The three-time world champion of J80 Rayco Tabares and his team aboard the boat "Hotel Princesa Yaiza" come to the world race with the intention of ratifying his scepter (Photo Maria Muiña)

All ready for you from Friday, with the three pre-competition days identified for the measurement of material and registration of participants from beginning the World J80 Championship in English waters of Hamble (Southampton, United Kingdom). With three scheduled races per day and a total of 14 total tests... half a hundred registered vessels will sail the world scepter, from Monday 10 to Friday 14 July included.

The "J80 Red" holds ranks with four teams of recognized international prestige. The canary Rayco Tabares and his crew leave with the favorite vitola, the canary being the only world-wide pattern that has achieved nothing more and nothing less to rise with three world titles (2009, 2015 and 2016). The canary goes to England for the firm purpose of making history and sailing as best as possible to rise with what would be its fourth world title and with which it would write a new page in the history of the J80 class.

In addition to the canary team, Spain will have three other heavy sailing weights in the J80 class. The current Spanish champion 2017 and world championship winner 2012, Catalan José María Van der Ploeg and his team "VSA Comunicación" is another international reference in this world championship. The "HM Hotels" balar by Javier Chacártegui, Spanish champion 2016, is the third of the Spanish teams, while the "Cenyt Hospital Marbella Club" that Gua Pepequín Orbaneja goes from Andalusian waters to a title that is presented of the most connived by the level of the fleet.

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The Spanish fleet of the J80 class returns to the world sand. Of the last ten championships of the world disputed Spain has been raised with eight world scepters, being the world's highest power in this class and international reference among these monotypes. The Spanish Association of J80 shipowners again faces a world event. The Spanish location of Sotogrande (which hosted the J80 World Championship a year ago) cites the witness to the Royal Southern Yacht Club in Hamble, Southampton, United Kingdom.

Half a hundred ships will be quoted in British waters from 8 to 14 July, representing the Netherlands, France, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy and Australia, with the Spanish fleet trying by all means to maintain its global hegemony. The Spanish units that have achieved world glory over the last ten years are those patroned by the Cantabros José María Torcida (with a double world title. 2007 and 2010) and Ignacio Camino (double world title, 2008 and 2011), the Catalan Jose María van der Ploeg (2012), the Portuguese based in Spain Hugo Rocha (2013) and the canary Rayco Tabares, the only regatist worldwide to rise with the triple crown (2009, 2015 and 2016).