Lanzaroteños Gonzalo Morales (left) and Rayco Tabares with the Spanish champion trophy.

The crew of the Casino Club Náutico de Arrecife composed of Rayco Tabares and Gonzalo Morales has today proclaimed itself the Spanish champion of the Snipe class, tied to points with the regatists of the Club Marítimo de Mahón, Jordi Triay and Lluís Mas after the suspension of the last day of the championship organized by the Club Níutic Ciutadella. Antoni Pons and Loren Mesquida from the organizing club completed the podium with a third position.

The almost absolute lack of wind prevented the celebration of one of the two races planned for today. However the ships went out into the sea in the hope of taking advantage of the few 5 knots with what he blew in the morning. A way out could be given, but after a first girdle and an emptiness, the wind fell radically. At the same time, Jordi Triay and Lluís Mas had several positions behind Tabares and Morales. Taken to points at the front of the classification, only the first two positions achieved by the canaries united front achieved by the Mahonese gave advantage to the crew of Las Palmas. Therefore, Triay and Mas had enough to close a race before the canaries to revalidate the title. And they were doing it, but the wind fall caused the suspension of the race and the goodbye to any hope.

However, the mixed crew of Club Marítimo Mahón and the Real Club Náutico de Palma took a big step to get one of the squares that give choice to the class World Cup in A Coruña in 2017, although they will have to take place hard at the Spanish Cup to be held in Malaga to get to be part of the Spanish team.

Another of the joys of the Menorcan candle in this Spanish Championship was the third position achieved by Antoni Pons Faner and Loren Mesquida, regatists of the Nàutic Ciutadella Club. Taken to 24 points with the Andalusian Pablo Fresneda and Marina Sánchez (Club de Mar Almería), the citadelans have curved a high-level National, especially because the weather conditions were very adverse, due to very changing winds.

The fifth square was for the crew of the Real Club Náutico de Palma composed of Teodoro Matheu and Pedro Cabrer, to whom an erratic start in the first two races of the championship was made, despite closing the event with very decent performance.