Varador 2000 has bet on Carlos Manera because he has "a very solvent project and offers many guarantees of the future"

The Carlos Manera - Varador 2000 race team has been presented in Mataró and will compete in the next edition of the Mini Transat 2021 transoceanic race. The race, which is fought alone with sailing boats of the mini class 6.5, will leave Les Sables d'Olonne (French Britain) on September 26, from where it will travel more than 4,000 miles to the Caribbean island of Guadalupe, with a scale in Santa Cruz de la Palma (Canary Islands).

Varador 2000 participates for the first time in the ocean race Mini Transat 2021 with a boat patrolled by the young Carlos Manera. The regatist has pointed out that he is prepared to face this challenge because in recent months "I have learned a lot along with great regatists such as Gerard Marin and Bruno Garcia, real cracks that have taught me many things that I did not know about strategy, tactics, meteorology or on-board feeding during a long solo journey." Manera has defined the project as "a dream come true," and has stated that in the future he would also like to participate in the Vendeé Globe or the Barcelona Word Race. According to the sportsman, the Mini Transat "is a challenge I am confident of, as I have prepared myself a lot mentally and psychologically, and I think I will come out of this competition having learned a lot."

Xiqui Mas, general director of Varador 2000, has closed the event by adding that Varador 2000 proposes its participation in the Mini Transat race as "a long-run sports project, where the starting point is the 2021 edition and the 2023 edition point of arrival or consolidation. The challenge is immense, but the trust placed in Carlos Manera makes us put forward the future with optimism." But he considers that Manera is a "very mature person for his youth, with much common sense and with the strength to overcome this great challenge and others."

The presentation has also been attended by Agustí Martin, Dean of the Faculty of Nautics of Barcelona, who has been very pleased to have helped to form "as a navigator Carlos Manera, who studied in our faculty, where he graduated in the speciality of Nautics and Maritime Transport in 2020." The presentation has also been attended by various regatists, members of the FNOB and the Nàutic Port de la Selva Club (where Manera has been built as a navigator), representatives of Ports de la Generalitat, the City of Mataró and the Consell Comarcal del Maresme and various companies that also contribute economically to the project.

Following the presentation in Mataró Marina Barcelona, Manera and the sailboat of the class mini Varador 2000 have left for French Britain, where they will participate in various training tests in the Atlantic during the months of May, June and July, and thus finish the development before the start of the Mini Transat in September.