Month: June 2019

 

· The young 12-year-old sailor from Vigo managed to prevail in the final of the Optimist competition, beating Martín Montes and his brother Yago Marquina who finished second and third respectively

· The youngest of the Marquina family thus revalidates the triumph achieved in 2018 when he won the championship for the first time that Monte Real organizes every year in Baiona with the help of Baitra

· The closing of the Baitra Social League puts an end to the 2018-2019 season of the Monte Real Yacht Club Sailing School and marks the beginning of its summer program that offers multiple proposals

The young 12-year-old sailor from Vigo, Pablo Marquina, was the winner, this Sunday in Baiona, of the Baitra Social League of the Monte Real Club de Yachts, a competition that the Baion club organizes from September to June for children between 7 and 17 years old .

After the final tests held this weekend, Marquina prevailed over the rest of the sailors who competed in the Optimist class. In this way, he managed to revalidate the triumph achieved in 2018, when he won for the first time the victory of the championship that Monte Real organizes every year in Baiona by Baitra Accesorios Navales.

And he did it with superiority, since, with 38 final points, he established a difference of 7 points with his most direct rival. The one who was his coach throughout the year, Samuel Montouto, assures that little Marquina’s final victory is the result of continuous progression based on the great work done by the athlete in recent months. His methodical, controlled and orderly attitude, and his desire to achieve perfection are, according to Montouto, the keys to his good results.

Second and third place in the Social League went to Martín Montes and Pablo’s older brother, Yago Marquina, aged 11 and 13 respectively, who took silver and bronze with 45 and 58 points.

Both maintained a very good trajectory throughout the season and did not disappoint in the last two days played this weekend. In fact, Montes was the best of the weekend, achieving 4 first places in the last 5 races held.

In the awards ceremony for the winners, held this Sunday in Baiona, participated, in addition to numerous relatives and friends of the sailors, the mayor of Baiona, Carlos Gómez; and the commodore and vice commodore of the Monte Real Yacht Club, Fernando Yáñez and Genoveva Pereiro. Also Susana Méndez, from Baitra Accesorios Navales, sponsor company of the event and one of the main promoters of children’s sailing in Galicia.

The closure of the Baitra Social League marks the end of the 2018-2019 season of the Monte Real Sailing School and marks the beginning of its summer programming , which offers multiple leisure options so that children and adults can learn to sail and enjoy the sea in Baiona.

Daytime sailing camps and weekly dinghy sailing courses are the proposals aimed at the smallest of the house, between 7 and 16 years old. For adults, the Baionese club offers the possibility of taking weekly cruise sailing courses and courses to learn to sail in one day. The summer program is completed with sailing activities at sunset or sailing to the Cíes Islands, aimed at a more familiar audience or groups of friends.

 

GENERAL FINAL CLASSIFICATION BAITRA SOCIAL LEAGUE
Monte Real Yacht Club Baiona, June 22 and 23, 2019

OPTIMIST CLASS

1. PABLO MARQUINA 38 POINTS
2. MARTIN MONTES ·45 POINTS
3. YAGO MARQUINA 58 POINTS

 

· The youngest of the Marquina brothers is at the head of the Optimist classification in the absence of the final tests tomorrow, Sunday

· After achieving two first places in the two regattas held today, Martín Montes is second, closing the gap with the leader

· The competition will be decided tomorrow at 11:30 in the morning and the awards ceremony will be held in the afternoon

Pablo Marquina caresses the victory of the Baitra Social League of the Monte Real Yacht Club, which this weekend celebrates its final in the waters of the Bay of Baiona. The youngest of the Marquina brothers is at the head of the Optimist classification in the absence of the final tests that will be held tomorrow, Sunday.

The twelve-year-old sailor from Monte Real finished second and fourth in the regattas held today, but the good results obtained throughout the season, on which the final classification is established, allow him to remain in highest on the provisional podium.

The best of the day was, without a doubt, little eleven-year-old Martín Montes, the first to cross the finish line in the two races held, also achieving a great advantage over his most direct competitors. He was the most outstanding sailor and managed to close the gap with respect to the leader, but he still remains in second position.

The third place and provisional bronze of the competition goes to Yago Marquina, 13 years old, who did not have a very lucky day, with a fifth and a sixth place in the two races held, but who is still a firm contender for the podium.

In addition to the competitive section, the Final of the Baitra Social League organized by the Monte Real Club de Yates is having a more playful part, aimed at bringing the public closer to the world of regattas so that they can get to know it first-hand. Thus, the Baionese club took two Omegas out into the water today, in which a group of boys and girls were able to perform a baptism of the sea and see the development of the regattas.

The Baitra Social League will be decided tomorrow, Sunday, with the second and last day of tests, which will be held at half past eleven in the morning in the Bay of Baiona. The regatta committee, chaired by Samuel Montouto, will try to start three tasks that would maintain the trapeze design of the first day.

Once the competition in the water is over, Monte Real will host the award ceremony for the winners. It will be around half past four in the afternoon and will be attended by the manager of Baitra Accesorios Navales, Juan Carlos González, as sponsor of the event; the mayor of Baiona, Carlos Gómez, representing the city council; and the president and commodore of the Monte Real Yacht Club, José Luis Álvarez and Fernando Yáñez.

 

TOP 3 – GENERAL CLASSIFICATION BAITRA SOCIAL LEAGUE
In the absence of a day for the end of the competition

OPTIMIST CLASS

1. PABLO MARQUINA 33 POINTS
2. MARTIN MONTES · 41 POINTS
3. YAGO MARQUINA 49 POINTS

 

· The Monte Real Club de Yates closes the 2018-2019 season of its Sailing School with the celebration of the last tests of the Baitra Social League that has been held since last September

· Laser, Optimist and Initiation sailors will meet in the bay of Baiona to compete on Saturday from half past two in the afternoon and on Sunday from half past eleven in the morning

· With the end of the Baitra Social League, the starting signal will be given to the activities of the summer program that the club has prepared for this summer, which include proposals for all types of audiences

 

The Monte Real Club de Yates closes this weekend the 2018-2019 season of its Sailing School with the celebration of the last two days of the Baitra Social League, a competition that has been taking place since last September in Baiona.

Some thirty sailors between the ages of 7 and 17 from the Laser, Optimist and Initiation classes will meet in the bay of Baiona on Saturday from half past two in the afternoon and on Sunday from half past eleven in the morning to measure strength in the last six rounds of the championship.

There will be six regattas in a field of buoys in the shape of a trapezoid in which laserists and optimists must complete a single lap, and which will be shortened for beginner sailors. If the forecast is fulfilled, they will do so with good wind, from the south and intensities above 10 knots on Saturday and somewhat weaker on Sunday.

The brothers Marquina and Martín Montes, reach the final in the highest positions in the classification and with many ballots to make a place for themselves on the winners’ podium, since they maintain a certain distance with the rest of the competitors.

In the lead, with 31 points, is Pablo Marquina, who won the Social League last year, and his brother Yago comes third in the final with 45 points. Martín Montes holds the provisional silver with 42 points.

With the end of the Baitra Social League, the starting signal will be given to the activities of the summer program that the Monte Real Yacht Club has prepared for this summer, which include proposals for all types of audiences .

Daytime sailing camps and weekly dinghy sailing courses are the proposals aimed at the smallest of the house, between 7 and 16 years old. For adults, the Baionese club offers the possibility of taking weekly cruising sailing courses and courses to learn to sail in one day. The summer program is completed with sailing activities at sunset or sailing to the Cíes Islands, aimed at a more familiar audience or groups of friends.

 

Baitra Social League Final
Bayonne, June 22 and 23, 2019

SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 2019
14:30 First day of the Baitra Social League Final

SUNDAY, JUNE 23, 2019
11:30 Second day of the Baitra Social League Final
4:30 p.m. Award ceremony for winners

The club from Baiona closed this morning its seventh adapted sailing course with the delivery of diplomas to the students who were able to practice sailing throughout the year under equal conditions

· More than 100 people with functional diversity can sail each year at the Monte Real Yacht Club thanks to the sponsorship of Fundación Repsol and the support of administrations such as the Xunta de Galicia and the Pontevedra Provincial Council

· Maintaining its line of growth, the Baiona Adapted Sailing School launched this year for the first time in its history specific activities for people affected by serious behavioral disorders

 

The Monte Real Club de Yates continues to consolidate itself as a benchmark for inclusive sailing in Galicia after celebrating seven years of activity in its Adapted Sailing School, through which more than 100 people with functional diversity pass each year to sail under equal conditions.

The club from Baiona closed this morning the seventh course that it has organized since, in 2012, it inaugurated a project aimed at bringing people with physical, psychosocial, cognitive and sensory disabilities closer to the sea. An initiative that has only grown and that in recent months has taken up a new challenge, that of bringing people affected by serious behavioral disorders closer to the sea.

The Panxón Special Education Center, in Nigrán, thus joined the list of associations that, over the last seven years, have passed through Baiona to offer its users the possibility of being able to enjoy the sea beyond its limitations. Groups such as the CAPD of Redondela , ASEM Galicia or the Juan María Center , which this morning were also present at the closing ceremony held at Monte Real.

The Minister of Social Policy of the Xunta de Galicia, Fabiola García, was in charge of presiding over an event in which she highlighted the work carried out by the Monte Real Yacht Club by taking advantage of the wealth of the sea -she said- to launch activities that promote the full integration of people with disabilities. Along these lines, he claimed that ” in order to make Galicia a community that is increasingly welcoming to everyone, the joint involvement of social entities, companies and public administrations is necessary” . Likewise, the councilor thanked the centers and associations participating in this adapted sailing course and congratulated its users for demonstrating that ” there are no barriers if enthusiasm and desire go ahead” .

In addition to the regional head of Social Policy, other members of the Xunta de Galicia, the Diputación de Pontevedra or the Baiona city council were present at the event, habitual supporters of the Monte Real Yacht Club in its different initiatives. Also several members of Fundación Repsol, the main sponsor of the Adapted Sailing School.

The vice president of the club, Alejandro Retolaza, thanked all of them for having supported the adapted Sailing School since its inception, which has allowed it -he said- “to grow year after year to become the benchmark it is today in Galicia ” . Retolaza extended the gratitude of Monte Real to the monitors and companions of the different associations, to the specialized coaches of the club, to the patrons and other personnel who work in the school.

Students with reduced mobility, autistic spectrum, down syndrome, neurodegenerative or neuromuscular problems are some of the beneficiaries and main recipients of the Monte Real adapted sailing courses, which, since its inauguration seven years ago, includes both theoretical and practical activities.

In addition to the usual classroom sessions and sailing trips on different types of boats, mainly Figaros Beneteau and Gos 16, other types of proposals have been added over the years such as seminars on adapted sailing, sailing on inflatable boats or modernization programs for future participation in competitions.

Numerous improvements that the Monte Real Club de Yates has been introducing in the last seven years in a sailing school that maintains the same mission and the same objective with which it was born: to offer anyone who wishes the possibility of sailing and enjoy the sea in equal conditions.