Jau! absolute winner of the Golden Cup Badalona (Photo Laura Carrau)

This weekend the seventh edition of the Golden Cup Badalona race was held in Port de Badalona, with the participation of 56 ships, with about three hundred of 15 different nautical clubs. The competitive level and the registered fleet volume means a definitive consolidation of the format released in the previous edition that brings together in the same event the fleet of high-rise cruises specialized in long-distance races and the fleet of ships specialized in short races.

The race has been held with unbeatable weather conditions (Photo Torveo)

The event gave its starting pistolet on Friday, October 31 with the long race, which consisted of a 60-mile Badalona- Blanes- Badalona tour. The main protagonists of this edition have been the dupla Company / Altadill that on board the Jau!, a J36 of the Royal Nautical Club of Palma, have stood with the Golden Cup Badalona Trophy as the best high team, showing great regularity with a second place in the long race and a third place in the short coast.

The event was closed at the Marina Badalona Hotel, where the trophy ceremony was held, chaired by Xavier García Albiol, and accompanied by the Imanol Sanz parliaments, director of Marina Badalona and Andrés Oliva, director of Enregata, the titular and organizing entity of the Golden Cup Badalona (Photo Torveo).

For its part, the Formula X, an X41 Race by David Green and Javier Sanz, also from the Real Club Nautico de Palma, has confirmed all the forecasts and has honoured its aureola as the current world champion of ORC cruise, obtained this summer in Estonia, showing an absolute domain to rise with the triumph in the category ORC 0-1-2 after winning all the disputed tests. The Salina category trophy, which awards the best team made up of at least 50% women, was in the hands of the Ratea, a Fortune 9, co-sponsored by Annya Crane and Martina Bernaban.