Fight without barracks in the last manga between Marnatura, La Guardia Moreira and Red April for victory (Photo Maria Muíña)

The J70 Marnatura with Luis Bugallo to the reed of the fleet of the Royal Nautical Club of Vigo, was proclaimed the winner of the Christmas Trophy Villalia, after a final day in which he had to be used in depth; to preserve the advantage obtained on the Saturday day, in the face of the actions of his maximum rivals on this occasion: The Guard & Moreira of Gonzalo Araújo and Red April that had as a reed to the patron of the Volvo Ocean Race, Pablo Iglesias.

These three monotypes formed the final podium of this race, which has been the previous event facing the Villalia Winter Series that will be held by the hand of the J70 Vigo Class, with the support of the Nautico, starting in January; to complete with the Barcelona Winter Series, the high-level peninsular calendar of the J70... with the aim that the fleets of Spain and Portugal, prepare the World Championship to be held in the waters of Mallorca.

British punctuality in charge of the Coruñés Jaime García, who this time found a regatta field in Vigo, perfect: winds of 15 knots from the north-east. With these weapons the day was spectacular and Bugallo had a very bad time... to the point that it reached the last manga of the day in a handkerchief with Araujo... because Marnatura had 8 points and La Guardia & Moreira 10... it meant that Bugallo was getting stuck to Araujo... but carefully, because a ship in the middle would have given Gonzalo the victory.

Gonzalo Araújo roared the feat of the rallying (Photo Maria Muiña)

And this exciting one was the winner of Pablo Iglesias (second consecutive) with Red April, second was La Guardia & Moreira and third Marnatura: the absolute victory was for Luis Bugallo. They were followed by a good Green April of Luis Pérez Canal, a Pazo de Cea that achieved a victory in the first manga of Sunday... and closed the list of the first five of Ramón Ojea's hand.

In short, the victories in the six races held were distributed by Marnatura (3), April Rojo (2) and Pazo de Cea (1)... in a Viguese ria that was more conducive to the most experienced patterns, on the younger ones: the two J70 full of canterans: the Valmy-FVO (La Coruña) and Sailway (Vigo) were placed in the seventh and eighth squares, while the Small Giant of the Olympic medal Nicolas Rodríguez was finally ninth in the general.

(TOP TEN)
1 Marnatura (Luis Bugallo) (1-1-2-4-7-3) 11 points
2nd La Guardia & Moreira (Gonzalo Araújo) (3-2-7-2-3-2) 12
3rd Red April (Paul Churches) (6-5-4-5-1-1) 15
4th April Green 15 (Luis Pérez Canal) (2-3-10-6-2-6) 19
5º Pazo de Cea (Ramón Ojea) (4-8-8-1-5-4) 22
6. Seneca SW (Willy Alonso) (7-7-6-3-4-5) 25
7th Valmy-FVO (Carlos Bermudez de Castro) (9-6-1-8-8-7) 30
8th Sailway 12 (Ismael Less) (5-4-3-10-9-10 31
9th Small Giant (Nicolás Rodríguez) (8-11-9-7-6-11) 41
10 ° Correa Kesller (Manuel Jiménez) (11-10-5-9-11-9) 44

2023-12-16: Marnatura with Luis Bugallo a la rea, leader of the Christmas Trophy Villalia of J70

The special of the urban races in the Ria de Vigo (Photo Maria Muíña)

The Atlantic J70, with units in Santander, La Coruña, Vigo and Lisbon... have confirmed their support for the competitions to have in the coming season for the preferred frame the Ria de Vigo and the Island of La Toxa... and for their part the J70 of the Balar, Valentian and Catalan fleets announce that they will come already in January to compete to Galician waters, in order to continue their preparation for the J70 World Championship, which will be held in the waters of Palma in 2024.

For the time being, the Association of the J70 Class with the support of the Royal Nautical Club of Vigo, has announced for this weekend, the celebration of which will be the prologue of the Atlantic Winter Series... the Christmas Trophy Villalia; in which will meet a large part of the Portuguese galician of the monotype of reference, and that in this way they join those that are based in the Mediterranean, which have already been active since last November... with the Winter Series of Barcelona. These units, based mainly in Barcelona, Valencia and Mallorca, have already announced that January will come to Galician waters to compete.

He has two important projects in olive waters: by La Coruña one of his youngest values, and son of the great ocean pattern Chuny... that has just been proclaimed the United States champion of J70: Carlos Bermudez de Castro; who will compete with the Valmy-FVO (Fundación Vela Oceánica) with young regatists of the Club Náutico Marina Coruña. The other vineyard with nothing less than the Olympic medal Nico Rodríguez, which will patronize Small Giant, and which counts just like the Herculine J70 among the favorites.

It will be two days: Saturday from 1: 30 p.m., and Sunday with the beginning of 10: 30 p.m.... all the great ones in line of departure: the Orensano Luis Pérez Canal with April Verde, Jorge Pérez Canal with April Red that has in Chapu Torné a second of luxury... Laguardia & Moreira of the great rod Gonzalo Araújo, Pazo de Cea with Ramón Ojea in command, Marnatura with one of the best patterns worldwide of J70 as Luis Bugallo... the Marnatura 2, Sailway or Séneca with all the other leaders...

In the technical section the Real Club Náutico de Vigo, has for this competition a group of excellent judges and jurors, led by the Coruñés Jaime García, considered one of the largest experts at the national level of race management of the J70 class.