Motor enthusiast, but passionate about the candle, even won the King's Cup in 2015 and 2016 as the pattern of a single type X35

Javier Sanz Fernández (Madrid, 1950), former economic vice president of the Real Federación Española de Vela and former president of the Real Club Náutico de Palma, has announced to EFE his intention to present his candidacy for the presidency of the Real Federación Española de Vela, in the elections to be held before the end of 2020.

In recent weeks, there had been talk of who could happen to Julia Casanueva at the head of the Spanish woman, while the current president in an interview with Pedro Sardina in ABC did not make clear her intentions of whether or not she would try to follow. A month later, in the same newspaper, the president of the Federation of Vela de la Comunitat Valenciana, Carlos Torrado, announced that there would be a candidate from Valencia, thus sectorizing to a single territorial one the future presidency of the Spanish Federation, but curiously it did not give the name of the possible candidate, although in the minders of the candle it is said that the one chosen by Torrado for the occasion is Pepe Martínez, but the one who should be the main interested has not officially confirmed or denied it, so clearly it should not be. Sardina titled in an article a few months ago in Valencia Plaza magazine 'Som Vela wants the reins of the Spanish candle 'This is almost all said.

The truth is that Javier Sanz has been the first to step forward. From there, those who come, if they do, will clearly go one step behind.

Economist and MBA Master in Business Management, has developed his career for 40 years in high-responsibility positions until his retirement. Although he began his professional career in Madrid, he has been in Palma de Mallorca for almost 40 years, where he has been in charge of different companies.

A member of the Real Club Náutico de Palma since 1994, he was vice president of the club from 2007 to 2011, the year he was elected president, a position he held until last November, and he could not stand for re-election because the club's statutes limit the terms to eight years.

From 2006 to 2019, in the years of its largest international expansion, it was also President of the Mapfre King's Cup.

On October 19, 2015, he was appointed economic vice president of the Royal Spanish Federation of Vela, following access to the presidency of the Spanish Federation of Julia Casanueva, which won a motion of censure against the President of the Spanish Federation José Ángel Rodríguez.

His work was really complicated as he took over a million-dollar deficit in the federal accounts, put them in order, got them to have annual surpluses and on 20 January he presented the resignation for differences in the president's current management.

His philosophy is clear: "I believe that the RFEV that represents the sailing in this country must get all of us who sail to do it together, without interest, without personalism as people pass but institutions stay."

In his farewell letter he wrote: "There are, of course, many things to do to get to have that federation that we all want. I keep the good of this experience and I prefer to ignore the bad, which has also been. I trust that some episodes I have had to face since the vice-presidency will never again be repeated."

Jaume Soler, nautical journalist
www.jaumesoler.net