Today we take back this section, which only had a first delivery... a section that is more topical than ever... a section that is necessary for the debate on the heavy sail... because friends have loaded the circus of the cruise sail: here no one wins, we win all... the difficult thing is not to win... but to not win... as we say in Galicia you have taken the competition to the ground. We started over.

We are in the 60 / 70 / 80, we are in a full period of hope, with a tremendous rise of sport at all levels, we are in a time with international political and social problems... but with tremendous force in those young generations... are the brightest times of pop music, soul, rock... but at the same time are good times for the great classics, who continue to have a great social, cultural and non-sporting pronunciation.

That is to say, for many years, with the criticism behind a breaking youth, the Western countries are struggling to achieve what we call the welfare society today... but within these parameters these movements with a great cultural burden, do not seek a blur and how much new... but continue to grow, in standard of living, in hope of life and in freedom... by preserving our traditions.

Our dear candle faces dramatic changes in its panorama: the synthetic materials of new generations appear... both at the level of fabrics for the candles, as well as at the level of the construction of the helmets and how not, at levels of acasillage... that become lighter and with greater resistance... and let's not say anything about the cabotage.

In the competitive spectrum Munich is an Olympic that marks the way forward, which explodes in Montreal... that in terms of light and Olympic sailing.

In the cruise sail, drums of progress and modernity of the IOR's hand in those years, the categories are distributed effectively and with an excellent design: the mini ton, the quarter ton, the half tonnage, the three quarters, the one ton and the two ton. These are the years in which they are in charge, and not a few designers with the healthy aim of making their titles profitable...

With the advance of the 80's, there are great changes, checking that the mini-tons go down, while the old one ton (27.5) join the two tonner (32.5) to create a new one ton: the successful 30.5.

The picture remains this way: quarter ton a real international class on a planetary level... half a ton in the hands of Le Figaró who in the late 1980s sends the class to the paper as it begins with the Beneteau monotypes... the three-quarters enjoy excellent years in Spain Portugal France Italy and Greece, especially with the support of Don Juan Carlos I.

It is the years of the Banesto, Bribón, Azur de Puig, Camper... that after two or three seasons end up in the second-hand market at a laugh price. And it holds the prestige of modern one ton... with a spectacular world in 1986 in the waters of Palma de Mallorca.

At that time there are two terrible bombings in the candle: first that the IOR was obsolete, and that everything would be resolved by the French-British CHS and the IMS. The Channel starts to have a lot of problems when some shipowners check that handicap certificates have a different rating, as requested from the Paris or London office... the end!

The IMS is a very complicated system, for which most clubs are not prepared to use it, they fall into the greatest savage effect: to use the general proposal as a rule... if the Channel was a shame, the IMS is a shame.

The races stop having absolute winners, and they start to offer free struggle shows: ALL GAIN!... even there are races that there are more absolute winners than participants... because there is the barbarity that a ship wins the First Class 8 and the class regates for example... and it is not an easy joke.

This causes the Level Class World Cup to end up disappearing, and the media not to understand, as everyone wins... and also how serious those who win are men aged 60, 70 or over... with a belly and who have in large part never sailed in their lives...

There are (we will already talk about it in detail) all known people who are engaged in making up the world, with a couple of Romanians, two Argentines, an Italian, two French, an English and an Egyptian, who are working as waiters in a tourist area, to say that their test was a world... that of course, right?

In this way we become a country, which is really difficult not to be SPAIN, EUROPE or THE WORLD OF VELA... and I'm not overreacting.

Meanwhile in this sport shame, the federal authorities are only dedicated to demanding tropecient papers, to obtaining permissions from all that has been and for having, and of course to making the penitents pass through.

For more fun, they drive sports organizations crazy to hire so many qualified personnel, that the problem is not to organize the event... but to pay the number of gentlemen and ladies to be hired!

We have loaded the World Cup, we have loaded a large part of the Spanish classic races, we have become a few times, in serving as a small-scale advertising office, in which we are dedicated to selling very expensive fish trophies, to regatists and simply fixed patterns, to races with an unpoor level... very poor.

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