Porta y contrapelada del número 1 de la revista VelaEn blanco y negro preferentiamente, como son los años distanos en el que our sport, la veela was very "in" y practicado por la "jet" almost exclusively. On the avenue of the velistico quality, they were in the north... from east to west: the Real Nautical Club of San Sebastián, the Maritime Club of Abra, the missing Nautical Club of Bilbao, the then Nautical Club of Castro Urdiales, the Real Nautical Club of Laredo, the Real Maritime Club of Santander, the Real Astur Club of Regatas of Gijón, the Real Nautical Club of La Coruña, the Real Club of Regatas Galicia de Villagarcía and the Real Nautical Club of Vigo... had other clubs that were mentioned but they were the same.

In the sailing had circulated, in terms of publications in Spain, some attempts... almost always shared with other sports, case of rowing or engine... and not just in our country, also in Italy, France and Portugal. But in 1957 a sailing magazine was born, which would last less than the desirable, because it disappeared in the early sixties. The magazine was called VELA, its writing was in the Madrid street of Preciados number 23 and it cost each number the 12 pesetas friolera. It had measures 16.0 x 22.5, a somewhat more than quartilla format... very used at the time... that is the cover and back-up, added to the quality of the paper, flat and varnished colors!, all a luxury in the 1950s, in the same year that the Camp Nou is inaugurated in Barcelona.

List of registered in the legendary race held in 1928 New York-Santander, which publishes Vela in its number 1

The 24 pages took VELA number 1

General Franco's Dedict: "To the Revista Vela"
Editorial: "Navigate to defeat"
Terry Whittemore: "Welcome Vela"
Captain Vieri Lainio: "Entussiasmus, courage and technique"
Miguel López Doliga: "The next Olympics"
Dr. Ruiz Martínez: "Sporty women who practice the sport of sailing!"
Duke of Veragua: "I remember a race"
Luis Felipe Ópez-Dótiga: "What was the New York-Santander Cruise"
Angel Rivera de las Portillas: "Tactica de regatas"
Jorge de Montaner: "Proel, I greet you!"
Count of Zubiría: "Towards a new regulation of race"
Carlos Pena:... "Vela has appeared"

The little advertising on these 24 pages... only the back-up ad of the Charles Ulmer Candles, with the two-color ad, and the ones we reproduce below...

Two full pages for candles and trophy manufacturers... in light silver and Santander

A half-page of insurance, Abascal and his shipyard... and the two-quarters Lagos vineyard

Text: Manuel Pedro Seoane
Documentation: Collection Asociación Hermérico