NEWSLETTER

We start 2022 wishing you a very HAPPY NEW YEAR and presenting you our sports agenda for the coming months, a calendar that includes our most traditional appointments, some news and the great event that will be the Baiona Sailing Week, with the arrival of the TP52 SUPER SERIES at Galicia. In this first newsletter of the year we offer you the possibility of downloading, in its different versions, our regatta calendar.

Like every year around this time, from the Monte Real Yacht Club we send you our best wishes through the president’s Christmas message. On this occasion, José Luis Álvarez reviews the year lived, a year in which, despite COVID, we have been able to celebrate our great events; and appreciates the support of all those who promote the club and make all our projects possible. We wish all of you: Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays! and a very prosperous 2022.

After suffering the cancellation of the event in 2021 due to COVID19, the Monte Real Club de Yates already has a date to host the most important one-design circuit in the world in 2022. Coinciding with the celebration of the Jacobean Year, Galicia will be in charge of opening the season of the 52 SUPER SERIES. The “Formula 1 of the sea” will bring to the Rías Baixas between 10 and 12 teams of more than 8 nationalities with sailors from the 5 continents to compete in boats with cutting-edge technology.

From the MRCYB, a series of initiatives were launched throughout this year aimed at increasing the presence of women in the world of sailing and promoting their participation in competitions and activities in which the male presence continues to be the majority . One of the present and future challenges of the MRCYB is to continue helping women to have a greater role in nautical sports, so that they can navigate under equal conditions.

This October we inaugurate the Autumn League, which this year has AEDAS Homes as sponsor. We also celebrated the final of the 2021 National Women’s Sailing League thanks to the support of the Isonor Group and, in addition, we traveled to Barcelona to participate as speakers at the ICOYC European Conference 2021. There we present our “Sailing for all” project, which has recently been awarded a distinction at the Baiona Sports Gala.

We could not close this great edition that has been the 36th Prince of Asturias Trophy in any other way than compiling all the information, videos and photographs that we have shared with you all these days. Words and images to remember… here they are! Thanks to all of you who have made this great sailing festival possible!

After closing a brilliant edition of the Conde de Gondomar Trophy – Zelnova Zeltia Banco Sabadell Grand Prix, we do not want to say goodbye to the competition without summarizing everything we have experienced. Information, photographs, videos, reports… with this special newsletter you can remember what you have experienced these days, and if you have missed it, discover how these 3 days of regattas and meetings between friends have been. It has been, without a doubt, an edition to remember.

In recent weeks we have finished the Baitra J80 Winter League and organized the Galician Two-Handed Championship – MRW Trophy, and we have everything ready for the 46th Conde de Gondomar Trophy, which this year will be the Zelnova Zeltia Banco Sabadell Grand Prix. We talk about all this in a newsletter in which we also bring you a special report on the figure of women in the world of sailing and sailing, in which we review the great female milestones that have occurred throughout the history.

If April and May were the months of the Comunica Trophy and the Repsol Trophy, in June comes the Galician Two-Handed Championship – MRW Trophy, which once again is the Rafael Olmedo Memorial. We will tell you about these three competitions, as well as the Baitra J80 Winter League, which is nearing its end, in this May newsletter, in which we also tell you that we have renewed our blue flag and that we have everything ready for you can enjoy this summer with us, with many courses and activities at the Sailing School.

After the launch of the J80 League and the celebration of the Spanish Optimist Championship, in a few days we will start the heavy sailing season with the Comunica Trophy, between Vigo and Baiona. In this newsletter you have the Regatta Announcement and the latest club news, as well as an interview with Commodore Ignacio Sánchez Otaegui. We also tell you that we have a new profile on Instagram with which we are already on almost all social networks: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Flickr… and now also on Instagram.

In this first newsletter of 2021 we tell you why we will finally have to wait until 2022 to receive the prestigious SUPER SERIES in Baiona, who were the winners of the first regatta day of the year and that we will soon be in a position to offer the club the prestigious RYA courses. We also reviewed with the president of the club, José Luis Álvarez, the consequences of COVID19 and other topics of interest for Monte Real. We hope you find them interesting.

The Christmas message from the president of the club, José Luis Álvarez, is the focus of the last newsletter of this very special 2020. A year that has filled us with uncertainties, doubts and endless sensations that we will hardly forget. But that has also allowed us to verify that, when the commitment and quality of a team is firm, things can be done, albeit with greater difficulties. And this is the commitment that makes Monte Real great.

With 2021 just around the corner, at the MRCYB we are already beginning to prepare for the celebration, next June, of the 52 SUPER SERIES BAIONA SAILING WEEK, one of the most important sporting events of the year, with which we will put Galicia in the focus of all eyes and we will bring to the Monte Real Club de Yates some of the most outstanding sailors on the world nautical scene. Eager to make you part of our illusion, we share with you two promotional videos.

News, photographs, classifications, videos… whether you have experienced the 35th Prince of Asturias Trophy live or if you have been wanting to attend, in this special newsletter we will tell you how this last edition has been. We are also talking about the National Sailing Awards that we have awarded for another year and about the new manager of the club.

After the break caused by COVID, we resumed activity at the club and we did it with a lot of desire to make up for lost time. We celebrate the 45th Count of Gondomar, the Comunica Trophy, and the MRW Trophy. We also launched two very important news, related to two competitions that we have managed to bring to Baiona: the 52 SUPER SERIES in 2021 and the J80 World Championship in 2023.

The closure of the club as a preventive measure due to the advance of the coronavirus (COVID-19) is the main issue that we address in this March newsletter, in which we also reserve a space for the Galician Optimist Championship – Baitra Trophy, in which More than 120 boys and girls from all over Galicia participated; and the J80 Winter League, in which Javier de la Gándara’s Okofen continues to lead the standings.

This February we celebrate the 50th Galician Optimist Championship – Baitra Trophy at the club, and we do so half a century after having organized the first edition of the competition, in August 1970. In this newsletter we take the opportunity to look back and remember that championship, along with the history of the Optimist in Galicia.

In this first newsletter of 2020, in addition to wishing you all a very happy new year, we give you some details about what the coming months will be like at the Monte Real Club de Yates. An interview with our president, José Luis Álvarez, and the 2020 regatta calendar will reveal many of our goals, challenges and projects for the new year. A year that, as always, we hope to be able to share with all of you.