The traditional Barcelona regatta returns to its usual May dates and opens the Mediterranean Circuit of Cruises (Pep Morata photos)

The Conde de Godó Sailing Trophy has been historic after the Rats on Fire has become the most laureate ship in the race that has organized the Royal Nautical Club of Barcelona for 48 years. Rafael Carbonell's ship has broken the tie to eleven titles that he shared to this day with another of the myths of the Spanish candle, the Bribon of the Catalan shipowner Josep Cusí, and it already adds up to twelve.

In the queen category, the ORC 0-1-2 the Rats on Fire, patroned by Jorge Martínez Doreste, has not had it easy after the first day the Blue Carbon of Toni Guiu overtook him and started the second with an off-line that complicated things, but two first consecutive placed him in the head to end the eleventh Count of Godó and the ninth in a consecutive way. Things did not change on this last day, when the cruises did not dispute any evidence due to the complicated weather conditions of little and wind roll. With what Blue Carbon and Kajsa III of the Swiss Rolf auf de Maur accompanied him on the podium.

The one who could not add to his particular record of consecutive victories in Trophy Conde Godó, in this case he should win in the category ORC 3-4-5, was L'Immens Laplaza Assessors of Alexandre Laplaza. The ship that Carles Rodríguez patrons needed as a water of May that there was evidence in the last day, but it did not and had to settle for the second place, three points behind the Uruguayan Lady Marilin of Nicolás González. Third was the ibicent El Gaitero Dos Ivan Moreno.

Those who were able to contest a single test were the J70 monotypes, lighter ships and sailing in real time, where the Autolica-Tropicfeel-Kahaway of Ricardo Terrades and Luis Martínez Doreeste made a third that allowed him to win the Godó ahead of the Let it be of Juan Calvo, second and the Gunter of Javier Scherk, third.