Gabriel Laiseca and Juan Manuel Alonso Allende... the Maritimo with great truth does not want the younger to forget the gestures of these two viscains of another galaxy

The Snipe class is one of the oldest in the light sail, which broke into Spain with much force in the 1940s, with the first Spanish snipes being the Viguese Toñete of Antonio Ruiz and the number 1 fleet of the Royal Nautical Club of Vigo.

It should also be noted that the Real Sporting Club was part of the vanguard of the post-war era, which modernized the Spanish competition candle. For several decades of the last century there was an important fleet and much was sailed in the waters of the Abra. In this class, one of the most important achievements of the Basque candle was enjoyed.

In 1957, Juan Manuel Alonso-Allende and Gabriel Laiseca, two Vizcayos regatists, won the Snipe World Championship in the Portuguese town of Cascais with the Guadalimar. In its honor, the Club de Las Arenas organizes the next 4 and 5 September the I Trophy Fhimasa Juan Manuel Alonso-Allende, a test that will bring together the best couples of regatists of the Cantábrico and others of the rest of Spain. In addition to Basque regatists, there are already registered representatives of Madrid, Santander, Asturias or Tenerife.

World Snipe 57: Allende- Laiseca achieve the feat for the Sailing of Spain

The Vizcaina waters of the Abra in Getxo will become a sailing party this first weekend of September, the best return of the holidays. A thirty snipes will sail in two days, in the I Trophy Fhimasa Juan Manuel Alonso- Allende.

The race is included in the National Circuit of Snipe. The first departure on Saturday 4 September will be at 13: 00, while on Sunday the tests will start from 12: 00.

Juan Manuel Alonso-Allende, who was president of the Real Sporting Club and the Real Federación Española de Vela, was born on December 8, 1918 and died in 1984. Regist, sports director and naval engineer, the athlete of the Club de Las Arenas won Spanish championships in different sailing classes over three decades and participated in the Olympic Games in London in 1948 (19th in Firefly), in Rome 1960 (11th in the Flying Dutchman class) and in Mexico 1968 (18th in the Star class). His greatest success was the so-called Snipe World Championship he won in Cascais (Portugal) in 1957 with Gabriel Laiseca, the first Spanish to do so. He also played in the Spanish Championship of this class Snipe in Vigo (1942) with his brother José María as patron, in addition to 1956 and 1957. In the Star class he was Spanish champion in 1943, 1945, 1947, 1966, 1967 and 1968.