Nothing less than 60 years has now launched the Club Nautico Santa Lucia, 60 years preserving and promoting Vela Latina, a type native to the Mediterranean navigation and programming a racing calendar that in this year, presents a important development is that it has recovered a classic, Varadero Regatta, which took years without celebrating.
It will be on 14 and 15 September, as announced today the president of the Club Nautico Santa Lucia, Diego Varela, during the presentation of Sailing Regatta Calendar America 21 spans 2013, ceremony also attended by the Councillor for Sports, Diego Ortega, the Councillor for Tourism, Palazón Carolina, and the president of the Sailing Federation of the Region of Murcia, Pedro de los Santos Román.
A total of 20 races, scoring for the regional championship, which is going to play in the harbor basin weekends and eve of public holidays, between the months of May and October.
The season opens on Saturday May 4 Perico Trophy with the Feo and will close in October, date to be determined, with the Infanta Cristina Trophy. On the calendar are 18 trophies, to which must be added two extraordinary races, Cruces de Mayo race, to be held on May 12, and Memorial Lopez Hurtado, to be held in September.
Currently, the fleet of sailing boats 21 feet from Cartagena America compose between 18 and 22 boats, with the average share of about 13 boats racing.
Since the establishment of the Section of Candle Levante Athletic Association, which was the germ of the St. Lucia Yacht Club, these artisanal boats equipped to compete with each other, meet at the port and delight visitors of Cartagena and its tacking and jibing lying.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena