As.com a 117 -year -old gypsy drink

The classic gypsy cup returns one more year to the waters of the Open.The Royal Maritime Club of Abra-Real Sporting Club, organizing entity, is time for one of its historical events since this competition dates from 1904 and is the oldest nautical event in the country.About twenty crews take part in another edition of the Gypsy Cup for ships of spirit of tradition, as well as for Ships of the IRC class.The test is celebrated this Saturday 17 and Sunday 18, with departures at 1 pm, and the navigation distance, in each of the two days, will be between 8 and 12 miles depending on the wind conditions in this regatta created117 years for Real Sporting Club.

The Biscayan waters of the Abra have seen vessels such as the 'Artako', 'Asti V', 'Iris III', 'Saltillo', 'Arosa', 'Cantarepe', 'Bon temps',' Balenharri ','Westward of Clynder ',' Paapsud ',' Skylark '... and many others with decades of navigation under their keels and considered as jewelry of the candle.The 2020 Gypsy Cup saw the triumph of the 'Asti IV' of Ivon Basáñez in the spirit of tradition, of the 'Alpega' of Alfonso Churruca in the regulatory-crush and 'biobizz' class by José Azqueta, runner-up of the worlddays, among J80 monotypes.This historic cowboard appointment, with a beautiful story of so many years, returns to write another page in its lustrous palmarés.This time, the 'Asti IV', a beautiful 6 meters, the 'Shere-Khan II', a She 36 or the 'Humavir', in addition to the 'Gaitero', 'Ramper', 'Alpega', 'Tchin Tchin'O' Use fly '.

History of the Gypsy Cup

His birth reflects hospitality that R.C.M.A.-R.S.C.Always offer your visitors.A cordial reception that could verify, in those dawn of the last century (1903), the lords count of Cartagena and José Quiñones de León, who anchored their ‘gypsy’ yacht in the Vizcaíno port.His thanks for the good treatment received that, in front of them, decided to create a regatta in tribute to all the club's balancer, whose first edition was held the following year.The Count of Cartagena and José Quiñones gave the regatta the name of their yacht, thus born the Gypsy Cup, a pioneer of international regattas in our country.

Now 117 years ago, Cantabrian Victoriano López Doriga became partner of Sporting to participate in a regatta.And sailing with his ‘butterfly’ ship, he managed to win it.In that distant year of 1904, he did not know that his name was going to go down in history as the first winner of the Gypsy Cup.After these 117 years, and turned into the oldest regatta of the Royal Maritime Club of Abra-Real Sporting Club, it remains one of the most precious trophies of this entity.At that time, the ships paid five pesetas for registration in each of the five tests that the Gypsy Cup was consistent.After López Doriga, it was Julio Arteche who, in 1905, registered his name in El Palmarés.Then they did the count of Zubiría and the lords of Arteche.Until, in 1911, the Palmares of the Gypsy Cup saw Alfonso XIII as the winner, which won in that edition on board the ‘Giralda II’.

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