The Viguese mayor Abel Caballero presided over the closure, in which the Canarian couple was also given the Iberia Trophy, the oldest of the Spanish candle

The brothers Gustavo and Rafael del Castillo del Real Club Náutico Gran Canaria have proclaimed themselves for the third consecutive year Spanish champions of Snipe... in a championship that organized the Real Club Náutico de Vigo and commemorated the unrepeatable figure of one of the most famous regatists in the history of the Spanish candle: Cholo Armajo.

After two days of hard competition and a day in white, they completed the Jordi Triay / Cristian Vidal podium of the Mahono Maritime Club and Alfredo González / Cristian Sánchez of the Royal Nautical Club of Arrecife of Lanzarote. The best Galaic tandem was the one composed by the Herculinos Marcos Míguez and José Ramón Pardo del Náutico de La Coruña) that was sextos, just ahead of the Viguese Javier Porto Andrés Jiménez, who compete for the Náutico de Vigo and the Rodeira de Cangas.

In the classification of the Memorial, also won by the Del Castillo, the Lusos Tiago Roquette (We Do Sailing) and Gonçalo Jordao (AVA) were made with the title Master (they finished rooms of the general, with 35 points); Marta Hernández (Club de Mar de Almería) and Julia Ivfil (RCN Tenerife) won in the female category and Manuel Lorenzo (CN Vilagarcía) and Paula González (RCN Vigo) were awarded the juvenile trophy.

2020 / 10 / 11: Gustavo and Rafael del Castillo del Gran Canaria lead the National of Snipe in Vigo

Tomorrow Monday the National of Snipe concludes in the Ria de Vigo

Gustavo and Rafael del Castillo del Real Club Náutico Gran Canaria are the leaders in viguese waters of the Spanish Snipe Class Championship, which on its 79 birthday is dedicated to the memory of the great Cholo Marina, and which has the sponsorship of Ssangyong

A lot of wind in the race field that the judges rode very close to the peninsula of the Guide... being the partial victories of Damián Borras and Cara Franceschi (CM Mahón), Marcos Míguez and José Ramón Pardo (RCN Coruña) and Jordi Triay and Cristian Vidal (CM Mahón).

2020 / 10 / 10: Alfredo Şlez- Cristian Sánchez leaders of the National Snipe in Vigo

Edition 79 of the Spanish Snipe Championship

He began to race in memory of the unforgettable Cholo Marina that is sponsoring Ssangyong, which this year has the quality stamp of being Snipe's Spanish Championship

Three were the sleeves held... where the islanders Alfredo González and Cristian Sánchez (RCN de Arrecife) showed themselves as the most regular... they won two tests (first and third)... the first race of the day was the slowest in a series won also by Gustavo and Rafael del Castillo (RCN Gran Canaria), title advocates, winners of the second test.

But the prime regularity in the general and the ship of González and Sánchez, champions of the Spanish Cup in Murcia 2009, was the strongest in the head. After them, the current Spanish subchampions, Víctor Pérez and Juan Carlos Serrano (CM San Antonio de la Playa), signed a remarkable card: 6-4-10. And in the third square of the podium, the local Javier Porto and Andrés Jiménez (5-8-7) with 20 points, the same as Pérez and Serrano, waiting for this Sunday between the discards in play if one or more races are disputed.

The top posts already include the Del Castillo (19-1-3, 23 points) and the Jordi Triay-Cristian Vidal (CM Mahon) tandem, these with a series 2-16-9 and 27 points. Triay has been a state champion in 2012, 2014 and 2015 and knows the viguese waters, as here he raised the title of the Spanish Cup in 2016.

2020 / 10 / 08: 70 snipes at the Spanish Championship in Vigo in memory of Cholo Marina

• Regatists from Spain, Norway, Italy, France and Portugal compete from Saturday to Monday in the river of Vigo

The 14th edition of the Cholo Armada-Trofeo Ssangyong, has been presented in Astilleros Armaría with the pruritus of being on this bridge of the Hispanity, the Spanish Snipe Championship, sixty years after "Cholo" Armajo premiered his palmarés winning the National in Vigo, and also being in that 1960 the subchampion of Europe in the Swedish town of Landskrona.

The introduction club of this American design in continental Europe has not forgotten the first national fleet of the class. He had planned a spectacular year in the river with a Spanish Cup (March) and the South European Championship (August), but the pandemic cancelled that one and moved it to 2021.

However, the memorial, which was to be held in March, has been saved with its change of dates for this weekend and has also passed from the Spanish Cup to the Spanish Championship by renouncing Gran Canaria to its organization and giving up the rights to the Royal Nautical Club of Vigo. Thus, the Viguese fleet has been guaranteed great events now and also next year.

On this occasion, more than 70 units from Spain, Norway, France, Italy and Portugal will compete in an event that will be the most international of those that have been held to date.