It is very dangerous what is happening in the world of heavy sailing. At least worrying are the initiatives that some leaders have been implementing in recent years, in terms of the designs of the competitions... some of them with tradition and prestige. In the past not too far the races were won by a boat... as it has to be. Over the years the so-called "cruise ships", with different faces like "restricted cruiser", "family cruise", "cruise ride."... they began to appear everywhere and no longer only asked to participate, but demanded awards under the same conditions as the "Regata..."

Since they were a majority they first caused to sail without the mandatory and necessary federal licences of athletes claiming that they were very expensive?????... not to have rating, appealing in this case to "Handicap National of France"or "Boga."or "Rating Ranc", or even the Channel Rating that I had the honour to introduce to this country in the face of the RANC's discomfort then with my friend Vallés as Secretary General... The bad thing about this rating is that if you asked the English for a certificate, it had a value and if you did it in France, another... a real cachondeo. The most curious thing is that the very critical RANC soon after was made with the circus, simply to raise.

In any case, back to the beginning, Spain had regatta. "pure, pure." as the Trophy Count of Godó or Count of Gondomar, the first of the Barcelona Nautico and the second of the Baiona Yacht Club. In those years they had already clauded to the cruises, for example the Nautical Week of the Port that already had two gold catavino for the winners, and the King's Cup that began to go in principle by the book... but would soon fall into the temptation to cruise.

The position of Barcelona and Baiona was very hated by the cruises, who set an example to the Rias Bajas... a race they said of cruise. Behind this claim were terrible wars among those of the serial ships for not allowing the old-fashioned race ships to enter... in the end they all wanted to win with hypocrisy as a flag. In the middle of a fight, someone curled the curl: "In the class cruise no professionals"... the problem was to know who lived out of the candle... really those who wanted to win whatever they wanted was to stop others from winning in their place, and if citrito was for example Olympic, with him I could sail, but not with the one in front.

In the end it went slowly to three absolute winners: race, cruise-race and cruise... and even some characters... created the "race-cruise" and the "extra." Then came what came: they are all absolute winners... after the relevant assembly movement and the pressure of the carotes to the suffering managers. The matter already got out of hand and even at the King's Cup they began to go out everywhere in different classes, some with three registered ships!

What is happening is a bullfighting shame, for if the candle of compensated times is already difficult to understand for the public, let's not say what is happening. It is necessary for newspapers to have at least one-and-a-half-meter headlines in order to reflect all the winners. And this has resulted in more participation?. Well, except in Mallorca that they do what they do have the guaranteed success, the data are from cadatrophe.

They imagine a football headline saying "He finished the King's Cup..." or the one that likes trophy hats or those who invent titles because they have never really won anything of internationally proven quality, "Real Madrid, Barcelona, Levante, Deportivo, Betis, Rayo Vallecano and Recreativo de Huelva winners of the King's Cup"... they would take it for a shot... for that is the very consideration that this cruise candle has for the great public... a chop, gentlemen.