Guido Cerqueira, Roberto Fontán, José Delgado Tapas, Marcial Tigó and Gonzalo Romero del Caroche in the Regata Vuelta a España 1985

A few minutes ago in the middle of the Viguese street Rosalía de Castro, we are my wife Zulema and I taking a Star on one of the numerous terraces located on this reference street in the center of Vigo... a great friend has been passing for so many years that I don't know what to say... Julio Pedrosa, who was a super-staff conservative politician and a boat owner of the most in the Mount Real Club of Yates of Baiona: the Dente do Can... we greet him and say to him: July the Abanca Week goes like a thunder... and I do not forget that when he was born as the Caixanova Week more than twenty years ago and you were President of the Harbour Authority of Vigo... much supported us!

I see Julio very serious and I ask him, what is it?... and he replicates to me... I don't think you know... today Gonzalo Romero has died, after suffering a long illness... and we are left with stone, and they haven't stopped penetrating my brain, anecdotes, past, regatta and more races... how time goes on... when friends around them are leaving lately.

Gonzalo Romero, known for all the Galician solera candle like Gonzalito... excellent pattern and better person... was a sniper of those who had the honour of measuring themselves to Fernando Massó, to Félix Gancedo, to Rui Moreira, to Cholo Armajo... an inseparable friend of the also missing Doctor Babé, shipowner with Alfonso Paz Andrade of the first Ardoras, which was a saga of ships of race with exceptional crews, among which were the very Fernando Massó, or the great Fernando Escalera (who left us too young last year, and where he was too young.

Gonzalo sailed on the main ships, and among them the Cobra One Tone Marensu of Enrique Gómez Landessa or the rutilating Baileys of the conterovertio shipowner of the Asturian José Luis Suevos Barrero... the very Milmi... or the Lanzales, along with Josè Ramón Fontán Criollo, or his brothers Jacobo or Roberto... or Javier Gandara or Pedro Campos. Or earlier on the Regata Vuelta to Spain, with a fantastic boat, by the hand of José Delgado Tapas... with the Caroche.

Then came the seasons again with Babé... in the Miau... first with half a ton and then in the three-quarter Azur ton of Puig, which was acquired with the support of the then conservative leader of the Miau market, and took place a few seasons, showing the novelty image of Bernardo Alfageme.

He sailed in a season on my first boat, the Holland Ebriuss... along with Miguel Lago, Kiko Mosquera, Mundo Sastre, Jaime Alonso and will certainly make him funny. to remember it with the Barcelona businessman Marc Puig (today number one of the multinational Antonio Puig Perfumes)... in the Conde de Gondomar Trophy of 1986.

But above all Gonzalo, he's been a beautiful person... friend of his friends and a real sailor. Dispose in peace our friend, rest in peace wherever you are Gonzalo... that the free winds will favor you in this new singlature.