Javi Padron gets the title of champion of the J70 Spanish Cup

Last weekend the first edition of the Spanish Cup of the international class J70 was held in Barcelona. A fleet of almost 20 ships played a total of eight races out of the twelve scheduled by the race committee over three days and with difficult sea and wind conditions.

The provisional classification offered the lead of the J70 of the Maritime of Canido Pazo de Cea of the brothers Ramón and Rodrigo Ojea, Andrés González and Javier Porto to the command, after a first and a fourth. Only one point behind were the Gallegos of Jorge Pérez Canal's Red April. In the third position and tied with the second was placed Cosmetica Clarac, which premiered in the class. The fourth position was for the Catalan Cobra of Pedro Sotomayor and Gonzalo Romagosa.

The most regular team of the second day was Tenaz de Pablo Garriga, who on this occasion carried the Venezuelan world champion Víctor Díaz de León as tactical, and achieved three seconds in the four sleeves of the day. The provisional classification changed and Cosmetica Clarac climbed to the first square, behind six points followed Tenaz and in third position was another of the favorite teams such as the Vigues Marnatura de Luis Bugallo, but he did it nine points from the second.

On Sunday he finished the Spanish Cup... after a very tight exit in the first manga, he was Luis Martínez Doreste at the command of his Clinic W with the tactic lance Nano Negrín managed to be third after Tenaz and Marnatura which was second, Noticia third and Clarac fourth.

The war for the title, was starring Tenaz and Clarac, but finally and with only one point of advantage the final triumph was for the new in the class, led by the regatist of the Royal Nautical Club of Gran Canaria, Javi Padron with Iago Marra to the trimming, Pepequín Orbaneja to the bow and the Italian shipowner Enrico Perrone to the piano.

In third position was kept Marnatura de Luis Bugallo of the Real Nautical Club of Vigo at five points, followed by Clínicas W, del mallorquín Patakin, Noticia, hang Ten, April Red, Pazo de Cea and Cobra that closed the top ten...

Javi Padron gets the title of champion of the J70 Spanish Cup (Photo Torveo)

The next quote of La Toja, in full Rías Baixas de Galicia with the Villalia Spanish Championship in play... that will be from 16 to 18 next June by the hand of the J70 Olivica Class and the Real Nautical Club of Vigo.

2023-05-17: J70 of the Atlantic and Mediterranean fleets, in the Barcelona Spanish Cup

Pazo de Cea one of the Viguese ships that will be in Barcelona... is from the Club Marítimo de Canido, armed by Cominges and with Ramón Ojea a la rea (Photo Maria Muíña)

The Spanish Cup of J70 begins this Friday and will take place until next Monday... this is the first edition of this competition and will be organized by the Real Club Nautico of Barcelona and the Association of Owners of J70 of Spain... after this appointment, already in June in Galician waters, on the island of the Toja, will take place the Spanish Championship, which the Association organizes with the Real Club Nautico of Vigo.

In 2023, the national class of J70 has established a new criterion for the design of the national ranking, consisting of two competitions but with different coefficient. The Spanish Cup will score 40% and the Spanish Championship 60%. With both classifications and the score achieved after applying the coefficients cited, the national ranking will be formed that will make known the teams classified for the world to be held in Palma in September 2024.

A total of 20 ships are registered today, but new units are expected to be added in the last few hours. The teams that will come to the Spanish Cup are certainly the strongest in the country of the fleets installed in Barcelona as in Vigo.

The starting line will not lack equipment such as W Clinics, HangTen, Marnatura, LaGuardia & Moreira, Tenaz, Noticia, Patakin, Pazo de Cea, Let it Be, Can Marlés, Cobra and the Green and Red April. In addition to these, there will be international teams from Germany, England, Belgium, Portugal and Australia.