The Association of Nautic Clubs of the Canary Islands, met at the Real Club Nautico Gran Canaria de Las Palmas

Thus, expressing to those present their interest in promoting nautical sport, the Director General of Sports, stressed the need to create a joint brand that is a reference, not only in the archipelago that promotes nautical tourism between islands, but that transcends our borders. A risky but much needed project to reactivate a sports tourism that has been leaked by the latest events that have generated the health pandemic. In this regard, he stressed the need to promote access to national-sports practice, basic and high-competitive and federative sport, all of which will help the economic recovery of companies and services in the sector.

During the meeting held, the Nautical Clubs of the Canary Association, they transferred to the Director General the projects in which they are immersed as well as the difficulties with which they are at the time of their development, so the Director General raised the need to translate into a document the possible solutions that would happen because the institutions, both public and private, are involved in a joint and attractive project that would serve to reactivate the sport of competition, federative and high performance. It was also agreed that there was a need to establish working lines with other areas of the Government of the Canary Islands that could value the importance of sports tourism, and the impact of which is of the utmost importance, as a generator of wealth, throughout the geographical area of our country.

It was also agreed to express the support and solidarity of all clubs with regard to the problem that the Royal Nautical Club of Gran Canaria is facing when it comes to the renewal of the administrative concession of its facilities and which has jeopardized the essential role not only of that Club but of all the nautical clubs such as the promotion of the basic and youth sailing developed from a model of management that has been a success over the last decades and that has allowed the sport of the sailing to be the most lauded in Spain at the Olympic Games, and particularly, from the Real Nautical Club of Gran Canaria, which has been represented by the many generations of the world of Gran Canaria, and has been represented by the whole. The situation which all its participants regretted by appealing to the institutions to try to find consensus solutions, aware of the damage it would have to not only the nautical sector but also society in general.

Finally, the president of the Royal Nautical Club of Gran Canaria, López Galán, thanked both the Director-General for Sports and the Assembly for the institutional support he received. The Assembly unanimously adhered to its demands and solutions raised by the Club, which in turn extended to the support shown by the Clubs throughout the national territory, represented by José Manuel Jaubert Lorenzo and Enrique Martínez García, presidents of the Spanish Confederation of Nautic Clubs and Spanish Association of Clubs, respectively and members of the Board of Directors of the Royal Spanish Vela Federation, who are an integral part of the Canary Association. The president also expressed her appreciation for the support samples received, among others, by Mr Julio Romero Ortega, President of the Royal Nautical Club of Arrecife, Francisco José Darias Padilla, President of the Nautical Club of La Gomera and Salvador of the Castillo Olivares López Viota, Vice President of the Nautical Club of Fuerteventura.