The first edition of the Guillermo Poyán Memorial was very helpful.

The boat "Peluxo" with Alejandro Rodríguez and Martín Bermudez conquered the I Memorial Guillermo Poyán, integrated trophy within the Snipe Challenge organized by the Club de Mar - Liceo Casino Villagarcia. A test that completed the three-test program on the one day scheduled. With punctuality, the output was given with a north component wind that reached 7 knots of intensity. One of the favorites of the title fulfilled, so "Peluxo" was made with the triumph in that first test. After them were classified Oug Oug by Guillermo Poyán and César Gómez and Renovado Mascato by Fernando Crusat and Amadeo Villar

In the second test of the day, the roles were changed with Poyán and Gómez who were to score the partial triumph, while the second and third square respectively was for "Peluxo and" HG, "with Manolo Boveda and Sindo Guerrero. With much equality between" Peluxo "and" Oug Oug "came the third and final test, decisive to know who was going to take the first Guillermo Poyán Memorial. The balance was decanted in favor of Rodríguez and Bermudez, who claimed their experience. A triumph that placed them with champions in Villagarcía de Arousa. The second place in that test, and also in the general, was for Poyán and Gómez. The third square, in both the test and the podium, was for Boveda and Guerrero.

In the evening, in the Marina's facilities within the marina of Villagarcía, the trophies were delivered to the winners, with an animated dinner that lasted until high hours of the night, with a great assistance from the summer colony that gave much animation and color to the event, presented by Javier Bouzada, where Fernando Crusat and Amadeo Vilar, creators of the Snipe Challenge, reported that for the next year the attempt was to increase the challenge to other kinds of children, without discarding the power to contest a test for the children of Vilagía, still performing a better day from the day of the same day.

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The Club de Mar-Liceo Casino de Vilagarcía has placed the first stone for the Guillermo Poyán Memorial Regatta, one of the pioneers of the nautical that is currently practiced in the Ria de Arousa. For this reason, the Galician fleet of Snipe will take the lead, in a race framed in the Snipe Challenge for veterans and will from now on be accompanied by Memorial Guillermo Poyán. On this day a maximum of three tests are scheduled, with the output top set at 15: 00. The Guillermo Poyan Memorial trophy is an artistic work from the 24-year-old Biennale of Sport and Fine Arts. The aim of the Organizing Committee is to be able to lay the foundations for the future so that this Snipe race has a gap in the calendar of the Galician candle.

Manuel Salvadores, Guillermo Poyán and José Luis Tuya, with the Guillermo Poyán Memorial trophy at the Club de Mar de Villagarcía

In the presentation event held in the Social Hall of the Vilagarciano club, they were accompanying the family Poyán, Juan Antonio Callón, from the town hall of Vilagarcía de Arousa; Manuel Villaverde, president of the Galician Federation of Vela, Manuel Martínez, Capt. Marítimo de Vilagarcía; Antonio Castro, President of the Liceo Casino Club de Mar and Alfonso González Gallego, representing the Harbour Authority. Along with the main authorities of the city, there were many people from the Vilagaran nautical environment, as well as former collaborators of the honorado who joined the event. Guillermo Poyán, son, made a brief summary of his nautical life, the foundation and development of Club de Mar, as well as his social activity in Vilagarcía de Arousa.