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The Cape of Creus is a spectacular special place with great beauty. It can be considered very interesting from a cultural point of view, with ancient monasteries, castles and charming villages; with a protected fauna and vegetation in the Natural Park of Cap de Creus. The most eastern point of the peninsula is also one of the best fishing regions. For this, the first thing we have to bear in mind is that we are in a space with special protection. Although you can fish in the area of the natural park and partial nature reserve, you cannot do it in the Natural Reserve []

Everyone is familiar with the GPS that is used in cars and on airline screens, but not everyone knows that the Italian multinational Navionics is a pioneer in these new systems, changing the way to navigate, introducing the world's first electronic map in 1984, called Geonav. Until then, some others had had an impact on the concept, but no one had been able to turn the idea into a viable product, which actually worked and could be acquired as it was. No wonder some compared the revolution initiated by Navionics with the revolution caused by []

To look for the roots of the activity carried out by the Institute, we would have to go back to the House of Recruitment, which was founded in the Atarazanas of Seville in 1503 by the Catholic Kings. The House of Recruitment, despite having been subordinate from 1524 to the Royal and Supreme Council of Indias, has long led the discovery, colonization and trade of the New World. The first complete letters of the land were produced there and can be considered in addition to the first nautical university, the first coordinating body and producer of nautical mapping in an official and organized way. With his []

I have spent almost thirty years of my life in the Balearic Islands, most of them in Mallorca. I have recently returned to my city, La Coruña; of course, so many years in the Balearic Islands left their mark, and now, when some episodes of that time come to mind, I think that Galicia and the Balearic Islands have many points of coincidence. In mind, the following are some of them, which may not be the most important, but which are significant, and, in my modest opinion, interesting. There they go: Balearic Islands is the Spanish region where before []

The "Festival of Les Piragües," the International Seal Flood this year celebrates its 80th anniversary, the magic date for the Assyrian Piragüism will be August 6. The inscriptions for this classic between Arrionda and Ribadesella can be formalized from the first day of June. In order to know the origin of the International Seal Decline, it is necessary to go back to 1929, when Dionisio de la Huerta decided to take a piragua tour of the Piloña River, from Coya to Infiesto, during his summer holiday in his family home in Coya. In that adventure he was accompanied by a group of friends, []

The Royal Spanish Federation of Piragüismo is clearly the nautical federation with a greater number of competitions at the state level. It focuses between March and July, basically, with some disciplines like the Kayak de Mar that will end their season in September. As for the National League for the Declation of Aguas Bravas, three will be the events: the first was held in April in Osses-Didarry and San Miguel which was the first valid test for the Spanish Cup. The second date takes place in May in the town []

The exciting San Miguel de Traineras League will have a total of 21 notable races in its 2016 edition, beginning on June 19 and ending on September 18. The beginning in the Guadalquivir in Seville with the IV Flag Euskadi Basque Country and the closure in vizcaina waters, in Portugalete. The clubs that form the "Champions of the fixed bank": NT2 HONDARRIBIA, URDAIBAI AVIA, ORIO BABYAUTO, KAIKU PRODUCHA, SAN JUAN IBERDROLA, CABO, TIRAN PEREIRA, SAN PEDRO ECOLOBIA, ASTILLERO, ZIERBENA BAHIAS BIZKAIA, PORTUGALETE GROUP EULEN and ZUMAIA http: / / www.ligasmiguel.com / most of the four months of the competition [A]

Olympic year and many dates for our athletes. We highlight the World Cup of Remo for the categories ABF and ABM consists of three races. The first to be held last April in Varese, the second to be marked race will be in the end of May in Swiss waters, in Lucerne and the third in the Polish town of Poznan and half of June. In Lucerna, a week before the World Cup, an Olympic Classification will be held, with Brazil 2016 in sight (August 6-14), the Paralympics of ABM and ABF will compete []

The international high-level motoronautics will have an excellent race field in the beautiful Ria de Navia in summer 2016. The asturian waters will host top level dl events, case of the World Championships in categories HR-850 and T-850. The dates chosen on August 30 and 31 with the organization of the lively and active Escudería Navia Motor Club. The Asturian school is a new board of directors for this world event, under the command of Gerardo Fernández. The motoronautics became a very active sport in Navia in the 1990s, being the Navia Motor Shield []

The Denia Navy will be the basis of the Spanish World Water Motor Championship: the Aquabike World Championship organized by the International Union of Motoronautics, the H20 Racing, RM and the Navy of the city of Alicante. The World Cup has five remarkable tests: the one already held at the Doha Circuit in Qatar and the meeting of Guadaloupe, France. After them is Denia, to be completed by Liuzhou (China) and Sharjah (Arab Emirates). Text: Manuel Pedro Seoane Photographs: Aquabike World Championship

The fantastic Playa de la Salie, in the heart of the Aquitaine in southern France will be the point that marks the beginning in the last week of May of the European Tour of Bodyboard. It will be the only meeting in France among the best European specialists in the male category, since the other two are the San Miguel de Azores in October and in Mohamedia in Morocco already in November. The girls will start their Tour also in Aquitaine, to approach the south of Porto, in Ilhavo (Aveiro) in the month of August, known as the Portuguese Venice, to move later []

The GALEGA FEDERATION DE SURF has made a significant update of its test schedule that changes the dates of the tests included in the SPAIN COPA 2016 calendar. CIRCUITO GALEGO 2016 7 / 8 May Dates (Juniors de Bodyboard and surf) Spain Cup JUNIOR 10 / 11 / 12 June A Lanzada (Juniors bodyboard / surf, Open surf / long / Sup waves) 16 / 17 / 18 July Pantin (Juniors bodyboard / surf and Open surf / long / up waves) Spain Cup Open Surf-Longboard-SUP Olas 16 / 17 / 18 September Furnas (Juniors bodyboard / surf and Open surf / 8 / October / Sup / Spray / Sup / 9 / Spray [Juniors / 9 / Razo]

We offer PDF with national Rankers of different categories and modalities, published by the Spanish Federation of Surf. The 2016 FES Junior Spanish Cup Ranking (old National Circuit) updated until April 1 with the tests of Conil and Tapia de Casariego. As regards the ranking of the COPA DE SPAIN FES2016 (former National Circuit) for the categories OPEN and FEMENINO of the different modalities is updated to 1 April 2016. 2016 RANKING OPEN AND FES FES 2016 RANKING FES PROMISES

Galicia and Canarias hoard for the 2016 season the surf events of the different modalities, which have in play Championships or Copas of Spain. With rank of absolute and junior the Spanish Championship will be held between June 29 and July 3 organized by FES itself in Ferrol. The Surf, Longboard, Kneeboard and Sup Waves modalities for the absolute, while for the juniors will be Surf, Bodybord Sub 18M / Sub 18F / Sub 14M / Sub 14F / Sub 14F. The Spanish Bodyboard Championship will still be held in the Canary Islands without an official date in the categories Open, Women and Junior. [...]

The 2016 National Calendar of the RFEM began in the waters of Almería, early last April, with the Spanish Championship of Thermal RC. In 3.5 the podium was composed by Dioniso Baño, followed by Carmela Soriano and Luis Plana. In Tunnel 3.5 the first three were by this order Amaranto Gutiérrez, José Antonio Barquero and Luis Plata. Javier Granero Ruiz, Guillermo Domínguez and Manolo García did the same in 7.5. In 15 cc participated 8 athletes with victory for Luis Coll, ahead of Antonio Sánchez and Javier Granero; and finally in 35 cc the []

Prevention is a fundamental element in preventing situations of danger at sea, those who approach the nautical of recreation must take a series of simple precautions that can prevent us from situations that we do not want in an environment that can become dangerous. For all and especially for those who practice nautical tourism, the state-owned company Salvamento Marítimo has made available excellent minigies, which are essential for those who use the sea as a space for leisure and sport. KITESURF Check the weather predictions and distrust the earth wind. Do not practice []

His Royal Highness Princess Ana of Orleans gave the battle flag to the Navy frigate F-103 "Blas de Lezo" in the port of Getxo (Vizcaya), where he has exercised as godmother stressing that the flag "represents all the Spaniards." The castrense ceremony has been extended for about an hour and has been chaired by the Minister of Defence, Pedro Morenés, accompanied by the Secretary of State for Defence, Pedro Argüelles, and the Admiral General General of the Navy, Jaime Muñoz@-@ Delgado and Díaz del Río. The Government Delegate also attended the event at the []

The fourth edition of the Barcelona World Race, the regatta back to the world, two, without scales with departure and arrival to Barcelona, has already begun its journey. Once approved by the RFEV and the IMOCA class, the FNOB has published the Pre- race announcement, the first step on the way to the exit of the only race back to the world organized by an entity of the Spanish state, with the doubt of the start date that will be with total certainty between December 20, 2018 and January 7, 2019. The []

The Cis Islands, belonging to the Park of the Atlantic Islands, in full Rías Baixas of Galicia, which extend from the Ria of Arousa to that of Vigo, emerging from the Atlantic Ocean, and at the same time embellishing the marine landscape with the magic of its cliffs, make up a shackle of nature that protects the rivers by favoring their wealth and biodiversity. In its bowels, at the bottom of the sea, we keep the most precious ecological riches of this National Park, guarded by the cannons of the ancient ships here sunk. It is certainly a place to discover []

Galicia's Nautical Tourism owes a lot to a number of precursors who spoke of marines and lure, when almost no one was betting on it. The first politician, of course not!, who launched the idea from the Capital of Spain, was Manuel Fraga Iribiarne and his faithful escudero Pio Cabanillas at the time Director General of Tourism when Don Manuel was Minister of Information and Tourism. Very pro-British fraga was the engine we needed, on a Spanish coast that had some exceptions in the Catalan-balar area, and little more. The panorama in Galicia was desolate (and we talked about 70 not []

The International Game Fish Association (IGFA), the International Association for Sports Fisheries, is the world authority that regulates cane fishing and the world's most important party in the world and that regulates the categories of the parts caught sportively, within the most modern sustainability parameters, which are also welcomed by the major countries of the Western world, including the EEC. It was founded in 1939 and is currently based in the city of Dania Beach in the State of Floria in the USA: The Association is responsible for having standardized the [...]

The Rodman Circuit marked a before and after in the world of high-rise sports fishing at European level. The company led by Manuel Rodríguez commissioned, through its then Director General Francisco Rivas, Manuel Pedro Seoane, a project to enhance this sports facet of the nautical. After several meetings with the top manager of the Marketing Department, María Herrero, Triente raised his proposal to Rodman, who was enthusiastically welcomed and launched that same year, working with the leading Viguese shipyard of the sector, such as Volvo Penta, DSM, Raymarine, Metromar, Hempel, Baitra, []

Costa Rica offers one of the best conditions for the practice of high-rise sports fishing in Central America, offering incredible opportunities. The sport fishing is five stars and the professionals who engage in this specialty are highly qualified. The tourism companies specialized in the sector are strictly governed by the IGFA policy of "fishing without death." This policy of sustainability of the Costa Rican authorities makes the variety of fish on the coast truly surprising. There is a well-developed awareness of this in the population of Costa Rica, which presupposes its defense of the environment, as []

1. WHAT IT IS WORKING FOR RECEIVING Recreation vessels of all kinds, regardless of the propulsion medium, with a hull length of between 2.5 and 24 metres, designed and intended for recreational and sports purposes, and carrying no more than 12 passengers are considered. 2. DOCUMENTATION NEEDS FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF A RECREATION ENVIRONMENT RELATING TO the crew: The qualification that attests to the ability of a ship to government. Concerning the boat: Abandoning, Registration and Registration. The Patent of Navigation, for vessels greater than 20 TRB of List 6, or seventh []

José de Vallés has been and is one of my best friends, practically since we met. He was in the RANC between 1981 and 2006, and my relationship with him, amen of the special mutual love (as well as with our respective partners) I have had extraordinary experiences and are already part of the most recent history of the Spanish Sailing. I met José through Estanislao Durán who was Vice-President of the RANC and Delegate in Galicia, as well as acting as Comodoro del Monte Real Club de Yates de Baiona. That year the Regata Vuelta was held []

River tourism in Europe is considered a green tourism, where the user has the opportunity to carry out different and varied activities. France is the European country with a greater number of navigable kilometres: about 8,000. All the Welsh channels have their own history, their charms and treasures that river tourism proposes to discover and some will also have the privilege of meeting on the prestigious list of UNESCO World Heritage, case of the Midi Canal, which it achieved in 1996. Today, river tourism has been recognized and valued as []

The idea of creating the Sevilla- Betis Regata of Olympic rowing, is an idea that was born in 1960 by the famous Sevillist footballer Miguel Lopez Torróntegui, the goal of bringing the rivalry of football to the waters of Guadalquivir. By then in Seville there were not even the ships in which the test was disputed, the eight with timonel, which were and are expensive ships. Then Torróntegui, together with Miguel Muñoz Doyega, representative of the firm Molfort's, the first sponsor of the Regata, addressed the football clubs and they welcomed the idea with enthusiasm and acquired each one []

The United States Associated Press news agency has conducted an investigation confirming that the waters in which they will celebrate the swimming, rowing and sailing competitions at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games are contaminated. The confirmed study is filled with human waste, high levels of viruses and bacteria from wastewater, which represents a serious risk to the health of athletes, as well as to tourists visiting the emblematic beaches of Rio de Janeiro. This is the first research on the presence of viruses and bacteria at headquarters [].

All those athletes who want to keep the Federal Authorization (issued by the RFEM) can continue to renew it without having to redeem it for their Navigation License, while retaining the power limitation powers of the engine at 55 hp. 2016 RFEM BOLETIN INCRITION LICENCIES NAVIGATION 2016 RFEM DUPLICATE FEDERATIVE AUTHORIZATION 2016 RFEM RENEWAL FEDERATIVE AUTHORIZATION 2016 RFEM CONVOCATORIES SAN JUAN 2016 RFEM LICENCY NAVIGATION SAN JUAN As regards the extreme reservoirs (Alqueva, García Sola, Alcántara, Serena, Orellana, Zújar, Borbollón and Cijara the price of the new licence is []

The company Costa Cruises, a subsidiary of the American Carnival, announced on Tuesday that from 2019 it will propose cruises to its customers on board cleaner ships, equipped with hybrid engines using liquefied natural gas (LNG). The company specified that it had passed an order to acquire two such ships, which could each transport 6,600 passengers, to the Meyer shipyards of Turku in Finland, the company stated. These will be the first to operate with LNG as fuel in the field of the tourist cruises, along with those already announced by the German subsidiary of Costa, Aida []

The Jovellanos Centre, which is part of the Society of Salvation and Maritime Safety (Ministry of Fomento- General Directorate of the Merchant Navy), has 143,000 m2 of surface. It is located in the area of the Musel, in the city of Gijón, in the Principality of Asturias. Designed from a comprehensive service perspective, it is equipped with state-of-the-art means and facilities. It has a staff of highly qualified technicians and specialists who work in the thematic areas of safety, maritime and environment. The Jovellanos Center has ISO 9001 certification from the Det Norske Veritas (DNV). It has a training experience of more than 20 []

The "Benchijigua Express" ferry is the world's most modern Multicasco Trimaran and is in the Canary Islands. Since 2005 this ferry covers the route from Tenerife (Los Cristianos) to La Gomera (San Sebastián) in just over 50 minutes, it is also the ferry that in 2 hours and 55 minutes links Tenerife (Los Cristianos) with La Palma (S.C. de La Palma). A ship that lays the foundation for the future of maritime transport in the Canary Islands. Without a doubt, its capacity, speed and comfort in the transport of passengers, cars and cargo vehicles make it the ideal partner of the canaries that see these []

The Royal Marina, of the Real Club Náutico de La Coruña, is the best urban port of mooring in the north and north-west of the Spanish coast. Suitable for sailing, motor and boats in general, in the heart of the city. It has more than 353 moorings for length between 8 and 30 mts. All the squares have finger, water, electricity, wifi and specialized personnel that will help you in your maneuver. In addition, the Navy has all the needs that the visiting ship may need: cafeteria-restaurant, showers, locker rooms, laundry, etc. Its privileged location, in the centre of La Coruña, will allow you to reach all on foot []

The super maxi Comanche, patronized by the American Ken Read and with the singing Pablo Arararte 'Patan' on his crew, overtook during the Transatlantic Race, the record to travel more miles in 24 hours. A total of 618, thus exceeding the brand that had established seven years ago the VO70 Ericsson 4 patrolled by the Brazilian Torben Grael, which was at 596.6 miles in the Volvo Ocean Race stage between Alicante and Cape Town. It seems that the Atlantic Ocean is the most conducive to surpassing this 24-hour record. On this occasion the Comanche patroniado []

We are in 1960 when I was mayor of Benalmádena Enrique Bolín. As a visionary he was, he proposed the realization of an infrastructure that would allow the City to offer quality tourist attractions while enhancing the historical relationship of this municipality with the sea. Initially the idea of building the Sports Port was received with some unbelief because of the innovative and great idea although the municipal thrust managed to overcome the obstacles that were coming up and little by little, and without a few vicissitudes, it was achieved, the construction of what is today one of []

The rental of a boat between a group of friends or with family to spend the holidays is a way of winning people. Very developed in other countries, the nautical charter has become a trend increasingly called for by the great possibilities it offers. In this line, the sector has grown by 47.5% in Spain between the seasons of 2014 and 2015, according to the National Association of Nautical Companies, ANEN. Sailing in a catamaran on the Costa Brava or a sailing boat on the Balearic Islands are some of its many options. The prices are affordable and the []