Month: January 2017

The historic sailor from Vigo, Javier de la Gándara, was relentless once again in the Winter League of the Monte Real Club de Yates, a competition that saw its second day this afternoon in Baiona.

Aboard the Okofen and with his usual crew, made up of Jaime de la Gándara, Diego Fernández and Hugo Ferreiro, De la Gándara won the three races held this Saturday in the waters of the bay of Baiona, with which he now has six victories in the six regattas held throughout this month.

Neither the problems they had again with the spinnaker, nor the deep sea that made it difficult for the sailboats to navigate, nor even the good work of other boats such as Francisca Barros’ Miudo by Storax, prevented the Okofen crew from crossing first the finish line in all races run.

With this new full of victories, De la Gándara and his team are increasingly separating themselves from their rivals, whom they already exceed by more than ten points. The closest, in second and third position in the classification, and level on points, are Miudo by Storax and Virazón.

The Portuguese from Miúdo signed three fantastic regattas this afternoon, which allowed them to rise from fifth place to second. They did it with a completely renewed crew compared to the first day. At the controls, Francisca Barros, a very young Portuguese sailor who has been demonstrating her talent aboard these monotypes for some time.

Miguel Lago’s Virazón, another of the classics on the J80 competition podiums, came out, as always, ready to fight, but after a very good first race, he lost some steam and had to settle for third place in the Provisional podium, where he is tied on points with Miúdo.

After six tests and the application of a discard, the classification of the J80 Class Winter League of the Monte Real Club de Yates is completed by Enrique Porto’s Ferralemes, Fernándo Yáñez’s Cansino, Bernardo Macedo’s Mondo, Juan’s Luna Nueva Luis Tuero and the Pazo de Cea de María Campos.

Closing the list are Luis de Mira’s Namasté and Willy Caamaño’s Alumisel, who were unable to go out on the water this afternoon to compete in the second day of tests, but who will return to the competition in the third stage, on February 11.

GENERAL RANKING

1. Okofen – Javier de la Gandara (5 points)
2. Miudo by Storax – Francisca Barros (15 points)
3. Virazón – Miguel Lago (15 points)
4. Ferralemes – Enrique Porto (17 points)
5. Tired – Fernándo Yáñez (21 points)
6. Mondo – Bernardo Macedo (32 points)
7. New Moon – Juan Luis Tuero (35 points)
8. Pazo de Cea – Maria Campos (36 points)
9. Namasté – Luis de Mira (41 points)
10. Alumisel – Willy Caamaño (46 points)

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The J80 Class Winter League of the Monte Real Club de Yates returns to the water this Saturday with a new day of tests starting at three in the afternoon in the Bay of Baiona.

With winds from the south southwest of an average of ten knots, the participating sailboats will compete in a maximum of three windward-leeward races in a regatta field that the committee will design based on the weather conditions that are recorded.

On the starting line, ten monotypes that will sail as a fleet and compete in real time to climb positions in the provisional classification, which is led by Javier de la Gándara’s Okofen after having signed a full victories on the first day.

Six points behind the leader, in second position, is Miguel Lago’s Virazón; and Enrique Porto’s Ferralemes is third, three points behind second and nine behind first. Completing the classification are Cansino by Fernándo Yáñez, Miudo by Storax by Tiago Roquete, Namasté by Luis de Mira, Pazo de Cea by María Campos, Mondo by Bernardo Macedo, Luna Nueva by Juan Luis Tuero, and Alumisel by Willy Caamano.

The public who wants to enjoy the competition, which will start at three in the afternoon, will be able to see the tests from the walls of the Parador Nacional de Baiona, Monteferro, Monte Lourido or Playa América.

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· The head of sport at the regional level today made her first official visit to the Baionese club after taking office last December

· Marta Míguez verified in situ the operation of a school that provides service throughout the year to hundreds of people with different disabilities

· The Secretary General gave a very positive assessment of the initiative “because of the impact it has on a social group with great relevance and presence in society”

The General Secretary for Sports of the Xunta de Galicia, Marta Míguez, from Ourense, today made her first official visit to the Monte Real Club de Yates de Baiona after taking office last December.

The head of sport at the regional level wanted to know in situ the operation of the Adapted Sailing School that the Baiona club launched five years ago to bring the sea closer to people with disabilities and allow them to navigate under equal conditions. Some objectives that, in the words of the general secretary, are fully shared by her department.

The Monte Real Adapted Sailing School, said Marta Míguez, is “an initiative with a very important impact for a social group of great relevance and presence in a society in which, unfortunately, it has far fewer opportunities than other people”. That is why, he assured, that the intention of the secretariat is to give continuity to the support that the Xunta de Galicia had been providing for years.

During her visit to Monte Real, accompanied by the Head of the Provincial Sports Service of Pontevedra, Daniel Benavides, the general secretary was received by the president and vice president of the club, José Luis Álvarez and Alejandro Retolaza, as well as by the new manager, Óscar Calero.

It also coincided with a group of students from the Juan María de Nigrán Center, a group that provides services to people with intellectual disabilities and their families, and who have been coming to Baiona for years to sail with the Adapted Sailing School. Míguez shared a few moments of conversation with them and even got on one of the boats in which they previously sailed.

· With more than twenty years of experience in business management, the man from Madrid assumes the management of one of the most traditional yacht clubs in the country

· Master’s degree in business administration and management from the University of Oxford, he also has an extensive sports career in which he has been rowing world champion.

· In the field of sailing, Calero has been a J80 sailor, a class that the Monte Real Club de Yates has been promoting for years through the acquisition of boats and the organization of specific competitions for these monotypes

The rowing world champion, Óscar Calero from Madrid, has just been appointed as the new manager of the Monte Real Club de Yates. With a Master’s degree in business administration and management from the University of Oxford and an extensive career of more than twenty years in business management, Calero assumes the management of one of the most traditional yacht clubs in the country.

He does so with a CV in which, in addition to his professional experience in the field of business, his extensive background in the sports world stands out. In addition to being world rowing champion in 2009, he has been a coach, technician and development advisor for different federations.

In the field of sailing, Calero has been a J80 sailor, a class that the Monte Real Club de Yates has been promoting for years through the acquisition of new boats and the organization of specific competitions for these monotypes, such as the Winter League that these months are celebrated in Baiona.

Looking to the future, the new manager will work to bring to fruition the guidelines of the club’s Board of Directors, currently chaired by José Luis Álvarez. Some guidelines that involve the implementation of new lines of action in different areas, with the aim of improving the services and benefits that Monte Real offers today to its members and visitors in Baiona.

The promotion of nautical tourism, the organization of sports competitions and the commitment to training through the MRCYB Sailing School and the Adapted Sailing School for people with disabilities, will continue to be, one more year, strategic axes in the different actions of the club.

· Three first places in the three races held this afternoon in the bay of Baiona gave victory to the boat skippered by the ocean sailor

Okofen thus leads the J80 Class Winter League of the Monte Real Yacht Club followed by Miguel Lago’s Virazón and Enrique Porto’s Ferralemes

· The one-design competition continues on the 28th of this month of January with the second of the six days scheduled until the end of March

Three victories in the three races held this afternoon in Baiona place Javier de la Gándara’s Okofen in the lead of the J80 Class Winter League, organized by the Monte Real Club de Yates in the waters of the Bay of Baiona.

The competition opened today with ideal weather conditions, wrapped in a sunny and very cold day, but with good wind for the sailboats, since, with few exceptions, it blew above ten knots practically at all times.

At three in the afternoon, punctual according to the scheduled time, the members of the regatta committee started the first of the tests. The ten participating sailboats, all from the J80 class, had to complete a windward-leeward double loop course, which also included an offset. Almost three miles of distance per task that would give the crews enough margin to demonstrate their good work on the water.

And that was precisely what Javier de la Gándara’s Okofen did. The sailboat skippered by the historic ocean sailor and crewed by his son Jaime de la Gándara, Diego Fernández and Hugo Ferreiro, managed to overcome a couple of small problems that arose throughout the regatta, and always crossed the finish line first.

On certain occasions, Fernándo Yáñez’s Cansino and Tiago Roquete’s Miudo by Storax managed to overtake him, but Okofen very soon managed to regain their leadership position and take the lead again.

Thus, De la Gándara’s men lead a competition that leaves Miguel Lago’s Virazón with his usual crew, formed by Gerardo Alonso, Juan Lago and Javier Lago, on the second step of the provisional podium. On this first day they achieved three third places and are six points behind the leader.

In third position, three points behind the second and nine behind the first, is Ferralemes, skippered by Enrique Porto, and manned by Damián Puebla, Alberto Martín and Roberto Fontán.

Completing the classification after this inaugural stage are Cansino by Fernándo Yáñez, Miudo by Storax by Tiago Roquete, Namasté by Luis de Mira, Pazo de Cea by María Campos, Mondo by Bernardo Macedo, Luna Nueva by Juan Luis Tuero, and Willy Caamaño’s Alumisel.

The J80 Class Winter League will continue on the 28th with the second of the six competition days scheduled until the end of next March.

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The J80 Class Winter League of the Monte Real Yacht Club opens this weekend the 2017 regatta season in Baiona. The competition is one of the eleven included this year in the sporting calendar of the Baiona yacht club, along with other historic ones such as the Conde de Gondomar Trophy or the Príncipe de Asturias Trophy.

The Winter League will be held over six days during the months of January, February and March . Exclusively, J80 class sailboats will compete in it, monotypes that Monte Real has been promoting for several years, through the acquisition of new boats by its partners and its inclusion as a class in all the competitions it organizes.

This Saturday, the J80 will be in charge of loosening the moorings of the regatta season with the first stage of tests, starting at three in the afternoon in the bay of Baiona. The participating crews, made up of a maximum of four sailors, with the possibility of including a fifth as an observer , will sail as a fleet and compete in real time.

The regatta committee will establish a windward-leeward course for them, which will depend on the weather conditions and which the crews must complete in several laps, proving their worth in each of the manoeuvres. With a maximum of three tests per day and six stages to complete, the teams will add points for the final classification from which the winner of the league will come out, which will be known at the end of next March.

Among the participating boats are, among others, the winners of the previous edition: the Miudo of the Portuguese Francisca Barros, the Virazón skippered by Miguel Lago and the Luna Nueva of the Oviedo Juan Luis Tuero. Javier de la Gándara’s Okofen, winner of the J80 Class Autumn League, will also repeat; and Luis de Mira’s Namasté, who came second in the same competition.

There will be a total of ten boats that will take to the water this Saturday to compete in the J80 Class Winter League. After the inclusion last November of the Cansino of Fernándo Yáñez and Ignacio Sánchez Otaegui in the J80 fleet of Monte Real, in this month of January another boat is added, the Mondo, armed by Bernardo Macedo.

The first of eleven Monte Real competitions in 2017

The J80 Class Winter League is the first of the eleven competitions that the Monte Real Club de Yates will organize throughout 2017. After its celebration, the Winter Regatta and the Spring Regatta – Repsol Trophy will arrive in April, leaving May for the youngest, with the Baitra Children’s Sailing Trophy .

The Galician Solo and Two Championship will open in June, a month in which the Social Cruise Regatta and the AXA Trophy – Iberian Championship Class 2.4mR will also be held. In July, Monte Real opens the month with the celebration of the Baitra-MRCYB Social League Final , and closes it with one of its classics, the Conde de Gondomar Trophy .

The other great event for the Baiona club will be in September with the Prince of Asturias Trophy , in which the Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards will be awarded again. To close the calendar, a new edition, the third already, of the Solidarity Vertiathlon , and the J80 Class Autumn League .

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The Monte Real Club de Yates calendar for 2017 is an extensive sports program that includes 11 nautical competitions at the highest level, among which are historic regattas such as the Conde de Gondomar Trophy and the Príncipe de Asturias Trophy, which this year celebrate their forty-second and thirty-second editions respectively.

The celebration of the Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards and the third Solidarity Vertiathlon are other events marked on the agenda of the club from Baiona, which opens this month of January with the Winter League . It is a championship intended exclusively for the J80 class, booming throughout Spain, which will be held in the Bay of Baiona over six days, on January 14 and 28, February 11 and 25, and February 11 and 25. of March.

In April two of the most traditional races arrive at Monte Real, the Winter Regatta and the Spring Regatta – Repsol Trophy. Both include novelties with respect to previous editions. The Winter Regatta is reduced in this 2017 to a single day, on April 22, in which the participating sailboats must complete a coastal route between Vigo and Baiona.

The Repsol Trophy – Spring Regatta , in which the crews tune up their boats to face the strong part of the regatta season, will once again be held to coincide with the May 1 long weekend. There will be three reggae days from April 29, with different tests depending on the type of boat. There will be windward-leeward routes for the J70, J80 and Figaros fleets; and coastal for the rest of sailboats. The novelty in this 2017 is that it will be held exclusively in the Ría de Vigo, with departure and arrival in the bay of Baiona.

In May the event is for the youngest, with the Baitra Children’s Sailing Trophy . Faithful to its commitment to grassroots sports, the Monte Real Club de Yates organizes once again, with the sponsorship of Baitra Accesorios Navales, this championship aimed at those who are just starting out in the world of sailing. It will be held on May 20 and 21 and the participation of numerous sailors from the most important yacht clubs in Galicia and the north of Portugal is expected.

On Saturday, June 10, the Social Cruise Regatta will take place, a new proposal from Monte Real for this 2017, aimed at the ORC fleet, about which the club will announce new details very soon.

The third appointment of the Monte Real Club de Yates for the month of June is an adapted sailing regatta, the AXA Trophy – Iberian Championship Class 2.4mR . There will be three days of competition, on June 16, 17 and 18, in which sailors from different parts of Spain and Portugal, with and without disabilities, will compete under equal conditions in the bay of Baiona. This is the fifth consecutive year in which the Baionese club deals with one of the key events of the peninsular sailing scene.

In July, Monte Real opens the month with the celebration of the Baitra-MRCYB Social League Final , on days 1 and 2. The league is an internal competition that is held throughout the year by the students of the club’s Sailing School, and which ends with a weekend of regattas in the bay and the subsequent awards ceremony. to the winners.

Also in July, on the 22nd, 23rd, 24th and 25th, coinciding with the Apóstol bridge, one of the mythical competitions of the Baionese club arrives, the Conde de Gondomar Trophy , which in 2017 celebrates its forty-second edition. It will be the Spanish Height Championship and will include, as usual, the Baiona-Fisterra-Baiona route, over 100 miles long, going around the mythical Carrumeiro Chico lighthouse.

Along with the Conde de Gondomar Trophy, the other great event on the Monte Real Yacht Club’s racing calendar is, without a doubt, the Príncipe de Asturias Trophy . Considered one of the most important nautical competitions in Spain, its previous edition featured the participation of King Emeritus Don Juan Carlos, who competed in the 6m class. In this 2017, the regatta turns thirty-two years old and will once again include, on September 1, 2 and 3, sporting events of the highest level and numerous leisure activities for the participants.

Within the framework of the Prince of Asturias Trophy, one more year, the Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards will be presented, awards that recognize the work of people and institutions in favor of the world of sailing, as well as their human values and sports.

The Solidarity Vertiathlon reaches its third edition in 2017 and will be held on September 16 under the organization of Monte Real and the Baiona City Council, with the sponsorship of Verti Seguros and the collaboration of the Galician Triathlon Federation. It will once again raise funds for the MRCYB Adapted Sailing School for people with disabilities, the only one in northern Spain that operates throughout the year, and with which the club provides services to various associations of people with physical, psychosocial, and cognitive disabilities. and sensory.

And starting in October, the J80 Class Autumn League , to be played over four days on October 14 and 28 and November 11 and 25 , will be in charge of closing the 2017 sports season at Monte Real Yacht Club.

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January 14 and 28, February 11 and 25, March 11 and 25

J80 CLASS WINTER LEAGUE

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April 22

WINTER REGATTA

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April 29 and 30 and May 1

REPSOL TROPHY SPRING REGATTA

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May 20 and 21

CHILDREN’S SAILING BAITRA TROPHY

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June 10th

SOCIAL CRUISE REGATTA

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June 16, 17 and 18

AXA TROPHY 2.4mR CLASS IBERIAN CHAMPIONSHIP

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July 1 and 2

BAITRA MRCYB SOCIAL LEAGUE FINAL

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July 22, 23, 24 and 25

COUNT OF GONDOMAR TROPHY

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September 1, 2 and 3

PRINCE OF ASTURIAS TROPHY

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september 2

TERRAS GAUDA NATIONAL SAILING AWARDS

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16 of September

III BAIONA SOLIDARITY VERTIATHLON

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October 14 and 28, November 11 and 25

J80 CLASS FALL LEAGUE

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