The Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards were the protagonists of the second day of the XXVII Prince of Asturias Trophy, together with extraordinary weather that is facilitating the development of the sailing competition on the water, with a component where the north continues to be its origin, and the average intensity registers 15 knots.

Punctuality was rigorous, with all the boats sailing in the vicinity of Barra beach, where the windward side was located. Up to three tests were validated on this second day by the Regatta Committee, with a linear distance of seven miles per sleeve.

The leaders do not fail, and despite the pressure from the rest of the regatta teams, they continue to lead the main lists. In this way the Fifty, owned by Rui Ramada, from the MRCYB, continues to lead the TVG Trophy with 8 points and the Atlantic Cruise Circuit. After the Portuguese boat Cenor&Electrolux, owned by Martín Bermúdez, from RCR Galicia, with 15 points. And third is Xekmatt, owned by José Carlos Prista, from the Lisbon Naval Association, with 18 points.

In the Terras Gauda Trophy of ORC 1, it is Solventis that heads the list, led by Malalo Bermúdez de Castro, from MRCY Bayona, with 5 points. Second is Ozoaqua Cosmética, by Juan Carlos Pérez, from CN Combarro, with 14 points, moving up one place from the first day, to the detriment of Dom Pedro Hotels/Generali PT, by Javier Santander, from CN Punta Lagoa, with 18 points, which is now third.

The ORC 2 Swiss Jewelry Trophy is led by Pedro Campos with Movistar, from RCN Sanxenxo, with 7 points. They are followed by Okofen, by Javier de la Gándara, from MRCY Bayona, with 12 points. And third is now Cachete, by Francisco Edreira, also from CN Sada, with 17 points.

The ORC 3 Solventis Trophy continues to feature Luna Nueva, by Juan Luís Tuero, from MRCY Bayona, with 6 points. The Punta Lagoa School, by Alberto Iglesias, of the CN Punta Lagoa, is second, with 10 points. And third place is occupied by Namaste, by Luís de Mira from the MRYCB, with 17 points.

The Helga Rivera Ladies Cup is defended for the second consecutive day by the women from Madrid, directed by Amparo Molla, with 5 points. After the girls from the Madrid Federation, the locals of María Campos, from the MRCYB, continue to position themselves with 7 points. And third are Conchi de Pedro from Castellón, from CR Burriana, with 16 points.

Today the Classics and Vintages went out to sea in the Rías Baixas Tourism Trophy, tracing a coastal route that was won by Pingüino, from Ñaco Eraso, from CM Canido. It was followed by the Belisa, owned by José Manuel Cores, from AGABACE, and third was the Calua, owned by Juan Pablo Cividanes, also owned by Marítimo de Canido.

In the Specials, which also opened the scoring, they celebrated the first day of the Galician Sports Trophy, with Vicente Cid’s Deep Blue, from RCN Vigo, the winner. It was followed by the Travesío, by César Martínez, of the LC Vilagarcía, being third the Firme, by Armando Rubio, of the Spanish Navy.

Finally, the giants of the sea also made their appearance, with another coastal route in the Maxi Open Hofmann Trophy. The Plis Play, owned by Vicente García, of the RCR Alicante, is at the head of this fleet, with the Hansa, owned by Julián Ojea, of the RCN La Coruña, second, and with the Gran Jotiti, owned by Ernesto Cortina, of the MRC Bayona, of third.

The second sailing day of the Prince of Asturias Trophy, sponsored by Turismo de Galicia, Turismo Rías Baixas and Bodegas Terras Gauda, and the collaboration of Helga Rivera, Hofmann, Verti, Tamqueray, Coca Cola, Solventis and TVG, among many others , which ends tomorrow, had as its final climax the delivery of the Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards, presided over by Rafael Olmedo Limeses, president of Monte Real, and José María Fonseca, president of Bodegas Terras Gauda.

The winners in the 2012 edition have been:

• Project of the Year: Pakea Bizkaia
• Sailor of the Year: Támara Echegoyen
• ORC 0-1 Boat of the Year: Cenor
• ORC 2-3 Boat of the Year: Codaste
• Best Regatta Team: Plis Play
• Institution with the greatest support for the sport of sailing: Turismo Rías Baixas

Mariano Aguado of Communication: Panorama Productions

The north wind makes the premiere of the XXVIII Prince of Asturias Trophy a brilliant first day at sea, with the 15 knots contributed by the weather component, which enhanced a splendid day.

Punctually, the Regatta Committee gave the first honk of the day to the first race, a stick in the wind, windward-leeward type, mounted on a regatta area whose exit was close to Monteferro, and with a wide margin in the mouth south of the Ría de Vigo. The total linear distance of the course was 7 miles, with number 1 as the layout chosen by the Committee itself, based on those published in the regatta instructions as the most suitable for the sea and wind conditions.

The Fifty, owned by the Portuguese skipper and shipowner Rui Ramada, and with the tactics on board Gonzalo Araujo from Vigo, won the first test of its class in the ORC 0 TVG Trophy. In the Terras Gauda Trophy of the ORC 1, it was Solventis, by Malalo Bermúdez de Castro from A Coruña. In the Swiss Jewelry Trophy of ORC 2 it was the Movistar, owned by Pedro Campos. In the ORC 3 Solventis Trophy the sleeve was the Asturian Juan Luís Tuero, with his New Moon. And in the Helga Rivera Ladies Cup, the girls from the Madrilenian Sailing Federation prevailed, skippered by Amparo Molla.

Little more than an hour and a half later, the start of the second round, of the two scheduled, with identical results, except for ORC 3, in which Alberto Iglesias’ Escuela Punta Lagoa won.

As leaders of the start of the Prince of Asturias Trophy, Fifty, owned by Rui Ramada, of the MRCYB, with 2 points, is positioned on the podium of each Division, leader of the TVG Trophy and the Atlantic Cruise Circuit. It is followed by Cenor&Electrolux, by Martín Bermúdez, from RCR Galicia, with 4 points. And third was Xekmatt, owned by José Carlos Prista, from the Lisbon Naval Association, with 6 points.

In the Terras Gauda Trophy of ORC 1, Solventis, led by Malalo Bermúdez de Castro, from MRCY Bayona, rules with 2 points. Second are Dom Pedro Hotels/Generali PT, owned by Javier Santander, from CN Punta Lagoa, with 4 points. And third was Ozoaqua Cosmética, by Juan Carlos Pérez, from CN Combarro, with 6 points.

The ORC 2 Swiss Jewelry Trophy is led by Pedro Campos with Movistar, from RCN Sanxenxo, with 2 points. It is followed by Okofen, by Javier de la Gándara, from MRCY Bayona, with 6 points. And third is Codaste, owned by Nacho Campos, also from the Yacht Club, with 7 points.

The ORC 3 Solventis Trophy is led by Luna Nueva, by Juan Luís Tuero, from MRCY Bayona, with 3 points. The Punta Lagoa School, by Alberto Iglesias, of the CN Punta Lagoa, is second with 4 points. And third was Namaste, by Luís de Mira from the MRYCB, with 8 points.

The Helga Rivera Ladies Cup is commanded by Amparo Molla, from the Madrid Sailing Federation, with 2 points. After those from Madrid are located the premises directed by María Campos, from the MRCYB, with 4 points. And third are Conchi de Pedro from Castellón, from CR Burriana, with 8 points.

Tomorrow the Top is scheduled at 11:55 a.m. for the ORC and Helga Rivera Ladies Cup, being the same for the Maxi Open that enter the scene, as well as the ORC Special and Classics and Época, which start in the water at 12:25 p.m. .

Success on this first day for the favourites, who did not fail, in their project of defending the Xunta de Galicia President Trophy to which they aspire, as it is the Prince of Asturias Trophy scoring regatta. Solventis and Movistar waiting for the second day in Baiona.

Tomorrow the Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards will be presented, within the framework of the halfway point of the Prince of Asturias Trophy, a gala that will begin at eight in the afternoon.

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The regatta teams that are going to take part in the XXVIII edition of the Prince of Asturias Trophy, finalized the details of their boats this afternoon, before casting off, tomorrow, Friday, at the great sailing event organized by the Bayonne Yacht Club and the Naval Regatta Commission of the Naval Military School of Marín.

The organization already has more than 80 units, which have ratified during these days their registration in the great sporting event of the year, with a Regatta Office working intensely in the collection of the official documentation of each sailboat, corresponding to the classes ORC 0, 1, 2, 3 Special, Classics, Maxi Open and Ladies Cup, with the dispute of the ORC and First 40.7 Spanish Cruise Championships, the Atlantic Cruises Circuit, the Don Juan de Borbón Trophy and the one-design event with the Ladies Cup.

More than thirty Spanish and Portuguese yacht clubs will be represented at the sporting event, wearing their respective pennants as pennants of the ships, with an extensive geographical variety of coastline, among which a good fleet from the Monte Real Yacht Club of Bayonne stands out.

The ORC 0-1-2-3, Special and Ladies Cup will have their Top tomorrow, Friday, starting at 3:55 p.m.

The development of the XXVIII Prince of Asturias Trophy will be possible thanks to the sponsorship of Turismo de Galicia, Turismo Rías Baixas and Bodegas Terras Gauda, with the collaboration of Helga Rivera, Hofmann, Verti, Tamqueray, Coca Cola, Solventis and TVG, among many others. .

The Monte Real Club de Yates de Bayona and the Naval Regatta Commission of the Naval Military School of Marín are the organizers of the XXVIII Prince of Asturias Trophy – SAR Don Felipe de Borbón y Grecia Regatta, one of the most important sporting events in the vast Spanish sailing panorama and which has the technical collaboration of the Royal Spanish and Galician Sailing Federations.

During the 6th, 7th and 8th of September, the Bay of Baiona and the Ría de Vigo host the sports development of the events scheduled for each of the Classes convened in this 2013 event: ORC 0, 1, 2 and 3; ORC Special; Monotypes; Classics; Maxi Open, Ladies Cup and First 40.7, which will host 2 national titles and one international, with the start of the Spanish ORC Cruise Championships, First 40.7 and the grand final of the Atlantic Cruise Circuit.

The merger between Portugal and Spain is still latent with the celebration of the aforementioned Circuit and the prized Don Juan de Borbón Trophy, which rewards the best Portuguese boat in the Royal Regatta, created in memory of the grandfather of HRH Don Felipe de Borbón, Honorary President of the Monte Real being, in addition, the Prince of Asturias Trophy phase scoring for the Xunta de Galicia President Trophy.

Since 1986, the Bayonne Yacht Club and the Military Naval School of Marín annually encourage and reinforce the development of the Prince of Asturias Trophy, providing it with content that promotes and disseminates the rich Galician maritime culture with a classic and traditional style, and the great challenges yachts of the best Spanish and Portuguese sailing fleets.

In its concern for each of the Divisions that will take part in this edition of the Prince of Asturias Trophy, the organization has drawn up a complete Regatta Announcement that contemplates the execution of various tests, protecting the navigation style of the boats that attend Baiona.

For the ORC 0-1-2-3, Monotypes and Ladies Cup, the development of 6 tasks is planned during the three days, all of them arranged to the wind, that is, technical routes between windward-leeward type buoys, each test treasuring the skill and skill of skippers and crews due to the constant work on board each boat, with precise maneuvers in tacks and gybes, and where the chosen board decides the success or the possible errors that the tacticians may undertake when charting the appropriate course, a difficult decision taking into account the limited margin of the routes.

The Classics, which have a different configuration, will undertake coastal routes, two in their entirety, one on Saturday, the day on which their participation begins, and another on Sunday. Of showy beauty are boats built more than 30 years ago, some of them with true seafaring tradition that keep thousands of nautical miles traveled in their shiny frames and complex ropes, propelled by their no less spectacular rags in the wind. They will be joined by the Special ORC, sailboats that sail only touring, without technical routes to respect their original hydrodynamic composition and sail design.

The Maxi Open, which will share the starting line with the ORC, are sailboats with large wingspans in their sails, and with lengths that exceed 20 meters, entering the scene from Saturday, with medium-distance coastal routes.

The 6 First Figaros of the Novagalicia Banco del Monte Real Cruise School will be the monotype boats with which the Helga Rivera Ladies Cup will be held, similar boats that will provide technical equality to the 6 female crews that are mentioned in this edition of the Prince Trophy of Asturias, representing the communities of Madrid, Cantabria, Valencia and Galicia.

The collection of the Instructions of the XXVIII Prince of Asturias Trophy and the contribution of the documentation required by each participating boat, will be carried out in the Regatta Office that will open its doors on Thursday, September 5, from ten in the morning to eight in the evening.

The times of each test and on each day will be determined by the Classes in which each sailboat has registered. Thus, the ORC and the Ladies Cup will begin on Friday, September 6 at 3:55 p.m.; on Saturday the 7th at 11:55 a.m.; and on Sunday 8 also at 11:55 am. The ORC Special and Classics will have their first Top on Saturday at 12:25 p.m.; and on Sunday at 11:55 a.m. The Maxi Open will hear their horn at 11.55 am, both on Saturday and Sunday.

During the course of the XXVIII Prince of Asturias Trophy, the annual gala for the 2012 Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards will be held on Saturday, September 8 at 8:00 p.m. Precisely today the winners of the second block were announced. The work of Vicente García, owner of the Plis Play, a Swan 80 and an X35, among others, has been recognized as the Best Regatta Team, and they participate every year in innumerable intercontinental competitions, their successes in regattas such as the Route de la Sal, the Copa del Rey or the Fastnet, among others.

Turismo Rías Baixas – Deputación de Pontevedra has also been recognized for its efforts to promote the sport of sailing, sponsoring specialty events in various modalities, both dinghy sailing and cruising, with the jury acknowledging its commitment to adapted sailing.

Lastly, and after analyzing the sporting merits of the boats participating in Spanish competitions, and seeking a balance between results and participation, the Cenor, in the grouped Division of 0-1, and the You elbowed, in 2-3.

The winners in the 7 chosen categories are:

• Project of the Year: Pakea Bizkaia
• Sailor of the Year: Támara Echegoyen
• ORC 0-1 Boat of the Year: Cenor
• ORC 2-3 Boat of the Year: Codaste
• Best Regatta Team: Plis Play
• Institution with the greatest support for the sport of sailing: Turismo Rías Baixas
• Mariano Aguado of Communication: Panorama Productions

The development of the XXVIII Prince of Asturias Trophy will be possible thanks to the sponsorship of Turismo de Galicia, Turismo Rías Baixas and Bodegas Terras Gauda, with the collaboration of Helga Rivera, Hofmann, Verti, Tamqueray, Coca Cola, Solventis and TVG, among many others. .

Ownership of classes and prizes is established as follows:

• Don Juan de Borbón Award – Ramada Trophy
• Rías Baixas Tourism Trophy for Classic and Vintage Boats
• Helga Rivera Ladies Cup
• Maxi Open Hofmann Trophy
• ORC TVG Trophy 0
• ORC Terras Gauda Trophy 1
• ORC Swiss Jewelery Trophy 2
• ORC 3 Solventis Trophy
• Special ORC Galician Sports Trophy
• Verti Spanish Championship of ORC and First 40.7
• I Atlantic Cruise Circuit – Tourism of Galicia

Media

For the informative follow-up of the XXVIII Prince of Asturias Trophy, as well as the scheduled social events, the media will have two boats, one for editors and another light type for graphics.

The boarding plan for each day will be communicated to the editorial offices beforehand, and it is essential to be correctly accredited.

The Monte Real enables a Press Office that will have all the necessary technical means for the development of optimal work.

For any query in this regard, the Yacht Club makes available a consultation telephone number through 986 385000 or directly to the Club’s communication manager, Juan Caballero on 629 854617.

Helga Rivera, the leading Galician beauty firm, once again promotes, for the second consecutive year, the Ladies Cup, a trophy included in the XXVIII edition of the Prince of Asturias, organized by the Monte Real Yacht Club of Bayonne and the Military Naval School of Marín, through its Naval Regatta Commission, and which will be held on the 6th, 7th and 8th of September.

The Ladies Cup is one of the classic and highly traditional events at Monte Real. Created by the Yacht Club to enrich women’s participation in the Prince of Asturias Trophy, Helga Riveira once again joins the Baiona club’s initiative, a proposal that has already taken shape with all the Novagalicia Banco Cruise School sailboats assigned to their respective patrons: the representatives of the Madrilenian Sailing Federation, with two sailboats in this edition, the one captained by Amparo Molla and the one directed by Lirio González; the Natural Ladies Team, from Castellón directed by Conchi de Pedro; Magdalena Czernik’s girls from Santander; and two other boats representing the interests of the Galician community, the one supervised by Irene Aladro, from the Punta Lagoa Sailing School, and the one belonging to the local Monte Real Yacht Club of Bayonne, whose owner is the sailor María Campos.

The 2012 edition of the Helga Rivera Ladies Cup Trophy was won by the Portuguese Francisca Barros, from the Porto Yacht Club.

The Monte Real Yacht Club of Bayonne will host, within the framework of the XXVIII Prince of Asturias Trophy, the delivery ceremony of the 2012 Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards, on Saturday, September 7, during the halfway point of the Royal Regatta organized by jointly with the Naval Regatta Commission of the Naval Military School of Marín.

The Yacht Club has just announced the first three winners among the seven categories that this year make up the Terras Gauda de Vela.

As Best Sailor of the Year, the award went to the Galician Támara Echegoyen, who last year was distinguished at the Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards as Best Pre-Olympic Sailor. The Terras Gauda jury wanted, on this occasion, to recognize her Olympic merit, as a brilliant patron and team leader of the “Xiquitas Team” that in the last Olympic Games in London 2012, won the gold medal in the Women’s Match Race modality, a sporting success that rewards your effort and dedication.

In the category of Best Project of the Year, the Jury of the Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards recognizes in Pakea Bizkaia the human and sporting values that the project led by the Basque sailor Unai Basurko has developed in 2012, promoting the defense of the natural environment maritime beyond our borders. Education for sustainable development, promoting respect among living beings towards biodiversity, the environment and natural resources, have been the objective of the extensive program developed by Pakea Bizkaia, which for half a year has crossed the Atlantic Ocean, in a third expedition divided into three stages: Bilbao – Bahía Blanca (Argentina); Bahía Blanca – Antarctic Peninsula; and Ushuaia – Getxo, with stops in the Canary archipelago, in Cape Verde, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. In this third installment, more than 22,000 young people have learned about the educational project, thanks to the visit to the sailboat, its ocean classroom and the DVDs made.

In this first block, the Jury of the Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards also wants to recognize the excellent professional work of the television production company Panorama, specialized in the field of nautical, especially in the field of sailing regattas, where the company Castellón is a leader both on the national and international scene. Founded by Vicente Robles in 1999, it has made more than 1,600 reports to date, distributed among the 40 TV channels with which it has broadcast agreements. Its internet portal www.panoramanautico.com , informative support of the media, and its imminent entry into the Latin American market are recently created.

The traditional Festas do Cristo regatta was held this past weekend at the Club Nautico de Rodeira.

Hard conditions in the two days of regatta, highlighting the performance of Jorge Gonzalez Silva, with an eighth in the general classification.

It is also worth mentioning Yago Gonzalez Silva, who even with little experience in regatta, has finished all the sleeves.

Congratulations to the whole team for fighting in this tough regatta, as well as to the two coaches who traveled with the sailors.

After the conclusion of the first of the appointments of the prestigious Xunta de Galicia President Trophy, the relay will be taken over by the Monte Real Club de Yates de Bayona and the Naval Regatta Commission of the Naval Military School of Marín, with the celebration of the XXVIII Trofeo Príncipe of Asturias, which in this 2013 edition will continue to combine the purest seafaring tradition with prestigious high-level sporting challenges by concurring, on the same waters of the Bay of Baiona and Ría de Vigo, a distinguished crew of Classic boats, the best Galician and national regatta teams from the ORC Cruises Division, Maxis and the female crews of the Ladies Cup.

The Yacht Club and the Naval Commission continue to bet on their Royal Regatta organization strategy, for a diversified combination in the staging of a wide representation of the classes that usually take part in sporting regattas, adding an incentive in the promotion of the Classic ships, thanks to the collaboration of AGABACE (Galician Association of Classic and Vintage Boats), with a special configuration in its most traditional layouts, and where open courses will predominate in the coastal or coastal sleeves.

The technical tests are reserved for all the Cruisers that come to Baiona with the purpose of winning one of the national titles at stake.

The Príncipe de Asturias Trophy has been declared a High Level regatta by the Royal Spanish Sailing Federation, as the Spanish ORC Cruise Championship and the Spanish First 40.7 Championship are disputed. The Atlantic Cruise Circuit is also at stake.

The Royal Trophy contemplates in its wide sporting rows two outstanding challenges with a long tradition in the history of Monte Real, the Don Juan de Borbón Trophy, which recognizes the Portuguese crew with the best result during the celebration of the Prince of Asturias Trophy, and the Ladies Cup, a regatta in which 6 women’s teams take part, representing the same number of Spanish communities, sailing aboard the First Figaros of the Novagalicia Bank Cruise School of the Yacht Club.

The intermediate phase of the Prince of Asturias Trophy will host, one more year, the Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards Gala, an event of recognized prestige in Spain that rewards the best sports and institutional values highlighted in 2012. The Yacht Club will shortly issue the lists of the winners in each category of this edition.

The Prince of Asturias Trophy will be held on September 6, 7 and 8, under the tutelage of the Honorary Presidency of HRH The Prince of Asturias Don Felipe de Borbón, the organization of the Monte Real Club de Yates de Bayona and the Escuela Naval Military of Marin.

The XXVIII edition of the Prince of Asturias Trophy, which is jointly organized each year by the Monte Real Yacht Club of Bayonne and the Naval Military School of Marín, through its Naval Regatta Commission, will cast off in a few days.

From September 6 to 8, the Bay of Baiona and the Ría de Vigo will host a new high-level sailing event, the second of the regattas that make up the circuit of the Xunta de Galicia President Trophy, which is supervised by the Baiona club with the Royal Yacht Club of La Coruña and the Royal Yacht Club of Sanxenxo.

The great novelty of 2013 of the trophy dedicated to HRH Don Felipe de Borbón, will be the incorporation of the Maxi Open Class, giants of sailing that will provide an added spectacle to the competition, some of them just arrived from drawing the Fastnet Rock, in the Irish Atlantic.

As for the ORC, the Spanish Championship for the Galicia Zone is put into play again in the Prince of Asturias Trophy, defined by the grouping of the four main Divisions in two main prizes, that of Groups 0-1 and 2- 3.

The Classic and Vintage boats will also play a transcendetal role in the Príncipe de Asturias, which will once again sail the waters of Baiona and the Vigo estuary, as well as another of the queen classes in the Príncipe, the Ladies Cup.

Portugal will be represented by its best cruise fleet, with two outstanding valuartes at stake: the Don Juan de Borbón Trophy, which rewards the best vessel of the Portuguese fleet in the Yacht Club regatta; and on the other, the completion of the Atlantic Cruise Circuit, where the Baiona event is the last regatta, which will determine the final winner.

Finally, the 40.7 once again celebrate their special Spanish championship, a fairly large class in the great fleet of ORC cruisers.

With these first winks, almost 15 days before the regatta, the organizers estimate the participation to be between 80 and 100 boats.

During this week the MRCYB regatta team is carrying out joint training at the Real Club Náutico de Vigo facilities, together with the Povoa regatta team and the Vigo Náutico team itself.

In this way they are already training in the waters where the next regatta to which the MRCYB optimist team will attend will take place, which will be the Festas do Cristo Regatta at the Náutico de Rodeira during the next Saturday and Sunday.

After three days of competition in the waters of Sanxenxo, today, Sunday, the names of the winners of the 14th Hotel Carlos I Silgar Trophy have been revealed: “Gomez Mostly Harmnless”, in ORC 1; “Codaste” in ORC 2; “Petrilla Accastillage Diffusion”, in ORC 3; and “Argos” in ORC 4 and Open. In addition, the “Codaste” has won the absolute title, proclaiming itself for the second consecutive year Absolute Galician Cruise Champion.

The “Codaste”, armed by Roberto Fontán and skippered by Nacho Campos, manages to win its second consecutive title of Galician champion and also does so in the same waters, in Sanxenxo.

The current Galician Cruise Champion, the Codaste skippered by Nacho Campos, will try to revalidate the regional title this weekend in the waters of the Real Club Náutico de Sanxenxo.

This year, the MRCYB boat will have a difficult time due to the size of its rivals, but from the Monte Real Club de Yates we hope that it will not be a problem and they will give us another joy and revalidate the title.

Good luck!

Galicia is proclaimed champion of the XXX Castilla y León Trophy.

The Optimist regatta team of the MRCY of Bayonne moved to Ponferrada has had its best representative in Elena Molares Freire, finishing fourth in the general classification.

Congratulations to the team, which this weekend (August 2 to 4) will host the XIII Nautical Week in Coruña

The Aceites Abril, owned by the brothers Jorge and Luís Pérez Canal, with a pendant from the Real Club Náutico de Vigo, were proclaimed winners of the XXXVIII Conde de Gondomar Trophy, a regatta organized by the Monte Real Yacht Club of Bayonne, and which had the collaboration of Tourism of Galicia, Rías Baixas Tourism, Martín Códax, Swiss Jewelry, El Corte Inglés, Nea, Coca Cola, Nordés and the Royal Spanish and Galician Sailing Federations.

The boat from Ourense, which arrived at the last day with swords held high, very competitive with the Castrosua, until today leader from the first day, asserted its victory in the windward-leeward disputed in the Ría de Vigo. With just a few lengths difference, the Aceites Abril won the fourth test, tied at 6 points with the coachbuilder sailboat, but resolving in their favor, due to the success achieved in Sunday’s race.

In the ORC Division 0-1, after the Pérez-Canal, Castrosua, owned by Willy Alonso, remained in third place, Arroutado 2 from Porto, owned by José Manuel Pérez, from the Real Club Náutico Portosín, with 17 points.

This Division was the class that recorded the most breakdowns during the competition, including the leak that occurred today aboard the Cenor&Electrolux after a pantocazo of the waves that displaced its slide or speed guide. Withdrew to port by their own means, everything was in an initial scare.

In ORC 2 things were clearer from the beginning of the Conde de Gondomar Trophy. A Bosch Communication Center, well armed with crew by its captain and skipper, Ramón Ojea (CM Canido), won three of the four tests, also accumulating 6 points that gave it a lot of clearance compared to the rest of the boats in its class. The sailboat of the Sevillian shipowner Laura Moya, managed to place another of its boats in fifth place in this Division, Sailway 1, owned by Rubén Santiago. In second place was Cachete, owned by Francisco Edreira, from the Sada Yacht Club, with 13 points, and third was Codaste, owned by Roberto Fontán (MRCYB), with 14 points.

In ORC 3 there were circumstances similar to those of Group 2 in terms of regularity, with an unchanged podium since last Thursday, where the leader was always the Asturian Juan Luís Tuero, with Luna Nueva (MRCYB), who finished with 4 points, being surpassed on this day by Enxuto, who won the windward-leeward. Pablo Conde’s boat (CN Combarro) won silver, a second position in which only one point was the separation of steps. The bronze went to the Portuguese Margem do Azul, by Frederico Lopes (MRCYB), with 12 points.

The windward-leeward, the last race scheduled in the announcement of the Conde de Gondomar Trophy, was held under intense sea and wind conditions. For the ORC 0-1 and 2, it was their fourth test, after the two in which the ascent and descent to Carrumeiro Chico last Thursday were divided, and the one traced yesterday Saturday with the return to the Onza and Ons Islands. For the ORC 3 it was their third task, the first being the turn to the Camouco Lighthouse, on the 25th, and the return to the Cíes Islands, as the second coastal task also traced on Saturday.

The Committee set up a regatta course in an area very close to the north mouth of the Ría de Vigo. They traced 8 miles in two beats and two sterns, with a southwest wind that hovered between 212 and 220, with peaks of 18 knots of intensity and 15 on average.

The awards ceremony was held at five in the afternoon, an act presided over by Rafael Olmedo, president of Monte Real, and accompanied by the mayor of Baiona, Jesús Vázquez Almuiña; the president of the Galician Sailing Federation, Manuel Villaverde; the councilors for Maritime Activities and Mobility, Raul Costas and Policarpo Vilar, respectively; and the Vice Commodore of the Yacht Club, Alejandro Retolaza.

Draws were made courtesy of Jotún and Morfisa, with a Bonus from Paradores, and another, from Swiss Jewelry, consisting of a box of watches.

Monte Real recognized and rewarded the youngest sailor in the county trophy, Ignacio Klett, crew member of the Cenor&Electrolux (RCR Galicia), who at only 7 years old already disputed the ascent to the Carrumeiro Chico.

The silver tray of El Corte Inglés, which rewards the overall winner of the XXXVIII Conde de Gondomar Trophy, was delivered by Olmedo to Aceites Abril, with the entire crew in team formation.

The wind and the sea attended the call of the Conde de Gondomar Trophy, which today Saturday was contesting its second coastal stage, a coastal route through the Parque da Illas Atlánticas, with the Cíes, Onza and Ons Islands as natural environments.

Organized by the Monte Real Yacht Club of Bayonne, it has the collaboration of Turismo de Galicia, Turismo Rías Baixas, Martín Códax, Swiss Jewelry, El Corte Inglés, Nea, Coca Cola, Nordés and the Royal Spanish and Galician Sailing Federations.

Punctual departure for all classes at 12 noon, with independent routes for ORC 0-1 and 2, which circumnavigated Onza and Ons, and for ORC 3, which would go around the Cíes Islands. For the first 31 nautical miles (57 km approx.) and 13.1 miles (24 km approx.) for the second.

The wind remained from the southwest all the time, with a fan of just 10 degrees, oscillating from right to left, between 200 and 190. The intensities increased as the morning progressed, with parameters ranging from 16 knots to 22, with a total average of 18 knots.

Navigation without great difficulties, although some spinnaker and rigging breakages were recorded, due to areas where the wind pressure was greater, causing the occasional scare with the waves.

Castrosua, led by Willy Alonso (MRCYB) once again delivered, winning this second stage, consolidating his position as leader, not only in his grouped ORC Division 0-1, but also in the overall Conde de Gondomar Trophy. Command in the high position with 4 points. Second was the Aceites Abril, by Jorge and Luís Pérez-Canal (RCN Vigo), silver position that they also reaffirm in the general, with 5 points. And third of the day was Arroutado 2, by José Manuel Pérez (RCN Portosín), which appears on the podium scene, although Cenor&Electrolux, by Martín Bermúdez (RCR Galicia) continues to hold third place, with 11 points.

In ORC 2, Codaste, by Roberto Fontán (MRCYB), with Nacho Campos at the helm, won the heat. However, the Bosch Communication Center, owned by Ramón Ojea (CM Canido), despite being third on Saturday, continues to maintain its golden position with 5 points, thanks to its excellent result in the long coastal. Two behind the communicator leader is Cachete, by Francisco Edreira (CN Sada), who was second today. And third overall in this Division is Codaste, by Fontán and Campos, with 8 points.

In the ORC 3 the order has not changed since the first day, with a Luna Nueva, by Asturian Juan Luís Tuero (MRCYB) who once again made clear the versatility of his J80. Command your group with 2 points. With 4 points, is Enxuto, by Pablo Conde (CN Combarro) and with 6 the Portuguese Margem do Azul, by Frederico Lopes (MRCYB).

Tomorrow the fourth and final test will be held for ORC 0-1 and 2, and the third for ORC 3, starting at 12 o’clock, and where the Committee plans to set up a test to the wind, that is, a windward- leeward between buoys, approximately 8 miles long, with two upwind and two stern, where each linear layout will be around 2 nautical miles.

The XXXVIII edition of the Conde de Gondomar Trophy already has its first leaders, after the dispute on the first day of the county regatta, in which the names of the different lists by class have provisionally left their mark.

Departing at 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, July 25, Top scheduled for 11 a.m. and delayed by the Committee to gather skippers and crews in the Yacht Club garden, where a minute of silence was observed for the victims of the terrible accident that occurred on Wednesday night in Santiago de Compostela, the sailboats crossed the line sailing as a fleet the three divisions into which the cut or rating (sail capacity of the boat and size) has been divided, ORC 0-1, ORC 2 and ORC3.

Clean departure from the interior of the Bay of Baiona, with a first direct boarding to the Carallones and La Negra beacons, without having to use an unmarking buoy, thanks to the northwest that indicated its origin. The wind was around 8-10 knots, an intensity that was maintained on average during the total 96-mile route of this first day, between Baiona – Carrumeiro Chico (Ensenada de Finisterre) – San Martiño Island (Islas Cíes).

After passing through the maritime signaling buoys, all the sailboats took the option of navigating around the outside of the Cíes Islands, first leaving the Boeiro Lighthouse on its starboard side, with the exception of the ORC 3, which sailed along the Costa de la Vela, as it had a shorter route (40 miles) and whose turning point was the Camouco Lighthouse, located north of Ons Island. Navigation without great difficulties, with a small wave, barely 1 meter.

Five minutes after the official time of the Top, the Committee gave a new departure, in this individual case, to the Armeigin III, a powerful 70-foot long (21 meters), which sailed as part of the Count of Gondomar’s fleet, but with a record of time independent of the rest of the participating boats.

Beautiful landscape scenes mixed with the beauty of the tactics on the sides of the sailboats, marking in a very defined way the favorites for the general classification of this first great section, such as Castrosua, Pairo 8 and Aceites Abril, in the case of the ORC 0-1, or the Bosch Communication Center, Cachete or Alimentos de Zamora, in ORC 2.

Gran Jotiti and Cenor&Electrolux sailed at their own pace, the former intending to take advantage of the test as training for their preparation for the Fastnet, and the latter with the aim of breaking his own record again at the Conde de Gondomar.

An inflatable boat from the MRCYB moved in advance, informing the Committee of the prevailing winds in each zone. Thus, from Corubedo to the north, the component changed quadrant, and from the southwest it moved to the northwest. The intensity was maintained in both cases between 8-10 knots on average.

In the vicinity of the Carrumeiro Chico, a control boat from the Yacht Club was anchored, with a regatta official and sailors who carried out control tasks as it passed through the mythical lighthouse of Ensenada de Finisterre.

The first to turn it around was Cenor&Electrolux (RCR Vilagarcía), owned by Martín Bermúdez, who did it in real time. However, the rating was favorable to Aceites Abril (RCN Vigo), owned by the Pérez-Canal brothers, who won the section. After the Ourenses came Castrosua, owned by Willy Alonso, and Pairo 8, owned by Marga Cameselle, who was fourth, both from the MRCYB. Third position went to Cenor&Electrolux itself.

From this moment the second test began, without stopping the sailboats, projecting the way back to the Cíes Islands, where the Committee had anchored.

The Bosch Communication Center (CM Canido), by Ramón Ojea, did the same, and also won this first heat.

After 6 hours 51 minutes and 44 seconds, the Cenor&Electrolux made its entrance in real time, taking the entire track in compensated time for Willy Alonso’s Castrosua. Oils April was second overall on the first day, and Pairo 8 was third.

Bosch Communication Center repeated victory, and also took the second test. Cachete, by Francisco Edreira (CN Sada), was second, with Alimentos de Zamora (CDR Zamora), by Juan Carlos de Ana, third.

In the group of ORC 3, the Asturian Juan Luís Tuero, triumphed with his New Moon (MRCYB). Enxuto (CN Combarro) of Pablo Conde, was second; and the Margem do Azul (MRCYB) of Frederico Lopes, third.

The last of the participating sailboats made its entry on Friday morning, recorded by the Committee at 7 hours 29 minutes and 53 seconds.

Tomorrow another coastal layout test will be held, leaving at 12 noon from Baiona, towards Costa de la Vela, leaving the Cíes Islands on the port side to, once in its path, go out to the open sea and prepare to circumnavigate the Onza and Ons Islands, leaving them to starboard, the same side from which they will continue to be sighted on the descent towards Monte Real, with the Camouco Lighthouse to port, once the Cabalo de Ons has been crossed and the return journey has begun, for which the sailboats will use about 40 miles.

The Conde de Gondomar Trophy is organized by the Monte Real Yacht Club of Bayonne and has the collaboration of Tourism of Galicia, Tourism Rías Baixas, Martín Códax, Swiss Jewelry, El Corte Inglés, Nea, Coca Cola, Nordés and the Royal Federations. Spanish and Galician Sailing.

The Monte Real Club de Yates de Bayona joins the pain of the relatives of those who died in the railway accident recorded yesterday in Santiago de Compostela, paying a heartfelt tribute to the victims at the start of the XXXVIII Conde de Gondomar Trophy.

After the meeting held first thing in the morning between members of the Board of Directors of the Club and the Regatta Committee, and after consulting the institutional sources of the Xunta de Galicia, the decision was made to concentrate all the skippers on land and crews to observe a minute of silence, postponing departure until 11:30 a.m.

Monte Real has canceled all the recreational and social events that were going to take place during the celebration of the Conde de Gondomar Trophy.

At the moment the fleet is sailing towards the waters of the Ensenada de Finisterre, from where they will return tomorrow, Friday.