
Spanish Cruise Sailing Calendar: Chronicle of an announced death
Spanish Cruise Sailing Calendar: Chronicle of an announced death
Who has seen you "Spanish heavy candle" and who sees you... remember that old joke that some boys came to talk to their gang, bruised, that is to say, a pack of that in the body... and that they are told by the surprise of those who had not gone with it?... But what has happened to you, if you were more than twenty and they two or three?... for they surrounded us and beat us. More than one of the veterans will realize what happened I want to tell you, who was one of the culprits that we got to where we got to, and that the picture of the Spanish heavy sail is at the level that is... advertising campaigns and waste of dubious profitability on the sidelines.
We are in 1980, and in Spain there are two clear poles of heavy sailing: one the Real Nautical Club of Barcelona and one the Real Nautical Club of Vigo. The Catalans who have always or almost always been in a heavy sail have had many things in their favor... on the one hand the largest coastal city of the peninsula: Barcelona, on the other, two races with an enormous specific weight case of the Count of Godó and the Alfonso XIII... and of course the International Trophy of the Mediterranean that would later be the King's Cup in Palma, and without forgetting the Thousand Mile... in Andalusian waters, especially by the support of the northern fleet, became powerful the Nautical Week of the Port of Santa Maria, in which Terry had to see in its development. If you want to include in these races the series of cruise of Princess Sofia in Palma... and of course the Rías Baixas Regata that was for many years the number one, and an emerging Count of Gondomar Trophy... that organized a "new" club the Mount Real Club of Yates of Baiona.
The said races had something in common: a desire to be prestigious throughout Spain and to flee from localisms. It was a delight to witness those "Sherry," or the numerous "Rías Baixas" or to see the very Anglo-Saxon quality of the "Count of Godó Trophy" or "Count of Gondomar." Among them was that unforgettable Regata Vuelta a España Bitácora, organized by Federico Arias, José Ramón Guimarans... and in which we had much to see Alfonso Jornada, Coly Terry, Fernando Arranz, Toni Tió, Jan Santana, José María Latra, Javier Gandara, Pedro Campos... and even a servant who had the bold idea in the world year 1982, in an article published by the late magazine Remar, and then Bitácora.
The advertising began, and those who handled it with more or less right, did it with much illusion, much youth and above all much fellowship. In the 80's, spectacular sponsors are born, which are consolidated in the 90's as General Optica, Ermenegildo Zegna, Bombay Gin, Inespal, Antonio Puig Perfumes, Bodegas Osborne, J & B, Banco de Bilbao Vizcaya, the CAM, the Basque Government, Coca Cola, the Casino of the Port of Santa Maria, the magazine Biba, Cabreiroá, Larsa, Albariño Granbán, the newspaper El Sol, Volvo, Cepsa, Cutty Sark, Whisky, the Spanish Republic of the...
It is not too much to say that these race teams in many cases were 25 people per team... 25 professionals who generated a lot of money, who entered VAT, who paid social security... and why all this has gone to the ground... because very simple FOR FALTA OF PROFESSIONALITY... because any three-to-fourth-class manager believes that the organizational ability of Coly Terry has it any of his nephews... or that the journalistic knowledge of Jauma de Soler is the normal in any day that he made a newspaper of his school... or that he does not know that he has a friend of the city... or that he does not know that he is a friend of the one of the same...
If we want to have a piece of race circuit again and have sponsors like the old ones, don't value the CRISIS, don't value the one we don't want to get the medios... which is worth that all this sailing circus, respect your respectable professionals, There must have been!
Manuel Pedro Seoane
Director of Digital Nautics
Professional of the nautical as an event organizer since 1979
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