The 2018 regatta programming of the Real Club Astur de Regatas de Gijón (Photo by Felix González Muñiz) begins next week in asturian waters

On the 10th of March the race season begins in Gijón, the Spring of Sailing Light and Cruise Trophy will be in charge of opening the wide schedule of tests it organizes, the Real Club Astur of Regatas throughout the year, which with six days of competition during the months of March, April and May will gather in the waters of San Lorenzo Bay to the Asturian fleet, in a long-distance test where regularity will be the key to taking the Trophy. As a novelty, Class I Cruises will again perform a longer sleeve, instead of the two tests that were being held last year. For its part, Class II will carry out a cane tour composed of two necks and two soups.

The Regatas Club will once again organize all the light-sailing Asturias championships in the region: Optimist, Laser 4.7, Standard, Radial, and Snipe. And the weekend Trophy of Santa Catalina, San Pedro and the Villa of Gijón. The celebration of the Spanish Cup of Snipe in Gijón, which will be held in mid-July, coinciding with the XIX Memorial Carlos del Castillo de Snipe, is noteworthy for this season. The Optimists will have their national test at the XIV Hispanic Trophy, where a large number of units are concentrated. To all this, we must add the Summer and Fall Trophy.

As for the Cruise Sailing, after the Spring Trophy will be held in June, the XXI Regata University of Oviedo, a classic in the RCAR calendar, will then take place, the Trip to Tazones, a young but has had an excellent welcome among the Gijonese fleet. On the first weekend of August, the bay of San Lorenzo will be looking, one more year, with the candles of the XXIII Regata el Gaitero, the star test of the Club and the most important cruise race that is celebrated in the Cantábrica cornisa. The President Trophy, a carousel between buoys in the vicinity of the beach, and the XXVIII Regata Villa de Gijón, dean of the Asturian candle will close the summer competitions. With the Autumn Trophy in November, after five sleeves, the extensive schedule of tests scheduled by the Regatas Club, a sailing engine in Asturias, will be completed.

In October, the Abanca Week will have one of its cycles organized by the Real Club Astur de Regatas, as has been common for three years.

For its part, the Radio Control Sailing in its North League will award eleven tests throughout the season, holding the Asturias Championship, a remarkable test of the class's national ranking on 2 and 3 June.