Spectacular photograph by Rosana Calvo, the winner: "Okofen" by Javi Gandara

The Okofen of Javier de la Gandara won the victory of the AXA J80 Autumn League on Saturday after winning the last day of trials held this afternoon in Baiona Bay. The team led by the experienced Viguese pattern sentenced the competition after adding another first position to those he had achieved in previous days.

With five first positions, a second and a third in the seven trials held since last October, Gandara and his reproved why they are among the best in the Galician J80 class.

In this new edition of the Autumn League AXA J80 Javi Gandara again had his right hand on board Diego Fernández; his son Jaime de la Gandara and Hugo Ferreiro, who had been Okofen since their beginnings in the J80 competitions. Santi Meygide, Javier Porto and Jaime García were others of the crew who joined in some days, to complete equipment or replace one of the usual.

The podium of honor of the AXA J80 Autumn League was completed, with 15 points, the Marías - Casas do Telhado led by Manuel María Cunha and the New Moon of Juan Luis Tuero, which was third with 18 points.

Outside the former, the Cea de Iago Alonso Pazo was placed in fourth position; and the Namasto de Luis de Mira was in fifth position. The rest of the classification is completed by the Mondo de Bernardo Macedo, the Cansino de Fernando Yañez, the Cunichán de Javier Martínez Valente and the Cormorán II de Yago G. Robatto. The general for the first five was as follows:

1. OKOFEN · Javier de la Gandara · 7 points
2. MARÍAS - CASE DO TELHADO · Manuel María Cunha · 15 points
3. LUNA NEW · Juan Luis Tuero · 18 points
4. CEA PEACE · Iago Alonso · 28 points
5. NAMASTÉ · Luis de Mira · 31 points

27 / 10 / 2018: Gandara becomes strong in the AXA Autumn League by achieving its second partial victory

The AXA J80 Autumn League organized by the Monte Real Club of Yates with the sponsorship, one more year, of AXA Seguro, will cross on November 10 its equator with three new tests that will enter the monotypes in the final line of the competition

The Okofen of Javier de la Gandara consolidated his leadership in the AXA J80 Autumn League after winning in the second day held this afternoon in Baiona Bay with complicated weather conditions, of a stirred sea and an intense and roll wind that forced the committee to modify the race field on several occasions.

Despite the circumstances and the lack of its usual crew, in which Jaime de la Gandara and Hugo Ferreiro were missing, the Okofen again demonstrated why it is among the best J80 in Spain. He did so, as usual, with the tandem Javier de la Gandara - Diego Fernández at the head, and the support, this Saturday, of Javier Porto and Jaime García.

His results were not as regular as in the first day, in which he did full with three first; but the third, first and second posts signed today, and the discard that came into play allowing him to delete from the classification his worst result, kept him in first position and further removed him from his most direct rivals.

With 6 points, the Okofen continues to head ahead of the Marías - Casas do Telhado patroniado by the Portuguese Manuel María Cunha, who has 12. The New Moon of Juan Luis Tuero, who today sailed very well and managed to cross the line of arrival between the first, went up to the third position and entered the provisional podium with 16 points.

With 18 points, the Pazo de Cea, led on this second day by Iago Alonso and with the addition to the crew of Juan Lago, goes fourth in the classification.

From that fourth position, the distances of the rest of the fleet to the J80 that go in the head are already more pronounced. With 25 points, the Mondo de Bernardo Macedo is in fifth position, and with 26, the Namasté de Luis de Mira is closely followed.

The Cansino de Fernándo Yáñez, which is based on the lack of score of the first day in which it did not compete, the Cunichán de Javier Martínez Valente, which today was unable to score in one of the tests, and the Cormorán II of Yago G. Robatto, is closed.

1. OKOFEN · Javier de la Gandara · 6 points
2. MARÍAS - CASE DO TELHADO · Manuel María Cunha · 12 points
3. LUNA NEW · Juan Luis Tuero · 16 points
4. PAGE OF CEA · Iago Alonso · 18 points
5. MONDO · Bernardo Macedo · 25 points

13 / 10 / 2018: "Okofen" with Gandara to the controls leads the AXA of J80 in Baiona

Javier Gandara orders at home (Photo Rosana Calvo)

The Okofen was placed this Saturday leader of the AXA J80 Autumn League, the monotypes competition of Mount Real Club of Yates that celebrated its inaugural day in Baiona. The crew led by Javier de la Gandara, who left as a favorite, was placed in the head of the classification by signing a full of victories in the three races contested with a wind that reached up to 25 knots, complicating the navigation of the sailboats at times.

With three first, the Okofen was the clear winner after overcoming his most direct rival, the Mary- Casas do Telhado of the Portuguese Manuel María Cunha, who entered the competition stepping hard and willing to give war to De la Gandara. Both led the fleet at all times and were the first to cross the arrival line, but the Lusa crew finally had to settle for three seconds on the three disputed tests and second position of the AXA J80 Fall League provisional podium.

Among the rest of the ships, more equality and little difference of points in the following positions of the classification. With 14 points, the Mondo de Bernardo Macedo and the Namasté de Luis de Mira occupy the third and fourth place respectively. With 15 points, in the fifth and sixth lockers, they are followed by the Pazo de Cea de María Campos, who suffered much with the wind in the first test and could not finish it; and the New Moon of Juan Luis Tuero.

The AXA J80 Fall League returns in 15 days with the second stage of tests, which will be held on October 27 on the same stage and on the same schedule as the opening stage held today... for the moment things in Baiona are like this:

1. OKOFEN · Javier de la Gandara · 3 points
2. MARÍAS - CASE DO TELHADO · Manuel María Cunha · 6 points
3. MONDO · Bernardo Macedo · 14 points
4. NAMASTE · Luis de Mira · 14 points
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09 / 10 / 2018: The AXA Autumn League of J80 closes the 2018 race season in Baiona

The J80 will close the sports year of Monte Real (Photo Rosana Calvo)

The AXA Autumn League of J80, will put an end to the season of the Mount Real Club of Yates of Baiona will be held in four stages, during the months of October and November, beginning on the same Saturday day 13 with the first tests and ending on Saturday November 24 with the final day and the award of the winners.

There will be four days in which participants will be able to face two types of tours according to the metorological conditions and what the regatta committee determines. They shall be drawn coastal, with steps bound by different points or beacons; or carried between buoys, of the type barlovento sotavento, with two necks and two soups.

The Liguilla will participate in the exclusive Sailors of the class J80, a type of ships that the Baionese club has been driving for years, with the creation of an important fleet based in Baiona to which have been added monotypes of A Coruña, Vigo and Portugal.

For them the Monte Real program each year two specific trophies, the autumn and winter leagues. In addition, in 2018, given the importance of the Galician fleet of J80, the Royal Spanish Federation of Vela delegated to the club the organization of the Spanish Championship of J80, which was held last April in Baiona. He had a special role in the Okofen of Javier de la Gandara, which was first among the Galician fleet and won the third place on the national podium.