Month: June 2013

Friday, June 21, 2013.- The Monte Real Yacht Club of Bayonne organized a new appointment of the El Corte Inglés de la Prensa Challenge, which in this 2013 edition celebrated its 14th anniversary.

With the advice of guests of extraordinary sporting dimension such as the Olympic champion Antón Paz; the crew chief of the Spanish Copa América Iberdrola, Laureano Wizner; the two-time cruiser class champion Jesús Pintos, the reigning Spanish 420 champions, Pedro Martínez and Luís Bugallo; the Platu 25 world champion, Carlos Paz, and the patron of the Bosch Communication Center, Ramón Ojea.

With this premise and in the call promoted by El Corte Inglés, 25 journalists from different media, fields and sections, enrolled on board the sailboats of the Novagalicia Banco del Monte Real Cruise School.

The day was presented with a northwest, 10-12 knots in the 310, which was maintained during the three technical tasks and the coastal one.

It was set up windward 0.3 miles from the Committee, and during the first two tests it was sailed upwind and downwind only. In the third, with the rise of the wind, two ascents and two descents were traced. The first was won by Fígaro advised by Ramón Ojea. The second by Antón Paz. And the third by Laureano Wizner. The coastal one, which put an end to the day of competition, was developed taking as a passing reference the lighthouse of El Cabezo de San Juan and the maritime signaling buoy of El Emisario, inside the Bay of Baiona, a test that was awarded Ramón Ojea again.

After scoring points, Wizner’s team from Radio Televisao Portuguesa, led by Frederico Lopes, won the El Corte Inglés de la Prensa Challenge trophy, with Manuel Fernández, Rui Martíns, Paulo Gomes and Rui Castro on board.

The second place, and therefore as the first classified Spanish boat, was the Fígaro of Carlos Paz, with Mayka Esturao, of El Correo Gallego; Clemente Esmorís, Independent; and Xosé Piñeiro, from Radio Galega.

The bronze position was taken by the sailboat instructed by Ramón Ojea and Luís Bugallo, with Xosé Otero, from Radio ECCA; and Pepe Costas, from Baiona TV.

After the meal offered by the Yacht Club and El Corte Inglés, the awards ceremony was held, which was chaired by Rafael Olmedo, President of Monte Real; Pati Blanco, Director of Communication and External Relations of El Corte Inglés in Galicia; Carlos Soto, Vice President of the Yacht Club; and Rafael Barreras, member of its Board of Directors.

The Bayonne Yacht Club organizes El Desafío El Corte Inglés de la Prensa, with the initiative of bringing the sport of sailing closer to those whose mission is to talk about it, narrating and recounting the development of the regattas. This is a special way of making it known, forming part of it, with a first-person experience and from which they can draw their own conclusions.

The 1st Iberian Solitary Circuit ends in Porto with the crossing event between Baiona and Porto held on Saturday June 15. In it, the Fertiberia de Jesus Pintos of the Club Nautico Malpica won solo and the Fifty of Rui Ramada and Pedro Paula of the Monte Real Club de Yates, in class A two.

Both were the winners of their respective classes in the Martín Códax regatta, the Galician solo championship and two, so both clearly won.

The awards ceremony will take place next weekend at the Marina Douro facilities in Gaia (Portugal).

Sunday, June 16, 2013.- The sailor from the Club Náutico Arenys de Mar, Paco Llobet – Ibrerdrola/RFEV team – has carried out the Vitaldent Regatta with ease, organized jointly this weekend by the Monte Real Yacht Club and the Alex Foundation, with the collaboration of the Department of Mobility of the Baiona City Council, the National Secretariat of 2.4 mR, the Spanish Paralympic Committee, the Galician Sailing Federation, Tourism of Galicia, Rías Baixas Tourism, Bodegas Terras Gauda and Madrid 2020 among others.

The sailing event, scoring in the Iberdrola Circuit of the class, has added 6 more tests to the credit of the global general classification, thanks to the excellent work carried out by its Committee, which has not had an easy time in this second Sunday shift, due to the constant roles of the component.

After the provisional leadership of the representative from Jávea, Rafael Andarías, the balance of the Vitaldent Regatta has tilted towards the good work of Paco Llobet, who after freeing himself in the discard of the fourth round of the DNF the day before, has managed to manage his income with 8 points, of which two were first places, and the rest 3 seconds.

Behind the Arenys sailor, Javier Contreras, from the Real Club Mediterráneo, was positioned with 16 points. Contreras closed his participation with a first in the last round of the Vitaldent Regatta.

The third position went to Andarías, who had 19 points, with conditions at sea and in the meteor that were not favorable today.

The Top time was brought forward, scheduled for 12 noon with the first honk at 11 in the morning. The three Sunday tests were navigated with a medium wind from the southwest, which hovered around the 200-220 needle course. The intensity was between 10 and 12 knots.

The technical route, similar to that of Saturday, that is, with Offset and Puerta, was increased by another half mile. They traced two beats and two sterns of 2.5 miles in its entirety.

The awards ceremony was held at half past five in the afternoon, with the presence of the mayor of the town of Baiona, Jesús Vázquez Almuiña, presided over by Rafael Olmedo, president of Monte Real, and who was accompanied by the president of the Real Spanish Sailing Federation, José Ángel Rodríguez; Iberdrola’s Delegate in Galicia, Francisco Silva; the president of the Galician Sailing Federation, Manuel Villaverde; the Councilor for Mobility of Baiona, Policarpo Vilar; and the Commodore of the Yacht Club, Miguel Lago.

The next sporting event at Monte Real will be held this coming Friday, June 21, with the 2013 El Corte Inglés de la Prensa Challenge.

Javier Contreras from RC Mediterráneo is second and Rafa Andarias from CN de Jávea is Third. Francisco Javier Piñeiro from Club de Vela Escota is the first Galician with a magnificent fourth place overall.

CLASSIFICATIONS

Rafa Andarías, from the Club Náutico de Jávea, has been the sailor who has made the best use of the first day of the competition, adding two firsts to his credit in the first two races of the day, and a second in the third. Add 4 points. Behind the man from Alicante is Javier Contreras, from the Real Club del Mediterráneo, with 13 points, with a partial score of 2-5-6. And with 14, the representative of the Also Foundation, José Guerra, is in the bronze position, with a score of 4-7-3.

The first ranked Galician is Francisco Javier Piñeiro, sailor from the Vigo club Vela Escota, who occupies fourth place overall, tied on 14 points with third.

Tomorrow the Top will be given again at 12 noon, a honk to start with the intention of completing another three races and where the results could vary after completing the first test of the day, with the application of the official discard.

The Vitaldent Regatta counts towards the I Iberdrola Paralympic Sailing Circuit, with Baiona being the fourth event on the calendar.

Friday, June 14, 2013.- Friday’s day in Baiona has served to fine-tune the twenty sailboats that these days will take part in the Vitaldent Regatta, an event with Paralympic sports organized by the Monte Real Yacht Club and the Alex Foundation, with the collaboration of the Department of Mobility of the City Council of Baiona, the National Secretariat of 2.4 mR, the Spanish Paralympic Committee, the Galician Sailing Federation, Tourism of Galicia, Rías Baixas Tourism, Bodegas Terras Gauda and Madrid 2020 among others, being scored for the I Iberdrola Paralympic Sailing Circuit.

The director of paralympic preparation Alfred Buqueras, is these days in Baiona, accompanying the sailors in the sporting events that will make up the national ranking of the 2.4 mR class and from which the team that represents Spain in the different international meetings will come out.

“The appointment in Baiona with the Vitaldent Regatta and the fourth round of the Iberdrola Circuit will mark the turning point in the Spanish ranking of the 2.4mR class ”, comments Buqueras. “The four sailors who will make up the Olympic preparation team for 2014 will begin to be profiled ”, concludes by saying the director of Paralympic Preparation.

After the celebration of the first three regattas (Valencia, Girona and Málaga) of the six that make up the Paralympic Circuit, the appointment with Vitaldent offers a first provisional podium, after passing the equator of it and with the first positions differentiated by only one point between them, in which Rafa Andarías, from the Jávea Yacht Club, rules with 6 points, followed by Paco Llovet, from the Arenys Yacht Club, with 7 points, closing the Murcian Antonio Maestre, with 8 points.

After the official training, sailors, coaches and the Vitaldent Regatta Committee participated in the reception that the Yacht Club offered at 8:00 p.m., an act of conviviality prior to the competition, which will start at 12:00 a.m. on Saturday with the Top to the first race of the day, a windward-leeward race set up in a field near Monte Real, and which can be seen from La Ladeira beach.

Tuesday, June 11, 2013.- The VITALDENT Regatta, declared by the Royal Spanish and Portuguese Sailing Federation the Iberian Championship of the 2.4 mR Class, will be held on June 14, 15 and 16.

The sports event with the Paralympic class is organized by the Monte Real Yacht Club of Bayonne and the Alex Foundation with the collaboration of the Department of Mobility of the Bayonne City Council, the National Secretariat of 2.4 mR, the Spanish Paralympic Committee, the Galician Federation de Vela, Turismo de Galicia, Turismo Rías Baixas, Bodegas Terras Gauda and Madrid 2020, among others, being eligible for the 1st Iberdrola Paralympic Sailing Circuit.

The presentation was held this morning at the Monte Real facilities, an act led by its president Rafael Olmedo and attended by the mayor of Baiona, Jesús Vázquez Almuiña; the president of the Galician Sailing Federation, Manuel Villaverde; the Councilor for Mobility, Policarpo Vilar; the Delegate in Galicia of the Class 2.4 mR, Luís de Mira; and the Vice President of the Club, Alejandro Retolaza.

In its special sensitivity for adapted sailing, the Yacht Club hosts the Vitaldent Regatta as an icon of the actions that it has been exercising in this field for some years, with the integration of associations and foundations in the full development of social and sports activities aimed at disabled, both physical and intellectual.

With the experience acquired and with the encouragement and enthusiasm in starting up the future adapted sailing school, Monte Real hosts the VITALDENT regatta as one of the acts prior to the great sports project, currently counting and as a starting point with two boats of the own modality, which are added to the outstanding fleet of light sailing and cruisers of the Yacht Club.

The VITALDENT Regatta will open on Friday 14, with the official training tests, which will culminate with a coastal crossing through the interior of the Bay of Baiona in order to promote the coast and landscape of Galicia.

The two days of Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 are reserved for competition, with a sports program that will start both days at 12:00, with a total of 6 tests, not being able to dispute more than three in each of them.

The awards ceremony is scheduled for 5:00 p.m. on Sunday.

The 2.4 mR is a sailboat designed for the practice of adapted sailing. Its length is 4 meters and 35 centimeters. Its sail capacity is made up of a jib and a mainsail that carry 8 square meters of cloth or sails, and registers a weight of around 260 kg. Its handling can be manual or pedal and it is an incapable boat, even when the sea and wind conditions are hard.

Jesus Pintos aboard the Fertiberia, and with less than ten hours of regatta, he won the Martín Codax regatta alone. The fifty of Rui Ramada, from the Monte Real Club de Yates de Bayonne takes the victory in A Two.

Seconds were El Turismo Rías Biaxas by Javier de la Gándara alone and El Mar de Frades by Juan Deben in A Dos.

Ay Carmela de, Juan Martínez, from the Liceo Marítimo de Bouzas, is the provisional leader of the Martín Códax Trophy, a regatta on the Galician Solitaire and A Dos circuit, organized by the Monte Real Yacht Club of Bayonne in collaboration with Turismo de Galicia and Rias Baixas Tourism.

Menudeta, owned by Víctor Carrión in Group 1 and Mar de Frades, owned by Juan Debén, in Group 2, are the top of the list in the two divisions of A Dos, marking at the close of this edition all the boats a stable average speed which is between 3 and 5 knots.

The Committee delayed the departure for half an hour, originally scheduled for eleven o’clock in the morning. The Bay of Baiona had no wind and we had to look for it in the Carallones area.

At 11:24 am, the intelligence flag was lowered, indicating the end of the postponement in the water. And six minutes later, the thirty sailboats that made up the fleet of the Martín Códax Trophy crossed the imaginary starting line, anchored one mile from the well-known sea mark of Carallones. The component commanded the 210, that is, from the southwest, with 10 knots. An unmarking beacon was anchored, 0.6 miles from the PIN or starting buoy, with the sailboats grouped together, reaching the wind mark on both sides.

Clean tacks, without major compromises, leaving both Carallones and the La Negra buoy on the starboard side. Bow towards the Costa de la Vela with a tailwind, rising at times to 12 knots.

The Fifty, of the Portuguese Rui Ramada, never lost the head of the fleet in real time, taking the mark of El Ter, in the Ría de Arousa, after little more than four hours of navigation. Castrosua, by Willy Alonso, and Barlovento XVI, by Felipe Regojo, ruled from above. However, when applying the compensated times, the general classification varied substantially, mainly due to how grouped the fleet was. Ay Carmela, led by Juan Martínez, took the provisional lead when turning El Ter, not only in the Solitaires class, but also in the absolute combination of the Martín Códax Trophy.

Around half past eight in the afternoon, of the almighty Fifty, he was the first to cross the finish line anchored in the Viños area, at the height of the channel between the two Cies Islands.

Friday, June 7, 2013.- Around thirty sailboats will finally take part in the Martín Códax Trophy, data offered by the final list of entries, with a good level of participants and where the majority class continues to be A Dos, a 70 percent of the total.

Among the most prominent are in Solitaires, the Fertiberia Fertilizadores, by Jesús Pintos, of the Real Club Náutico de La Coruña, which has just won the X Guisanda Trophy played in the Herculean city this past weekend in its category; the Ziralla Primero, by Ramón Barreiro, from the Club Náutico Deportivo Barraña-Boiro; or Ay Carmela, by Juan Martínez-Pazó, from the Liceo Marítimo de Bouzas, among others.

In A Dos there are names of the stature of Castrosua, by Willy Alonso, of the Monte Real Club de Yates de Bayona, absolute winner in the first edition of the Martín Códax Trophy; the Bosch Communication Center, by Ramón Ojea, of the Club Marítimo de Canido; the Codaste, by Juan Lago, from Monte Real; Deep Blue, by Vicente Cid, from the Real Club Náutico de Vigo; Fifty, by Rui Ramada, from the Yacht Club; the Cableway, by Pablo de la Riva, from the Vilagarcía Maritime School; Menudeta, by Víctor Carrión, from the Punta Lagoa Yacht Club; the Vintage, by the Portuguese Antonio Serodio, who sails under the banner of Monte Real; the Margem do Azul, by the also Portuguese Frederico Lopes, from the Yacht Club; El Alimentos de Zamora, by Juan Carlos de Ana, from the Zamora Yacht Club; Altamar Diez, by Juan González, from the Vigo nautical company; La Burla Negra, by Juan José Martínez or La Luna Nueva, by Asturian Juan Luís Tuero, both also from Monte Real.

The Yacht Club offered an official reception to the sailors where the different meteorological reports were analyzed and the possible alternative routes were exposed, with the precaution due to a variant in the meteor that did not carry enough wind of minimum intensity to cover the route of 60 miles in a maximum time established by the Regatta Committee.

The Martín Códax Trophy is organized by the Monte Real Club de Yates de Bayona, with the collaboration of Turismo de Galicia and Turismo Rías Baixas, and can be followed from 11:00 a.m. tomorrow, Saturday, through the security tracking installed in each sailboat, opening the portal www.mrcyb.es

Wednesday, June 5, 2013.- The president of the Galician Sailing Federation, Manuel Villaverde, held a meeting with the Vice Commodore of the Monte Real Yacht Club of Bayonne, Alejandro Retolaza, and the director of the Martín Códax Trophy Committee, Fernando Giraldo, to analyze the route that the regatta will draw in this new edition of 2013.

The event, part of the Rafael Olmedo President Cup, and which for the second consecutive year is once again the Galician Solitaire and Two-Handed Championship, will mark a 60-mile route in its entirety with a composition that will take the sailboats from the Bay of Baiona to the Ría de Arousa. Unlike last year, the Bondaña maritime signaling buoy, located in front of Toralla Island, will not be taken, and navigation will be along the Costa de la Vela.

The starting horn, if the weather conditions are suitable, will be given this Saturday, June 8 at 11:00 in the morning, jointly for the two categories and in the fleet format, that is, without distinction of groups.

After leaving the Carallones and La Negra buoys to starboard, the sailboats will enter the Costa de la Vela, with the Cíes Islands to port, also taking the Picamillo Lighthouse to port, after passing the entrance to the Ría de Pontevedra. The tack inside the Arousana estuary will take place at the metal buoy of El Ter, which will be left to port, to start the way back to Baiona. The Committee establishes a passage control at this point in El Ter, taking intermediate times that will already offer a first partial result of the regatta.

On their return, the sailboats will leave the Camouco Lighthouse on the port side, with Ons Island sighted on the starboard side. Sailing will once again be inland, establishing the arrival in the area of Viños, close to the Island of San Martiño, the south of the Cíes.

In the event that the weather conditions do not suit the established length of the route, the Martín Códax Trophy Committee will announce the possible alternatives at the start, which will be presented next Friday to all participants at the official reception that the Bayonne Yacht Club offers, at eight in the evening, in the Noble Hall of Monte Real.

The Martín Códax Trophy is organized in collaboration with Turismo Rías Baixas and Turismo de Galicia, and is scored for the Autonomous and Iberian circuits of Solitaires and A Dos.

The regatta can be followed live through the Monte Real website ( www.mrcyb.es ) thanks to the tracking systems installed for safety reasons on each sailboat.