Image of the award-winning in the Sports Palace of Vigo... the rain prevented the event in the capital estate of Castrelos Park

The Gala de la Vela Gallega 2020 met the objective marked, to bring together its elected, to enjoy seventy minutes of applause as before the pandemic, but on this occasion with interpersonal distance in the stands of the Central Pavilion of As Travesas, masks and without direct award deliveries. It didn't matter. They were not all who they were, because there were logical absences - the climatology did not help and there were several competitions on the Galician coast - but they were all who were. And there were many.

Three of the four great protagonists of the light Galician candle of the future, the 420 Martin Wizner, of the Nautico de Vigo and that has already finished its stage on that ship, and Jacobo García and Toni Ripoll, new Spanish champions just dates ago with the grympola of the Nautico de Sanxenxo went to the Central. These, as a special mention for their trajectory in 2019 and their European young silver. The one because he's won everything. His crew, Pedro Ameneiro, is in Baleares for studies, and has been the fourth Musketeer of a polished generation also by Bruno Gago, technical director of the Galego de Vela Centre and Andrés Alvarez, his coach with Galicia.

They had a prize, too. Bruno, arousano, one of the surprises for his career in office; the good, for guiding these pearls in each championship. "I started to suspect something when I saw my family in the stand," Bruno Gago confessed after receiving the surprise prize, last night, with the members of the RFGV board of directors, and its president at the head, on stage applauding his DT. Gago thanked the "work and effort of the regatists" and encouraged them to "follow that path."

The candle remembered the best for the third consecutive year of Pedro Campos and his winning projects with the 6M "Bribón Movistar" (collected the Coruñés Roi Alvarez crew), but also of historical (former federal president Francisco Quiroga or the first Galician champion of Optimist, José de la Gandara, in 1970). And also of the clubs: The Royal Nautical Club Portosin won the Galicia Cup of Cruises for the fourth year in line and the real Nautical Club of Sanxenxo has once again been the best society of the autonomous baremo.

The other award that had not been revealed to date was for "Chuny" Bermudez and Miguel Vasco, who in 2019 came to represent Spain at the Star Sailor League, a world-wide selection of stars in which a Spanish crew competed for the first time.