Spanish J80 Champion Javier Aguado places Alboroto at the top of the J80 Winter League

· The sailboat built by Juan Carlos Ameneiro and led by the Spanish champion Javier Aguado rose to the top of the competition classification after the first tests were held today in Baiona

· On the opening day, the light wind affected the navigation of the 16 participating monotypes, which despite everything, two of the three tests planned in the initial program were able to take part

· The Okofen skippered by Javier de la Gándara and the Pazo de Cea with María Campos at the cane were placed in second and third position in the provisional classification of the league

Javier Aguado and el Alboroto leaving in first position of the fleet – Photo © Rosana Calvo

El Alboroto became the first leader of the J80 Winter League this afternoon in Baiona after beating the rest of the sailboats on the opening day of the competition organized by the Monte Real Club de Yates.

The sailboat built by Juan Carlos Ameneiro and skippered by the Spanish champion Javier Aguado managed to rise to the top of the classification after signing a second and a first place in the two tests held in the bay.

The Alboroto crew led by Javier Aguado – Photo © Rosana Calvo

The competition could not start on time due to a light wind that did not help in the preparation of the regatta field, but once settled in intensity and direction, and placed the buoys for the windward-leeward courses, the fleet was able to sail with about five knots on average

Two double laps between buoys were completed, which meant four sections with two upwind and two downwind, in two routes that the regatta committee was forced to shorten so that the fleet could complete the tests on time.

The first test was for Alboroto skippered by Javier Aguado and Javier de la Gándara’s Okofen came second. And in the second test the results were reversed. Alboroto and Okofen were, without a doubt, the protagonists of a day that ended tied on 3 points in first and second position respectively.

El Alboroto and Okofen hand in hand – Photo © Rosana Calvo

The Pazo de Cea crew, skippered by María Campos, completes the provisional podium with 10 points, closely followed by Fernando Yáñez’s Cansino, with 11 points, and José Luis Pérez’s Maija with 13.

The Pazo de Cea is the only sailboat with a woman (María Campos) at the helm – Photo © Rosana Calvo

On the opening day of the Monte Real one-design league, direct trials began to be applied in the water, which is one of the novelties of this edition. Luckily, all the regattas were held without any significant incidents.

The J80 Winter League will return to Baiona on February 8 with the second day of the total of five scheduled stages, which will last until next April.

The J80 fleet sailing in front of the Parador de Baiona – Photo © Rosana Calvo

J80 WINTER LEAGUE MRCYB GENERAL CLASSIFICATION TOP 5

1. ALBOROTO · JAVIER AGUADO · 3 POINTS
2. OKOFEN · JAVIER DE LA GANDARA · 3 POINTS
3. CEA MANOR MARÍA CAMPOS 10 POINTS
4. TIRED · FERNANDO YÁÑEZ · 11 POINTS
5. MAIJA · JOSÉ LUIS PÉREZ · 13 POINTS

> GENERAL CLASSIFICATION WINTER LEAGUE J80

The J80 launch the year of regattas in Baiona

Tomorrow is the first of the five days of the J80 Winter League that the Monte Real Club de Yates organizes exclusively for the J80 monotypes

· This year as a novelty there will be direct trials in the water with the aim of speeding up the solution of possible conflicts that may arise in the competition

Previous meetings for the skippers and rule talks once the tests are over are other changes that are introduced in the winter league

Added to the fleet this year are the Due de Portosín by Fernando García, the Alboroto skippered by the Spanish J80 champion Javier Aguado and the Picacho in which Miguel Lago from Vigo returns to the J80 class.

Javier de la Gándara’s Okofen will try to revalidate victory – Photo © Rosana Calvo

Tomorrow, Saturday, the first of the five days of the J80 Winter League will be held in Baiona, which the one-design fleet of the Monte Real Club de Yates will play on various weekends until next April.

There will be five stages in which 16 sailboats will fight to become the best J80 of the winter season, a title held by Javier de la Gándara’s Okofen, winner of the last edition of the competition, held in 2018.

In addition to Javier de la Gándara’s Okofen, in the competition we will see the second and third classified from the previous edition: Cansino skippered by Fernando Yáñez and Carlos Hernández’s Miudo, in which students from the Monte Real Sailing School will alternate. .

Along with the usual Namasté by Luis de Mira, Luna Nueva by Juan Luis Tuero, Maija by José Luis Pérez or Spaco by Santiago Estévez, among others, this year sailboats such as the Due de Portosín, armed by Fernando García, will enter the competition; the Picacho in which Miguel Lago from Vigo returns to the J80 class; or the Alboroto de Juan Ameneiro, which will be skippered this Saturday by the Menorcan Javier Aguado, champion of Spain in the J80.

Thus, up to a total of 16 participants from Galicia, Asturias, Madrid, Menorca and Portugal, will be in charge of launching, this Saturday, the year of regattas in Baiona.

The tests of the J80 Winter League will be held in the bay of Baiona – Photo © Rosana Calvo

The design of the days will be identical to that of previous occasions. If the weather permits, three double-lap windward-leeward runs will be held in each stage. There will be between 2 and 3 miles of travel so that the crews can prove their worth in two beats, two sterns and various maneuvers on buoys.

This year, as a novelty, there will be a direct trial in the water, with the presence of a judge who will rule in situ on the protests that may arise during the tests.

The objective of this arbitration is to speed up the solution of possible conflicts between sailboats without having to wait for the end of the regattas for their resolution on land, thus avoiding delaying the publication of the classifications.

Other changes that are introduced in this 2020 are the holding of skipper meetings prior to the competition, at the Monte Real Club de Yates itself, and rule talks once the tests are over.

16 J80 compete for victory in the J80 Winter League – Photo © Rosana Calvo

Monte Real opens the 2020 regatta season

The Monte Real Club de Yates regatta calendar for 2020 opens this week with the first day of the J80 class Winter League

· The club from Baiona maintains its 4 great classics on the programme: the Comunica Trophy, the Repsol Trophy, the Count of Gondomar and the Prince of Asturias

· It will also organize 2 Galician championships, a new edition of the Solidarity Vertiathlon and new sailing courses adapted for people with disabilities

· The recent incorporation of Roy Alonso to the sports management of the club will mean the introduction of changes and novelties in some competitions

 

Once again this year, Monte Real is one of the clubs that organizes the most regattas in Spain – Photo © Rosana Calvo

 

The Monte Real Club de Yates de Baiona opens the 2020 regatta season this week with the celebration of the first day of the J80 class Winter League, which will kick off one of the most prolific calendars on the nautical scene Spanish.

Once again, the Baionese club is one of the clubs that organizes the most regattas in Spain and this year it will also do so with new features. The recent incorporation of Roy Alonso at the head of the Monte Real sports management will mean changes and novelties in some of its competitions with the aim of improving them and adapting them to the needs and aspirations of skippers and sailors.

The first date on the calendar will be this weekend with the opening of the J80 class Winter League . The club maintains its firm commitment to these monotypes and will once again organize two specific leagues for them, in which they will compete exclusively for several days. The first will take place between the months of January to April and the Fall League is scheduled for the months of October and November.

 

Monte Real maintains its commitment to the J80 monotypes – Photo Lalo R Villar

 

The cruises will once again have the four great classics of Monte Real: the Comunica Trophy (April 25), with which the crews begin to pick up the pace; the Repsol Trophy (May 1, 2 and 3), which this year will return to Sanxenxo in one of its stages; the Conde de Gondomar Trophy (July 23, 24, 25 and 26), one of the great summer events in the Rías Baixas, which will be the Spanish Height Championship; and the historical Prince of Asturias Trophy (September 4, 5 and 6, in which the Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards (September 5).

The Monte Real Club de Yates will also organize this year, by delegation of the Royal Galician Sailing Federation, two regional championships: the Galician Singles and Twos Championship (June 6), which will once again be the Rafael Olmedo Memorial, in honor of the club’s former president; and the Galician Optimist Championship – Baitra Trophy (February 22, 23 and 24), which will bring together young promises of sailing in Galicia in Baiona.

 

The Rías Baixas will be the scene of the MRCYB competitions in 2020 – Photo © Rosana Calvo

 

The fishing village will be a stopover for the World Cruising Club’s ARC Portugal rally; meeting point for sailors of the Irish Cruising Club and a stopover on the voyages of the fleet of the Royal Cruising Club , the most important association of cruisers in the United Kingdom.

In the Monte Real sports calendar, adapted sailing will continue to have a special section. Year after year, the club reaffirms its social commitment to people with disabilities and in 2020 it will expand the activities of its sailing school so that these users can navigate under equal conditions. It will also organize the sixth edition of the Baiona Solidarity Vertiathlon (September 12), the triathlon with which the club raises funds to promote adapted sailing in Galicia.

Dinghy sailing and cruising courses within the framework of the MRCYB Sailing School, coaching and team building activities for groups and companies, and talks and clinics for sailors are other proposals offered by the sports calendar of the Monte Real Yacht Club.

 

The MRCYB calendar opens this weekend in Baiona – Photo Lalo R Villar

January 25, February 8 and 29, March 21, April 4, 2020
J80 CLASS WINTER LEAGUE

February 22, 23 and 24, 2020
GALICIAN OPTIMIST CHAMPIONSHIP – BAITRA TROPHY

April 25, 2020
COMMUNICATE TROPHY

May 1, 2 and 3, 2020
REPSOL TROPHY

June 6, 2020
GALICIAN SOLO CHAMPIONSHIP AND TWO

June 20 and 21, 2020
SOCIAL LEAGUE FINAL

July 25, 26, 27 and 28, 2020
45th COUNT OF GONDOMAR TROPHY – SPANISH HEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP

September 4, 5 and 6, 2020
35th PRINCE OF ASTURIAS TROPHY

September 5, 2020
TERRAS GAUDA NATIONAL SAILING AWARDS

September 12, 2020
SOLIDARITY VERTIATHLON

October 3 and 31, November 7 and 21, 2020
J80 CLASS FALL LEAGUE

 

NOTICE OF RACE J80 WINTER LEAGUE

 

The J80 Winter League will be held in the waters of the Bay of Baiona on January 25, February 8 and 23, March 21 and April 4, 2020, being organized by the Monte Real Club de Yates.

1. RULES

The regatta will be governed by:

to. The rules as defined in the WS Racing Rules of Sailing 2017–2020 (RRV).

b. J80 class monodesign regulations and their special adaptations of the J80 Galicia Fleet[NP][DP] .

c. Announcement and Instructions of Regatta.

d. The infraction of the Rules in AR and IR of this event indicated as[NP] It will not be a reason for protests between ships. This modifies Rule 60.1(a) RRS.

and. The infraction of the Rules in AR and IR of this event indicated as[DP] indicates that your penalty may be lighter than disqualification if the protest committee so decides. The abbreviation for the discretionary penalty imposed pursuant to this instruction shall be[DPI] .

F. The penalty for infractions of the IR indicated as[SP] they will be fixed, without hearing and imposed by the Race Committee, in the most recently completed race, applied as indicated in Rule 44.3 RRS (modifies Rules 63.1 and A5 of the RRS).

2. ADVERTISING [NP] [DP]

2.1. Participants may display advertising in accordance with the provisions of WS Regulation 20.

2.2. The Organization may require the participants to display the sponsor’s publicity in the form that is convenient and that will be provided to them before the regatta, not being able to manipulate or modify said material under any circumstances.

3. PARTICIPATION[NP] [PD

3.1. Boats of the J80 class that comply with the regulations of point 1 and all the requirements demanded in point 4 of this AR may participate. As long as each and every one of them is not fulfilled, their registration as a participant in the Regatta will not be considered. Depending on the circumstances, the Organizing and Race Committee may grant a special extension in a particular way to the boat that requests it in writing.

3.2. Owners and skippers must be members of the National J80 Class Association and be registered at http://www.j80measurement.com.

3.3. Skippers who are not owners must be in possession of Sailor Classification Grade 1. See the following link:
https://members.sailing.org/classification/?unique=1442849722.9402&view=req_
new_classification&nocache=1

4. REGISTRATION

4.1. Registration will be mandatory, at a cost of €50 per boat, and the following documentation must be sent or presented before January 24:
• Duly completed registration form.
• Updated boat insurance.
• 2020 federative licenses for all crew members.
• Proof of transfer of registration rights.
• Proof of payment of the J80 Class Association fee for the year 2020.

Submitted or presented in:

Mount Royal Yacht Club
Parador Enclosure, s/n, 36300 Baiona

secretaria@mrcyb.com / Tel. + 34 986 385 000

And the transfer of registration rights made in:

ABANCA
BAIONA Branch
. account: 2080-0559-23-3040003658 SWIFT: CAGLESMMXXX IBAN: ES92

4.2. Registration and registration confirmation:

The owner or person in charge of each boat must register and personally sign the registration form at the Regatta Office before 1:00 p.m. on January 25, 2020.

5. PROGRAM

5.1. The competition will take place on the following days:

January 25 – 15:00 – Coastal or windward-leeward courses
February 8 -15:00 – Coastal or windward-leeward courses
February 29 – 15:00 – Coastal or windward-leeward courses
March 21 – 15:00 – Coastal or windward-leeward courses

April 4 – 15:00 – Coastal or windward-leeward courses
April 4 – 8:30 p.m. – Trophy delivery and fellowship dinner

5.2. This program may be modified if circumstances so require (postponement to other dates due to suspension due to storms, etc., or modification of schedules according to forecast weather conditions or other causes).

5.3. Exit signals may be given up to 60 minutes before sunset each day.

6. COMPETITION FORMAT

6.1. It will be navigated in fleet format, in real time.

6.2. 15 tests are scheduled.

6.3. There will be no more than 3 tests per day.

7. MEASUREMENT AND SAFETY [NP] [DP]

7.1. The responsibility of attending this regatta having previously updated its Measurement Certificate, measuring the material with which it is intended to participate, is exclusively the registered skipper.

7.2. The number of crew members on board may be changed during the course of the regatta, but not on each day where it must end with the same number as the start.

7.3. The safety of this regatta will be considered as category 4 (reduced) in accordance with the Special Rules for High Seas Regatta of the WS and adapted to the particular regulations of the Galician J80 Fleet.

7.4. All boats will have to be equipped with a VHF radio with channels 16, 09, 71 and 72.

7.5. It will be the responsibility of the owner or skipper of each boat to comply with the legal regulations established for recreational boats, both in general and in particular for their government, dispatch and security.

8. SCORING SYSTEM

8.1. The Low Score system described in Appendix A of the RRS will apply.

8.2. There will be one (1) discard from 6 or more races held and two (2) discards from 11 or more races held.

9. PRIZES

Prizes will be awarded to at least the top 3 finishers at the dinner to be held on April 4 at 8:30 p.m. at the club.

10. LIABILITY

Participants in the J80 Winter League do so at their own risk and responsibility.

The MRCYB or any person or body involved in the organization of the event, reject any responsibility for loss, damage, injury or inconvenience that may occur to people or things, both on land and at sea, as a result of participation in the tests covered by this race announcement.

Attention is drawn to Fundamental Rule 4, Decision to Race, of part 1 of the RRS, which states:

“It is the exclusive responsibility of a boat to decide whether to participate in a test or to continue racing.”

MRCYB

“Monte Real will continue to be a benchmark in the Spanish nautical scene”

Interview with José Luis Álvarez, president of the Monte Real Yacht Club, published by ABC on January 5, 2019

Last November, José Luis Álvarez was re-elected president of the Monte Real Club de Yates de Baiona in an electoral process in which he had no rival. Four years after having won an election in the MRCYB for the first time, outvoting Javier de la Gándara’s candidacy, Álvarez managed to revalidate his mandate and will continue to lead the historic Baionese club for another four years.

It will be a second phase with continuity features but also with many novelties, to which the president of Monte Real enters with great enthusiasm. His goal -he says- is to maintain the line of work started a few years ago, with multiple actions in various sections; but also to assume new commitments and challenges that allow the club to advance and continue to be a benchmark in the Spanish nautical scene.

Before talking about future projects, it’s time to look back, what do you think of the last four years at the helm of the club?

The truth is that the balance is very positive. We had considered many actions in different areas such as infrastructures, the school, the marina, and the purely social part; and the level of compliance with commitments was around 90 percent, which is quite a high figure. It had been many years since the club had been renovated and we remodeled the noblest part of the building and rehabilitated other spaces. We also promised to revitalize the sailing school and we incorporated new coaches and the figure of the sports director. In the marina we signed a new concession period, we extended the fingers and we reviewed all the facilities. And in the social area, we stopped the downward trend in the number of members, due to the crisis, and we are back to around 700, which is the most reasonable figure for the facilities we have. For them we create new parties and events, giving a great boost to the most social part.

And they once again organized an ocean regatta, the Baiona Angra Atlantic Race…

So is. For clubs it is becoming increasingly difficult to organize this type of event, for very different reasons, but in 2016 we managed to do it and the truth is that the balance was very positive. A year later we were also able to organize the Summit Galicia Atlantic Destination, and both one event and the other were a complete success, and we are continually asked when we will organize an event of this type again.

And when will be that?

Well hopefully soon. From the club we are going to continue working to achieve regattas on the international circuit and, of course, we are prepared to take on tests of the highest level. We have the facilities and the resources, we have a lot to offer and I think it is only a matter of time before we have a regatta of this type in Baiona again. In the meantime, we will continue to promote the regattas on our calendar, such as the Conde de Gondomar Trophy or the Príncipe de Asturias Trophy; and we will try to achieve the European or the world of J80.

Do you then maintain your bet on the J80?

That’s right, without a doubt. The J80 will continue to be a clear bet for the club. We have been promoting their participation in all our competitions for years, creating specific leagues for these monotypes, encouraging our partners to try and compete in J80, acquiring new boats… But we are also evaluating new classes, especially for the sailing school.

Tell us about the Sailing School. After the incorporation of Roy Alonso as the club’s new sports director, what developments are expected at the school?

Well, we would like our students to try other more modern boats, to know the technology, to feel the speed… but we also want to promote family sailing, since we believe that it is the basis for the continuity of children. And in this sense we are going to incorporate several cyclones into our fleet, so that families can sail together. We will also try to promote the exchange of students with other clubs, especially foreign clubs, so that in addition to knowing how to sail in other countries, boys and girls can learn other languages. And, of course, we will not forget our Adapted Sailing School for people with disabilities.

They will maintain their social commitment with adapted sailing…

Without hesitation. Offering adapted sailing is something that costs more work and involves more resources, but for Monte Real it is a very important facet. And not only because of everything we can offer the hundreds of people who come to sail to our school every year, but because it allows us to be in direct contact with society, to be immersed in it, seeing everything that is not usually seen, or to which not so much attention is paid. People with disabilities have the same right as us to be able to enjoy the sea, and if it is in our power to offer them the means so that they can do so, we must offer them.

This year they have also expanded the user profile.

Correct. We have been thinking for some time about other sectors that could also benefit from our adapted sailing resources in order to offer them to them, and this year we have taken groups of boys with serious behavioral problems out to sail, as well as children under the guardianship of public administrations. Both of them are people who do not usually go out sailing regularly, but to whom the sea feels wonderful, because they live new experiences. They are new users that allow the school to continue growing, which is what we want.

What new projects do you have for the Adapted Sailing School?

We would like to promote a meeting or a symposium between clubs that work in a similar line to ours, so that we can all know what the rest is doing and thus broaden our vision. For years, since we created our Adapted Sailing School, there are many who have been interested in our work system, to know what we do and how we do it. They have even come from abroad to see how we run our school, and we think it would be good for everyone to tell about it and exchange experiences with other clubs. We still don’t know very well how or when we will do it, but it is a project that we have in mind.

What other projects do you have for the future?

We would also like to promote some project with the University, to involve it in the world of sailing. Currently, the University is hardly present in this sport and it is a shame, because we believe that it could be much more involved. This is another of the ideas that the new board of directors has on the table and we will try to develop a project with them.

Tell us about the new board of directors, about your fellow travelers.

With respect to the previous board there are very few new features, only two incorporations, but two important incorporations. On one side is the entrepreneur and businessman Francisco Pino, who has an excellent vision of innovation and many ideas for the future. And on the other we have Marga Cameselle, an experienced sailor, who I am sure will give us great ideas to promote the sports area, which is where we are going to focus for the next four years.

And in those next four years, will Monte Real continue to be a benchmark in the Spanish nautical scene?

Of course. We have been for the last 55 years and will continue to be in the future, there is no doubt about it. We are sure that it will involve a lot of work, but we are willing to do whatever it takes for the Monte Real Club de Yates to continue writing important chapters in sailing in Spain.

José Luis Álvarez is the visible head of a board made up of nine members (7 men and 2 women), in which Alejandro Retolaza remains the president’s right-hand man. The position of commodore, which had been held by Fernando Yáñez, passed into the hands of Ignacio Sánchez Otaegui; and in the position of vice-commodore appears the first of the new additions to the new board, the entrepreneur and businessman Francisco Pino, who replaces Genoveva Pereiro. César Fernández-Casqueiro remains in charge of the secretariat and the treasury is now the responsibility of former Commodore Fernando Yáñez. In the board of directors of Monte Real there are also three members: Miguel Font, of installations and projects; Genoveva Pereiro, from foreign relations; and Margarita Cameselle, from sporting events.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS MONTE REAL YACHT CLUB

• His Majesty King Felipe VI · PRESIDENT OF HONOR
• Mr. José Luis Álvarez Vázquez CHAIRMAN
• Mr. Alejandro Retolaza Vázquez-Viso VICE CHAIRMAN
• Mr. Ignacio Sánchez Otaegui COMMODOR
• Mr. Francisco Pino Martins · VICE COMMODOR
• Mr. César Fernández-Casqueiro Domínguez · SECRETARY
• Mr. Fernando Yáñez Fernández · TREASURER
• Mr. Miguel Font Rosell · MEMBER OF FACILITIES AND PROJECTS
• Mrs. Margarita Cameselle Álvarez VOCAL FOR SPORTS EVENTS
• Mrs. Mª Genoveva Pereiro Álvarez MEMBER OF FOREIGN RELATIONS

 

It is an interview with Rosana Calvo, head of communication at the MRCYB

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