Races Chronicle / Crónica de regatas

And the last day of the XSAP 2020 arrived where everything is decided between the leader Pájaro and Ria de Vigo. In this last stage we will sailing around the world. Start right in the Gulf of Cadiz without mishaps and Pájaro begins marking Ria de Vigo to control the regatta. Arrive at the 1st buoy Alandalus, followed by the disappeared Icaro, Pájaro, Ria de Vigo, Thor, Ppv, Josenrique, Zorro, Abuelez and QB.

It's time to go down the entire Atlantic in search of Cape Town. Alándalus remains in the lead and after a battle between the fleet to catch more waves. They pass by buoy, Alándalus followed by a platoon led by Pájaro. It´s time to cross the whole Indian Ocean in a crosswise course in search of the next buoy located in Taiwan. The fleet is divided into two routes, one through the Malacca Strait and one below Sumatra through the Java Sea. When passing through Taiwan everything remains the same to go in stern course over the Pacific to Cape Horn.

And we sail again through the Atlantic, heading to Cuba, passing by the buoy of Brazil. Alándalus keeps his head ahead of the fight between the two contenders to win the championship, Pájaro and Ria de Vigo. After Cuba, we put course to the Azores to go back up to Canada and from there, cross the North Sea, border on the British Islands, and cross the finish line in The Hague. The first to cross it would be Alandalus, followed by Pájaro, Ria de Vigo, Icaro, Josenrique, Zorro, Thor, Ppv, Abuelez and QB. And so the great winner of the championship would be Pájaro, after a very tough championship in which the fleet has been exceeding the level week by week.

We have Pájaro for a while ...........

Penultimate stage of XSAP 2020, in which we will sail between the Pacific and the Indian Ocean. The general classification is on fire, especially in the leading positions, and in this test we will see if Ria de Vigo continues on his upward line, or on the contrary, will Pájaro react to return to the top?

Clean exit as always and we will cross from East to West the two oceans. The highly grouped fleet reaches the 1st buoy with Alándalus in the lead, followed by Josenrique, Pájaro, Ppv, Ria de Vigo, Thor, Zorro, Abuelez and Biho. In aft course after several routes to choose, Pájaro was the most successful dragging Ppv after him, while Alandalus took another and ended up in third place, and the worst stop was Josenrique who fell at the end of the list just ahead of Biho.

We reach the 2nd beat and Pájaro leads with a slight distance over Ria de Vigo, Alandalus and PpV. We sailed through the southern seas to border the southern continent, in which everything would remain the same, until we reached the stern and Pájaro surfing as he would never increase the distance with his pursuers, among whom, Alandalus would pass Ria de vigo and retomaria the 2nd position. We return to gird for the last time and all marking themselves waiting to get to the last buoy to go aft to the finish line. And it is there where Pájaro finishes the stage by further increasing the distance with his soul brother Alandalus and thus putting a stick in the middle of Ria de Vigo. After them Ppv, Abuelez, Josenrique, Biho would enter and the Zorro test closed.

Well, it seems that the phoenix emerged from the ashes. The last test will tell us if Pájaro or Ria de Vigo, take the XSAP 2020. Excitement to the end assured.

After 9 days led by Pájaro in the general classification, we reached the 10th stage in which Ría de Vigo after a great comeback in the general, caresses the highest and Pájaro after a few days not very successful will try to resurface and not lose the lead.

On this occasion we will sail through 5 Oceans, starting by climbing the entire Pacific to the Bering Strait and skirting Russia throughout the Arctic.

Clean start and everyone to the dance of the roles. and on the 1st buoy, Ria de Vigo, Pájaro and Josenrique are already emerging, closely followed by Alándalus; then Thor, Ppv, Zorro, Abuelez and Biho would pass. Now it's time to relax on the cross course and go looking to go down the Atlantic. We arrive at the Canary Island of El Hierro and Ria de Vigo escapes a little ahead of Josenrique and Pájaro. Once again climbing up the gorge of the North Atlantic to Iceland and back down, and the dance of the waves begins, all in search of the Cape of Good Hope. At this point, Ria de Vigo passes first, followed closely by Pájaro and Josenrique. It was time to go up to skirt Madagascar and it is there that Josenrique fell just before taking the last buoy and lost the possibility of getting on the podium.

The last stern would be the final sprint to the finish line in Antarctica, taking Ria de Vigo ahead of Pájaro and Alándalus. Ppv, Josenrique, Thor, Abuelez, Zorro and Biho would continue get in.

Ria de Vigo takes the lead. Will he continue in his line or will the Phoenix Bird rise from the ashes? We will find out in the next chronicle.

In this 9th test we will make the longest beat of the championship in which we will cross the entire Antarctic ocean. At the 1st buoy comes the entire very compact fleet led by Thor. In the following sections of stern, the leading positions would be connecting them between Thor, Ria de Vigo and Ppv. And that would be the moment to overcome positions for Biho and Pájaro, who at the end of the stern would occupy the 4th and 5th place respectively, behind the top 3. And again the one girdled by the southern seas in search of the buoy in the south of New Zealand in which nothing changed except Pájaro who advances one position and approaches the leading group. And lastly, the stern through the Indian Ocean to finish off the coast of Africa. It´s in this last section where the experience hunting waves would take Ria de Vigo to the top of the podium taking his 4th stage, and Pajaro that would overcome Ppv taking the last box of the podium behind a very strong Thor. Ppv, Biho, Josenrique, Alandalus, Zorro and QB would then enter. The championship is "red hot".

8th test of the XSAp. Departure without incident and all to climb the Pacific Ocean. and they took the 1st buoy Thor, Ppv & Ria de Vigo, followed by a compact fleet. It is necessary to go down aft and surf as much as possible, and in this case, the strongest Joserique was advancing ahead of the whole head and returning to the climb ahead of Ria de Vigo & PPv. Second empowered looking for Tierra de Fuego to go back up tight, but this time around the Atlantic. The fleet is divided into two groups the forward formed by Josenrique, Ria de Vigo, Thor & Ppv., While the tail is Pájaro, Zorro, Abuelez & Biho. And so to Terranova where they would culminate with a final stern where Pájaro & Abuelez they escaped from the tail group to reach the head group. Just in goal a wave would help Ria de Vigo to overtake Josenrique by a few meters and take his 3rd test. The third place went to Ppv and a mistake by Thor would make him drop several places in goal. Pájaro would be 4th followed by Abuelez, Thor, Zorro & Biho. Alándalus had to leave due to technical problems.

The 7th stage of the XSAP 2020 begins with a clean exit except for Pájaro, who is in the last position for an off-line. This tight would compact the group and the first to pass by buoy would be Josenrique, Thor and Biho, followed closely by the rest of the fleet. In the following sections of stern and tight positions would be maintained except for Biho that would be falling positions. On the contrary, Alandalus would rise from rear to front positions starring in a great comeback. But on the 4th beat came the sudden changes of wind and Nadeo put his perverse side with the roles.Ppv would take the head heading towards the buoy farther south, followed by Josenrique and Thor. Pájaro would have a boarding of a fishing boat and lose more than a minute with the leading group. And finally the great stern by the southern seas bordering Antarctica presented itself with good waves, and that was how Alandalus with great surfing waves took the first drawer of the podium, followed closely by a strong and constant Thor, and the third drawer was for Ppv, the rest entered in the following order: Ria de vigo, Josenrique, Pájaro, Abuelez and Biho. 5th different pattern that takes a test, this demonstrates the great level of the fleet.

The 6th stage begins in the North Atlantic and we will go down with winds from the South in search of the 1st buoy. Clean start, as always, and the positions would alternate several times during the girdle until Josenrique took it and followed by Ria de Vigo would escape a little from the rest of the fleet, which would have one of the biggest battles so far. Once the Cape Town is passed, everyone heads towards Indonesia, navigating through which the two heads would maintain distance with the rest of the fleet. and the passage by buoys headed by Josenrique and Ria de Vigo would arrive less than 2 lengths. After these, they passed Pájaro, Ppv, a surprising Abuelez, Thor, Dante and Zorro. It was time to lower a bit of latitude to border Australia and New Zealand, and head towards the Strait of Magellan. At this point the positions would be maintained, to climb again by the Atlantic to Iceland. Everything seemed that Pájaro would reach both of them head-on, but that possibility vanished, since Abuelez would surpass him and this is the one that would give Ría de Vigo reach, taking with him to Ppv. And in goal Josenrique appears for the first time, thus being the 4th boss to win; 2nd place very celebrated by Abuelez and 3rd an opportunistic Ppv. Then Ria de Vigo, Pájaro and Thor entered. They left Zorro, Dante and Biho. It is confirmed that this is not a matter of two as seen here seen, anyone can win and much championship remains. All "A Jierro".

5th stage disputed between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific. As always, clean exit and the entire fleet goes up tight turning in the roles as if it were synchronized swimming. They would take the 1st Ppv, Zorro and Biho buoy, followed by the entire fleet. On the stern descent, crossing the two oceans, the most experienced in surfing waves begin to be unmarked, and Pájaro begins a climbing of positions along with Ria de Vigo , which raise them to the 2nd and 3rd position in buoy, after a very strong Fox. The rise by the Indico returns with markings between the head and in the middle, a bad choice of sailing relegates Zorro off the podium. And it would be the moment of Pájaro to squeeze on the descent and raise the flight to put meters away with the entire fleet, which accumulating experience, makes them all reach the next climb very close together. It is necessary to emphasize the hard fight for the 2nd position between Ppv, Ria de vigo, Josenrique, Biho and Zorro. In the following sections Pájaro would maintain the 1st position until the finish line, but a hard fight to take the next positions on the podium, would give the 2nd position to Ppv followed by Ria de vigo. After them, Biho, Zorro, Josenrique, QB, and more than 2 min closed the Abuelez and Thor classification.

In this 4th regatta we will touch three oceans (Pacific, Indian and Antarctic). First upwind as always, grouped and looking for the role. In the 1st buoy, Ria de Vigo would ride in the lead and keep up to the finish line. Followed by Pájaro, Ppv and Zorro .... Little by little Alandalus would start climbing to podium positions. and Pájaro in an attempt to hunt the leader, he would lose 4 places by choosing a bad route and Josenrique would lose all option to the podium due to an incident with Dante (the ship sinks again). When he had the 2nd place insured, Alándalus, due to technical problems, is forced to leave. Goal and victory for Ria de Vigo, followed by Zorro and Pajaro; then Thor, Biho, Ppv, Abuelez, Josenrique and Qb closed the fleet.

3rd Regatta Start the 3rd round, with a upwind grouped and all to the right wind, arriving 1º to buoy the newly incorporated to the championship, Alandalus, followed by Ppv and Ria de Vigo, which had a blow just in the hoist of spí with Dante and would happen to the group's tail (tense moments). In the first downwind all strive to surf the waves and the positions would remain until the next upwind. Hard fight in the head, of which Pájaro would take advantage to put 1º, until the last downwind in which both Ppv, as Alandalus more successful with the waves, taking the head of the regatta again. And the race would take Ppv ahead of Pájaro and Alandalus. Behind, while Dante retires due to damage to his ship due to the accident, Ria de Vigo begins very vertiginously, staying a few seconds away from the 4th place that would be for Thor. The remaining positions would be completed by Josenrique, QB, Abuelez, Zorro and Biho. Third different winner in three tests, this has only just begun.

2nd REGATTA

After a clean start, the second day of the championship, climb the Pacific to take the 1st buoy in the Bering Sea. All very grouped until it was time to surf waves with stern winds and cybers put into practice the experience on this boat and begin to escape (Ria de Vigo, Ppv, Pájaro and Josenrique) heading to the end of furnaces. step by buoy and begin the climbs of the Atlantic, as there are two, in which Pájaro takes in the lead with a slight distance, but Ria de Vigo with better successes of course and his good work, would take the head just before entering the Mediterranean and keep up to the finish line. The podium would be completed by Pájaro and Josenrique. Level up the entire fleet and highlight the breakthrough in just one week of Abuelez in a tough fight with Zorro, Thor, and QB. Dante makes a very discreet first assist in the championship, we expect more from him.

The 2nd edition of the XTREME SAILING AROUND THE PLANET begins. With 12 Comanches inscribed, it starts with the absence of the Galicians (Ria de vigo and Icaro) and our esteemed Argentine (Dante).

Exit without incident and Pajaro rides the first buoy in the head and would increase the distance to the finish line. The rest of the podium needed photo finish to award the second place of the drawer to Thor, ahead of Ppv. The world map does not disappoint in waves and winds.