The crews said goodbye to the classic week of Puerto Sherry. Photo: Miguel Ángel Páez

The Swiss Mariska has won the title he came to search for a few weeks ago to the bay of Cadiz, leaving victorious of the duel with the other three ships of the 15M International class. Visitors share honors with the Giraldilla de Valle de La Riva, winner among the classic Spirit of Tradition, after a last day in which competition and show have gone hand in hand in Gaditan waters.

The ship of Christian Neils with Benjamin Redreau to the reed, thus revalidates the title achieved a couple of years ago in this same stage and acquires the status of provisional leader of the particular disturbance of the Lords of the Sea, supported by the British The Lady Anne, the Spanish Hispania and the Monegasque Tuiga, in this order in the final classification of the 3rd Classic Week of Puerto Sherry.

The victory in the last test also allows the renewal of the title of the Riva Valley Giraldilla in the Spirit of Tradition class, in which the Portuguese Sea Lion of Manuel Champalimaud and Albacore of Luis Figueiredo, second and fourth in the last trial and escorts of the president of Puerto Sherry on the final podium. In the fourth place is classified the ship of the RCMT Punta Umbria, Centinela IV of Manuel Galnares, followed by the Mariana of Pedro Gonzalo in the fifth place.

Second day (20 / 07 / 2016) - The strong wind in the bay of Cadiz becomes the protagonist of the Classic Week

The strong wind that blew in the bay of Cadiz marked the second day of the race of Classics.

The more than 25 knots of intensity measured in the race area were excessive for the four ships of Class 15M International, to which the committee sent to land to avoid more than likely damage in its exquisite figure. Neither the study regatists of the weather parts themselves each day expected a gaditan window that transformed the bay into a real battlefield in just minutes, going from 4 to more than 20 knots of intensity.

With the four 15M, Hispania, Tuiga, Mariska and The Lady Anne, safe in the bridesmaids of Puerto Sherry, the fleet of classic Tradition Spirit took a complicated journey to complete a new 14-mile coastal tour to the buoy El Quemao, passing through the Cabezuelas that with the wind maintained at that speed, the first completed in less than two hours. In the first tranches the fleet lost two of its ships with the withdrawal by water of the ship Stromer of Alfonso Moreno and the Iskander of Rafael Rosas for the break of Genoa.

The rest made an entrance a little more triumphant than normal, filled with pride in being able to successfully overcome the envoys of a rabid sea. Victory in this class for the luso Sea Lion by Manuel Carlos de Mello, winner in real time and in compensation on his compatriots of the Albacore of Luis Figueiredo and the Giraldilla de Valle de la Riva, who this third party is worth to follow the leader of the provisional general. The Spanish ship that captains Ricardo Rubio is obliged to tune in the final day if he wants to solve on his side the tie with the team led by Figueiredo, both having only one point to De Mello and his Spanish-lusa crew. Equality in this class, with Manuel Galnares' onubense Centinela IV at two podium points, leaves everything to the final day.

First day (28 / 07 / 2016) - The 3rd Classic Week of Puerto Sherry looks at 15m

The spectacular 15m sails another year in the waters of the bay of Cadiz.

Two technical tests (barlovento / sotavento) for the 15M and a 14-mile coastal tour for the Classics, resolved on Thursday the first provisional classification of the 3rd Classic Week of Puerto Sherry, Memorial Pedro Bores, in which Swiss Mariska and Spanish Giraldilla are protagonists.

If something is clear after this first day is that the balance can fall on the side of any of the four Lords of the Sea, waiting for the most likely reaction of the British of The Lady Anne, with a host grown after a good premiere and the Monegasque Tuiga at the removal of the minor failure of its rivals. In the face of this Friday, the Mariska must bear the pressure of the leader being already the ship to beat for all three.

The coastal race of the fleet of Classics was led in real time by the Giraldilla de Valle de La Riva to the controls of Ricardo Rubio, who managed to keep the head and distance with the lucid Albacore of Luis Figueiredo and the Sea Lion of Manuel Champalimaud, in a hand-to-hand in his wake, to translate him into victory after the compensation of times. Among the friends of the neighbouring country, second and fourth, respectively, the ship of Punta Umbria of Manuel Galnares, Centinela IV, which entered fifth behind the also lush Summertime of Antonio Castanheira, sixth in the notes.