The budget of the I Regata Vuelta to Spain had been 50 million pesetas... the second edition only the expenditure of TVE was 125 million... the revolution. This croquis was published in December 1982 in issue 2 of the missing magazine of the Galician Sea, Remar, which saw the light of the hand of Pedro Puialto... was the first news of the creation of the Regata Vuelta to Spain and was given to the attendees to the Annual Dinner of Mount Real Club of Yates, which was held on Christmas... where the National Vela Awards were born...

The idea was born in the context of the unforgettable magazine BITACORA... that of the great Federico Arias... with another journalist who is no longer between us and very big also Fernando Castiñeira Sporte... ran in 1981 when I met Federico in Baiona... he walked with the woman of his life, with Carmen, for the Monte Real Club de Yates... his visit cost him a game of "troncoconica" beacons that I acquired from Narwhall and that Bitácase was a sponsor in the legendary Week of Baiona... ancestor of the successful Week of Abanca and it was a very difficult time of the present and that it was a very difficult time of the... "

It was a great friendship between Fede and my... first he offered me to be the correspondent of the magazine in Galicia... the problem is that a few months earlier he had come to the Club Nino Beguetti, owner of Yate and Motonautics, of the hand of Miguel Lago... and he was already the delegate of the Catalan magazine on my land... he told me Fede, no problem, that he signed your wife and so was. I signed at Yate and she signed at Bitácora.

Many times I have discussed with a huge friend of mine, and that has been essential in the Spanish candle: Alfonso Jordana and Diez Merry... that the idea of the turn was mine... he says it was his... and surely we're both right... that's why I'm not going to discuss with Alfonso, whom I admire and love very much.

Bitácora was a crucible of friends... there I met Nicolás Terry, Ignoto, Fernando Roca, Maruja, Alfonso, Fernando Castiñeira, Fernando Arranz, Arturo Delgado... and even another crack as was and is José Ramón Guimerans... who was then no less than Vice President of the almighty Dorna... Fede took up the idea of Alfonso or mine or that of the two (what does it matter!) and Guimerans gave it shape... especially in the second edition, the one in which he had TVE and special programs at 21.30 in the first chain with audiences of more than 15 million viewers!

The first edition left Barcelona on 24 June 1983 with 11 ships: "White Horse" by Enrique Gómez Curt, "Andalucía" by Juan Pemán capitulated by Nico Terry, "Catalunya" by Toni Tió and Goroetegui, "Carina" by Alberto Alvarez, "Arosa VI" by the Military Naval School, "Black Falcon" by José María García Lastra, "Spanish Fly," "Hublot" by Caito Ylera de Santander... and "Vento" with Pedro Campos to the armed cane and by Manuel Fernández, who defeated.

1410 miles in Barcelona, in Alicante, El Puerto de Santa María, Baiona and Santander... something essential was achieved... such as that the RFEV did not allow advertising... because it was achieved by passing through the box that the ships carried "publi..." was the first race in Spain with commercial or institutional names in the helmets of the ships... they gave themselves cash prizes... having the winner the chance to reach the 3 million pesetas of prizes...

In another delivery I will count the results of the second edition, which was the personified revolution... quadripling the budget and marking a before and a later for the Spanish candle.

Manuel Pedro Seoane
ND Editor