The Spanish sports nautical, is of congratulations that the Nàutic Garraf is still in the gap

Tony Colom, president of the Nàutic Garraf Club, has sent to all the members of the emblematic Catalan club, considered for their achievements and sports career by the Royal Spanish Federation of Vale as one of the ten best clubs in all of Spain... a circular on the new concession, which reads:

We are pleased to inform you that having attended the official opening of the B and C envelopes of the contest for the new concession of the Garraf Sports Port today Thursday, February 6, the Club Níutic Garraf has obtained a higher score than that of Port Ginesta S.A., being 70 points to 63.8 points in the total weighted. As far as the C envelope is concerned, it should be noted that the score that both tenderers have obtained has been as high as possible.

After the most important procedure, we are now waiting for Ports de la Generalitat to review the Financial Economic Plan, which does not involve any additional score, and will be made public in the coming weeks. In this sense, and while we must bear in mind that we are awaiting official notification regarding the award of the new concession of the Garraf Sports Port, the reality is that the score obtained by the Nàutic Garraf Club is excellent.

The end of the administrative concessions of the nautical clubs in Catalonia is causing many either to be struggling to survive as such, not for profit and betting on sport, or to become a navy with the aim of making money for private initiative.

The current Catalan legislation is not in any way conducive to the fact that the current clubs and tenants of a piece of land and water can continue their activity of promotion and school in a more or less quiet way, but in many cases they favour the emergence of anonymous societies that seek to be made with this sea space to make a parking of ships and leave the sports activity on a second or third plane only to cover the file.

The so-called 'Catalan oasis', as Miquel Mallafré was named in a more than recommended article to know the reality of the Catalan clubs published in Panorama Náutico, has been broken and many marines have stalked these clubs using their economic strength to try to get the concessions that have been held by clubs that have been held by their partners for decades, some of them almost centenary.

The Nàutic Garraf Club has been the last to suffer in its own flesh the attack by these companies. In this case, it was his neighbors of Port Ginesta S.A, a marina located just a mile away, who wanted to take over the club's command.

It is clear that the whole law is what it is and that everyone has the right to bid and present projects, but this has also caused the nautical clubs to have to mortgage themselves to the flocks so that they can stay as such and have to go to maximum, and to have to pay a much higher fee for the next 25 years.

The Nàutic Garraf Club, which is chaired by Tony Colom, has suffered a lot in recent months, but have finally been better and thus renewed its concession.

That is after blood, effort, sweat and tears, the club will remain alive and the sports promotion guaranteed. Wouldn't it be better for marines to bid to be marines and clubs to be clubs?

And I ask the Generalitat de Catalunya if it makes up for the nautical clubs to go through this hard trance.

Jaume de Soler,Journalist