The forty-ninth edition of the Nautical Week of El Puerto de Santa María will release jams next Tuesday with the first qualifying tests for light sailing classes... optimist, radial laser, laser 4.7 and 420, the latter with the Cup of Andalusia in play. A day later, the sailing skate class is incorporated and all these fleets will compete until Thursday... three hundred athletes will be in charge of raising the curtain in the Gaditan bay to the big Sailing Week, which includes the celebration of the 26 Juan de La Tosa Regata and the 49 Nautical Week for the Cruise class from Friday to Sunday.

The presentation officially presented the logo of the 50th anniversary of the Nautical Week next year. The event ended with the family photo next to the symbols and trophies of the races; the gold catavino, saint and sign of 'la decana' as the Nautical Week is known as the longest race in the Spanish calendar of high-level cruise races, and the bust of Juan de La Cosa

For the sixth year in a row, the two great harbour races are united to join forces and to facilitate the participation of the crews that will arrive from the different ports and clubs of the Gaditana province and also from other localities of the Andalusian and Spanish coast. Similarly, the light candle will be in charge of raising the curtain with three first days of race - from Tuesday 18 to Thursday 20 - giving the witness to the Cruises who will sail from Friday 21 to Sunday.

With three days of tests to decide the champions of the classes Optimist, Laser Radial, Laser 4.7 and 420, and two for the class Sailing to Sailing, on Friday 21 will begin simultaneously the regatta of the insignia cartographer Juan de la Cosa, punctuable for the Championship of Andalusia of Cruise Circuit, and the Nautical Week for the Cruises. From that day on, the cruises will compete for three days; two to meet the winner of the race Juan de La Cosa and until Sunday the 23rd to discover the winner of the coveted cruise gold catavino he defends for the third consecutive year, and eighth altern, the vessel 'Brujo' of Federico Linares.