Antonio Roquette a luxury to preside over the Portuguese candle in the coming years

Antonio Roquette is the new president of the Portuguese Vela Federation, after being widely imposed in the final vote by 43 to 24 on his rival José Manuel Leandro, who was the president of the re-election. Leandro had awaken a unanimous cry for his regular management in the base candle and of high Lusian competition, which under his mandate had entered into a frank decline. Roquette has an impeccable trajectory in the candle, being also a very valued entrepreneur... as he has been a great leader (he was the president of the Federation - from 1991 to 2001- of the Leixóes Atlantic Sailing Clube, referring to the lusitan candle) and above all an excellent sportsman... highlighting in the vaurien classes (he was the champion of the world), snipe and star, as well as in the cruise, among others... the shipowner of the legendary Faro Farino (Mmm 36, One Ton, 3 / 4 Ton, First 45f5, and the Grand Rodeo of Spain, and it is a great friend of the Vine of the Vine, and the Vine of the Vine of the Vine of Spain, and the great.

Antonio Roquette is one of the highest personalities of the Portuguese and Iberian sailing. Good luck, my friend and a whole gentleman. I have had the luck and honor of working side by side with him, and the news of his victory ran like the gunpowder in Galicia and we have not been very happy. A personal friend of Francisco Quiroga (another of the great workers of the candle and the Olympic rowing), has been one of the drivers of the European Sailing Brotherhood in recent years with Paco... I treasure experiences with Antonio that I have recorded in my heart, which I can never forget. The "cession" of the "Faro Fino 3000" for that unforgettable project of the "Bombay Gin" is something we appreciate both Javier and I... we talked about the 90 of a lunch at Mount Real Club of Yates in Baiona... we had no other solution if we wanted to renew the contract with Chema Ullivarri... and Antonio supported us without conditions!!! Years later between him and me we launched a super project for the Admiral's... the idea was that the three ships (the Mumm 36, the 40 and the 50) would carry in their amures of the Expo 98 of Lisbon and in their spinnakers Xacobeo... Manuel Fraga (who had a great sympathy for the relations between Galicia and Portugal) was exposed in his office in Santiago... and he loved... even announced an important aid for the construction of the "big" ship if it was carried out in a Galician shipyard... at an unforgettable meeting, in which we were only with Don Manuel, the great Rafael Olmedo, the vice-comandor of MRCY Jacobo Fontán and I... in the end for circumstances that do not come to the case everything was left in nothing, perhaps because of the lack of enthusiasm of the directive of the Monte Real... Today is a happy day for those who love the candle, and we feel brothers of the Portuguese. Our sport at the Iberian level is of congratulations. Luck Antonio and live the candle of Portugal and Spain!

Manuel Pedro Seoane
Secretary-General of the Abanca Week