The facilities of the Centro Interfederado tudense were the framework for the presentation of the meeting of the sport of the ships with helix, an event attended by the Mayor of Tui. Enrique Cabaleiro; the president of the Royal Galician Federation of Motonautics, José Fernández - Nikis; the head of the Provincial Service of Sports of the Xunta de Galicia, Daniel Benavides; the Naval Commander of the Miño, Pablo Redondo; and the sports concelleiro, Rafael Estévez, among other authorities, including members of the RFG of Motonautics, Marcos Casaleiro; Carlos Estévez and Emilio Cadaveira. (Photo Juan Caballero)

Tui hosts this weekend a new edition of the Spanish Championship of Thermal Radio Control, with the participation of a fortnight of pilots arrived from all corners of our country and will compete in four different cylinders.

The Spanish Championship of Thermal Radio Control will be held on 4 and 5 September in the city of Tui, organized by the Royal Spanish and Real Galician Federations of Motonautica, with the collaboration of His Excellency Concello de Tui, the Xeral Secretariat for or Sport of the Xunta de Galicia, the Receptación de Pontevedra and the Avelaíña association.

The waters of the Miño are the ideal framework for the competition of this type of ship design, which with an average size of 1 m long, has combustion engines with four different cylinders, divided by the official categories contained in the regulations of the UIM - International Union of Motonautics:

The fuel used for this type of boat is usually a slight benzine, providing the engines between 15 and 20,000 rpm - revolutions per minute, the result being a power push so high that it ensures the 65 knots of speed, about 120 km / h.

The circuit is a technical route between buoys, forming a large "M" on the water sheet on which the tour is based and where the longest stretch is 100 m and the shortest half, giving the "consonant" a total distance of 300 meters per return.

Each sleeve has an estimated duration of 30 minutes, holding three for each category, scoring only two of them and dismissing the worst result, to obtain a classification that will mark the overall results. Only a maximum number of 15 pilots per category shall be allowed.

The awards, which will be three per category, reach a special dimension, as they have been modeled by the Avelaíña association, a non-profit entity, declared of Public Utility and made up of persons with mental illness, family members, caregivers and people sensitized among this health problem.