We propose to you a game with the memories... we are going to publish anecdotes that are alecciating or even friendly, that do not offend anyone... and that when we could fall into this possibility we will avoid giving names... it is our story and we consider that it will be an interesting contribution, amena and will cause some other little fun... and a lot of nostalgia. AND BY SUPPORT WE ADMIT STORY VUESTRAS...

July 2021, Moebius

1.THE ELASTIC RATING

The Rating, the Handicap of the ships have always brought, in their application Byzantine discussions... And why?... because simply because there are some who want to win, who demand that octopus be for pet animal noses... and that's at least complicated.

In the time of the IOR (for the younger the ancestor of the IMS), the system was simple: a series of measurements were carried out on the ship in question... a coefficient was obtained in the surroundings of 1 (the lowest were the lower of length and the highest of the ones). The time converted to seconds in question was multiplied by the FMCT (Rating feet were associated with the FMCT factor... for example, 0.9545) And you got the time off.

Well, the cruises claimed that they were being harmed and protested very often and even airfully by the interference in their categories of veteran race ships... but of course in general those who protested had been also very fast, but come to less over the years... and they were all part of the fleet's modernity cycle.

Meetings and meetings, discussions and more discussions were held. I remember one there in the year 82, in which the singing voice of the cruises was carried by the owner of the Roana, one of the Andrade... Rogelio. That he was complaining about the bad treatment in this field of the cruises... Ro had the support of many cruises.

The theme became hot until one of the shipowners of the race ships intervened: the famous painter Rafael Alonso who made the North Star 34 Sartaña... and the sense of the mood of the geniuses, as was Rafa...

He rose up in the middle of a very large meeting, interrupted Geluco and said: The solution is that you on a cruise, put the rating that you think is more fair... for example you have I think 22.5, don't you?, for if in a race you go with new people... because you ask that they take it down to 21.5... if you also go when you sail doing the food... you go down to 22.0 and if you take the chacha to serve the food, you even stay in 20... that's under the known philosophy of the "family cruise."

Surprisingly several cruises gave the painter the reason... and he with a sorna and a cachondeo like Usía... You don't know the new currents in the Rating for the family cruise races that prevail in England... THE ELASTIC RATING IS SOLUTION!.

And he stayed so big... the cruises, they hesitated between getting angry or laughing... the best thing is that some of the people present, he took it seriously... and the worst thing came in the next race because in the press he would hit the cruises... of FAMILY RULES... which did no grace to these... but was approved in assembly.

2.NI PUTA IDEA

To talk about Humberto Cervera is to talk about the last decades of the races in Galicia. Creator with Rafa Lorenzo of the Trophy Count of Gondomar, of the Beneteau Cup, promoter of the Fisrt Class 8, of the Platu 25... of the races with both Portugal and are France. "Piruchi" as it was known, it was also a magnificent cane and an understanding as few, in that of putting a boat of "to the point." He won not a few races, with ships that are already the legend of the Spanish heavy candle... but we are not counting in this section the curriculum of any sportsman... so let's get to the point.

We are in the Prince of Asturias Trophy, we are in the waters of the Naval School of Marin... more than 80 ships in departure... and the spectacular fleet marks its course to the beacon of dismantling, to which Piru comes first to the cane of the Black Pedras of his great friend Rafa Ouro... not short or lazy, he stands in the stern pulpit of Beneteau 41s5 and shouts to all his rivals (some very famous and well known, Olympic medals included) I don't have any IDEA... at the same time that which rutilating football star was hitting at his chest...

3. AND THE REMO

It is the turn of another master of the candle, the Malagasy professor Félix Gancedo belonging to one of the sign clubs of the Spanish candle: the Real Club Medio de Málaga. Everyone associates Felix with the snipe, with which he proclaimed himself three times the world champion... when this class was the top of the international candle... others make them with his Olympic participations and the 1968 (Flying Dutchman), 1972 (Dragon) and 1976 (Tempest, which had replaced the legendary star)... but what most do not know, is that the Malagasy was a paddle crack.

21-year-old Felix leads the Mediterranean of Malaga to win the title of Spanish yolas champions (mobile bank rowing), and only the wrong decision of the CSD not to allow him to take part in skiff in Tokyo, deprives the Spanish sport of a safe medal in rowing...

In those years Gancedo alternated the candle and the rowing in the purest British style of the "sailing & rolling"... and they say that when he was already an Olympic in a candle at the Mexico Olympics, he challenged the Olympic remers to compete in Skiff against him... and he turned them one by one without mercy...

4. ANDERSEN AND SODERLUND IN BAIONA

The Monte Real Club de Yates de Baiona phenomenon is neither the fruit of chance nor fortune. The Club that presided Rafael Olmedo from 1973 to 2015, was prepared on a slow fire... first with the Bermuda Baiona Regata... the most important at the ocean level of those who are held... then with a very powerful sailing school... then with a 420 World Cup that broke barriers... and finally with the commitment of Alfonso Paz Andrade to twinning with the Royal Ocean Racing Club, with those Lymington- Cruise Baiona... and as a dessert the figure of Francisco Sitges with his "Xargo..." the IV was the only maxi in Spain!

The Baiona Club came to have in the 80's, more than 60 ships measured in IOR!, it was the nautical Galician with the highest number of licenses!... and it became the eye of the hurricane of the new candle... with regatists such as Pedro Campos and José María Lastra (who were sailing in Sanxenxo in the 70-80's), it recovered Javier de la Gandara who had signed by the Náutico de Vigo... and came patterns and regatists from all over Spain: Jan Santana, Toño Gorostegui, Noluco Doretetc.

Two of those who were assiduous in not a few competitions were two legendary Danish patterns: Ib Andersen and Herik Soderlund... the first was common in some races in the Joubert Level Half Ton of the Fontan Family and the second in another Joubert, the Pairo Three. By the way, this happened at the Winter Cup, which was sponsored by Banco Vitalicio Insurance... A LIGHT.

5. _ _

Estanislao Durán entered as Comodoro de Rafael Olmedo, following a resignation of Fernando García Tobío... of which he used to be a regular star... and so Rafael "provisionally covert.".. but Tobío did not return on this occasion and Estanis was about 30 years in the post...

The promotion of the new comandoro had been the rallys... his family among other companies had a SEAT dealership in Vigo, and his brother Emilio was an exceptional pilot, who fought for national titles against Beny Fernandez, Bernard Tramont or Estanislao Reverter...

The disqualification of both cars when they marked third parties in a '60s Rallye Rias Bajas was very well known. "enter the closed park at night"... and Estanis wasn't funny about the cachondeo, but no grace... when some funny guy took it out.

This philosophy of Duran's technical rigour of motor tests, he imported them into the candle... and the result of it there is no doubt that the Baiona Yacht Club of his hand, was the pioneer of the Spanish candle, in forming professional and independent measuring committees, which imposed as much rigour on a Count of Gondomar, as on a Level Class with a world category.

However, in this organizational facet, Durán had founded with his inseparable friend Francisco Sánchez Balgoma the PAIRO... which eye has nothing to do with "the pairo..." the name is because Francisco's wife was and is Rosa... PA de Paco y RO de Rosa: summary PAIRO.

Well, the "pairos" It was two Elvstrom Half Ton (the One and the Two), and then Joubert & Nivelt... to end up at the present time in which it is José Luis Freire and Constante Freire, those who lead it would listen to a Farr 39... and Estanis, although it is a good navigator... it is not a top as a race boat crew... so it was in luck to be the one of the "gross"... with such bad luck that with him as responsible Pairo One broke his mast in a race.

So the Two... and even with another mean the Easy Boys II of Quelhas... Durán saw the mast coming down... and there was a room that broke, but it seems that it was Juan Carlos Montes Eloy's fault. (of which he had a repair company in Baiona)Pairo Two, when he was lying on the dock, broke a slingshot and violently hit the pier and Baiona... A record for the ROMPE PALOS.

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