Image of the European of Snipe 2016 held in Spanish waters in Santiago de la Ribera

The Royal Nautical Club of La Coruña organized the Snipe World Cup in early August. The youth and absolute meeting will bring together more than two hundred regatists from 18 different countries in herculine waters.
The activity will not stop during the first days of next month. The first races of the Youth World are scheduled for August 3, Thursday, but already on 1 and 2 there will be a lot of movement in the Parrote, where the "village" will be installed, with the relevant measurements. Four days of race are planned, with a maximum of 2 per day, until Sunday 6 (where there will be only one, until a maximum of 7 tests), when the master and the crew will be known to be crowned as world champions of youth category. Representatives of Brazil, Spain, Great Britain, Japan, Peru, Portugal and the United States will compete in this championship. In total, 21 crews will fight in this competition.

And now on the seventh day will begin the absolute World Cup, which will last, in five days, until the 11th. As in the youth, there will also be two sleeves a day, if the wind allows, and one day, up to a maximum of 9 races. Attending 17 countries (Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Spain and the United States. 83 crews will fill the Coruñesa bay.

The Real Club Náutico de La Coruña has designed two race fields (one in front of Bastiagueiro beach and one more outside through the Seixo Blanco for the development of the competition, which will allow to follow the tests from different points of the Coruñesa bay. With regard to the most prominent regatists, the current absolute champion, the Brazilian Mateus Tavares, who defends the crown obtained two years ago in Talamone, Italy, will not miss the appointment. And neither was his compatriot Bruno Bethlem, who took the title in the 2009 editions in San Diego (United States) and 2013 in his country, specifically in Rio de Janeiro.

The developments of the American Augie Díaz, world champion in 2003 in Landskrona (Sweden) and in 2005 in Gamagori (Japan) will also need to be closely monitored. The Argentine Luis Soubie, the Brazilian Alexandre Paradeda, the Puerto Rican Raul Ríos or the American George Szabo will be other of the patterns that aspire to the first positions. The best Spanish bazas will be in Raúl Valenzuela and Rayco Tabares, not to mention the two crews of the Coruñés Nautico formed by Marcos Míguez and José Ramón Pardo, and that of Juan Cajade Frías and Víctor Fernández Vidal.