José de Vallés has been and is one of my best friends, practically since we met. He was in the RANC between 1981 and 2006, and my relationship with him, amen of the special mutual love (as well as with our respective partners) I have had extraordinary experiences and are already part of the most recent history of the Spanish Sailing.

I met José through Estanislao Durán who was Vice-President of the RANC and Delegate in Galicia, as well as acting as Comodoro del Monte Real Club de Yates de Baiona. That year the Regata Vuelta was held in Spain of Bitácora (which was an idea project, we left it to 50%, with another great friend of mine like Alfonso Jordana). The Regata ended in Barcelona and was won by the "Vento" whose shipowner was Manuel Fernández (ex-President of Pescanova) and by patron Pedro Campos. But of that, the King's Cup was born, and the Vento came to Baiona, leaving the Mediterranean, to compete in the Count of Gondomar... the "Vento" was that bluish ship designed by the great Ron Holland (IOR 27.5) that had been called "Todahesa" in the old One Ton Cup in Naples, where a glow deprived the Catalan ship of winning...

Well, Joseph was the Chairman of the measurement committee of the Count of Gondomar Trophy and he detected that the "Vento" was missing "a few hundred Kg of lead..." and he told the good of Miguel Angel Roselló... who set fire to the fuse by publishing in the Sports World that of "TRAMPA, TRAMPA, TRAMPA!..." from now on, complaints, judgments,...

For many years, I've always tried to have Joseph by my side, because he's a friend, he's a professional like a pine cup and he tastes like it. I invited him to many races and he always came, even in the 2000's to the Maritimo del Abra and we organized the two some Gitana Cup. I leave you with the story of the RANC that José de Vallés has written for the website "Mar Abierto," to whose address we appreciate the use of some of its material.

Manuel Pedro Seoane
Digital Nautical Editor

When Aurelio commissioned me to develop this new formula, he made me a lot of illusion and I thought it would be a very satisfying colophone to my RANC career. For this, I got the invaluable help of Chimo Gonzalez- Devesa and Fernando Roca, being their vital contribution to the RN. Unfortunately I had to work with Quique Molinelli and Miguel Rosa who are the technicians the Federation has appointed to form the team and who have turned a project for my illustrious, into a true silicon. Photo Open Sea.

I would never have thought of my retirement as an imminent thing if it wasn't because at the end of 2004 I had an angina of my chest that ended with an open-heart operation in which I was implanted 4 by- pass. This got me pretty smashed, I was off for more than six months, and now I feel like maybe I need to take my life more slowly. My first contact with the navigation was at 16 years old, when during the summers I was on my way to Mallorca, in the "Bon Temps," beautiful wooden cheese made of crab and property of my uncle Jaume, which to the times of pattern. He told l'oncle Jaume that the ship was always of the family, as he made it build an uncle of his by a mestre d'aixa de Manacor (Mallorca). He told us, as we sailed through the islands, that after the civil war and during the fuel rationing, he extended the masonry and the bauprés and, with the scandalous long and the petiphoque in addition to the trench and the major, he took a better performance to the ship. Surely for this nautical baptism, decorated by the image of the technicolor films that I liked so much, starring Errol Flynn, Gregory Peck or Tyrone Power (The World in Your Hands, The Sea Hydrago, The Black Cisne, The Captain Blood,..), I always associated my way of seeing the sea with a romantic spirit that is currently difficult to find among those who practice cruise navigation. At the age of 17 and believing me with enough experience, I encouraged Juan Plá - who had just bought an old wooden sniped from Jordi Masiá- to leave from the beach of Caldetes (Barcelona) and sail a day that a fresh north was established. This wind is unusual on the coast of the Maresme, and near the land, it deceives by not raising the sea. When we realized we were wet, tired, and more than 1 mile from the coast and, because we deny it now, something sluggish and about to unfold. The sea had just given me its first warning, teaching me that it is not played with.

This was one of the Gypsy Cups we organized in the Abra Maritime, José and I. In the image another excellent friend and great President, José Manuel Loredo Mutiozábal, owner of a precious so-called "Shooting." By the way, Vallés is crazy about the classics, and not just the ships, because the cars. He came all the way to Vigo with his MG. A crack.

The 1970s passed a few years until the timid appearance of the first plastic ships, born a new generation of fans I joined with great enthusiasm. This was happening in the early 1970s. The fleets that took part in the local races were formed by ships like Drac, Siroco, Puma, Coronado... Victor Sagi, with whom four years earlier we had founded the Moto Club Barcelona - he as president and I as secretary - expressed his interest in starting in the world of the cruise races, buying a Siroco to which he named himself "Garuda." The fruit of my insistence accepted me as a fixed crew. I was sailing with him regularly until '79 and during this period I maintained an important nautical activity, since in addition to the weekend races, we trained tactics, maneuvers and navigation every Wednesday. For a year of these, I don't remember which, I only read nautical books and took out the title of Yate's Patron. I called him "My international nautical year." The ships that Victor had in addition to the Siroco were the "Bribon I" (Elvstrom ½) and another "Garuda," a beautiful Swan 47. With them I participated in many local races like Interclubs, Cto. Catalunya, Copa España (which we won twice), la Palma - Port Vendres - Arenys or the Ctos. International Mediterranean in Palma and Porto Cervo. My first boat was at the end of this intense stage of race as a crew during the 1970s when I bought my first "Gegant del Pi." It was a Dufour 24 I took out a great game by sailing in solitude several times to the Balearic Islands.

The World Cup of Quarter Ton of Baiona 1990, of which I was Director and hired José de Vallés as Chief of Measurement. Here with your Committee in the walls of Monte Real, in the group Javier Romero "Torquemada," Pinacho, Alechu Retolaza, Pancho Valverde, and my son Edgar who is today a well-known graphic designer in Barcelona, and he is the one who has designed us this website (Photo Helena Dominguez Blein).

For this, I had the only help of a wind rudder, which I designed and built from the guidelines that Bernard Moitessier gave in his extraordinary account "The Long Journey" and Francis Chichester (not yet Sir), in the account of his Transat describing his rudder "Miranda." Two years later I was able to own my other "Gegant del Pi," a Dufour 2800 I had for 23 years. With this second ship I made three times the Mare Nostrum, a unique race created in 1972 by Nino Beguetti, founder and then director of the Yate and Motonautics magazine. In the first editions only Solitaries were accepted participation and since electronic rudders were not allowed, almost all of us used the "Bogasol," effective wind rudder designed and built by Josep Egui. In 1991, Nino left the organization of the Mare Nostrum, and in order not to be lost, a group of fans founded the ANS (Association of Sailitars) with Víctor Sagi of president, Diky Lavilla of vice president, being me for 14 years secretary with different presidents such as Toni Guiu, Ignasi Alvarez and Javier Tejedor. I participated in a thousand miles to two of which Henry G. Curt organized, with Javier de Lete as a crew member. It's been 14 days. And in the first edition of the Palma-Alguero-Palma, with Jordi Masolover of co-pattern. The first Palma-Alguero-Palma race was a party, the governments shot and the Sardo wanted to commemorate the germanor (ndr: twinning) between the cities of Palma and L'Alguer. On the arrival of the first test to the port of l'Alguero, the city was covered with Catalan flags, as a sign of its national identity. At the welcome reception, the mayor and several living forces made their parliaments in Algarés, which is the Catalan that is spoken there, the truth is that it seemed spontaneous and exciting. We spoke Catalan in the city and they understood us. Embribed by this environment, Víctor Sagi, who participated in the race, replaced the national teaching with the senyera in his back stay. It was disagreeable when he returned to Palma received a complaint from Naval Command put by the Regata Committee (Javier Romero) for carrying the inadequate teaching in international waters. He had a hard time going to trial and a heavy fine. Victor still keeps, framed in his office, the guarantee of payment of this fine. With my wife Carmen Ventura as a crew member, we obtained in 1994 the "Canal a Dos record," which the ANS had just instituted. I won the 1995 Catalan Championship of Classic Ships taking from tactic to Artur Orti and made countless regatta until, in 2000, I sold my beloved "Gegant del Pi," which still sails through waters of Aiguadolç (Sitges) perfectly preserved by its current owner. José Mª Padró Jover founded the ANC (1974 - 1981).

José great cruise navigator and also in races. He participated in the first edition of the legendary race of the Thousand A Two, investing 14 days with Javier de Lete as a crew and in the Palma-AlgueroPalma, being his co-patron Jordi Masolover.

The RANC President to President The ANC was founded by the remembered José Mª Padró in 1974, on the proposal of a determined group of shipowners - mainly from the Barcelona RCN - dismayed by the little support that the Spanish Federation of Vela gave to the cruise. Important should be the need for an association to work for the cruise since, from its inception, more than 350 shipowners were affiliated throughout the country. Thus, the association had passionate technicians such as the Alfonso Bacqelaine (first the father and later the son), Quico Llompar, Mike DaCosta and some more I have surely forgotten. They all got the O.R.C. to give them the management of the I.O.R. at the state level. The Federation recognized the ANC as the Secretary of the Cruise Class and since it had no interest in the Cruise, the ANC was de facto the true authority of the Class. With José Mª Padró as president, the first six years of the ANC were of consolidation. Juan Pla i Bosch (1981-1985) In 1981 Juan Plá was elected president of the ANC and at the very moment he was appointed he offered me the management (General Secretariat) of the Association. I was in the flower of life (40 years) and had been fully dedicated to the nautical cruise, which I was sharing with my work. I liked the idea, because I knew a lot about the environment, the ships and the characters that were moving in it. Believing it could be fun, I left the occupations I had at the time and accepted. With Juan Pla, the ANC took a big step forward. My incorporation meant his first full-time fixed employee, for so far he only came in the afternoons Paquita - who worked in the RANC more than 25 years. In 1983 he also entered the staff of the ANC Carmen Ventura, my wife, partner and friend. The Federation officially appointed the ANC as its National Committee of Cruises, so that the regional delegates voted by the ANC partners in each area were the secretaries of Cruise in its regional federation. Juan got the sponsorship of Agua Brava, which allowed to launch the Great Trophy ANC which, organized by the R.C.N. Puerto de Santa María was established as the Spanish informal championship.

This race was held in the waters of the bay of Cadiz, immediately after the Sherry and was the first time that a travel grant was given to the ships participating in a race. The Great Trophy ANC only had two editions, as Agua Brava saw greater possibilities in the King's Cup and Enrique Puig, from the hand of Yolanda Llinás, made a board to Palma. In 1983 and after a discussed selection process, the ANC granted the organization of the · Ton Cup al C.N. de Denia. The Spanish ships that wanted to participate were so numerous that we had to organize a selection test between the North and the Mediterranean fleet, since only 10 ships could participate and 23 were presented. During his term of office, Juan Pla wrote the White Paper of the Sail of Cruise, which was a detailed study that wanted to show that, in terms of licences, activity and economy, the Sail of Cruise was much more important within the Sail in general than that given it by the Federation. The White Paper stirred more than one sensitive stomach. This coincided with the new Law of Sport, which precipitated the fall of Miquel Companys as president of the Spanish Vela Federation, where he had more than three legislatures. The F.E.V. was left unheaded and had to borrow to find a new president. There was an accelerated activity between two candidates, Juan Ramón Castillo and Arturo Delgado, leaving the last winner. Since 1972 the only rating system applied in Spain was the IOR, which was increasingly questioned by the owners of cruise ships, who argued that it was expensive and that it benefited the ships designed for this formula. Alfonso Bacquelaine Mut, animated by Eusebio Carreras, delegate of the ANC in Catalonia and a voluntary group formed by Toni Tió, Roger Soler, Toni Freixa, Enric Carreras, Jordi Vives and José Jacinto Rodriguez, then developed a time compensation system called RANC (Rating Asociación Nacional de Cruises). The RANC was based on the Scandicap system, a highly used rating system in northern Europe, adding numerous changes developed by our committee. It was applied from 1981 to 1985, with remarkable success in Catalonia, Levante, Canarias and North. However, at the time of the greatest splendor of the RANC, the ANC saw that it had to complicate the Rule with the incorporation of new measures to cover the holes that the local designs were finding and using. In the face of this tesiture it was decided to withdraw it, because of that of dying in success without waiting for decadence. For a complicated system there was already the IOR.

At that time, we were already beginning to talk about the IMS, a new system that would revolutionize the time compensation of the serial ships in the cruise races. In the meantime, the IOR was further strengthened, which had never ceased to be used in higher-level races and in many areas of the country. When the ANC decided to leave the RANC, the BOGA was created, which was an association of nautical clubs in northern Spain and southwestern France that decided to continue on their own with the RANC system, modifying it to better suit their needs. Years later, when the RANC managed the French system CHS, the French, who own this formula, commented on the paradox that the Spanish used the French CHS managed by the RANC and that the French used the Spanish RANC that the ANC had developed. Enrique Vidal Paz (1985-1988) With the statutory renewal of the Board of Directors, Enrique Vidal Paz (Capitá Vidal) took over the presidency of the ANC between 1985 and 1988. Enrique was a hard pattern and an expert navigator (Transat in solitaire, Return to the World and Parmelia Race endorsed his curriculum) He carried his mandate with a firm and temperamental hand, making the ANC, which was the National Committee of Cruises, an active association with weight and authority. It was a gozada to organize from the ANC the selection systems to decide the ships that participated in races such as the Sardinia Cup, Admiral's Cup, the International Level Class or the One Ton Cup that organized the R.C.N. de Palma. The ANC Magazine was also launched, first as a newsletter prepared by Jordi Altimiras and then with Tomás Galea, who improved the content and presentation, turning the newsletter into a monthly magazine called RANC Dissemination. Since then, our magazine is an excellent reference of the activities of the RANC and of all that concerns the cruise sail. It was with Enrique Vidal when, through a contest, First Class 8 was chosen as National Monotype. The Association of First Class 8 Spain was formed, chaired by Josep Mª Pujadas, in addition to various sports activities that were in operation for several years.

Also with Enrique was redesigned our headquarters, which was in the Spanish Dome, fixing a top floor, where an office and a meeting room were built and fitting the ground floor of the offices to leave a very decent place. Unfortunately, the works in the port that followed the designation of Barcelona in 1988 as the headquarters of the Olympics forced us to leave our headquarters. In those years the ANC promoted the first Spanish Championship of Cruises that was held in the R.C.R. of Alicante and the R.C.N. of Palma organized the One Ton Cup. At both events I was part of the Measurement Committee. The Federation "recovered" the management of IMS and IOR and its National Committee of Cruises. The ORC, the holder of both compensation systems, was at that time being dangerously stalled by the ISAF internationally and did not dare to support the RANC. During Henry's term, Ricardo Balil was on the Board as Chairman of the Epoque Boat Committee. Ricardo was Dr.'s son-in-law. Alfredo Muiños, doctor and personal friend of S.A.R. Don Juan de Borbón and he encouraged him to name the trophy of the first season boat race that organized the RANC. Thus was born the Almirante Conde de Barcelona Trophy, which for more than fifteen editions was organized by the RANC as an exponent of a high-level international meeting. Years later, people from the RANC themselves using the unexpected creation of the Hispanic Foundation, worked to take away the RANC's organization and control of this race, but this is another story... During the presidency of Enrique Vidal - specifically in June 1986- the House of S.M. El Rey granted the title of Real to the ANC, which since then became RANC. I remember fun that, when the RANC made public this recognition, drawing up a new role of letters with the Crown and adding a "R" to the sign of the entry of our social place - then on the Spanish pier - both the Spanish Federation of Sailing and the Assembly of Yate Captains mounted a spectacular fuss. Arturo Delgado (president of the FEV) argued: "How can a committee of ours and not us be real? The Spanish Assembly of Captains of Yate, for its part, came to say by the mouth of its President that the Royal House had been in the wrong direction in sending the communication, because they had their social place next to ours and for many years they had requested that distinction. They claimed a postman's mistake!

Gerardo Pombo when he was the right hand of Arturo Delgado faced the RANC and left it uncontained. José de Vallés had a very bad time, as he stayed with CHS and the beginning of the IMS, amen of the Interclubs of Catalonia that I had the honour of organizing several years, the Regata Don Juan de Borbón and Classics and something of the King's Cup. When one of the largest workers of the Catalan and Spanish candle, Jordi Vives, died, I convinced Pombo for two things: first to grant the gold medal of the RFEV posthumously to Jordi and to come and deliver it personally to Arenys de Mar, his widow and his son. This day Gerardo was ten points, and I thank him very much, and I think we all thanked him (Manuel Pedro Seoane).

I don't know if for this fuss or because they deserved it, the Royal House granted the title of Real to both entities within a few weeks. Vicent Messeguer Fos (1988-1990) Vicent Messeguer is a resident architect in Sweden (Valencia) who had been at sea for years with his "Experiment" and on land in clubs and federations. His natural concern led him to chair the RANC between 1988 and 1990. Despite his kind and conciliating mind, he had to live a stormy period, for that was when the RFEV, according to Arturo Delgado's writing, decided "to recover the Cruise." The Cruise, as a class within the whole of the National Sailing, had more and more participants, handled more money and Olympic medalists were more and more assiduous to the Cruise. It had become a very suitable dish for the RFEV. In fact, what was happening in Spain was a reflection of what was happening internationally, as the ISAF was in the interest of the ORC and federations such as the Italian and the French also moved to control their cruises, trying to accommodate the AICI and the UNCL respectively. The unfortunate thing was the forms, because despite the years of service of the RANC to the Cruise, it was metaphorically ended to clumps given by some of the prepowerful leaders of the RFEV, who saw the RANC as a stone in their shoe. Vicent wanted to save the situation, approaching the RFEV and arguing that the RANC was its National Committee of Cruises. But this required disassembly of the Association and its raison d & apos; être, so a fraction of the RANC partners convened an Assembly that was attended by more than 400 partners out of a total of 1,000. There it was agreed not to go ahead with Vicent's project, leaving him and his Board of Directors and appointing a manager with Fernando Casanova as president, with the task of redefining the RANC and launching new elections. The RANC therefore has in its history a "martyr" president, although things have been reconducted and today Vicent is vice president on the RANC Board of Directors. Fernando Casanova Sanguino (1991) Arturo Delgado gave a lesson in political theatricality by taking advantage of a hot moment during a RFEV Assembly. In an angry gesture with his arms up, Arturo publicly broke his RANC partner card. I was told that the scene was very applauded, what he didn't tell anyone is that a few days earlier, Arturo had received a letter from the RANC informing him that he was a member for not paying his annual fee. The Federation "recovered" the management of IMS and IOR and its National Committee of Cruises.

The ORC, the holder of both compensation systems, was at that time being dangerously stalled by the ISAF internationally and did not dare to support the RANC. The key was that those who sent at the Cruise would have, thanks to rule 26, part of the money that the sponsored ships would get. With this picture ahead of us and believing that the RANC, with the federation against and without its own rating office, could disappear, Fernando, taking care of the advice of José Mª Padró, Mike DaCosta and a number of other notable ones he baptized as "the Sanhedrin," went to Paris to have a meeting with the President of UNCL. This body, together with the RORC, were the owners of a system that was having great success worldwide: the CHS. The "feeling" was so good that at the end of 1991 we began to manage certificates like the Spanish authority of the CHS. The ORC ratified the Federation as the administrative authority of IMS and IOR. But based on its prepower, the RFEV did not in any way want to pay for the information, experience, machinery or files that the RANC had of the Spanish fleet since 1974 and achieved by its own effort and money. They preferred to start from scratch from the copy of the few certificates they obtained from the shipowners when they applied for their rating. This intransigent federative attitude, apart from the fact that it pissed off many shipowners who had to remeasure their ships, significantly slowed the start of their certificate-issuing office, giving the RANC time to resituate in the national landscape, issuing a total of 492 CHS certificates in the year 92. In this way we could resettle as an active, dynamic and close association to the cruise. If the RFEV had paid the RANC the just money it asked for as a counterpayment to its information and files from the national cruise fleet, it is very possible that the RANC had never raised its head and that it had even disappeared as an association. A decision that the Federation made to annoy us became possibly our salvation. As an end to my career as Chef Measurer IOR and IMS I was able to chair the Committee of Measurement of the ¼ Ton 1990, organized by the M.R.C.Y. of Bayona. It was nice to have on the committee Michael Pessiot (French measurer chef), Dr. Pippo Po (Italian cheff measurer) and Kent Weller (world chef measurer). The director of the event was Manolo Seoane, who, despite how gross he is, is a front-row organizer. With him as director and with the help of Pancho Valverde, I had chaired in Galicia countless Mediation Committees, such as the Count of Gondomar and the Prince of Asturias.

Ricardo Balil Forgas (1991-1994)
Ricardo Balil was the president of the RANC from 1991 to 1994. One of its main tasks was to consolidate the RANC as the authority of the CHS. During his term we moved to an office in the building of Marina 92 which was hot and small, but had a window with a beautiful view over the port of Barcelona. He also negotiated with the "fede" (which was left to them) the recognition of the CHS in Spain as a rating system in parallel with the IMS, as well as the recognition of the RANC as the authority of the CHS. Given the success that the First Class 8 was having as the RANC Monotype, we prepared a meeting in France with those responsible for Bénéteau. The idea was to create a RANC2 Monotype from the First 310, with a boosted gear, a tighter price and the helmet painted with the colors of the RANC. Unfortunately, the market was not receptive and despite putting Pedro Truke, a sales agent of Fortune 9, only 2 units of RANC2 were sold, leaving everything in a failed project.

Toni Freixa Moreno (1995-1998)
Ricardo Balil was succeeded by Toni Freixa, who was endorsed by a successful stage as a fleet captain of the C.N. El Balís, a club near Barcelona. There, with a proper policy and a great deal of tenderness, it managed to increase the social fleet very significantly. During its presidency, the RANC changed its headquarters for the third time in a few years, moving away from the port and standing on a lush floor in the city centre, where significant reforms were made until it was at its disposal. Toni renegotiated the contract with José R. Bono, responsible for the organization of the race Admiral Conde de Barcelona, trying to straighten out relations that were very crooked. This did not like several members of the former board, who had received a custom from Bono a court suit that forced us to bring the whole matter to the courts. The renegotiation deactivated the above-mentioned claim, which seemed to be well on track to be won. He also cultivated good relations with the UNCL in order to continue to maintain the management of the CHS, and supported the initiative of Artur Ortí to organize the BASF Costa Daurada Singles, a highly successful race that has been held, first under the care of Artur, later with the impulse of Esteban Ros and currently organized by the C.N. Cambrils. Thanks to this race, the RANC enjoys good prestige in the Tarragona area. Toni Freixa also launched the embryo of the RANC Cup, which was born with the name of the CHS Festival and which for several editions has organized the C.N. Arenys de Mar with the expert control of Jordi Vives.

Aurelio Şlez- Masip Island (1999-2007)
The father of Aurelio Şlez- Isla (also Aurelio) is a remembered nautical enthusiast who, back in the 1970s, founded and presided over the YAMO, an association that brought to the sea very numerous fleets during the holidays, Aurelio - Padre - was also the head of the RANC during the presidency of Enrique Vidal. Aurelio, son, is currently at the end of his second term as President of the RANC. With him we changed from social space to the current Casanova Street. When Aurelio commissioned me to develop this new formula, he made me a lot of illusion and I thought it would be a very satisfying colophone to my RANC career. For this, I got the invaluable help of Chimo Gonzalez- Devesa and Fernando Roca, being their vital contribution to the RN. Unfortunately I had to work with Quique Molinelli and Miguel Rosa who are the technicians the Federation has appointed to form the team and who have turned a project for my illustrious, into a true silicon. Aurelio restarted relations with the CIM (International Committee of the Mediterranean), giving a great push to the RANC as Spanish authority of Epoco boats and member of the International Technical Committee. In 2000, the CHS changed its name to IRC, being integrated into a more complete regulation: the IR2000, which also included the IRM. For five years, the expansion of the IRC has been increasing to manage 935 certificates in 2005, which placed Spain as the second country in the world behind England in terms of IRC certificates. In 2002, the Rating Club, which was fully compatible with the IRC, was launched with a simple and targeted economic race measurement certificate. More than 900 certificates have been made of this certificate. Aurelio, who has always tried to get the RANC closer to the Federation, found no collaboration in Arturo Delgado, making it impossible to improve the relations between the two entities. It was with the current President Gerardo Pombo that he had from the beginning a receptivity that has allowed him to plan and consolidate a set of projects, such as that at the end of 2005 the RANC regains its status as Secretariat of the Amateur Cruise Class. Also in collaboration with the RFEV, the Royal House granted the RANC the management of the Cup of the King of Barcos de Epoco which, in the first three editions have jointly organized the R.C.N. of Barcelona and the C.M. of Mahón. Another notable rudder has been the agreement between the RANC and the RFEV to jointly develop the new Rating RN, designed to group the fleets of IRC, Rating Club, IMS Club, IMS-C and IMS-D into a single system. When Aurelio commissioned me to develop this new formula, he made me a lot of illusion and I thought it would be a very satisfying colophone to my RANC career. For this, I got the invaluable help of Chimo Gonzalez- Devesa and Fernando Roca, being their vital contribution to the RN. Unfortunately, I had to work with Quique Molinelli and Miguel Rosa who are the technicians the Federation has appointed to form the team and who have turned a project for my illustrious, into a true silicon. This relationship has been difficult, unhonest and always farrous. Its maximum contribution has been the "adjustment" in 3 of the 12 corrective factors (manga, broth and age) and the systematic refusal to any modification to improve the formula. That is, with a number of philosophical nuances, and unnecessary procedural complications that have delayed the project for several months. It was very heavy.

Jesus Turró (2007 -?)

(José de Vallés - Barcelona)