The Royal Nautical Club of Valencia from 1903 to the late 1980s, had exceptional facilities at the mouth of the Turia... but the Club had to go to a great marina, as a product of which it became one of the references of the nautical at the planetary level

Since 1900 in Spain there was a Federation of Nautical Clubs of the Cantábrico, which formed the Real Regatas Club of Santander, the Real Nautical Club of San Sebastián and the Real Sporting Club.

In 1906 they joined these three other clubs: the Real Club de Regatas de Alicante, the Real Club Nautico de Barcelona, the Real Club Marítimo del Abra and the Real Club de Regatas de Cartagena, and they created the Spanish Federation of Nautical Clubs, which for all purposes became the national authority.

Its first president, Victoriano Ópez-Doliga, attended the year after the foundation in Paris of the International Yacht Racing Union (the legendary IYRU), the current International Sailing Federation. The Spanish Federation of Nautical Clubs became the Spanish Federation of Vela in 1966, and on April 8, 1987 the Spanish Federation of Vela.

After the first steps the incipient Federation took great importance throughout 1914... year in which it officially recognizes nautical clubs from all over Spain, which total a total of 19. Among them, the so-called Yate Real Giralda... Enrique Careaga was his most responsible and representative in Madrid of the meetings of those years... Careaga was one of the main Spanish shipowners of race ships, not in vain in 1907 he was the owner of the Princess of Asturias, who had won the well-known international race of the Sonderklasse.

Alfonso XIII was common in the races of all northern Spain. In fact the King's Cup that is currently held in Palma de Mallorca (since 1982)... before the proclamation of the second republic in 1931... was fought and more than once in cities such as Vigo, Villagarcía de Arosa, Gijón, Santander, Las Arenas-Getxo and San Sebastian... in the image the Giralda II, the Royal Yate, in Gijón waiting for the beginning of the King's Cup of Vela

Catalonia and Barcelona and the Basque Country were the area with the largest number of officially recognized clubs: in total 4... Golden Lyon Racing Club, Real Club Maritim, Real Club Nautico and Sailing Yacht Club Catalans... and by the Basque nautical: Real Sporting, Nautico de Bilbao, Nautico de San Sebastián and the Maritimo del Abra de Las Arenas... by Andalusia were two: that of Cádiz and the Mediterranean of Malaga, also two Valencians: Alicante and Valencia. For Galicia, two others: the Galicia Regatas de Villagarcía, and the then untold Nautico de Vigo... that had become a section of the famous football team: the Vigo Sporting... with a representative Canarias (Las Palmas), Cantabria (Santander), Murcia (Cartagena) and Asturias (Gijón). The largest number of partners were the Abra Maritime (500) and the Nautico donostiarra (402) and the social contributions between 50 and 100 pesetas per month were the most normal (between 400 and 600 euros today).

List of Nautical Clubs recognized as such, by the Yearbook 1914 of the F.E.C.N.