Author: PRENSA

 

· The Monte Real Yacht Club is officially a smoke-free port from this Friday after establishing the ban on smoking in its slipway and pontoons through which thousands of transits and athletes pass every year

· The Minister of Health of the Xunta de Galicia Jesús Vázquez Almuíña presented the president of the club José Luis Álvarez with the diploma that recognizes the participation of Monte Real in the Galician Network of Smoke-Free Ports

The club is thus ascribed to an initiative created in 2016 with an educational and social awareness purpose in which there is no surveillance or sanctions since what is sought is to achieve a personal commitment from society

 

The Monte Real Club de Yates is officially a smoke-free port from this Friday. This morning, the Minister of Health of the Xunta de Galicia, Jesús Vázquez Almuíña, presented the president of the entity, José Luis Álvarez, with a diploma that recognizes the participation of Monte Real in the Galician Network of Smoke-Free Ports.

The Baionese club thus joins the Portonovo Yacht Club, the Portosín Real Club Náutico and the Ribadeo Real Club Náutico in an initiative promoted with an educational and social awareness purpose, with the main objective that adults become figures exemplary and set an example with their attitudes, in this case without smoking, to the little ones.

The pontoon and slipway area of the port of the Monte Real Yacht Club, through which thousands of people pass each year between transits and athletes, thus becomes a healthy and sustainable environment in which, from today, you can not smoke. It is a personal commitment that the users of the club will have to assume, since there will be no surveillance or sanctions for those who fail to comply with the rule.

In the delivery of the diploma to Monte Real, the Minister of Health of the Xunta de Galicia, Jesús Vázquez Almuíña, congratulated the club for continuing to be, once again -he said-, one of the pioneering clubs in Galicia at the time to promote initiatives and launch new proposals like this one. What it is about, Almuíña said, is to “make visible that tobacco smoke is not good and that excluding it from all public places will give everyone a better quality of life” .

The president of Monte Real, José Luis Álvarez, thanked the regional head for his visit to Baiona and promised to continue betting on the environment and health. “Every day ,” Álvarez said. We work so that everyone’s future is better and making our home a smoke-free space is taking another step in that direction” .

Baiona, Corcubión and Rianxo are the three municipalities in Galicia in which all their beaches have been declared “beaches without smoke”, but there are a total of 45 municipalities that have also joined the initiative, with a total of 79 smoke-free beaches. tobacco.

In the case of marinas, the Monte Real Club de Yates is the fourth to join the Galician Network of Smoke-Free Ports, of which the Portonovo Yacht Club, the Portosín Royal Yacht Club and the Royal Ribadeo Nautical Club.

“The Royal Mount – said the president of Portos de Galicia, José Juan Durán- It is the last port to join the network but there are still more than 40 that we want to join as well, so we have room to continue working in the line of excellence that we want for the nautical facilities of Galicia” .

The mayor of Baiona, Ángel Rodal, also took part in the act, who in 2018 received, for the second consecutive year, the gold award from the Smoke-free Beaches initiative of the Xunta de Galicia, after having declared all the beaches of the region tobacco-free. municipality. Baiona thus becomes, said the councilman, an exemplary place with measures ” that impact both the environment, by reducing the number of cigarette butts that end up in the sea, and health, by preventing people from breathing the smoke of smokers” .

· The historic club from Baiona is once again among the most prolific yacht clubs in Spain by scheduling ten sports competitions for the new year

· The visit of the Royal Cruising Club, the nautical meeting with the Irish Cruising Club, the ARC Portugal rally and the Pornic Baiona regatta will put the international note on the calendar

· The Conde de Gondomar Trophy, the Prince of Asturias Trophy and the delivery of the National Sailing Awards will once again be the highlights of the program

· The Galician Solo and Two-handed Championship and the Spanish Height Championship will bring together the highlights of the Galician fleet in the Rías Baixas

· The J80 will be in charge of opening and closing the Monte Real sports calendar with the exclusive Winter and Autumn leagues for these monotypes

Ten sports competitions will mark the journey of the Monte Real Club de Yates in this 2019, a year in which the historic club from Baiona will once again be among the most prolific in Spain in the organization of regattas.

The J80 will be in charge of opening the sports calendar with the J80 Class Winter League that the club has been organizing for years exclusively for these monotypes with a great presence in Galicia. It will be played in six days during the first months of the year, starting on January 26 and ending on April 6.

The next appointment on the Monte Real calendar, the first for the cruisers, will be the Comunica Trophy , scheduled for April 20, coinciding with Easter. The regatta will be held in a single day and will once again have the collaboration of the Real Club Náutico de Vigo, from where the test will depart for Baiona.

The historic Repsol Trophy , one of the longest-running sailing trophies in Galicia, will celebrate its forty-second edition this year, once again coinciding with the May 1 long weekend. The traditional spring regatta of Monte Real will be held on May 1, 4 and 5 and it will have room for all types of sailboats.

In May the little ones will also meet in Baiona, to compete in the Baitra Children’s Sailing Trophy , scheduled for the 25th and 26th. Monte Real thus maintains its firm commitment to basic sailing, which it promotes through its Sailing School and the organization of specific championships for sailors who are just starting out in this sport.

The Galician Solitaire and A Dos Championship , which for the fifth consecutive year is called the Rafael Olmedo Memorial in memory of the historic president of Monte Real who died in 2015, will be in charge of opening the month of June. It will be held on day 1 with a route of about 30 miles for crews reduced to the maximum, with one or two sailors on board.

The students of the Sailing School of the club will have their main moment on the weekend of June 22 and 23 with the Final of the Baitra MRCYB Social League . The competition will mark the closing of the 2018-2019 season courses, which are attended throughout the year by numerous children of different ages.

In July comes the first highlight of the Monte Real sports calendar: the Conde de Gondomar Trophy , which once again becomes the Spanish Height Championship. The forty-fourth edition of the regatta will be held on July 25, 26, 27 and 28.

Ten years younger, thirty-four in total, he is celebrating the Prince of Asturias Trophy , the most important regatta currently being held in Galicia and one of the most prominent on the Spanish nautical scene. It is an unmissable event for all types of sailors who find in Baiona not only the opportunity to compete at the highest level, but also to enjoy a true sailing festival, with numerous leisure activities. This year the calendar has been marked for September 6, 7 and 8 and will include, as usual, the presentation of the Terras Gauda National Sailing Awards on the night of September 7.

And the last regatera appointment of Monte Real will be for the J80. The monotypes, in charge of opening the club’s calendar, will also put an end to it in the J80 Class Autumn League , scheduled for October 26, November 9, 23 and 30.

In addition to the strictly nautical competitions, the Monte Real will once again celebrate in 2019, on September 14, a new edition of the Solidarity Vertiathlon , a triathlon that the club organizes with the aim of raising funds for its Adapted Sailing School for people with disabilities. .

A calendar with several international sections

In the 2019 calendar of the Monte Real Yacht Club there are also several international events, among which a visit by the fleet of the Royal Cruising Club , the most important cruise association in the United Kingdom, stands out. More than 100 associates in some 20 sailboats will dock in Baiona at the beginning of July to enjoy sailing along the Galician coast.

The Monte Real will also host, in 2019, the Irish Cruising Club Nautical Meeting . The prestigious group of Irish cruisers will meet at the Baionese club from July 11 to 13.

One month before, in June, the sailors of the twenty-fifth edition of the ARC Portugal , a rally promoted by the World Cruising Club, will stop at Monte Real; and also the participants in the Pornic Baiona regatta, which takes place from June 5 to 10.

 

 

January 26, February 9 and 23, March 9 and 23, April 6, 2019

J80 CLASS WINTER LEAGUE

April 20, 2019

COMMUNICATE TROPHY

May 1, 4 and 5, 2019

REPSOL TROPHY 42nd SPRING REGATTA

May 25 and 26, 2019

BAITRA SAILING CHILDREN TROPHY

June 1, 2019

5th RAFAEL OLMEDO MEMORIAL
GALICIAN SOLO CHAMPIONSHIP AND TWO

June 6-11, 2019

arc portugal

June 22 and 23, 2019

BAITRA MRCYB SOCIAL LEAGUE FINAL

2-5 July 2019

royal cruising club rally to galicia

6-9 July 2019

pornic regatta – baionne – la rochelle

10-14 July 2019

irish cruising club rally

July 25, 26, 27 and 28, 2019

44th COUNT OF GONDOMAR TROPHY
SPANISH HEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP

September 6, 7 and 8, 2019

34th PRINCE OF ASTURIAS TROPHY

September 7, 2019

TERRAS GAUDA NATIONAL SAILING AWARDS

September 14, 2019

SOLIDARITY VERTIATHLON

October 26, November 9, 23 and 30, 2019

J80 CLASS FALL LEAGUE

 

Dear friends and friends:

One more year is about to end and it is leaving behind events, experiences and endless memories that will form part of the history of our club.

From the Board of Directors that I am honored to preside over, I would like to send you our most cordial congratulations this Christmas and our best wishes for the coming New Year 2019.

From here we would like to express our recognition to all the sailors, from the most novice to the most experienced, who with their participation in the different competitions, have kept the club’s flag at the top.

Also to the sponsors who, over and over again with their collaboration and support, continue to make the most emblematic regattas of Monte Real great; and to the media that, with their great work, bring to society such an extraordinary sport as sailing.

Everything we do would not be possible without the efforts of each of the club’s collaborators and staff, whose daily work we feel very proud of.

I would not like to end without sending you our warmest regards and hugs for the families of those friends who have left us throughout this year.

Merry Christmas to all!

Jose Luis Alvarez

President MRCYB

 

 

All people smile in the same language… and we love to speak and understand each other in that language. Thanks to all of you who throughout this year have visited the Monte Real Yacht Club, attended a course at the MRCYB Sailing School, participated in one of our competitions, enjoyed our parties… and, above all, to those who, by doing so, have given us your smiles. The next year… more SAIL & SMILE!

 

The Sailing School makes available to its students a new kit for sports practice made up of a polo shirt, a vest cover and a windbreaker, which can be purchased at the club for just 35 euros .

The garments will be labeled with the athlete’s name, the club’s pendant and the logos of the institutions that sponsor the Sailing School; and the cost of these labels will be borne by the club.

All those who want to acquire this new kit must request it BEFORE DECEMBER 28 , writing an email to secretaria@mrcyb.com or calling 986 385 000

There is the possibility of acquiring the pack of 3 garments for 35 euros, or each garment individually , at a price of 10 euros for the polo shirt, 17 euros for the vest cover and 18 euros for the windbreaker.

 

 

If you don’t know what to give this Christmas , at the Monte Real Club de Yates we make it very easy for you.

From today until January 6 we have all Helly Hansen products in our store with a 15 percent discount . *

Don’t miss them! Come visit us!

 

(*) Discount valid for both members and non-members

The Monte Real Club de Yates paid tribute this Tuesday to one of its oldest members, Don Pedro Rivas, who in 2018 celebrated 50 years as a member of the club.

With the celebration of a meal in his honor and the delivery of a commemorative enamel pendant, Monte Real wanted to recognize the half century that Pedro Rivas has been linked to the club, in which he registered as a member on August 24, 1968.

The recognition of its oldest members is a tradition that Monte Real inaugurated in 2017 with a tribute to Doña Delia Dominguez Gonda, Don Víctor Ruíz Ochoa, Doña María Luisa Curbera Conde and Don José Ramón Curbera Conde, in the year in which they celebrated their 50 years as partners.

On this occasion the honoree was Don Pedro Rivas, who is accompanied in the image by the president of Monte Real, José Luis Álvarez; and the vice-commodore of the club, Genoveva Pereiro.

 

Javier de la Gándara’s Okofen won this afternoon in Baiona the victory in the AXA J80 Autumn League, revalidating the victory achieved in the 2017 edition

· The Marías – Casas do Telhado by Manuel María Cunha took the silver of the championship and the bronze went to the Luna Nueva by Juan Luis Tuero

· A fraternization dinner put the finishing touch to the championship organized by the Monte Real Yacht Club with the sponsorship of AXA Seguros

· The 8 meter monotypes will once again be the protagonists of the first competition that the Baionese club has scheduled for 2019

 

Javier de la Gándara’s Okofen conquered this Saturday the victory of the AXA J80 Autumn League after winning the last day of tests held this afternoon in the bay of Baiona. The team led by the experienced skipper from Vigo sentenced the competition after adding another first place to those they had achieved in previous days.

With five first places, one second and one third in the seven races held since last October, De la Gándara and his team once again demonstrated why they are among the best in the Galician J80 class.

They sentenced the championship with 7 points, taking eight points ahead of their most direct rival, the Marías – Casas do Telhado of the Portuguese Manuel María Cunha who, despite completing very good races throughout the championship, was not able to beat the Okofen in no time.

On board the winning one-design we once again saw a committed team that performs at its best regardless of the weather conditions, which on some days, like today’s, made the fleet’s navigation quite complicated with rough seas and winds above 30 knots at times

In this new edition of the AXA J80 Autumn League, De la Gándara once again had his right-hand man on board, Diego Fernández; with his son Jaime de la Gándara and with Hugo Ferreiro, regulars at Okofen since its inception in J80 competitions. Santi Meygide, Javier Porto and Jaime García were other crew members who joined in some days, to complete the team or replace one of the regulars.

With its victory in the autumn championship, the Okofen closed a great regatta season in which it also won bronze in the Infinitus Rent Trophy and the Spanish J80 Championship, silver in the Príncipe de Asturias Trophy and gold in the Conde de Gondomar Trophy.

The podium of honor of the AXA J80 Autumn League was completed, with 15 points, by Marías – Casas do Telhado, led by Manuel María Cunha, and by Juan Luis Tuero, Luna Nueva, who came third with 18 points.

Already out of the podium drawers, the Pazo de Cea by Iago Alonso, in fourth position; and the Namasté by Luis de Mira, in fifth. The rest of the classification is completed by Bernardo Macedo’s Mondo, Fernando Yañez’s Cansino, Javier Martínez Valente’s Cunichán and Yago G. Robatto’s Cormorant II.

After the celebration this afternoon in Baiona of the last test, the participants and members of the regatta committee participated in a fraternization dinner presided over by directors of the Monte Real Club de Yates, as organizing club; and AXA Seguros, as sponsor of the competition.

A minute of silence was observed in it in tribute to the member and sailor of Monte Real, Berta Hernández Alfageme, who died this week after a hard fight against cancer.

At the end, the sailors were summoned for the next appointment of the J80 fleet, the Winter League, which will be held in Baiona between January and March 2019.

 

FINAL CLASSIFICATION (Top5) AXA J80 AUTUMN LEAGUE

1. OKOFEN · Javier de la Gándara · 7 points
2. MARÍAS – CASAS DO TELHADO · Manuel María Cunha · 15 points
3. NEW MOON · Juan Luis Tuero · 18 points
4. CEA MANOR Iago Alonso 28 points
5. NAMASTE · Luis de Mira · 31 points

 

OVERALL FINAL CLASSIFICATION AXA J80 AUTUMN LEAGUE (2018)

 

 

· The bay of Baiona hosts this Saturday the last tests of the competition with which the Monte Real Club de Yates closes its 2018 sports calendar

· In the lead and with a 6-point advantage over their most direct rival, Javier de la Gándara’s Okofen has all the ballots to take the final victory

· After the tests in the water, the championship will conclude with a fellowship dinner in which the prizes will be awarded to the winners.

 

Tomorrow, Saturday, starting at three in the afternoon, the bay of Baiona hosts the last tests of the J80 Autumn League, which the Monte Real Club de Yates has been holding since last October with the sponsorship of AXA Seguros.

The one-design championship, which was reduced to three stages after the suspension of its last day due to the rain and wind storm, will experience its last tests on a day that is expected to be typically winter, with a lot of cloudiness and rain, but also with good wind to haggle, with an average of 17 knots and peaks that could reach 30 knots.

With these weather forecasts, the participants will have to fine-tune their decisions and strategies to climb positions to the positions of honor, which are currently occupied by Javier de la Gándara’s Okofen, Manuel María Cunha’s Marías-Casas do Telhado and Manuel María Cunha’s Luna Nueva. Juan Luis Tuero.

With four first places in the six events held so far, 6 points in the provisional classification and 6 points ahead of their closest rival, the Okofen crew, who have maintained their leadership since the first day, have all the ballots to take the final victory.

To define the rest of the podium boxes, we will have to wait for what happens tomorrow, Saturday, in the water, since the next three classified are in a range of just 6 points, which goes from the 12 that the Portuguese Marías-Casas do Roof at 18 from Pazo de Cea, passing between 16 from Luna Nueva.

With 25 and 26 points respectively, Bernardo Macedo’s Mondo and Luis de Mira’s Namasté are the next classified and the ones that could scratch a podium position if they manage to sign some very good results in the last three tests.

After the competition on the water, the AXA J80 Autumn League will continue on land with the celebration of a fellowship dinner in which shipowners, skippers, sailors, members of the regatta committee and directors of the Monte Real Yacht Club and AXA Seguros will participate. .

Throughout it, the prizes will be awarded to the winners and they will be invited to the next edition of the J80 Winter League, scheduled for the months of January, February and March 2019.

CLASSIFICATION IN THE LACK OF THE LAST 3 TESTS
Top 5 AXA J80 FALL LEAGUE

1. OKOFEN · Javier de la Gándara · 6 points
2. MARÍAS – CASAS DO TELHADO · Manuel María Cunha · 12 points
3. NEW MOON · Juan Luis Tuero · 16 points
4. CEA MANOR Iago Alonso 18 points
5. MONDO · Bernardo Macedo · 25 points

 

· The Monte Real Yacht Club organized this Saturday the “I Environmental Awareness Workshop on the impact of plastic in the marine environment”

· The objective of the activity was to make future generations aware of the need to reduce the use of plastics to avoid the damage they cause

· With sieves and binocular loupes, the participants discovered the reality of microplastics that most of them were not aware of

· The workshop was held thanks to the collaboration of the University of Vigo and the Baiona council and with the involvement of companies such as ABANCA and Gadis

Twenty boys and girls from different schools in Baiona participated this Saturday in the “I Environmental Awareness Workshop on the impact of plastic on the marine environment. Behind the plastic footprint”, an initiative organized by the Monte Real Yacht Club to make children aware of the repercussions that plastics generate in marine ecosystems.

The figures make it very clear. According to UN data, more than 100,000 species die each year from the plastic that pollutes the sea, and it is estimated that within 30 years there will be more plastic than fish in the sea. Some of these plastic residues are visible to the human eye (macroplastics), but to see many others (microplastics and nanoplastics) you have to use magnifying glasses and microscopes.

And that is precisely what the participants in the workshop organized by Monte Real in collaboration with the University of Vigo and the Baiona City Council, and the involvement of ABANCA and Gadis, did this Saturday. After receiving an explanation about the types of existing plastics, their production and their impact on the planet, the children went to the beaches of A Barbeira and A Ribeira to identify and collect them.

They collected more than 8 kilos of plastics and discovered microplastics (of which most of them were not aware of their existence) in the sand with laboratory materials donated by the University of Vigo such as sieves and binocular loupes.

This is the name given to plastic particles that are less than 5 millimeters in size and that are, for the most part, undetectable to the naked eye. Those that drift on the beaches are those that the sea itself expels, after having naturally crushed and degraded the plastics that end up in it. They are barely visible as they blend in with the sand, but they are there, and in recent years, researchers have begun to alert society to their terrible consequences.

 

One of the first measures that must be applied to reduce the presence of plastics and microplastics in the marine environment is to reduce the dependence and use that human beings have of plastics.

The “I Environmental awareness workshop on the impact of plastic in the marine environment. Following the footprint of plastic” Taught by the graduate in Marine Sciences and researcher on marine pollution, Noelia Estévez, it ended with an award ceremony for the participants, in which the mayor of Baiona, Ángel Rodal, participated; and ecological and sustainable food, with local products and reusable packaging.

 

 

 

· The Monte Real Club de Yates, in collaboration with the University of Vigo and the Baiona City Council, organizes the “I Environmental Awareness Workshop on the impact of plastic on the marine environment. Following the footprint of plastic”

· The initiative aims to raise awareness among children in the municipality of Baiona of the impact of plastic waste on the environment, paying special attention to its impact on rivers, seas and oceans

· The workshop, in which companies such as ABANCA and Gadis are also involved, will end with an ecological and sustainable meal for the participants as an example of a healthy and environmentally friendly lifestyle

Baiona hosts next Saturday, November 17, the “I Environmental awareness workshop on the impact of plastic in the marine environment. Following the footprint of plastic”, an initiative promoted by the Monte Real Club de Yates in collaboration with the University of Vigo and the Baiona city council, in which companies such as ABANCA and Gadis are also involved.

It is an educational day in which children from the municipality between 7 and 18 years old will be able to recognize the repercussions that plastics have on the environment, paying special attention to the damage they cause to marine ecosystems, and various actions to minimize its impact.

Currently only 9 percent of the plastic produced is recycled, 12 percent is incinerated and the remaining 79 percent goes to landfills or directly into the environment. There are more than 230,000 tons of plastic waste floating on the surface of the different seas of the world and, although more and more is being studied, the full impact of microplastics that are not visible to the naked eye is still unknown.

To shed light on this problem and try to raise awareness among future generations, Monte Real scheduled different activities in different locations in the municipality.

A first part, more theoretical, will include a presentation of the topic at the club’s facilities in Baiona. The types of existing plastics, their production, the routes of entry of waste into rivers, seas and oceans, and their impact on the planet will be explained to the little ones.

In the second part of the workshop, the children will go to the beaches of A Barbeira and A Ribeira, two of the most central and crowded sandbanks in the municipality of Baiona, to participate in a practical session on waste identification and collection. The goal is for them to be able to recognize and classify macroplastics, which they will later deposit in recycling containers.

The activity will also include the search for microplastics, for which laboratory materials provided by the University of Vigo will be used, such as sieves and binocular loupes, since most microplastics cannot be seen with the naked eye.

The “I Environmental awareness workshop on the impact of plastic in the marine environment. Behind the plastic footprint” will end at the Monte Real Yacht Club facilities with an ecological and sustainable meal, free of plastics, as an example of healthy lifestyles that respect the environment. It will explain the need to change plastic bags for reusable ones, avoid wrapping with transparent film and the trays in which food usually comes, not using glasses, plastic and plastic cutlery, or choose returnable bottles and containers.

With this outreach and environmental education action, which will be taught by the graduate in Marine Sciences and researcher on marine pollution, Noelia Estévez, Monte Real seeks to make the children of the municipality aware of the importance of moving towards a more sustainable consumption model. , recycling plastics and not throwing them anywhere, emphasizing the harmful effects that plastic has on the environment.

I Environmental awareness workshop on the impact
of plastic in the marine environment. Following the plastic footprint.

Bayonne, Saturday, November 17, 2018

10:00 Learning session on the problem of plastics
11:30 · Identification and collection of plastics – macroplastics and microplastics
12:30 · Waste identification and characterization classroom
13:30 Eco-sustainable food for all participants offered by Gadis
14:00 Delivery of gifts to the participants

 

The adverse weather conditions recorded this Saturday in the bay of Baiona, remnants of the storm that has hit Galicia in recent days, forced the suspension of the third day of the AXA J80 Autumn League, which was scheduled to be held today from 3:00 p.m. :00.

Waiting for what happens on the last day, scheduled for November 24, the classification remains as it was. Javier de la Gándara’s Okofen, with 6 points, leads the competition; and the provisional places of honor are completed by Marías by Manuel María Cunha, with 12, and Luna Nueva by Juan Luis Tuero, with 16.

 

 

· The competition organized by the Monte Real Club de Yates enters its final stretch with Javier de la Gándara’s Okofen at the top of the standings

· Manuel María Cunha’s Marías, Juan Luis Tuero’s Luna Nueva and Cristina González Cominges’ Pazo de Cea will seek a spot on the podium

· The weather forecasts announce a fairly windy day that could complicate the navigation of the monotypes in the bay of Baiona

 

Tomorrow, Saturday, the bay of Baiona hosts the penultimate day of the AXA J80 Autumn League, the one-design competition of the Monte Real Club de Yates that enters its final stretch with Javier de la Gándara’s Okofen at the head of the classification.

With a 6-point margin over Marías-Casas do Telhado of the Portuguese Manuel María Cunha, who is their closest rival, Okofen will seek to widen the distance over their competitors to reaffirm their leadership and secure the place of honor in the championship.

It will do so on a day that is expected to be complicated due to the weather, which announces some rain and winds of more than 15 knots with peaks close to 30, conditions that will make the J80 “fly” in the Bay of Baiona.

It will be on this stage where the committee, chaired by Jano Martín, plans to locate the test field and where, if the planned program is achieved, three windward-leeward regattas will be held starting at three in the afternoon, local time. set for the start of the competition.

Behind Javier de Gándara’s Okofen, with 6 points; and Manuel María Cunha’s Marías, with 12, are in the classification, in a fairly tight range of points, Juan Luis Tuero’s Luna Nueva, with 16; and the Pazo de Cea of Cristina González Cominges, with 18.

Bernardo Macedo’s Mondo, with 25 points, will have to make a little more effort to raise their positions; the Namasté of Luis de Mira, with 26; Cansino by Fernándo Yáñez, with 30; Javier Martínez Valente’s Cunichán, with 33; and Yago G. Robatto’s Cormorant II, with 50.

With the celebration of the penultimate day, the J80 Autumn League organized by Monte Real with the sponsorship of AXA Seguros will only have one last stage left to crown the winners, which will be held on the 24th.

 

· The Monte Real Club de Yates de Baiona serves as a refuge at this time for three ships on the Rum Route that encountered problems on their transoceanic crossing

· A fourth boat, the Service Civique of Frenchwoman Claire Pruvot, plans to arrive at the Baiona club in the next few hours to fix a leak

· Monte Real has made all its resources available to sailors and the company from Vigo, Velas Gándara, is dealing with the repair of its sails.

 

The Monte Real Club de Yates is serving as a refuge for three boats participating in the Rum Route, one of the most prestigious transoceanic regattas in the world for solo sailors, which this year celebrates its eleventh edition.

After leaving the French port of Saint Malo on the 4th, the bad weather conditions encountered by the 123 participants, with winds of up to 40 knots and waves of 6 meters, have forced various boats to make technical stops to solve the problems suffered during the journey and avoid further damage.

At this time, Emmanuel Le Roche’s Edenred , class 40, takes refuge in the historic Monte Real Club de Yates de Baiona. The French sailor, who is competing for the first time on the Rum Route, suffered breakages in his sails and the Galician company Velas Gándara is fixing them so that he can return to competition as soon as possible.

The storm also baited another Class40 boat, the Carac de Louis Duc, who will remain in the fishing village of Baiona until he solves his problems and can return to Guadeloupe, something that Duc, who is competing for the second time on the Rum Route, hopes to be able to do as quickly as possible.

The third boat moored at the Baiona club is Alain Delhumeau’s 56-foot trimaran Rayon Vert , which competes in the Rhum class.

A fourth ship will arrive at Monte Real in the next few hours. It is the Service Civique of the French Claire Pruvot, who informed the club of the need to use its facilities to solve a leak suffered in the boat.

The refugee skippers in Monte Real have communicated to the club their intention to leave Baiona tomorrow afternoon, once the rain and wind storm that is recorded at this time in Galicia subsides, and that keeps a large part of the Galician coast on alert Orange.

Once they leave the club, they will return to Pointe-Á-Pitre, on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, the final destination for these adventurers in what is known as the “Liberty Regatta”, a race where 123 professionals and amateurs compete under the same rules. along a heart-stopping journey of more than 3,500 nautical miles alone.

· The Okofen led by Javier de la Gándara consolidated its leadership in the AXA J80 Autumn League after winning on the second day held today in Baiona

· Despite not having his usual crew, the historic skipper managed to repeat victory and increase the margin of distance over his most direct rivals

· The J80 Autumn League organized by the Monte Real Yacht Club and sponsored by AXA Seguros resumes its tests on November 10

 

 

Javier de la Gándara’s Okofen consolidated its leadership in the AXA J80 Autumn League after winning on the second day held this afternoon in the bay of Baiona with complicated weather conditions, rough seas and an intense and shifting wind that forced the committee to modify the regatta course on several occasions.

Despite the circumstances and not having its usual crew, in which Jaime de la Gándara and Hugo Ferreiro were absent, Okofen once again demonstrated why it is among the best J80 in Spain. He did it, as usual, with the tandem Javier de la Gándara – Diego Fernández at the head, and the support, this Saturday, of Javier Porto and Jaime García.

His results were not as regular as on the first day, in which he made full with three first; but the third, first and second places signed today, and the discard that came into play allowing him to erase his worst result from the classification, kept him in first position and further distanced him from his most direct rivals.

With 6 points, Okofen is still in the lead ahead of Marías – Casas do Telhado skippered by the Portuguese Manuel María Cunha, who has 12. Juan Luis Tuero’s Luna Nueva, which sailed very well today and managed to cross the finish line among the first, rose to third position and made it onto the provisional podium with 16 points. With 18 points, Pazo de Cea, led on this second day by Iago Alonso and with the addition of Juan Lago to the crew, is fourth in the standings.

From that fourth position, the distances of the rest of the fleet with respect to the J80 that are in the lead are already more pronounced. With 25 points, Bernardo Macedo’s Mondo is in fifth position, followed closely by Luis de Mira’s Namasté with 26.

Fernándo Yáñez’s Cansino closes the classification, dragging the lack of points from the first day in which he did not compete; Javier Martínez Valente’s Cunichán, who today could not score in one of the tests; and Cormorant II by Yago G. Robatto.

The AXA J80 Autumn League organized by the Monte Real Club de Yates with the sponsorship, once again, of AXA Seguros, will cross its halfway mark on November 10 with three new tests that will take the one-designs into the final stretch of the competition .

CLASSIFICATION DAY 2 (Top5) AXA J80 AUTUMN LEAGUE

1. OKOFEN · Javier de la Gándara · 6 points
2. MARÍAS – CASAS DO TELHADO · Manuel María Cunha · 12 points
3. NEW MOON · Juan Luis Tuero · 16 points
4. CEA MANOR Iago Alonso 18 points
5. MONDO · Bernardo Macedo · 25 points

 

This Saturday the second phase of the AXA J80 Autumn League is held in Baiona, led by Javier de la Gándara’s Okofen and Manuel María Cunha’s Marías

· The weather forecasts announce a complicated day due to the intensity of the wind that could reach up to 25 knots

· The competition organized by the Monte Real Club de Yates will end in November with the last two days in dispute and the awarding of prizes to the winners

This Saturday the AXA J80 Autumn League of the Monte Real Club de Yates returns to the bay of Baiona, which resumes its tests after its inauguration, a fortnight ago, with the victory of Javier de la Gándara’s Okofen, who leads the classification followed by Marías – Houses of the Roof by Manuel María Cunha.

At three in the afternoon, the regatta committee, chaired by José Ángel Rodríguez, will start the first of the three tests set out in the competition programme, some windward-leeward routes in which the monotypes must complete two complete laps .

The weather forecasts announce a complicated day due to the intensity of the wind, which could reach up to 25 knots, especially in the first hours of navigation. As the afternoon progresses, its strength will decrease but the rain could also enter the scene. It will be, in any case, a cold day, with maximums that will not exceed 13 degrees.

With these conditions, the J80 participants will draw the new outline of the provisional podium, which today is occupied by Okofen, Marías and Mondo, by Bernardo Macedo; first, second and third respectively. Stalking those top positions, Namasté by Luis de Mira, Pazo de Cea by Cristina González Cominges and Luna Nueva by Juan Luis Tuero appear later in the classification.

A little further down, they are followed by Javier Martínez Valente’s Cunichán; and Fernando Yáñez’s Cansino and Yago González-Robatto’s Cormorán II close the classification without scoring, having withdrawn from the competition on the first day.