB

GADIS ORC 3 CLASS

  1. BUNDA – JACOBO SOLORZANO – RCN CORUÑA
  2. MARACANA I – LUIS SUÁREZ – RCN VIGO
  3. FEND LA BISE – JEAN CLAUDE SARRADE – MRCYB

SOLVENTIS J80 CLASS

  1. CEA MANOR – MARÍA CAMPOS – MRCYB
  2. OKOFEN – JAVIER DE LA GANDARA – MRCYB
  3. ALUMISEL – GUILLERMO CAAMAÑO – MRCYB

¡HELLO! LADIES CUP

  1. HELLO! FASHION MONTHLY – MARTA RAMADA – WE DO SAILING
  2. HELLO! – ELENA SAEZ – RCN BARCELONA
  3. HELLO! – CONCHI DE PEDRO – RCR ALICANTE

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Everything ready in Baiona for the Prince of Asturias Trophy

· The thirty-first edition of the competition organized by the Monte Real Club de Yates and the Escuela Naval Militar de Marín begins tomorrow, Friday afternoon

· His Majesty King Juan Carlos I will haggle over the weekend and will preside over the awards ceremony that will be held on Sunday at the Baionese club

Light wind weather forecasts will force the fleet of 80 boats in the competition to bring out their best tactics

Everything is ready in Baiona for the celebration of a new edition of the historic trophy of the Monte Real Club de Yates and the Escuela Naval Militar de Marín. Organized without interruption since 1986, the Prince of Asturias Trophy celebrates thirty-one years in 2016 with a luxury guest on the water, His Majesty King Juan Carlos I, who will compete aboard the Gallant in the Storax 6m class.

The emeritus monarch’s boat will be one of the 80 sailboats that will take to the water this weekend to compete for victory in one of the most emblematic regattas in Galicia, which will be held once again in the Rías Baixas.

Along with him, some of the regulars in the Príncipe de Asturias such as Rui Ramada’s Fifty, who will try to achieve his fourth consecutive victory in the trophy in the Optica Studio ORC 1 class . The Portuguese crew will face a tough competitor, the also Portuguese Xekmatt of José Carlos Prista, recent winner of the Baiona Angra Atlantic Race.

Another of the classics at the Baiona nautical event, Pedro Campos’ Movistar, will compete in the Aceites Abril ORC 2 class skippered by Willy Alonso. Along with him will enter the competition, among others, the Bosch Service Solutions, with a crew of students from the Canido Maritime Club.

In this thirty-first edition of the Príncipe de Asturias, the three-time J80 world champion Rayco Tabares will also race in the Solventis J80 class , deserving in 2016 of one of the Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards for the best skipper of the year.

The classics in the Vanguard class , the Open in the Bel and Bel class , the ORC 3 in the Gadis class , the ORC 4 in the Coca Col a class and the figaros with female crews in the HELLO! Ladies Cup They will be other categories that we will be able to see in the three days that a competition that is announced to be complicated for the fleet will last. The weather forecasts indicate that there will be little wind, which will force the crews to bring out their best tactics.

The first tests will be tomorrow Friday from five to four in the afternoon. At that time there will be a first start for the largest boats, which must complete a coastal regatta; and a later start, half an hour later, for the J80s and figaros monotypes, with a program of windward/leeward routes.

The intention of the regatta committee, if the wind allows it, is to give all the starts inside the bay, so that the public that is located in the vicinity can enjoy the spectacle of the sailboats.

After the day on Friday, the competition will continue on Saturday with the entire fleet already in the water, after joining the Open, the Classics and the 6m, among which King Juan Carlos I will compete. That same day, at night, will hold the awards gala Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards , awards that distinguish those people and institutions that, throughout the year, worked to promote and promote the world of sailing from different fields.

On this occasion the winners are the Olympic athletes Támara Echegoyen and Berta Betanzos , as the best women’s regatta team; the also olympic Arturo Montes , as the best Paralympic athlete of the year; the Rats on Fire , as Ship of the Year and the Canary Rayco Tabares as best skipper. ABANCA will receive the sponsor of the year award and MARCA the Mariano Aguado communication award.

King Juan Carlos I will compete in the 31st Prince of Asturias Trophy

The monarch emeritus will race this weekend in the 6m class aboard José Cusí’s Gallant, a 1947 sailboat considered a true jewel of the sea

· The trophy organized by the Monte Real Club de Yates and the Escuela Naval Militar de Marín will bring together more than 550 sailors and will include the competition ¡HELLO! Ladies Cup

· The Olympic athlete Támara Echegoyen will collect one of the Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards that will be delivered on Saturday in Baiona

King Juan Carlos I will participate this year in the 31st Prince of Asturias Trophy, which will be held on September 2, 3 and 4 in the Vigo estuary and Bay of Baiona. The emeritus monarch will compete in the 6m class aboard the Gallant, owned by owner José Cusí, a 1947 sailboat considered by sailing enthusiasts to be a “true jewel of the sea”, with a track record that highlights a World Championship and a European Championship.

Don Juan Carlos will be accompanied by his friend and usual sailing companion, the Galician Pedro Campos, who will act as a tactician on board the boat. They will be two of the more than 550 sailors who are expected to compete this year in the thirty-first edition of the Prince of Asturias Trophy, organized by the Monte Real Club de Yates de Bayona and the Escuela Naval Militar de Marín with the sponsorship of Storax, Terras Gauda , HI THERE! and Galician Sports and the collaboration of the Royal Spanish Sailing Federation and the Galician Sailing Federation.

In the regatta program there are three days of tests, in which boats from different divisions of ORCs, classics, 6m and one-design J80s and Figaros will compete, the latter exclusively in the ¡HOLA! Ladies Cup. The first honk will be heard at five minutes to four on Friday the 2nd for the first race of the ORCs, a coastal one that will be held at the Cíes Islands anchorage. The J80s and the Figaros of the competition HELLO! Ladies Cup will sail inside the Bay of Baiona starting at twenty-five past four.

On Saturday, September 3, the Open, the Classics and the 6m will also take to the water, among which King Juan Carlos I will compete. His date on the water with a coastal regatta is from twelve twenty-five, half an hour after start the windward/leeward courses designed by the race committee for the ORCs, J80s and HELLO! Ladies Cup.

On Sunday the 4th, the last day of the 31st Prince of Asturias Trophy, all the boats will compete at the same time, starting at five minutes to twelve. The awards ceremony for the winners, at six in the afternoon at the Monte Real Yacht Club, will put an end to a new edition of one of the most prestigious regattas on the Spanish nautical scene.

In 2016, the Príncipe de Asturias Trophy is also the Spanish Cruise Championship, the second round of the Xunta President Trophy, and the third and last round of the IV Atlantic Cruise Circuit. In Baiona, the Conde de Barcelona Trophy will also be awarded, which rewards the best Portuguese boat. This year, as a novelty, the special Mary Woodward award will also be given to the best boat in the J80 class.

In addition to the traditional sports events, the trophy will include other parallel activities such as breakfasts, radio programs, dinners, parties and even fireworks. An extensive program of events held thanks to the sponsorship of Storax, Terras Gauda, HELLO! and Galician Sport, and the collaboration of numerous firms such as Coca Cola, April Oils, Gadis and Solventis, among many others.

The Prince of Asturias Trophy was presented this morning at a press conference attended by the General Secretary for Sports of the Xunta de Galicia, José Ramón Lete; the President of the Naval Regatta Commission of the Naval Military School of Marín, Vicente Rubio; the General Director of Bodegas Terras Gauda, Enrique Costas; the Councilor for Sports of Baiona, María Jesús Martíns; and the President of the Galician Sailing Federation, Manuel Villaverde.

The competition HELLO! Ladies Cup will bring together the best female crews in Baiona

The competition HELLO! Ladies Cup 2016 is an exclusively female regatta that will bring together in Galician waters the best patron saints from Spain and Portugal, who will compete during the Prince of Asturias Trophy under equal conditions, with crews with the same number of sailors and in 6 identical one-design boats, of the Beneteau First Fígaro type, owned by Monte Real.

Among the participants will be Amparo Mollá and Nada Pahor, from the Madrid Sailing Federation; Conchi de Pedro, from the Real Club de Regatas de Alicante; Paloma Gil, from the Real Club Náutico de Barcelona, the Portuguese Marta Ramada, with the BBDouro We Do Sailing team; and Genoveva Pereiro leading the women’s team of the Monte Real Club de Yates.

The Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards, an appointment with the best of nautical

Coinciding with the Prince of Asturias Trophy, the Monte Real Yacht Club will host, on the night of Saturday, September 3, the Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards ceremony, awards that distinguish those people and institutions that , throughout the year, worked to promote and promote the world of sailing from different areas.

On this occasion, the winners are the Olympic athletes Támara Echegoyen and Berta Betanzos, as the best women’s regatta team; the also Olympian Arturo Montes, as the best Paralympic athlete of the year; the Rats on Fire, as boat of the year and the canary Rayco Tabares as best skipper. ABANCA will receive the sponsor of the year award and MARCA the Mariano Aguado communication award.

An integrating boat for people with disabilities

For the second consecutive year, a team made up of people with some type of disability will participate in the Prince of Asturias Trophy. On this occasion they are a group of students from the Juan María de Nigrán Center for people with intellectual disabilities, who will sail in the regattas scheduled for the Open class aboard a boat provided by the Monte Real Yacht Club.

It is an initiative with which the Baiona club intends to continue with the integration work that, throughout the year, it develops through its Adapted Sailing School for people with disabilities, in which hundreds of people with disabilities have already sailed. disability throughout Galicia.

MARCA wins the National Sailing Award in the communication section

· The leading newspaper in Spain has been recognized for the dissemination it carries out throughout the year of the main nautical activities that take place in our country

The Unidad Editorial sports header will receive the Mariano Aguado Communication Award, one of the distinctions of the Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards

· The awards will be presented next Saturday, September 3 at a gala at the Monte Real Club de Yates de Bayona, coinciding with the 31st Prince of Asturias Trophy

The newspaper MARCA has been honored with the Mariano Aguado Communication Award from the Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards for the dissemination it carries out throughout the year of the main nautical activities that take place in Spain.

The jury that awards the awards wanted to recognize the work of the Unidad Editorial sports magazine to bring the competitions and all current sailing news to its more than two million three hundred thousand readers, according to data from the last EGM. They have also valued the long history of the newspaper, which since 1938 writes the history of Spanish sport.

Leader of the sports press in Spain, MARCA complements its dissemination of sailing news on paper, with broadcasts, since 2001, of Radio MARCA, from which it reaches more than four hundred twenty-three thousand listeners daily. A figure to which we must add the eleven million daily readers of its digital newspaper.

On September 3, those responsible for the newspaper will collect the Mariano Aguado Communication Award at the National Sailing Awards gala that will take place at the Monte Real Yacht Club in Bayonne, coinciding with the celebration of the 31st Prince of Asturias Trophy.

Together with MARCA, this year Támara Echegoyen and Berta Betanzos will receive the rest of the awards as the best women’s regatta team and the also Olympian Arturo Montes as Paralympic athlete of the year. Rayco Tabares will collect the prize for the best skipper, the Rats on Fire for the best boat and ABANCA for the sponsor of the year.

The Olympians Támara Echegoyen and Berta Betanzos will receive the Terras Gauda National Sailing Award for the best female regatta team

The Galician and Cantabrian sailors will be honored for their spectacular career in the 49er women’s class, in which they are world champions and have an Olympic diploma

· This is the third Terras Gauda National Sailing Award received by Támara Echegoyen from Ourense after being recognized as navigator and best pre-Olympic team in 2011 and 2012

· The awards will be delivered on September 3 at eight in the afternoon at the Monte Real Club de Yates de Bayona, coinciding with the Prince of Asturias Trophy

The athletes Támara Echegoyen (Ourense, 1984) and Berta Betanzos (Santander, 1988) will receive this year the Terras Gauda National Sailing Award for the best female regatta team after their spectacular career in the 49erFX class, of which they are world champions and in which they have achieved an Olympic diploma at the Rio 2016 Games.

The evolution of the Galician-Cantabrian tandem since the team was formed four years ago has always been upward and plagued with success. In 2014 they were eighth in the world championship, in 2015 they managed to climb to sixth place, and this year, in addition to the bronze in the European, they finished first in the waters of Clearwater (United States), taking the world championship and setting sail Spanish on everyone’s lips.

This is how they reached the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, where they finally stayed at the gates of the medal table, with a fourth place in the general behind the Brazilians, New Zealanders and Danes, who shared the metals. Támara and Berta brought home an Olympic diploma and the admiration of thousands of fans around the world, who have been able to recognize the great work of these two athletes and also of their coach, Pepe Lis from Buenos Aires.

The Terras Gauda National Sailing Award for the best female regatta team is the last –until now- of the awards given to the Echegoyen-Betanzos duo. They will pick him up next Saturday, September 3 at eight in the afternoon at the Monte Real Club de Yates, in a gala that will be held to coincide with the Prince of Asturias Trophy.

For Támara Echegoyen, 32, from Ourense, this will be her third National Sailing Award, after those collected in 2011 together with Sofía Toro and Ángela Pumariega as the best pre-Olympic team of the year; and in 2012 as sailor of the year.

Arturo Montes, Terras Gauda National Sailing Award for the best Paralympic athlete of the year

The Sevillian sailor from the Real Club Marítimo de Punta Umbría has been distinguished with the Terras Gauda National Sailing Award for the best Paralympic athlete of the year

· Montes is the current champion of Spain in the 2.4 mR and the head of the Spanish team in this class that will compete next September at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

· The sailor reaches the top of the Paralympic sport five years after a serious accident that left him in a coma for a month and caused him to lose a leg

· In addition to his sporting merits, he received the award for his work to promote the sport of sailing among people with disabilities through the IN Association

The Sevillian sailor Arturo Montes will receive this year the Terras Gauda National Sailing Award for the best Paralympic athlete of the year after becoming the Spanish 2.4mR champion and becoming the head of the Spanish team in this class that will compete next September at the Games Rio 2016 Paralympics.

The athlete from the Real Club Marítimo y Tenis de Punta Umbría reaches the top of Paralympic sailing five years after being run over by a boat while swimming in the Portuguese Algarve, a serious accident that left him in a coma for a month and caused him to die. loss of a leg.

After a long and hard recovery, Montes returned to a sport with which he had already won the Copa del Rey and participated in the Barcelona World Race, but in a new class, the 2.4mR, to which he had to adapt. Little by little the victories followed one another and in this 2016, the Sevillian managed to fulfill one of his dreams, that of attending the Olympic Games representing a class that, for the first time, is not going as a guest, but on its own merits.

It has been a year, says Montes, “of many joys, but also of a lot of work and sacrifice , with very intense training in the high performance center of Puerto de Santa María, where I had to go 3 or 4 times a week driving for over an hour ”. Participation in the Olympic Games and the Terras Gauda National Sailing Award “are an impulse -he assures- to continue sailing and training with even more enthusiasm, and to encourage other people with disabilities to practice sport”.

Precisely his work to promote the sport of sailing among people with disabilities is another of the reasons that the jury of the National Sailing Awards has taken into account when awarding him the award. Arturo Montes founded the IN Association years ago to promote adapted sports, from which all kinds of people with different disabilities can approach and practice different sports, and even train to compete at the highest level.

The Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards will be presented on September 3 at the Monte Real Yacht Club in Bayonne, in a gala that Arturo Montes will not be able to attend because he will already be in Rio preparing to compete. The president of the Spanish Association of the 2.4mR class, Teresa Silva, will collect the award on her behalf.

The Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards distinguish ABANCA for its commitment to basic sailing

· Thousands of children have been able to start practicing water sports thanks to the support that ABANCA provides to numerous sailing schools, clubs, organizations and companies

· The promotion of sailing among the youngest has been for years one of the fundamental axes of the sponsorship strategy of the bank based in Galicia

· Directors of ABANCA will collect the Terras Gauda National Sailing Award for the best sponsor of the year on September 3 at the Monte Real Yacht Club

ABANCA has been distinguished this year with the Terras Gauda National Sailing Award for the best sponsor for its commitment to grassroots sailing through the support it provides to numerous sailing schools, clubs, organizations and companies related to nautical activity.

With this award, the jury that awards the awards wanted to recognize the work that the Galicia-based bank carries out to promote sailing and allow thousands of children to start practicing this sport every year.

As its original entities did for decades, ABANCA maintains a close relationship with sailing in all its aspects, based, according to the entity, on its educational, sporting and economic values.

In addition to supporting basic sailing, in the competitive section, ABANCA also supports sailing adapted for people with disabilities and the celebration in Galician waters of multiple regattas of different classes and levels, such as the ABANCA Sailing & Rowing Week, which in the 2015 edition achieved the distinction of Best Dinghy Sailing Regatta in Spain, or the Infanta Elena Regatta.

Likewise, ABANCA supports, from its function as a financial entity, different business projects related to the nautical sector, considering it an economic activity with great potential for generating employment and wealth.

The Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards will be presented on September 3 in Baiona, coinciding with the celebration of the Prince of Asturias Trophy of the Monte Real Yacht Club. ABANCA executives have already confirmed their attendance to collect the entity’s award for the best sponsor of the year.

The Xunta de Galicia and the Monte Real Yacht Club promote adapted sailing

· An agreement signed with the Xeral Secretariat for Sport will allow the Baiona club to consolidate and expand the activities of its Adapted Sailing School for people with disabilities

· Monte Real is the only club in Galicia that currently promotes this type of initiative at a supra-municipal level and seeks the full integration of the participants

· For the second consecutive year, a group of students from the club with different disabilities will sail under equal conditions in the Prince of Asturias Trophy that will be held next September

The Xunta de Galicia and the Monte Real Yacht Club will collaborate one more year to promote adapted sailing in Galicia. They will do so thanks to an agreement signed this morning between the Xeral Secretariat for Sports and the Baiona club, which provides for the expansion of the activities of its Adapted Sailing School for people with disabilities.

Currently, Monte Real is the only club in Galicia that organizes initiatives of this type at a supra-municipal level and seeks the full integration of the participants, among whom there are people with all kinds of disabilities, both physical and psychosocial, cognitive and sensory. . The club’s Adapted Sailing School is also the only one in the north of the peninsula that operates throughout the year.

At the signing of the agreement, the General Secretary for Sports of the Xunta de Galicia, José Ramón Lete, highlighted the fact that some of the school’s students will participate, for the second consecutive year, in the Prince of Asturias Trophy, which shows, he said, that total integration is one of the objectives of the Monte Real Adapted Sailing School.

From the Baionese club, both its president, José Luis Álvarez, and its vice president, Alejandro Retolaza, thanked the Xunta de Galicia for its support in continuing to bring the sea closer to people with disabilities and allowing all those who wish to sail with equal terms.

This was transmitted to the provincial head of the sports service of the Xunta de Galicia, Daniel Benavides, also present at the signing of the agreement. They also reminded him that on September 10 they will organize a new edition of the Vertiathlon, a solidarity triathlon with which they will raise funds for the club’s Adapted Sailing School.

The Rats on Fire and Rayco Tabares, Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards for the best boat and skipper of the year

Armed by the Catalan Rafael Carbonell, Rats on Fire has been one of the most outstanding references in cruise sailing for years after winning seven Conde de Godó Trophies and four Copas del Rey in addition to several Spanish and world championships.

· The very young Canarian skipper Rayco Tabares wrote his name this year in the history of sailing in Spain by having won his third world championship in the J80 class at just 32 years of age, a milestone that no other skipper had achieved so far

· The Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards will be presented on Saturday, September 3 in Baiona as part of the celebration of the 31st Prince of Asturias Trophy organized by the Monte Real Yacht Club

The Rats on Fire of the Catalan owner Rafael Carbonell and the Canarian sailor Rayco Tabares will be recognized next September in Baiona with the Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards for the best boat and skipper of the year.

The prestigious awards, which the Monte Real Yacht Club has been handing out for 24 years, coinciding with the celebration of its historic The Prince of Asturias Trophy distinguishes those people and institutions that throughout the year stood out for their human and sporting values, as well as for their work in favor of the world of sailing.

In the case of Rats on Fire, the boat has been, for years, one of the most prominent references in cruising sailing, having won seven Conde de Godó Trophies and four Copas del Rey, in addition to several Spanish and world championships. .

At the head of this Swan 45 from the Club Náutico de Arenys de Mar is Rafael Carbonell, a Catalan shipowner who has been linked to the sea for more than half his life, with whom he admits he is in love. He says that he started sailing late, but that he knew how to surround himself with the best and was able to learn everything they were teaching him.

In 2007 he decided to take over the Rats on Fire and since then he has done nothing but reap success. “When we won the first Copa del Rey, we hardly believed it,” he says. and from then on other regattas and other victories have followed one another. We always put the maximum in the preparation of the boat and each test, and it seems that we do not do badly at all “.

Carbonell shows himself, always modestly, proud of his triumphs but, above all, of his crew, of whom he speaks wonders. He says that more than a team, they are already a family, “the Rats family” , and that part of the success they have achieved so far is due to the good relationship that exists between all of them, since they enjoy what they do enormously.

An outstanding member of that crew is Rayco Tabares, from the Canary Islands, who will receive the Terras Gauda National Sailing Award for the best skipper. In 2016, the man from Lanzarote wrote his name in the history of sailing in Spain having achieved, at just 32 years of age, his third world championship in the J80 class, a milestone that no one had achieved so far.

Since he started sailing in Optimist at the age of 6, Tabares has touched practically all the clubs. He has sailed in Cadet, in Snipe, he has directed a 470 Olympic project, he has reached the top in J80 and, while he already thinks about sailing in new classes, he continues to score victories with great boats like Rats on Fire, with which he has won various Count of Godó and Copas del Rey.

This sailor, skipper, tactician and coach now also adds a new distinction to his resume as an athlete, the Terras Gauda National Sailing Award for the best skipper of the year, which he will collect on 3 September in Baiona as part of the celebration of the Prince of Asturias Trophy, in which he plans to sail.

24 years rewarding the best in the sailing world

The Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards are one of the most prestigious awards on the Spanish nautical scene. For 24 years, the Monte Real Yacht Club of Bayonne has delivered them to those people and institutions that stand out for their human and sporting values, as well as for their work in favor of the world of sailing.

In the last edition, Chuny Bermúdez was awarded as the best ocean sailor and Álex Pella as the best solo ocean sailor. Astilleros Lago received an honorary award as pioneer of the Spanish nautical industry and Fundación Repsol was distinguished as the best sponsor of the year.

The Mariano Aguado communication award went to Juan Pablo Cadario, for his blog JuanpaNews; and Fifty, Movistar and Solventis won the prizes for the best boats in the ORC 0-1, ORC 2-3 and amateur team categories, respectively.

( Photos: 1 © Nico Martinez / 2 © Alfred Farré / 3 © María Muíña / 4 © María Muíña )

THE COUNTDOWN BEGINS FOR THE PRINCE OF ASTURIAS TROPHY

· On September 2, 3 and 4, the thirty-first edition of one of the most important nautical competitions in Spain is celebrated in Galicia

· The Monte Real Yacht Club of Bayonne and the Military Naval Commission of Marin have just opened the registration period for crews who want to participate

In addition to the sporting events, the Prince of Asturias Trophy will include numerous parallel activities such as the delivery of the Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards

The countdown begins for the celebration of one of the most important nautical competitions in Spain, the Prince of Asturias Trophy, which in 2016 celebrates its thirty-first edition organized, once again, by the Monte Real Yacht Club and the Naval Commission Marine Military.

The trophy will be held on September 2, 3 and 4, and the registration period has just opened for those crews who want to participate. They will be able to compete in it ORC cruisers, J80 and Figaros monotypes, classics and 6m.

The 31st Prince of Asturias Trophy will include the HELLO! Ladies Cup, which will bring together the best female cruising sailing crews. It will also qualify for the Spanish Cruise Championship ORC Zona Galicia, and score points for the IV Atlantic Cruise Circuit and the President Trophy of the Xunta de Galicia. It will also reward the best Portuguese crew in the Conde de Barcelona Trophy.

As in previous editions, the Prince of Asturias Trophy will include, in addition to the classic nautical events, numerous parallel activities, such as the delivery of the Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards, breakfasts, parties and fireworks.

Crews who wish to participate in the great sporting event of the Monte Real Yacht Club will be able to find all the information on its website and formalize their registration starting today. For those who register before August 28 there will be significant discounts.

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II SOLIDARITY VERTIATHLON

There are already more than 130 people registered to participate, next Saturday, October 8, in the second edition of the Solidarity Vertiathlon, a competition that will be held in the fishing village of Baiona, and that will serve to raise funds so that people with different disabilities can continue to practice sport under equal conditions.
In addition to this solidarity fund, the Vertiathlon is, without a doubt, a unique opportunity to enjoy an exciting event in an incomparable setting, since the routes will take place around the bay, the main streets and the surroundings of the Parador Nacional de Baiona, points all of spectacular beauty.
In the first edition of the Vertiathlon, 230 people participated, whose registrations allowed us to raise more than 5,700 euros, and this time we want to exceed those figures. If you have not yet registered, you can do so through the website of the Galician Triathlon Federation . What are you waiting for to sign up? Cheer up to participate!

Party partners MRCYB 2016

Next Friday, August 19, starting at 9:00 p.m., we will celebrate the members’ summer party at the club, with a cocktail dinner in the evening and live music until dawn.

All those who wish to attend must register before August 15 by calling 986 385 000 or writing an email to secretaria@mrcyb.com
We wait for you!

HELLO! Ladies Cup 2016 will bring together the best female cruising sailing crews in Galicia

· The nautical competition will be held the first weekend of September within the framework of the XXXI Prince of Asturias Trophy of the Monte Real Yacht Club

· 36 of the best sailors from Spain and Portugal will fight for victory in six races that will take place in the bay of Baiona under equal conditions

· The crews will be exclusively female and will sail in identical one-design boats with the same number of sailors on board

Next September, the ¡HOLA! Ladies Cup, which will bring together the best female cruising sailing crews on the peninsula in the bay of Baiona. It will be held on September 2, 3 and 4, within the framework of the 31st Prince of Asturias Trophy, organized since 1986 by the Monte Real Club de Yates and the Naval Military School of Marín.

In the three days that the HELLO! Ladies Cup 2016, the 36 participating sailors will compete under equal conditions, with crews with the same number of sailors and in 6 identical one-design boats, of the Beneteau First Fígaro type, under the name of each of the divisions of the sponsoring international communication group , the HOLA Group (HOLA!, H!FASHION, HELLOFASHION, HELLO!, HOLA MADE IN USA and HOLA.COM). They will fight for victory in six windward-leeward races that will be held in real time, in a regatta field that will be located in the bay of Baiona or in the anchorage of the Cíes Islands, depending on the weather conditions that are recorded during the days of competition.

Among the crews that will participate in the HELLO! Ladies Cup 2016 is led by Amparo Mollá, from the Madrilenian Sailing Federation, champion of the Ladies Cup in the last three editions. The Nada Pahor team from FEMAVE will also attend the event in Baiona, and Conchi de Pedro will skipper the girls from Metromar – Natural Ladies, who will race for the Real Club de Regatas de Alicante. Paloma Gil will lead the crew of the Real Club Náutico de Barcelona, and the Portuguese Marta Ramada will do the same with the BBDouro We Do Sailing team. On behalf of the Monte Real Club de Yates, which organizes the competition with the sponsorship of ¡HOLA!, a team led by Genoveva Pereiro will compete.

The HELLO! Ladies Cup 2016 will be one of the numerous proposals offered by the thirty-first edition of the Prince of Asturias Trophy, which, in addition to the classic nautical competitions, will include breakfasts, talks, tastings, fireworks and parties.

April Oils wins the 41st Conde de Gondomar Trophy – Banco Sabadell Grand Prix

· The crew led by Luis Pérez Canal won the trophy with a triplet of prizes by winning in ORC 1 and in the general of the Count of Gondomar and also taking the title of Champion of Spain of Height Galicia Zone

· In the ORC 2 class the winner was Javier Durán’s Santorum&Martinez Group and Jean Claude Sarrade’s Fend la Bise and Pablo Conde’s Enxuto took the gold in ORC 3 and 4 classes

· In the J80 and Fígaros one-design competition, victories went to Javier de la Gándara’s Okofen and Santiago Meygide’s Silleiro

· The forty-first edition of the Conde de Gondomar Trophy was organized by the Monte Real Club de Yates with the sponsorship of Banco Sabadell

They arrived in Baiona ready to win the trophy that had slipped from their hands in the previous edition and shone in each and every one of the tests of the forty-first edition of the Conde de Gondomar Trophy, organized by the Monte Real Yacht Club sponsored by Banco Sabadell.

The Aceites Abril of the Real Club Náutico de Vigo, led by Luis Pérez Canal, won the long stage of the Carrumeiro Chico, taking the title of Champion of Spain of Height of Galicia Zone. He also won on the second day of navigation through the Cíes and Ons archipelagos, and this Sunday he won again in the two batons disputed at the Cíes Islands anchorage.

A triplet of victories in the three days of regattas that served the crew of the April to win this year’s Conde de Gondomar, collect the grand prize of the trophy as the overall winner, and also the gold of those in its class. , the ORC 1.

In that same category, that of the great boats, the silver went to Pairo 8, skippered by Laureano Wizner; and the bronze went to Diego López’s Mirfak, from the Ferrol Naval Regatta Commission.

In ORC 2, the winner was Grupo Santorum&Martínez, led by Javier Durán, from Club de Mar de Vilagarcía. Bosch Service Solutions, from the Club Marítimo de Canido, led by Ramón Ojea, completed the class podium; and Fran Edreira’s Inosa, from the Sada Yacht Club.

Jean Claude Sarrade’s Fend la Bise, who sailed with a griffon from the Monte Real Club de Yates, was the winner in the ORC 3 class, leaving second place to Rafael Pérez’s Droopy Uno, from the Liceo Marítimo de Bouzas.

In ORC 4, the Conde de Gondomar 2016 podium was made up of Enxuto de Pablo Conde, from the Real Club de Mar de Aguete; the Margem do Azul by Frederico Lópes, from Monte Real; and the Aeris de Mariano Dios, from the Rio Yachts Club, who came first, second and third respectively.

In this forty-first edition there was also room for the monotypes J80 and Fígaro, categories that dominated the boats of the Monte Real Yacht Club. In the J80 class, the gold went to Javier de la Gándara’s Okofen; and the silver and bronze went to Virazón by Miguel Lago and Alumisel by Guillermo Caamaño. In the Figaro class the winner was Santiago Meygide’s Silleiro; and Víctor Calviño’s Serralleiras and Genoveva Pereiro’s Bouvento completed the podium.

The awards ceremony for the Conde de Gondomar Trophy – Banco Sabadell Grand Prix was held this afternoon at the Monte Real Club de Yates facilities, and was attended by Ramón Correa, Ricardo Rodríguez and José Celada on behalf of Banco Sabadell. Also present were the president of the Galician Sailing Federation, Manuel Villaverde, and the Baiona councilor for maritime activities, Raul Costas.

The next appointment: the 31st Prince of Asturias Trophy

After the forty-first edition of the Conde de Gondomar Trophy – Banco Sabadell Grand Prix, the Monte Real Club de Yates is now preparing for another of the great events on its sports calendar in 2016, the Príncipe de Asturias Trophy.

The competition, which this year celebrates its thirty-first edition, will be held on September 2, 3 and 4, and will once again include, as has been the tradition, a wide range of activities parallel to the competition, such as breakfasts, meetings, talks , award ceremonies, fireworks and parties.

>> PHOTO GALLERY

The wind complicates the second day of the Conde de Gondomar Trophy – Banco Sabadell Grand Prix

· The absence of wind forced the start of the competition to be delayed for an hour and a half and complicated the navigation of the sailboats in the vicinity of Cíes and Ons

· The Aceites Abril once again prevailed in the category of large boats (ORC 1, 2 and 3) and separates itself from its competitors in the absence of the last tests

· In the J80 category, Javier de la Gándara’s Okofen stood out, in the Fígaro class Víctor Calviño’s Serralleiras won and in ORC 4 Pablo Conde’s Enxuto

Complicated day for the second day of the Conde de Gondomar Trophy – Banco Sabadell Grand Prix, which was held this Sunday in the vicinity of the Cíes and Ons archipelagos. The absence of wind forced the start of the competition to be delayed an hour and a half and to modify the route, which was shortened by about seven miles with respect to what was foreseen in the competition programme.

After half past one in the afternoon, the wind picked up from the northwest, blowing with about 8-9 knots, and the regatta committee was able to start, in front of Cíes, the test of the big boats, of the ORC 1 classes , 2 and 3, which traveled almost 25 miles around Ons.

The Aceites Abril, from the Real Club Náutico de Vigo, was the fastest to finish the test, which it completed in less than four hours. Skippered by Luis Pérez Canal, the crew of the Abril leads the ORC 1 class, and after their two victories in the Carrumeiro stage and in this Sunday’s test, they remain in first place in the provisional general classification.

In the ORC 2 class, the Santorum&Martinez Group, led by Javier Durán, from Club de Mar de Vilagarcía, is in the lead; and in ORC 3, Jean Claude Sarrade’s Fend la Bise, wearing a pendant from the Monte Real Club de Yates.

Just 5 minutes after the start of the ORC 1, 2 and 3 competition, the ORC 4 race began, together with the J80 and Figaro monotypes, with a slightly shorter course. They sailed some 22 miles from the starting point, in front of the Cíes, to the Camouco lighthouse, in Ons.

In the ORC 4 class, victory went to Pablo Conde’s Enxuto, from the Real Club de Mar de Aguete, who took four hours and forty minutes to complete the track. In J80, Okofen, by Javier de la Gándara, from the Monte Real Club de Yates, stood out; and in the Figaro class the victory went to Serralleiras, also from Monte Real, skippered by Víctor Calviño.

The podium of the 41st Conde de Gondomar Trophy will be decided tomorrow

After the long stage last Friday and the regattas this Sunday, the forty-first edition of the Conde de Gondomar Trophy – Banco Sabadell Grand Prix will be decided tomorrow, Monday, with the last races of the competition.

Starting at noon, at the anchorage of the Cíes Islands, the registered crews will dispute several windward-leeward routes that will determine the positions of honor of the regatta.

In the afternoon, starting at six o’clock, the award ceremony for the winners will be held at the Monte Real Club de Yates facilities, in an act in which several representatives of Banco Sabadell, sponsor of the competition, will be present.

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>> OVERALL CLASSIFICATION ORC 4

>> OVERALL CLASSIFICATION J80

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