The Spanish and Portuguese championship of windsurfing at the Abanca Week (Photo Simón Fernández)

The prudence reigned within the Organizing Committee of the Abanca Week, and in short in all the imbued in the direction of the Galicia Cup of Bateles- Trophy Villa de Marín. The news coming from Santiago, and the Xunta's will to declare the orange alert, tilted the balance (which would have been forced in the light of the news provided by the weather technicians) towards the postponement, so that the great event of the traditional rowing, was decided unanimously to move it to Saturday, November 12, with the same programming as originally planned.

It was also approved by Federal opinion that the inscriptions of the 85 batels of 17 clubs were valid, and on the other hand after listening to the participants. It was agreed to complete the registration period, from today until Wednesday 9 next month. The goal of trying to reach the 100 batels, which would be a milestone in the world of rowing. At least everyone's conjured to do it.

For this reason, and after this postponement, the next act will be in the Ria de Vigo with the support of all the institutions: Xunta, Concello de Vigo and Depitation in the Rande Regata Field and base in the former military school of the ETEA. After many years the Week will have windsurfing (it had it in its time of Caixanova at the beginning of the century of the hand of the Rodeira de Cangas) and with much power... since in olive waters will be held the Spanish and Portuguese Championship of Formula Foil and Formula Fin, with windsurfers from all of Galicia and Portugal... as well as from many parts of Spain that are not common in these waters, such as Castilla León, Castilla La Mancha or Madrid; among them the best in the country of the Spanish champion of Formula Fin, the Ortiano.

After the Viguese test, the Abanca Week has three competitions in the waters of La Coruña. First of all, in the capital of the Cidade da Coruña Isabel Zendal of female crews from all over Spain with a wide representation of the Atlantic: Baiona, Vigo, Sanxenxo, La Coruña, Gijón, Santander, Getxo... as well as the Canary Islands, Porto and London... and as a closure of the Regata Gadis- Aurelio Fernández Laxe de optimist.

2022-10-20: Abanca Week arrives in Marin with record 85 batels and 510 athletes

The mayor of Marín María Ramallo and her councillors Traba and Caiña, as well as representatives of the Galician de Remo and Semana Abanca (Photo Pedro Seoane)

The Abanca Week comes back, after the completion of the Concello Vigo Trophy of Piragüsimo and Vela, and it does so in the Ria of Marín and Pontevedra, with its great rowing event: the Villa de Marín Trophy with the Galicia de Bateles Cup in play.

The competition will be held if the weather conditions allow it in an exceptional framework, such as the Pista mayor Antonio Blanco, located between the commercial docks of Marín and the facilities of the Military Naval School. Given the wind and sea situation is in the air the beginning of the event, which is initially scheduled for Saturday at 3: 00 p.m., and finish three hours later.

In total about six hundred athletes (with 350 boys and 250 girls) will be on the exit line, to complete from the five hectares of the younger to the two thousand meters of the adults, with four categories of men and so many others of women. The athletes will compete on board 85 batels, a figure that represents a new record. In these units of about seven metres in length, the teams are composed of five crew members, plus two alternates, hence the overall figure is about six.

In the race there will be 17 clubs, and among them the historically common ones in the ACT League of Trainers... from the newly ascended Samertolameu Sports Society, to the downfall this season: the Remo Club of Ares, going through the strongest among the Gallegos today: Cabo de Cruz, or Tiran de Moaña who stayed several campaigns in recent years in the elite.

The clubs that will have the most batels online are Samertolameu de Meira, Cabo de Cruz de Boiro and Mecos de O Grove: in total 8 of them. In total there will be 36 women's and 49 men's... the category with the most competitors will be the male cadet (with 14 boats), being in girls also in cadet with only one less batel.

From the northern part of Galicia with Cabo de Cruz at the front, you will be in Marín: Regatas de A Pobra do Caramiñal, Remo de La Puebla, Remo Rianxo (one of the most legendary clubs on the Spanish rowing) and Remo Ria de Ares. The central area of Mecos and San Martiño de O Grove. In the southern area Vila de Cangas, Robaleira de La Guardia, Cesantes and Chapela de Redondela, Samertolameu, Tiran, Moaña, Meira... and the Vigueses of Coruxo and Virxe da Guía.