Tomás Alonso Allende, pertecient to one of the reference sagas of the Spanish candle, led the Tchin Tchin to victory in Las Arenas

Tchin Tchin in the Regata class and the Nexus in the Cruise division winners of the Dean of the Spanish Sailing... of the Gitana Cup, which ended on the afternoon of Sunday in Getxo waters, which organized the Royal Maritime Club of the Abra-Real Sporting Club.

Both defended the leadership of the first day to maintain their privileged position and to win in this classic of the candle of the Cantabric. On the second day of competition it was sailed with less wind than in the initial, to close this championship with a loose north-east wind of five knots, with a maximum of seven.

The Tchin Tchin, patronized by Tomás Alonso- Allende in the final day, was imposed in the absolute general (4 points - two first and one second position -) after the Alpega de Alfonso Churruca (6 points) was pointed out the last tour after hour and a half of navigation to certify the second place in the classification. Third in this class finished Mikel Emaldi's Maitena (8 points).

Tomás Alonso-Allende, winner of the Tchin Tchin, is the active regatist with more titles in the Gitana Cup. He was a crew member of the unforgettable Artako of the remembered Juan Olábarri, who was made with 17 wins in this race. In the second day, the Tchin Tchin rekilled the good work done in the first day by the shipowners Juan Ignacio Gomeza and José Luis Ribed, along with the rest of the crew.

For his part, already in the Cruise class, Javier Trueba's Nexus signed a full of triumphs to take the Gitana Cup from this 2023 edition in two summer days. He also won at the closing of the test after an hour and 50 minutes of navigation. Second in the general was the Ramper de Jairo López de Guevara and completed the podium the Emilu de Lucio Fernández, which made a second place in the final day.

2023-07-22: Tchin Tchin and the Nexus leaders of the Gitana Cup in the Abra, after the first act

The Dean started in the Sands

The classic Gitana Cup began in the Vizcaina waters of the Abra with two barlovento-sotavento tours, on a summer day with north-east wind of five to fifteen knots, after which the Tchin Tchin of José Luis Ribed in the Regata class and the Nexus of Javier Trueba in Cruciero I are leaders in the absence of the final day of this Sunday.

In the two tours that programmed in the Regata class the Regatas Committee of the Royal Maritime Club of the Abra-Real Sporting Club defeated the Tchin Tchin of José Luis Ribed, which has two points in the general classification, for the 5 of the Maitena of Mikel Emaldi and the Alpega of Alfonso Churruca.

On the other hand, Javier Trueba's Nexus, like Tchin Tchin, was imposed on the two 6-mile and 8-mile tests with the Ramper de Jairo López de Guevara second in both. Third is the Emilu de Lucio Fernández.

2023-07-19: Time for the dean... for the Gitana Cup in Vizcaya waters

The dean of the Spanish races in the waters of the vine

The classic Gitana Cup, which is 119 years old, returns in summer to the Vizcaina waters of the Abra. The Royal Maritime Club of the Abra-Real Sporting Club, an entity that is in the middle of the 125th anniversary, ends its July sailing tests with one of its historical citations.

A competition that began in 1904 and is the oldest nautical event in the country is coming this weekend. About twenty crews, in the last editions most of the cruise class, will be in one more edition of the Gitana Cup.

It was until a few years ago that this test was confined only to the ships of Epoch, Classics and Spirit of Tradition. Now, in addition, they are mainly seen vessels of the IRC and J80 class.

The test is held on Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 July, with exits at 13: 00. The distance of navigation, in each of the two days - barlovento or a coast - is usually between 4, 8 and 12 miles depending on the conditions of the wind in this race created 119 years ago by the Real Sporting Club.

The Gitana Cup of 2022 ended with the triumph of the "Gaitero 'of Juan Valdivia and the" Alpega', with Miguel Arriola a la rea. The Biobizz was imposed among the J80. This historic quote of the candle, with a beautiful history of so many years, will fill out another page in its lustful palmarés. There will be four divisions in liza: Epoch and Classics division; Spirit of Tradition division; IRC division; and J80 division