Alfonso Rueda, Vice President of the Xunta, closed Ibernática (Photo Pedro Seoane)

The vice president of the Xunta de Galicia Alfonso Rueda, closed on the morning of Friday Ibernática, a congress cycle of the Abanca Week that has been developed during the last two days in the Parador de Baiona, organized by the Organizing Committee of the Abanca Week and the Monte Real Club de Yates de Baiona, and has received the support of the Xunta de Galicia, Vanguard, Ronaútica Marinas, Coca Cola and Lexus.

The tour directors of Galicia (Nava Castro) and Baleares (Pilar Carbonell) with Victor Montero (Photo Pedro Seoane)

In Ibernática, there have been a hundred members of the Congress, in addition to thirty prestigious speakers, as has been the presence in the closing day of the general directors of Tourism of Galicia Nava Castro, and of Baleares Pilar Carbonell, the double medal of Olympic gold Theresa Zabell, the national director of communication Gonzalo Márquez, the general secretary of the patron of the nautical sector ANEN, Elena Rivo decade of the Faculty of Tourism of Vigo, Javier Ruiz de Cortázar José Ignacio Villar or Carlos Torrado general director of the ACNA, for example.

Theresa Zabell president of Ecomar and González Márquez de Coca Cola (Photo Pedro Seoane)

Now it is the turn to the cruise sail with the Saturday celebration for the Lexus Breogán Cup, reserved for cruise ships ORC, which will compete for the counter-clock system. That is to say the time compensation will be given from the entrance, leaving the ships staggered from slow to faster, so that it will already compete in real time. The fleet that will be composed of 20 ships, will have as great favorites from the south to the "Bosch Service Solutions" patroned by Ramón Ojea of the Vigués Club Marítimo de Canido, and from the north of the "La Galera" that will hold Joaquín Cobelo from the Real Club Nautico de La Coruña. The exit at 3: 00 in the afternoon in Baiona Bay, with the choice of judges to several routes, depending on the conditions of wind and sea.

A hundred congressmen in Ibernática (Photo Pedro Seoane)

08 / 11 / 2017: Abanca Week with Iberonautics and the Lexus Breogan Cup arrives to Mount Real

It was presented at the facilities of the Monte Real Club de Yates de Baiona the cycles of the Abanca Week that will take place in the Villa de la Pinta: first Iberonautics, the congress on the sustainability of the nautical tourism that will take place on Thursday and Friday at the Parador de Turismo, and on Saturday the Lexus Breogán Cup, race of cruises by the counter-clock system, which made precisely the Monte Real in Spain in the early 1990s, and which had a great impact on the Spanish candle for its originality in the system of compensation of times. In the event José Luis Alvarez president of the Yates Club, who accompanied the Baionese councilwoman Maria Jesús Martins, as well as sponsors of these cycles immersed in the Abanca Week, and who organize the Mount Real Club of Yates and the Maritime Club of Vigo.

For the second consecutive year, Abanca Week will be at the Monte Real Club de Yates... where he was born many years ago (Photo Rosana Calvo)

Iberonautics supported by the Tourist Office of the Xunta de Galicia, as well as the Concello de Baiona, Abanca, Ronática Marinas, Vanguard Marine, Coca Cola and Lexus, as well as the Academies of Gastronomy of Galicia and the Caminos of Santiago, the Tourist Cluster of Galicia, ANEM, the CEACNA and Paradores de Turismo among other institutions. It is chaired by Francisco García de Bobadilla, who was most responsible for the Tourism in Galicia, as well as president of Paradores, and has the Asturian Victor Montero, considered one of the most prominent specialists in national nautical congresses, as director.

The Secretary General of Fisheries of the Ministry of Agriculture, Alberto Ópez- Asenjo García, will be the one to deliver the first conference of Ibernática at 11: 00 in the morning of Thursday at the Tourist Parador in Baiona. Half an hour earlier, the Secretary of State himself, with other authorities, will have opened the days. The nautical days will have professionals of the highest level of all the subjects to be treated, which will take place on Thursday and Friday, which will be closed by the Vice President of the Xunta de Galicia, Alfonso Rueda, at the edge of the one and a half of Friday afternoon.

By Saturday, there will be competition framed within the Abanca Week, which was theoretically the closing test, but that after the postponement of the Iberian Olympic Remo Ence Cup for November 25 in Marín, will be the penultimate date. The Lexus Breogán Cup will begin at three in the afternoon, with the participation of ORC cruises, including the "Bosch Service Solutions" with Ramón Ojea in the cane, one of the most powerful ships in the Spanish Northwest, as well as a large fleet of J80 and the Figaro. The system used "counter-watch," that means that the time compensation will be given in, so the fleet once takes the exit will compete in real time... and an important prize in play, the Vanguard Marine Trophy that will be for the winning club (two-boat teams) consisting of a set of Vanguard beacons in property for the appropriate School of Sailing, and which is valued in several thousands of euros.