· The classic Bribón Movistar skippered by Olympian Jane Abascal took the lead in the 6-meter classic category after signing two victories on the first day of competition held this Saturday in the Bay of Baiona

· In the Open category of modern boats, the Finnish boat Evelina won, led by Henrik Andersin, who has been training for months with the Spanish fleet for the European Championship to be held next September in France

· Pedro Campos premiered the new Bribón Movistar in competition with very good feelings about the structural changes made to the boat and managed to be the fastest boat in its category to complete the tests

· The Regatta of the 525th Anniversary of the Arrival of the Caravel Pinta organized by the Monte Real Club de Yates and the Baiona City Council ends tomorrow, Sunday in Baiona with the last two races of the competition and the award ceremony

 

The Rascal Movistar Classic of the Real Club Náutico de Sanxenxo, skippered by the Olympic sailor Jane Abascal, was placed this Saturday as the leader of the Regatta for the 525th Anniversary of the Arrival of the Carabela Pinta, organized by the Monte Real Club de Yates and the Baiona City Council to commemorate the event.

The boat built by José Cusí, who last year was proclaimed world champion in the 6-meter class with King Juan Carlos as skipper, managed to lead the classification after signing two victories in the two races held in the Bay of Baiona .

It also did so with a certain margin over its most direct rival, Violeta Álvarez’s Mena , of the Royal Yacht Squadron, who has the provisional silver pending what happens on the final day tomorrow, Sunday.

The following positions were alternated, in the different races, by Aida skippered by Paloma Botas and Javier de la Gándara at the tiller, who came in fourth in the first test and third in the second; and the Alibaba II of the Royal Thames Yacht Club, led by Miguel Lago, who opened the competition with third place and finally fell to fourth.

In the category of the Open, the most modern boats in the fleet, the victory of the day went to the Finnish Evelina , owned by Henrik Andersin. It is the first foreign boat that joined the Spanish 6-meter fleet to prepare for the European next September in France, and it seems that it has taken the navigation measures very well in the Rías Baixas.

In the regatta he managed to beat the Bribón Movistar of the Real Club Náutico de Sanxenxo, which Pedro Campos tested this Saturday for the first time in competition after the modifications made to the boat. Structural changes that, according to Campos, have allowed them to already see results in the water.

“The sensations -says the historical pattern- they are very positive. Today, for example, although we couldn’t win due to a mess with an off-line, measuring times we have seen that we have been the fastest, and above all, we have rolled the boat, which was our priority. Tomorrow – assures Campos- we will go out with different sails and we will readjust all the details that we have been detecting this afternoon in the tests” .

The provisional podium of the Open class is completed by the May Be XIV of the Real Club de Regatas de Cartagena, skippered by Eugenio Galdon.

The competition ends tomorrow, Sunday, with the last two tests, starting at half past twelve, and the awards ceremony for the winners, at five in the afternoon at the Monte Real Club de Yates facilities.

 

REGATTA 525 ANNIVERSARY OF THE ARRIVAL OF THE CARABELA PINTA

GENERAL CLASSIFICATION AFTER THE FIRST DAY (05/12/18)

CLASS 6 METERS OPEN

1. EVELINA HENRIK ANDERSIN NJK
2. MOVISTAR RASCAL PEDRO CAMPOS RCN SANXENXO
3. MAY BE XIV · EUGENIO GALDÓN · RCR CARTAGENA

CLASS 6 CLASSIC METERS

1. CLASSIC MOVISTAR RASCAL · JANE ABASCAL · RCN SANXENXO
2. MENA VIOLETA ÁLVAREZ ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON
3. AIDA PALOMA BOOTS RCNC – CM LA PENELA

 

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The Monte Real Club de Yates will bring great figures of sailing in Spain to Baiona this weekend to commemorate that the Galician fishing village was the first in the old world to receive the news of the discovery of America. The Arrival of Pinzón to Baiona aboard the caravel Pinta, in 1493, has been the perfect excuse to bring together, 525 years later, historic sailors around a classic boat competition.

Among them we will see a history of Spanish sport, the Olympic sailor Jane Abascal, one of the first gold medalists in an Olympics (Moscow, 1980, in the Flying Dutchman class). The 66-year-old from Santander has also been the Spanish champion of the Snipe class, the Vaurien world champion and, in 1994, he received the Gold Medal of the Royal Order of Sports Merit. After haggling with King Juan Carlos last September in the Prince of Asturias Trophy, Abascal returns to Baiona to take charge of Bribón Movistar .

The new Rogue XVI , which debuts tomorrow, Saturday in competition, will be taken care of by one of its main promoters, Galician Pedro Campos, another of the national sailing legends and the only sailor to have won five consecutive world championships. The president of the Real Club Náutico de Sanxenxo is an old acquaintance from Monte Real, of which he is also a member, as he was the patron of the first Spanish team to participate in the Copa América after the challenge presented by the club from Baiona. In the 525th Anniversary Regatta , he will focus on testing all the technological innovations that have been added to the new Rogue , such as a 14-meter fiberglass pole or a steering wheel that replaces the usual rod.

Campos en el agua will have to deal with another legend, also Galician, Javier de la Gándara, from Vigo, who will take command of the Aída, a 1939 ship that has been the fastest in the German fleet of its class . After several seasons focused on regattas in the J80 class, Gándara now enters the 6-meter class with the aim of demonstrating, once again, his great ability to masterfully control any type of sailboat. In his youth he stood out in 420 and Snipe, and over the years he added marks to his record in different boats and competitions. His speed record in the Tour of the World in 1989, his victory in the Rolex Fastnet Race in 1993 and also in the Tour of Europe explain why he is one of the most successful sailors in the world.

Along with Campos and De la Gándara, there is a third Galician skipper whose sports curriculum gives him a prominent place in the competition, Miguel Lago from Vigo. Winner of the Fastnet Race on the Galicia 93 Pescanova and a Tour of Europe aboard the WOR 60 ocean class, Lago can also boast of having achieved three victories in the prestigious Sardinia Cup and several world championships. He has sailed on the Telefónica , has been a crew member on the Bribón , and has crossed the Atlantic on more than one occasion. Completed the Route of Discovery aboard the Santa Maria, the first catamaran built entirely in Spain; and years later, in 2013, he repeated the feat aboard the VO70 MAPFRE, with which he managed to set a new record on the route, crossing the Atlantic Ocean between Palos de la Frontera and San Salvador in 11 days 7 hours. 38 minutes and 40 seconds.

In the Regatta of the 525th Anniversary of the Arrival of the Caravel Pinta to Baiona , Lago will compete leading the crew of the Alibabá II, the sailboat of the British owner Peter Dubens, of the Royal Thames Yacht Club, with which two years ago he won the Prince Trophy of Asturias.

Among the rest of the skippers will be the naval engineer Iñigo Echenique aboard the Caprice , from the Club Marítimo de Canido, a ship restored after it was found abandoned in a chicken coop. Cesar Elizaga will take charge of the Ian , a ship from 1929, one of the oldest in the fleet; and the commander of Iberia Mauricio Sánchez-Bella will do the same with the Titia , which last year was proclaimed runner-up in the world. The Evelina of the Finnish Henrik Anderson or the Mena will be other boats that enter the competition.

The tests of the Regatta 525 Anniversary of the Arrival of the Caravel Pinta will begin tomorrow Saturday at half past twelve in the Bay of Baiona and, thanks to the proximity to the coast of the regatta field, they can be seen from the sandbanks and mountains more next.

REGATTA 525 ANNIVERSARY ARRIBADA CARABELA PINTA
Organisers: Monte Real Yacht Club and Baiona City Council

SATURDAY, MAY 12, 2018

11:00 – Crew breakfast
11:30 – Pattern meeting
12:30 – Start of tests (in the Bay of Baiona)
15:30 – Crew lunch

SUNDAY, MAY 13, 2018

11:00 – Crew breakfast
11:30 – Pattern meeting
12:30 – Start of tests (in the Bay of Baiona)
15:30 – Crew lunch
17:00 – Awards ceremony (at the Monte Real Club de Yates)

After inaugurating the cruise season with the Comunica Trophy , the 525th Anniversary Regatta of the Arrival of the Caravel Pinta will undoubtedly be our great event this May, a month that we open with the celebration of the Spanish Championship of the Class J80 – Repsol Trophy .

We will talk about all these competitions in this new Pañol del Monte Real, in which we also announce that, one more year, the Blue Flag will fly again in our facilities. The ADEAC has once again granted us the prestigious distinction for the environmental care of our infrastructures, the quality of our waters and the excellence of our nautical services.

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· The sailboat in which King Juan Carlos sails will be one of the boats that compete in the Regatta 525 Anniversary of the Arrival of the Carabela Pinta organized by the Monte Real Club de Yates and the Baiona City Council to commemorate the event

· Built at the Garrido Shipyards and completed at the Rodman Shipyards, the sailboat has recently been remodeled and this weekend will test its many technological advances in competition, such as a fiberglass mast that is unique in its class

· In the 525th Anniversary Regatta of the Arrival of the Caravel Pinta , boats of the 6m class will participate exclusively, both classic (built before the 1950s) and modern (built from the 1970s)

 

 

The fishing village of Baiona has been the setting chosen for the first competition test of the new Bribón , a unique sailboat among its class (6m International) and the first of its kind to be built in the last 15 years.

After completing its construction last year at the Garrido shipyards and recently being remodeled at the Rodman shipyards, the ship will be one of those participating in the Regatta 525th Anniversary of the Arrival of the Caravel Pinta , organized by the Monte Real Club de Yates and the Baiona City Council to commemorate the event.

The new Bribón boasts of having a marked Galician accent, since in addition to being built and remodeled in Galician shipyards, it has Javier Cela behind it, responsible for site engineering; and the historic sailor Pedro Campos, as its main promoter.

“As a result of the recovery of the class in Sanxenxo, we decided to embark on the construction of a new boat with which we could show Galicia’s strategic position in the sector and all its technological capacity. And the new rascal – says Pedro Campos – is the best example of what we are capable of doing in Galicia.”

Among the numerous technological advances that have been applied to the sailboat, designed by Juan K, is a fiberglass mast, the first of its kind to be built in the entire history of the 6m. The intention was to be able to debut it in the world championship held last year in Vancouver (Canada), where King Juan Carlos became world champion in the 6m class, but they did not manage to arrive on time and finally it will be in Galicia where he haggles for first time.

The goal is to test the boat and its innovations ahead of the European Championship to be held in the Brittany town of La Trinité (France) next September, in which the monarch emeritus plans to participate.

Before that, next weekend, we will see him compete in the Regatta 525 Aniversario de la Arribada de la Caravel Pinta , which will continue throughout the weekend. The tests, in which boats of the 6m class will participate exclusively, both in its classic and modern versions, will be held inside the bay of Baiona, very close to the coast, with the aim that anyone who wants to You can enjoy the beauty of sailing these sailboats.

In the official presentation of the event, held this morning at the Monte Real Club de Yates, the vice president of the club, Alejandro Retolaza, showed “very proud that Baiona has been the place chosen for the first official competition of the new Rogue, and that it is also done in such an important regatta -he said- with which one of the most important anniversaries of the fishing village is commemorated”.

The president of Monte Real, José Luis Álvarez, stressed the close collaboration that the club has had for years with the Baiona city council, with the aim of “making our town a unique place to visit, to live in, to sail and enjoy with the candle”.

The mayor of Baiona, Ángel Rodal, looked back and recalled the Discovery Regatta that Monte Real organized in 1972 and the challenge that it presented years later to the America’s Cup to highlight Baiona’s relations with the American continent and talk of the prolific history of the club in the organization of regattas, something that, according to “guarantees that this weekend’s event will be a complete success.”

At the press conference held this morning at the Monte Real Yacht Club, the deputy delegate for sports from the Pontevedra Provincial Council, Consuelo Besada, and the provincial head of the Xunta de Galicia’s sports service, Daniel Benavides, also took part. Also present were the councilor for culture in Baiona, María Iglesias; and the director of Bodegas Terras Gauda, Enrique Costas, and the managing director of PSA Retail Vigo, Daniel Martín, as collaborators of the event.

The booming 6m class from Galicia to the world

The 6m had its golden age in the 1920s and 1930s, when they led international regattas, and even competed in the Olympic Games in Paris (1924) and, later, in Helsinki (1952).

In Spain there was an important fleet, especially in the Bay of Biscay and the Mediterranean, which achieved a certain reputation in Europe, but in the 50s and 60s, with the arrival of lighter classes and less expensive construction, they ceased to be so attractive. , and did not regain their popularity until the 1980s.

Today, the momentum of the class is more than evident, with a notable growth of the national and international fleet, and in this panorama, Galicia, and in particular Sanxenxo, has been acquiring more and more prominence. Numerous owners and crews have trusted Pedro Campos and his firm commitment to the class, and have chosen Galicia to keep their boats in Galician ports, repair them in Galician companies and compete in the Galician estuaries.

 

REGATTA 525 ANNIVERSARY ARRIBADA CARABELA PINTA
Organisers: Monte Real Yacht Club and Baiona City Council

SATURDAY, MAY 12, 2018

11:00 – Crew breakfast
11:30 – Pattern meeting
12:30 – Start of tests (in the Bay of Baiona)
15:30 – Crew lunch

SUNDAY, MAY 13, 2018

11:00 – Crew breakfast
11:30 – Pattern meeting
12:30 – Start of tests (in the Bay of Baiona)
15:30 – Crew lunch
17:00 – Awards ceremony (at the Monte Real Club de Yates)

 

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The Monte Real Club de Yates (MRCYB) organizes on May 12 and 13, 2018 in the waters of the Bay of Baiona, the 525 ANNIVERSARY ARRIBADA LA PINTA Regatta, for boats of the 6M International Class, also scoring for the 2018 National Circuit of the class

REGISTRATION

Registration will be free and must be made in the attached form. Those boats that are up to date with their obligations with the ISMA (International Six Meter Association), present a measurement certificate for the boat and whose crew members have a Federal Athlete’s License for the current year may participate in this Regatta. The Regatta will be OPEN (any nationality of the crew members). A copy of the updated RC insurance of the boat must be presented. Registration must be ratified and signed in person at the Regatta Office on Saturday, May 12, before 11:30 a.m.

Registration must be sent in advance to:

MONTE REAL YACHT CLUB
Parador Enclosure s/n, 36300 Baiona
Email: secretaria@mrcyb.com
phone + 34 986 385000 Fax. + 34 986 355061

before 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 10, using the form prepared for this purpose. The correctly registered boats will have free mooring.

PROGRAM OF TESTS AND EVENTS

 

Saturday May 12

 

10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. – Regatta office opening. Registration of participants. Delivery Instructions.

11.00 a.m. – Breakfast for Participants

11.30 a.m. – Employers Meeting

12:30 p.m. – Attention 1st Test of the day

3:30 p.m. – Crew lunch

Sunday May 13

 

11.00 a.m. – Breakfast for Participants

11.30 a.m. – Employers Meeting

12:30 p.m. – Attention 1st Test of the day

3:30 p.m. – Crew lunch

5:00 p.m. – Trophy delivery

 

All boats will sail up to a maximum of FOUR (4) tests, of which at least one must be completed in order to be awarded the title of winner of the 525th Anniversary Arribada La Pinta Regatta. The Organizing Committee and the Regatta Committee reserve the right to modify this Test Program due to weather or other reasons. The Warning signal for a subsequent test within the same day will be given as soon as practical. The tests will be numbered consecutively, according to the order in which they have been navigated. No more than 2 races per day will be sailed, except if deemed appropriate by the Regatta Committee in order to complete the program in view of weather forecasts or other causes. On the last day of regatta, a warning signal will not be given later than 2:30 p.m., except as a result of a General Call.

AWARDS

At least 5 silver reproductions of the caravel “La Pinta” will be awarded to the first classified. The final List will be displayed in the TOA before the start of the first test once the number of entries has been verified. The Social Acts scheduled during the days of the tests and the corresponding location will be published on the Official Notice Board (TOA).

THE 6M

The 6m had its golden age in the 1920s and 1930s, when they led international regattas, and even competed in the 1924 Paris Olympics and later in Helsinski 1952.

In Spain there was an important fleet, especially in the Bay of Biscay and the Mediterranean, which achieved a certain reputation in Europe, but in the 1950s and 1960s, with the arrival of lighter classes and less expensive construction, they ceased to be so attractive and they did not regain their popularity until the 1980s.

After having had a class of their own in the 2016 and 2017 Prince of Asturias Trophies, with a presence among the crews of King Emeritus Don Juan Carlos de Borbón, this year they repeat in Baiona in a competition organized exclusively for the 6m.

 

 

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The crew of the Real Club Marítimo de Santander, led by Javier Aguado, won the championship this year after finishing third in 2017

Javier de la Gándara’s Okofen was the best in the Galician fleet and achieved a meritorious third position in the championship organized by the Monte Real Yacht Club

· The Bosch Service Solutions of the Club Marítimo de Canido skippered by Santiago Estévez and Ramón Ojea won the grand prize of the Repsol Trophy

 

The Maui Jim Sunglasses of the Real Club Marítimo de Santander is the new champion of Spain in the J80 class after winning the national class that was held during the last four days in the bay of Baiona.

The Cantabrians, with Javier Aguado at the helm, picked up their winners’ scepter on Tuesday from Repsol’s Deputy Director of Marine and Fisheries, Carlos Sánchez Nieto, and José Luis Vázquez, president of the Monte Real Yacht Club, who this year held of organizing club and host of the national of the class.

After finishing third in last year’s edition, those from Santander managed to get rid of the thorn in the championship and took Cantabria the big prize in a very close competition, in which they barely beat their teammates by one point and one of their stronger rivals, Jaime Piris’s Mercury, who came second.

“It has been a long championship, with all possible wind conditions to haggle. There are teams that have gone better in strong wind conditions and others with a breeze, but the ones that have triumphed are those that have been versatile in all situations”, declared Javier Aguado, skipper of the Maui Jim, who was also pleasantly surprised by the quality of the local fleet: “it has grown a lot and they have proven to be a benchmark with a very high competitive level”.

In fact, the bronze in the Spanish J80 Championship went to a local boat, the Okofen of the historic Javier de la Gándara, the best of the entire Galician fleet that competed in the Repsol Trophy. Wearing Monte Real necklace, the Galicians remained in the top positions from the beginning of the competition and finally achieved a meritorious third place.

In the competition for the big boats, the Cruiser-Racer Class , the victory went to Bosch Service Solutions, skippered in the first two races by Santiago Estévez and with its usual skipper, Ramón Ojea, in the final regatta. After a tough one-on-one with Pedro Pazos’ Oral Group Galimplant, the crew of Canido’s Elan 37, who had had to settle for silver in the previous edition, was finally able to win the Repsol Trophy gold. Those from Sanxenxo took second place and the Youkounkoun from the Portonovo Yacht Club, led by Eduardo Segade, was third.

In the Cruiser Class the roles were also reversed with respect to the 2017 edition. The Balea Dous de Rodeira, who had been second then, took the victory this year; and the winner of the previous edition, Jean Claude Sarrade’s Fend la Bise, from the Monte Real Club de Yates, won silver. Both received their award from the Mayor of Baiona, Ángel Rodal, who also presented the bronze to Albarellos de Fernando Rey, from the Portonovo Yacht Club.

In Class A Two , victory went to Vigo at the hands of Salaño Dos, skippered by Jacobo Vecino and with Brenda Maure completing the crew. With two first places and one second in the three contested races, they emerged victorious and got the best score for the Rías Baixas de A Dos Circuit , a new five-event competition created this year by the Monte Real Club de Yates, the Real Club Náutico de Portosín, the Náutico de Portonovo and the Liceo Marítimo de Bouzas. The Ay Carmela of Juan Martínez-Pazo and Rafael Martínez-Almeida, of the Portonovo Yacht Club, won the silver trophy and the bronze went to Javier Rey and Jorge Justo aboard the Q Talento Consultores, of the Monte Real Club of yachts.

In the J70 Class, which participated in the Repsol Trophy for the second consecutive year, the winner was Noticia by José María “Pichu” Torcida, from the Real Club Marítimo de Santander, who sealed the rankings on the last day, rising from fourth to first position, and leaving Alfredo González’s Marina Rubicón in second and Luis Bugallo’s Marnatura in third.

In the Figaro Class , in which boats from the Monte Real Club de Yates competed exclusively, the victory went to the Serralleiras, skippered by Elena Raga, who signed two first places in the three contested races. Alberto Iglesias managed to place Erizana in second place and Octavio Villalba’s Tutatis completed the podium.

Once the Repsol Trophy is over, the Monte Real Yacht Club is preparing for its next competition, the 525th Anniversary of the Arrival of the Caravel la Pinta regatta, which will be held on May 12 and 13 in Baiona. The event will be presented next week and 6m class boats will participate exclusively. Among the participants will be the reigning world champion of the class, King Emeritus Don Juan Carlos de Borbón.

REPSOL TROPHY · 41st SPRING REGATTA · FINAL GENERAL CLASSIFICATION

SPANISH CHAMPION OF THE J80 CLASS

MAUI JIM SUNGLASSES RCM SANTANDER JAVIER AGUADO

>>> Final general classification – Spanish Championship Class J80

WINNER OF THE REPSOL TROPHY 41st MRCYB SPRING REGATTA

BOSCH SERVICE SOLUTIONS CM CANIDO SANTIAGO ESTÉVEZ/RAMÓN OJEA

REPSOL TROPHY RACING CRUISE CLASS

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

REPSOL TROPHY CRUISE CLASS

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

REPSOL TROPHY CLASS A2

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

REPSOL TROPHY J80 CLASS

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

REPSOL TROPHY J70 CLASS

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

REPSOL TROPHY FIGARO CLASS

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