Alfredo Platas, Manuel Pedro Seoane, Javier Orkaray, Guillermo Poyán and José María Martín Puente in the Community of Madrid

Meeting yesterday morning at the headquarters of the General Directorate of Sports of the Community of Madrid between the department that runs Javier Orkaray, the highest responsible of the Federation Madrilestra de Vela with its president Guillermo Poyán in front and the general secretary of the Abanca Week, Manuel Pedro Seoane. The theme on the table is the institutional support of the Community towards the Abanca Week, with the support of it to the event presented to the Madrid authorities: the Open of the Community of Madrid, which in its first edition will be reserved to the soling class "master," with the participation of the fence of 20 of these legendary Olympic ships that are in the facilities of the Real Club Nautico of Madrid, in the waters of San Juan.

The dates for this Open of Madrid from 18 to 20 next October, which will represent the eruption of the first Inland Water event of the Abanca Week, which already sheds another point of the Spanish geography in the medium term: the Bárcena reservoir that is in the province of León at the foot of the city of Ponferrada, and that houses the facilities of the Nautico Club La Tertulia.

The agreement reached between the Community of Madrid, the Federation of Madrid, the Real Club Náutico de Madrid, the Club Náutico San Ramón and the Organizing Committee of the Abanca Week also includes the support of the department that runs Javier Orkaray, for the Iberian Cup of the Snipe Class that will have the support of the "Abanca Week" at the level of previous event, and that with a participation of 60 ships from all the peninsula will take place from 5 to 7 April. In those days it will also take place at the headquarters of the Nautico of the capital of Spain, a days of inland waters, with the presence of clubs of the immersed communities.