A single test, in the last day, decided the national, classified for the world and the European (Photo Laura G. Guerra)

Manuel Álvarez-Dardet of the Club de Mar de Puerto Sherry today proclaimed himself the Spanish champion of Optimist at the Reial Club Nàutic Port of Pollença, after a complicated final day in which the wind of the north was very unstable, both in direction and intensity. The Andalusian regatist was imposed by a single point on Nacho Baltasar (Club Nàutic Sa Ràpita) and four on the canary Samuel Beneyto (Real Club Náutico de Gran Canaria), who completed the podium. Jordi Lladó (Real Club Náutico de Palma), second in the penultimate day, had to settle for the fourth square.

The Majorcan Laura Martínez (Real Club Náutico de Palma), eighth in the general, was the best female in the Championship, followed by Claudia Sánchez (Real Club Náutico de Gran Canaria), tenth, and Marina Garau (Club Marítimo San Antonio de la Playa). In category Sub 13 male was imposed the lanzaroteño Eduardo Brito (Real Nautical Club of Arrecife), twenty-sixth, while María Perelló (Nàutic Arenal Club), thirty-sixth, won among the regatists "alevines"

The Spanish Championship of Optimist, organized by the RCNPP with the collaboration of the Royal Spanish Federation of Sailing and the Spanish Association of the International Class Optimist (AECIO), gathered from last June 25 to today in the Port of Pollença the 149 best national regatists of the class for the dispute of the individual title. The Team Racing test for autonomies will take place on Saturday with the eight best rated federations.

The individual competition consisted of nine races. On the first day and the last day only one manga could be disputed, for three days the second and four days the third. The wind was not the usual spectacular bay in the north of Mallorca, where the thermal of the east summer blows. Every day there was a wind of a northern component of medium or strong intensity, except today, in which the anemometer barely subtracted the ten knots. The Regatas Committee tried until 1845 hours to hold a second manga, but all attempts were frustrated.

Classified for European and world championships
According to AECIO, the regatists who will represent Spain in the world in Thailand, which is disputed from 11 to 21 July, will be Samuel Beneyto (RCN Gran Canaria), Jordi Lladó (RCN Palma), Nacho Baltasar (CN Sa Ràpita), Álvaro Enol Alonso (RCN Gran Canaria) and María Perelló (Club Níutic Arenal). In Pollença, the European places to be held in Bulgaria from 30 July to 6 August have also been decided. This competition will be attended by Manuel Álvarez-Dardet (CN Puerto Shery), Ignacio Toronjo (RCM Punta Umbria), David Santacemu (RCN Tenerife), Laura Martínez (RCN Palma), Marina León (RCR Cartagena) and Marta Cardona (CN Arenal).

29 / 06 / 2017: The Gaditan Alvarez- Dardet is placed at the head of the National Optimist in Pollença

Manuel Álvarez-Dardet of the Club de Mar de Puerto Sherry, was today placed at the head of the general of the Spanish Championship of Optimist that hosts the Reial Club Nàutic Port of Pollença, a lack of a single day for the end. The Andalusian regatist, with 28 points, will seek to add the highest national title of this kind of sailing initiation to the Spanish Cup that he won in 2016. They will try to avoid two mallorquins: Jordi Lladó of the Real Club Náutico de Palma and Nacho Baltasar belonging to the fleet of the Club Nàutic Sa Rápita, second and third, respectively.

The third day of competition in the Bay of Pollença was marked by the instability of the wind, which once again blew from the NO (ground) with an average intensity of about 15 knots and was very roll by the effect of the mountains surrounding the race field. However, the organization managed to give eight exits and complete four sleeves for the entire fleet, thus recovering one of the tests cancelled on the first day.

Maximum emotion in the National Championship, where four sleeves could be played today (Photo Laura G.Guerra)

The first three classified kept a hard fight throughout the day. Alvarez-Dardet began the day with a first and then linked an eighth, a fifth and a third, which for the moment allows him to rule out the 11 of the inaugural race. Jordi Lladó, who yesterday held the provisional lead, punctured in the first and third race of the day (with a 15 and a 14), but managed to maintain the type thanks to a quarter and a second, and retains options to assault the championship, as it is only three points from the first classified.

Nacho Baltasar was somewhat further behind, eleven points from Alvarez-Dardet and will not be able to dissipate if he wants to stay at the podium positions: Samuel Beneyto of the Royal Nautical Club of Gran Canaria, among them his fellow club Claudia Sánchez, eighth in the general and first absolute female, who tomorrow will be fighting for victory in this category with the Royal Laura Martínez of the Club of Palma.

28 / 06 / 2017: The Majorcan Jordi Lladó leader of the National of Optimist in Pollença

The Spanish Championship of the Optimist class was repaid from the first day, in which only one test could be held due to the entry of a strong chubacco, with a magnificent second day of races in which there was no lack of wind and three sleeves could be completed for the 149 participating ships, between noon and 6 in the afternoon. There were no surprises and the weather in the Bay of Pollença (Mallorca) was attached to the parts that announced the wind of Mistral, with a certain tendency to put, and an intensity of between 12 and 21 knots.

The second day of the national of Optimist, which organizes the Reial Club Nàutic Port de Pollença (RCNPP) with the collaboration of the Royal Spanish Federation of Vela and the Spanish Association of the International Class Optimist (AECIO), took place without any incident, except for the cancellation of the last test of the so-called blue group as a result of a role of almost 30 degrees in the last section of the dyeing. The manga was repeated thanks to the fact that at five and a half hours in the afternoon the wind continued to blow "with rachas of up to 21 knots," according to the coach of the Real Club Nautico de Palma (RCNP) Jordi Castro.

The organization completed three tests for the entire fleet and was compensated for the cancellations of the inaugural day, as the wind blew generous, with rachas of up to 21 knots, from half day to six in the afternoon (Photo Laura G.Guerra)

Jordi Lladó, a regatist of this club, was placed in front of the general by a partial of 2-5-2, which is added to the second position he obtained in the inaugural race of the championship. The Majorcan, which holds the first place in the AECIO ranking, offers the best version of itself with medium and strong winds, given its size. The second position of the absolute general is occupied by the lanzaroteño Alberto Morales (Real Club Náutico de Arrecife), which today was from less to more (8-4-3), followed, in third position, by the gaditano Manuel Álvarez-Dardet (1-3-7). The Catalan Arnau Gelpi, who fought for the lead with Jordi Lladó, was moved to post 26 by a disqualification with a black flag in the fourth race of the yellow group. The regatist of the Club Nàutic El Balís, one of the top candidates for the title, can recover positions with the application of the discard from the fifth test, although its margin for making mistakes is now very limited.

The female classification is led by Claudia Sánchez (Club Nàutico de Gran Canaria), which is fifth in the general, while the leaders of the sub13 categories are Eduardo Brito (Real Club Náutico Arrecife), thirteenth, and Marta Cardona (Club Níutic Arenal), twenty-eighth.

The competition will resume tomorrow Thursday (third day of the championship) with a rather radical change in weather conditions. The wind, according to the general parts, will be unstable, rolling from south to north as the day progresses, and its intensity will range from 3 to 8 knots, as long as the thermal wind proper to the Bay of Pollença is not generated.

27 / 06 / 2017: The Canary Morales and the Catalan Gelpi leaders of the National Optimist of Pollença

Alberto Morales Hernández (Real Club Náutico de Arrecife) and Arnau Gelpi (Club Nàutic El Balís) share the leadership of the Spanish Championship of the Optimist class, which today began in the Bay of Pollença, following the one-manga dispute. The second test of the day had to be cancelled at four o'clock in the afternoon due to the entry of a strong cocksucker, accompanied by electrical apparatus and wind raches up to 30 knots. The Regatas Committee chose to send the fleet to the ground after a very complicated day when the wind was rolling from 150 to 220 degrees and refreshing from 6 to 14 knots, until the storm came.

The general classification could not be offset by the second race, so, for the moment, all the posts are shared by two regatists. This is because, given the large number of participants (150), the fleet is divided into two groups (yellow and blue) that carry out independent exits. At the time of the second test, a good number of regatists were in the final section. The race officer Gaspar Morey explained that the suspension was decided "for security reasons."

A 30-knot-racked chump forces the second Optimist National test to be overturned (Photo Laura G.Guerra)

In the second position of the provisional general are the baleares Jordi Lladó (Real Club Náutico de Palma) and Nacho Baltasar (Club Nàutic Sa Ràpita), while Miguel Bethencourt (Real Club Náutico de Arrecife) and Claudia Sánchez (Real Club Náutico de Gran Canaria) are third parties. The first sub13 are Ian Walker (Club Nàutic S'Arenal), in male category, and Marta Cardona, in female.

The competition will resume tomorrow at 12 noon. The Regatas Committee will try to recover the sleeves that today could not be disputed because of the delay and the chucucucco. The meteor part announces general wind of between 12 and 17 knots, with rachas that could reach 25 by mid-afternoon.

26 / 06 / 2017: It begins in the bay of Pollença the National of the Optimist Class

The races of the Spanish Championship of the Optimist class will start tomorrow, from 12 noon, in the Bay of Pollença. From last Saturday and throughout today, the 149 ships that will take part in the competition, organized by the Reial Club Nàutic de Pollença in collaboration with the Spanish federations and sailing shooting, and the Spanish Association of the International Optimist Class, are being registered. On Saturday, the day of the national's dispute over self-government teams, the forecast is from the north-west of medium intensity. The attention signal is scheduled at 12 noon from tomorrow (day 27) to Friday (day 30) for the individual competition, in which the Spanish Championship is put into play for the absolute categories, sub 16 female, sub 13 male and sub 13 female. In the case of the team team racing competition the first departure is scheduled at 11.30 a.m. on Saturday (1 July).

The weather parts for the bay of Pollença announce the first day the loose wind of the south, strong set of up to 22 knots, the second, mistral around 15 knots the third and north loose to close the individual championship

The Spanish Championship will be attended by 149 young regatists from 10 autonomous communities. Baleares is the community with the largest participation, with 23 registered ships, followed by Andalusia, Canary Islands, Catalonia, Galicia and with 20 participants each. Murcia will have eleven representatives, Madrid and País Vasco six and Cantabria three. In the Spanish Cup held at the Club Náutico Altea, which had 149 participants, the Baleo María Perelló (Club Nàutic s'Arenal) rose to the top of the podium accompanied by the canary Samuel Beneyto (Real Club Náutico Gran Canaria) and the Galician Yago Barca (Real Club Náutico Sanxenxo), second and third, respectively. For the time being, the Top 10 of the Spanish Association of the International Class Optimist (AECIO) is covered by four balear regatists, three canaries, a Galician, an Andalusian and a Valencian. At the end of the Pollensina test, following the AECIO ranking, the regatist will be known to represent Spain at the Optimist World Championship that will take place at the Royal Varuna Yacht Club (Thailand) between 11 and 21 July and at the European Championship of this class to be held from 30 July to 6 August at the Yacht Club Port Bourgas (Bulgaria).

24 / 06 / 2017: Pollença welcomes in its exceptional bay the National of Optimist

The Reial Club Nàutic Port of Pollença will host the Spanish Optimist Championship from June 25 to July 1, 2017. The 149 best national regatists of optimist will compete to get into the national team, and thus represent Spain in the world and continental of the class. The top event of the children's and cadet sailing, at the national level, will bring together athletes from 11 autonomous communities and 52 clubs. The categories are four: absolute (149 regatists), absolute female (36), sub 13 male (26) and sub 13 female (12). The Spanish Championship and the Spanish Cup, which was held last Easter at the Nautical Club in Altea, determined the composition of the Spanish selection in the European (10) and world (5) championships. They are the two most decisive meetings of the year and both clubs and federations meet with their most prominent athletes.

The Colonya Trophy, the prologue of the national of Optimist has been the prologue of the National of Optimist... with five tests in two days for 119 ships showed the potential of the ballclub

The candidacy of the Reial Club Nàutic de Pollenca for the Spanish Optimist Championship was chosen by the RFEV and the AECIO in the light of its proven sports experience and the magnificent weather conditions offered by the Bay of Pollença at the beginning of summer, with a local thermal wind of about 15 knots and very stable in the direction of Levante. The average temperature is about 26 degrees and the sunlight is guaranteed at this time of year for 15 hours a day. Another of the organization club's strengths is its facilities, with 860 square metres of plating and a 17-meter-wide sea access ramp, and a docking line with a capacity of 75 auxiliary boats for the race committees and coaches.