On the initiative of the Real Club Marítimo del Abra- Real Sporting Club de Getxo, which this year celebrates its 125 anniversary, as well as the Real Club Astur de Regatas de Gijón and the Real Club Náutico de La Coruña, this year debuts in the Calendar of Regatas de Vela Pesada, the so-called Transcantábrica Regata Xacobeo Navega, an ambitious project that was launched in the 1990s with the name of Copa del Atlántico - Regata Getxo a Baiona and from which were celebrated three editions with the best name of the Spanish, as the third century to the end of the year.

The idea had had its pillar in good relations between the most important nautical clubs in Bidasoa al Miño. The group was registered in the legal records of associations such as ANCLA, a name created by which he was a comedian of the Nautico de La Coruña, Ricardo Castro... as a synthesis of the Nautical Association of Atlantic Clubs.

The success of the event was never forgotten, and other options were tried... but the fleet was asking to get to Galicia, as a connection to the Costa Vasca Regata and the classic Galician Regatta.

To this end, there was full agreement between the clubs, to begin a new stage of the ANCLA, and consequently the race of cruises between the communities of Euskadi, Cantabria, Asturias and Galicia... the great Basque regatist Tomás Alonso Allende is the president of the Organizing Committee, the comandoro is the one of the Nautico de La Coruña: Jorge Etcheverría Mazaira... the director of Regata Eduardo García Santamarina of the Maritime of Abra, the technical director the president of the Vasca Federation Oriol Ruiz Cabestany, the coordinator of the secretariats of the Pedro Sejana and the secretary of the Astora.

Taxus of the fleet of Gijón one of the favorites of the Transcantábrica (Photo Felix G.Muñiz)

At the support level, the Transcantábrica is named after Xacobeo Navega, Abanca gives its name to the Trophy of Clubs and Auara, the solidarity, social and sustainable water of the Corporación Hijos de Rivera is sponsored to the category + 50, which brings together the most expert navigators of height.

It will be on August 2 when at 12: 00 in the morning the fleet that is calculated will be of a twenty of ships start to the Deportivo of Gijón, of the Abra vizcadino. The arrival in the city of Asturias will take place the following day, for the 4 c to build a Gijón-Gijón coastal regatta organized by the Real Club Astur de Regatas de Gijón. For the third day of the Transcantabria: Gijón-La Coruña... with a length similar to that of the first stage: about 120 miles... with obstacles to consider as Cabo Peñas and Estaca de Bares.

After the arrival in the herculine city, and rest a day the Royal Nautical Club of La Coruña is finalizing the organizational details, for which it will be a new edition of the Regata Finisterre, so that the fleet of the Transcantábrica-Xacobeo Navega reaches the Ría de Vigo, in advance of the beginning of the Regata Rías Baixas, which organizes the Royal Nautical Club of Vigo. The outline of the general project essentially respects the original of the 90's, which basically aims for the north and north-west sailing to have a joint alternative to the great races of the Mediterranean... and once consolidated try to incorporate the group into the fleet of races of southern France.