Iberian granitos, the light candle reference in the Galician spring by the hand of the Maritime of Canido.

Located to the socaire of the Cíes Islands in the south center of the maystatic Ria de Vigo, the Marítimo de Canido Club that presides Mauro Olmedo one of the children of which he was emblematic president of the Monte Real Club of Yates of Baiona Rafael Olmedo; he does not stop to grow in his sports facet carried from the comodoría of Ramón Ojea, valued heavy sailing pattern.

With a good school, which does not stop grabbing successes especially in the laser and optimist classes, and is beginning to step hard in 420, it organizes two great races each season: the spring the "Iberian Granites," the autumn the "Coca Cola Canido Series" which opens the Abanca Week every year.

The most veteran is the first, because it has twenty years of presence in the Galician Calendar, and nine years of sponsorship of the leading company Granitos Iberas, which has been illustriated with the project, and which each year strengthens its quality, to the point that in the open-May era, is certainly the race of light sailing in the Spanish Northwest.

In the final edition the Maritime managed to have two of its divisions declared Iberian Championships (with the support of obviously the Federations of Spain and Portugal), specifically in the classes optimist and laser,..., the splendid result - more than 200 ships from all the Peninsula, and even from some other country!.

In the class Optimist Alba Trigo of the Nautical of Sanxenxo he imposed himself in his class by asserting his current status as the Champion of Spanish Women. Alba demonstrated its excellent state of shape, leaving the silver for Yago Castro also from the Club that presides Pedro Campos and third for one of the most solid promises of the Galician candle: Alejandro Pérez Canal, which sails through the Maritime of Canido.

In the Laser Standard class, it was for a lusitan family of illustrious sails: Tomas Pires de Lima of the Club de Vela Atlántico got the first place, second was Rafael Campelo of the Real Club de Mar de Aguete, and third the veteran Serafim Gonçalves, of the Naval Clube Povoa do Varzim. In Laser Radial full of Canido: Alberto Basadre was the best, and behind him Tirso Cerqueira and Gonzalo Martínez.

The youngest who competed in 4.7, had in Jorge Juan Tábara the winner of the Nautico de La Coruña, silver Miguel Rouxinol of Leixóes and bronze also the Coruñés Gonzalo Criado. The closure of this successful edition had the presence of Roberto Bermudez de Castro, there is that!.

Text: Emilio Méndez
Photographs: Alejandro Villas & Javier Franco