2023-09-28 17:47:58
Everything is ready for the queen event of the Real Club Náutico de Sanxenxo. Participants, organization and regatta committees are already preparing to start the eighth edition of the Rey Juan Carlos I El Corte Inglés Master Regatta, a test that will inaugurate the markers this Friday with the first tests for ORC and 6 Meters.
The Pontevedra estuary will host, once again, a fleet steeped in history. After the success of the European and World Championships held in 2021 and 2022, the 6 Meter Classic and Open fleets return to the Rey Juan Carlos I Regatta in 2023 to offer a spectacle that is now common in Pontevedra waters.
It will also be one of the first classes to go into action with the first tests taking place on Friday starting at 4:00 p.m. In total, the race committee will be able to complete a maximum of six races during the weekend – two each day – and today the weather report predicts good conditions for the first round with northwesterly winds of between ten and twelve knots. intensity.
Among the units that have already confirmed their participation in the Salnés event, which will count towards the Spanish 6 Meter League, there will be no shortage of the recently proclaimed world champion of the Classics division, King Juan Carlos’s “Bribon”.
Maria Muiña
ORC y J80
Since its inception and until 2019, the Rey Juan Carlos I Regatta was responsible for putting the final touch on the Galician high-level cruise circuit, the President of the Xunta Trophy, which in 2023 will celebrate its twenty-second edition. In the last two editions, due to its intense agenda with the 2021 European Championship and the 2022 World Cup in the 6 Meter class, the Pontevedra club gave its representation to the Real Club Náutico de Portosín and focused its efforts on the two 6 Meter divisions. -Classics and Open- and in adapted sailing.
This year the RCNS queen event returns to its original format and is once again responsible for deciding the winners of the prestigious award after the dispute between the SAR Infanta Elena Regatta in La Coruña and the Prince of Asturias Trophy in Bayonne.
The teams participating in the ORC divisions and the J80 one-designs are the ones who choose to write their name on the silver botafumeiro and have in their program a maximum of six tests spread over three days of competition.
Like the 6 Meters, the horn to signal the attention of the first round will be on Friday at 4:00 p.m. and teams such as “Aceites Abril” of the brothers Jorge and Luis Pérez Canal (RCN Vigo) will be in the running. or the “Mirfak” of Diego López (CNR Ferrol) in ORC, as well as the recently proclaimed Corinthian J80 world champion, the Kotablue Fibra Coruña 14/18 of Miguel Fernández (RCN A Coruña).
Open y JCH
The 6 Meters, ORC and J80 classes that debut on Friday will be joined on Saturday by the rest of the categories participating in the event. For the Open and JHC Veterans divisions, the regatta committee plans to give the starting signal for two coastal races throughout the weekend, which will be responsible for defining the winners of the 8th Rey Juan Carlos I Regatta.
There will be no shortage, among others, of teams such as the “Albarellos” of Fernando Rey (CN Portonovo) and the “Samoa” of Simón Pedro Bernardez (RCM Aguete) in Open or the “Iasi” of José Antonio Ortigueira, the “Papanatas” of Tala Martínez and Fernando Pazó’s “Cassandra” in JHC Veteranos, which also compete under the Náutico de Portonovo banner.
The first test will be held on Saturday starting at 1:00 p.m. with a route through the interior of the Pontevedra estuary that will be defined depending on the weather conditions.
Maria Muiña
Optimist
The youngest sailors could not be missing in 2023 either. The Optimist class will bring together a large fleet from all over Galicia at the Sanxenxo regatta course over the weekend to complete a total of six races. The regatta, which will begin on Saturday at 2:00 p.m., will count towards the regional ranking for the next national events.
Adapted Candle
The 8th Rey Juan Carlos I Regatta will once again welcome the students of the National Adapted Sailing Center. The teams, accompanied by instructors from the RCNS Sailing School, will compete in the vicinity of the club on both Saturday and Sunday.
The objective of this initiative that has been underway for years in the Pontevedra club is none other than the integration of people with disabilities in the sport of sailing.
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