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The Latin Sailing calendar of the Santa Lucía Yacht Club starts on Saturday April 29 with the first of the eighteen events planned for this season, mainly on Saturday afternoons, which will run until the first or second week of October, with A parenthesis in the month of August, moving to Mar Menor and Cabo de Palos.

La Vela Latina, traditional Mediterranean style, is experiencing a rebirth and, in that sense, the City of Cartagena has an interest in promoting its declaration as a Cultural Interest, said Sports Councilor Ricardo Segado, during the presentation, today Friday, of the Calendar, where he was accompanied by the president of the Nautical Club of Santa Lucia, Diego Varela, the chairman of the Classic Sailing Committee of the Sailing Federation of the Region of Murcia, Emilio Gil, and the vocal of Club Vela , Javier Martínez.

Varela has been in charge of announcing two of the new developments scheduled for this season of Vela Latina which is now beginning, the first of them, the recovery of the itinerant Sailing Vessel, to be held in the waters of Cabo de Palos.

The second novelty is the celebration, on 9 and 10 September, of an event that will cover all classes of Vela Latina, to raise funds in favor of the fight against cancer, through the Association Pablo Ugarte (APU).

For his part, the vocal of Vela of CN Santa Lucía, Javier Martinez, announced that this year the club will collaborate during the weekend of the Night of Museums, on May 20, with an exhibition of boats of 21 spans , About a fortnight of boats, plus a large one of 42 spans, that will be able to be seen in the old basin of boats, from where they will make the exit that day.

Finally, Emilio Gil deepened in the project that from the Federation is being promoted for the declaration of the Latin Sail as a Property of Cultural Interest, taking advantage of the opening of the file, and in which the City of Cartagena is very involved.

Among other initiatives, I enumerated, we have set up a Federation Cup to de-nationalize regattas, and we also want to recover trades, such as carpentry and shipyards, for the maintenance of the 56 Vela Latina vessels that are registered in the Region, as well as Develop a geographic map and restore the Canovillas jetty in the Mar Menor to create a Latin Sail Interpretation Center in the region.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena