I used to say don Jorge... that his Maritime was the best club in Spain... reason he didn't lack... but this great truth... is thanks to the fact that the Club of the Arenas has been with partners with the enormous human quality and great nautical knowledge... like him... his memory is already part of the unbeatable history of the best nautical club in Spain... THE REAL CLUB OF THE ABRA- REAL SPORTING CLUB... until always president

The Royal Maritime Club of the Abra-Real Sporting Club is in mourning with the death yesterday Thursday of its former and great regatist Jorge Churraca Barrie, who directed the Club of Las Arenas between 1984 and 1987... in one of the most complicated moments in the centenary history of the Marírimo.

Churruca, a legendary regatist, made with the Machichaco the Fasnet of 1973 and 1975, that unforgettable ship that decided one day to do so along with another big one that left us years ago... considered one of the most important Spanish patterns in the heavy sail: Juan Olabarri.

In an interview some time ago with the Marine's press resposable... Pérez Capello... Jorge told him the story of this legendary ship: It was made in a town next to Barcelona, in Sant Adriá del Besós, in the Carabela shipyards of a Hungarian named Nick Kenyeres, who had been a prisoner in World War II... it was a Spartman & Stephen One Toner... before, Jorge Churuca had been in England with the Artako and with the shooting of the Count of Zubiria... I competed in four Fasnet.: in class III we were second in 1975, when there were tens and dozens of participants. In addition to Gabriel Laiseca, Álvaro Bernar, Ramón Zubiaga, José Madrazo, Luis Vallejo, Javier Cerero and Dr. Ignacio Gandarias, we went as shipowners.

He also sailed all over Spain and won many of the races held in the Cantabrian with another very dear ship, the Ay Madre.

I've had a lot of ships. The first was one my father made with his brother, in his parents' attic. They took him out the window. It was a Moth, do it yourself. It was a busy boat. I sailed a lot with my father. Then there were the Snipes. My brother Ramón and I had a Snipe, as well as a Flying Dutchman and a Finn. The Galea was the Altora as well as the Snipes. The Finn had no name, like the Flying Dutchman, which was an E21. He competed with them also outside, in La Rochelle very often. The Galea began in 1963 and 1964... he remembered who started sailing as a child when there were still no Sailing Schools. We've spent half our lives at the Sand Bay. Our childhood was between the beach, the boatman and the Sporting, he told us, who was president of the current Royal Maritime Club of the Abra-Real Sporting Club from 1983 to 1987 "in the hard years," after having happened in the presidency of Carlos Castellanos. The Club I loved so much said this is the best Club in all of Spain, no doubt. Facilities like this club are nowhere. I know all the important clubs in Spain and since this one is none. It can be compared with the Barcelona Nautico, with the La Coruña Nautico, but facilities like here, I insist, are not there. Our port, the Club inside is a wonder, your School of Sailing. And he told us about his Mother Ay, with whom we won twice the One hundred Miles of Guetaria. And twice the Santander Week. I put the name on it. The Mother Ay called him to the torment, the small candle, for if he had to be taken out we would say, "O Mother, O Mother." They're gone now. "