Spectacular urban sleeves in Vigo (Photo Maria Muíña)

Marnatura with Luis Bugallo a la rea and a young crew formed by Enrique Freire, Javier Gandara Jr, Alberto Basadre and Alejandro Prego; is the solo leader of the Villalia Spring J70 Series that organize the J70 Monotype Association with the support of the Royal Nautical Club of Vigo.

The judges once again took oil out of the tight conditions in the Vigo Ria... on this occasion a north-east of 6 to 8 knots that blew even for moments with a speed of 10 knots in the first hour of the Sunday morning.

Jaime García's were able to complete three sleeves and they started the one that would have been the fourth, which had to be overturned at the edge of one in the afternoon, when the wind decided to leave in a morning really spring with sun, good temperature and the river as a pond. By the way, the judges set up the field in the so-called Ensenada de Rande, at the foot of the Xaxan... very close to Ponte de Rande: spectacular.

Ramón Ojea is a pattern that adapts very well to the little wind, and the result of it was noted the first manga of the Sunday day with his Pazo de Cea that competes for the Club Marítimo de Canido... April Green was the second to cross the line and the third other specialist with these conditions: Jorge Pérez Canal with Red April, fourth was a Gonzalo Araújo who with La Guardia & Moreira, launched a notice that he wanted to leave in the general and fifth the leader Marnatura who began successfully the defense of the leadership... and in which the second, the Sailway Academy, the J70 of the canterans, the product of a malfunction would be removed by losing the provisional silver.

The Olympic medal Nico Rodríguez in Solventis (Photo by Maria Muíña)

The judges quickly started the second manga that was for Bugallo, ahead of a Sogacsa that did its best and began its climbing to better places on the table... and a toned Red April.

As a close-up to the third race that was the first victory in this series of Gonzalo Araújo, which was definitely in the head group... the second position was for the Solventis de Alberto García with the Olympic medalist Nico Rodríguez of the Nautical Club Ría de Ares, the third for the also Olympic Vasco Serpa with his SailCascais; fourth the Sogacsa and fifth a great Pazo de Cea, which could be higher, if he had not pricked with a tenth on the second Sunday. Sailway Academy competed in the last two sleeves, achieving 8º-11... it is clear that the failure of the first manga of the day, passed them bill.

With these data, Marnatura domain, but it has very close on the table to four ships by this order: Red April, La Guardia & Moreira, Solventis and Green April.

Pazo de Cea de Ramón Ojea won the first manga on Sunday (Photo Maria Muíña)

The emotion is therefore served: the next delivery of the Villalia Spring Series also in the Ria de Vigo for 12-13 March... in the concert on the peninsular level the world reference monotype, the J70 has its two great quotes: in the Spring Series of Vigo and Barcelona, by the hand of the Real Nautical Club of Vigo and the Real Nautical Club of Barcelona, respectively.

2022-02-05: Marnatura 1 with Bugallo to the cane takes over in the Villalia Spring J70 Series

The fleet of the Villalia J70 with the Bridge of Rande to the bottom (Photo Maria Muíña)

The Marnatura 1 is the leader of the Villalia Spring J70 Series that organize the J70 Class and the Royal Nautical Club of Vigo, after the first day of the first act has been held in Galician waters of which is the reference event, at Iberian west level, in the competitions of these monotypes.

Following the pattern of the Spanish team of the Young Americas Cup, there are the Sailway Academy that competes for the Maritime of Canido, of which are part of several of the most outstanding promises of the Galician candle... closing the provisional podium Solventis of the Náutico Club Ria de Ares, in which the Olympic Vigo medal Nico Rodríguez appears as a crew.

It started the opening day of the Spring Series with soft winds of eight knots in the north-east, and everything made a light opening... but nothing further than what would happen next, as the wind was coming down and had to wait more than two hours, so that it could face the second sleeve, at the edge of the four o'clock, with winds of the north of ten knots. The partial victories were for the Red April of Luis Pérez Canal and the Marnatura 1 of Luis Bugallo.

Favorites did not go well in general in the midst of these complicated wind conditions. This was the case of the winner of the Winter Series, La Guardia & Moreira de Gonzalo Araújo, which is located far from the head, in the sixth place (although it improved much in the second manga)... ahead of two other heavy weights: the SailCascais of the Olympic lisboeta Vasco Serpa and the Sogacsa that after its second absolute in the mentioned Winter, fell to the eleventh square with Sancho Paramo and Pablo Iglesias on board.

To highlight the Sailway Academy with the very young Orensian patron Alejandro Pérez Canal, which has the Vigo regatists of the Maritime of Canido Luis Sampedro and Iago García Pillado and the tandem world champion of 420, formed by the Arosano Jacobo García and the Coruñés Toni Ripoll. They have achieved a second and a third on Saturday... there is certainly much future in these canterans.

The Sailway Academy the ship of the Canterans, with Alex Pérez Canal to the command (Photo Maria Muíña)

In the middle of the manga held, there were the Pazo de Cea de Ramón Ojea del Marítimo de Canido, and the Valmy Atlántico that competes for Beach Escolas Club with a crew in which they are: Alberto Figuera, Susana Villaverde, Ana Sardiña, Oscar Torres and Alejandro Cortegoso... from several points of the Galician geography. Later the Kessler Correa of the Herculino Fran Edreira, of the Nautical Cabanas Club of Ferrolterra, closing the top ten.

As a close of this day, the mayor of Vigo, Abel Caballero, accompanied by his sports councilman Manel Fernández, visited the facilities of the centenary Viguese nautical club, where he was received by its president... José Antonio Portela. The top olive leader took the opportunity to greet many of the athletes participating in these Villalia Series, the case of the Olympic Nico Martínez, and to deliver to Gonzalo Araújo the award as winner of the Winter Series that ended in January... that had won the J70 La Guardia & Moreira.

For the second Sunday round of the first act, with the swords on top... for the time being the most important competition in all of Spain, along with the Barcelona Series, as far as J70 is concerned... they just started.

The athletes of the Villalia Spring Series with Abel Caballero (Photo Pedro Seoane)

VILLALIA SPRING J70 SERIES
PROVISIONAL GENERAL CLASSIFICATION

1st Marnatura (Luis Bugallo), 4 points (3-1)
2nd Sailway Academy (Alejandro Pérez Canal), 5 (2-3)
3rd Solventis (Alberto García), 7 (5-2)
4th Red April (Jorge Pérez Canal), 8 (1-7)
5th April Green (Luis Pérez Canal), 10 (4-6)
6th La Guardia & Moreira (Gonzalo Araújo), 12 (8-4)
7th SailCascais (Vasco Serpa), 14 (9-5)
8th Pazo de Cea (Ramón Ojea), 14 (6-8)
9th Valmy Atlántica (Alberto Figueira), 18 (7-11)
10th Correa Kessler (Fran Edreira), 21 (12-9)

2022-02-05: They start in Vigo the Villalia Spring Series of J70 with Nico Rodríguez in race

The best J70 in the Iberian West in viguese waters (Photo Maria Muíña)

The Villalia Spring Series of J70 begins in Galician waters with the best units of the Iberian West in competition, by the hand of the Class and the centenary Royal Nautical Club of Vigo.

There will be a total of five events: this weekend, on March 12-13, April 2-3... to end on May 7-8. In the technical part a Coruñés at the head, Jaime García, one of the best national specialists in the world of monotypes.

The greatest novelty in the return of the Villalia, with the first name of Spring, will be the presence of one of our best regatists... of the Olympic medal Nicolás Rodríguez that will be part of the crew of the Solventis of the Nautical Club Ria de Ares. They comprise their crew Lucía Moro, the olive patron Alberto García and the Coruñeses Manuel González and Alejandro Alvarez.

Another of the J70 that will begin with the favorite vitola is that of another Olympic: Vasco Serpas, but Lusitano on this occasion, which is already in Vigo with total artillery with the Sail Cascais, and which is the advance of the Portuguese fleet, which will have several units in the short term. In front of them the powerful MarNatura of Luis Bugallo, the two Abriles (the red with Jorge Pérez Canal and the green with his brother Luis, the winner in the winter series LaGuardia & Moreira of Gonzalo Araújo, the Valmy Atlántica, the Correa Kessler of Fran Edreira, Pazo de Cea de Ramón Ojea... to close to a twenty units.

The competition in its first act will begin on Saturday at 12: 00 in the morning, and on Sunday at 10: 00. In total, eight sleeves (four per day) will be completed.