When a journalist is told about the birth of a new media, we begin to believe in miracles. In this time, when more and more media are disappearing, the big ones are fused (with the consabid layoffs) and the small ones are still with a very low advertising income, the "crazy" arrives and also the "foolish" of Manolo Seoane, and decides with a group of friends to move forward DIGITAL NAUTICA.

Crazy, because doing this today, with this media panorama, only deserves this loving appeal. Insane, because he has also ordered me to be the reponder of the section that we will devote to Nautical Tourism. A section in which we will try to discover, count, transmit, everything related to that tailor drawer, which is not little. The four cardinal points of the coast, archipelagos, and, because not, also the interior, which not only sails on the coast, will have its hole. I therefore encourage the readers of NAUTICA DIGITAL to send us your proposals that you believe we should share with the lovers of nautical in general. Those hidden coves, those night routes, food sites to access by boat... There's to give and take.

Now you're gonna let me have a personal note. I have known Manolo for about 33 or 32 years, when he landed at the Bayona Yacht Club and I arrived with my newly-obtained title as a Regatta Judge of the Galician Federation of Vela, and gave me the opportunity to earn my first summer pesetas by helping great judges, such as José Ramón Fontán, Jordi Vila or Cigarrán. It also gave me the opportunity to be the Sailing Monitor of the said Club, and curiously some international regatist went through my hands. It is clear that he then learned for real, of course. And, professionally speaking, we could from Radio Cadena Española (now integrated into Radio Nacional de España), be the pioneers throughout Spain to broadcast live regats, thanks to the good management of Seoane in that Club. Today, with mobile phones, 4G Internet and so on, it may seem easy, but from what we did then, only Manolo and I were alive to remember. Mario, the sailor who took us aboard Mount Real (formerly Yapeyu) and my then editor-in-chief Marcelo Otero, have left us. Go this first memory in this column for them.

What I said, welcome to the world of DIGITAL NAUTICA, and we'll see you through these pristine Internet waters. Good wind and good sea to all.