Baitra Children’s Sailing Trophy Cadet and Optimist Regatta 2015
09-05-2015
Young promises of Galician sailing will measure their strength on the weekend of May 9 and 10 in Baiona in the Baitra Children’s Sailing Trophy organized by the Monte Real Yacht Club with the sponsorship of Baitra Naval Accessories and the collaboration of Effects Naval Betanzos and the Council of Baiona. Boys and girls from the Optimist and Cadet classes from the main yacht clubs in the province of Pontevedra will participate in the championship, who will fight for victory in various technical tests.
The first day of the Baitra Trophy will be held on Saturday the 9th starting at half past two in the afternoon, and can be followed from around the Bay of Baiona. On Sunday the 10th, in the second round of tests, the starting horn will be heard at half past eleven in the morning. That same day, in the afternoon, once the competition is over, the award ceremony for the winners will be held at the Monte Real facilities.
A competition to promote sailing from the base
The Baitra Children’s Sailing Trophy is part of the plan to promote sailing from the base that the Monte Real Club de Yates has underway through its Sailing School, in which, throughout the year, initiation classes are taught , Optimist and Cadet for children of all ages. The Baionese club also has several regatta teams, with 30 boys who have already made the leap to competition and participate in regattas regularly.
The Optimist and Cadet classes
In the Baitra Children’s Sailing Trophy, two classes of boats will take to the water: Optimist and Cadet. While the Optimist is the most used boat to start in the world of sailing individually (due to its simplicity, stability and easy handling), the Cadete is the perfect boat to learn to work as a team. This is a class that allows young sailors to become familiar with the three main types of sails (jib, mainsail and spinnaker) somewhat more complex (which has the same types of sail as the big boats), and to do it with a companion, working like a crew.
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