Despite the harsh sea and wind conditions in the Vigo estuary, the first edition of the nautical voyage organized in commemoration of the Battle of Rande was successfully completed; which on October 23, 1702, faced the Spanish silver galleons arriving from the West Indies, which had the protection of the French Navy against the powerful Anglo-Dutch war fleet.
At around ten in the morning, those responsible for the Crossing (the president of the Liceo Marítimo de Bouzas, Miguel Pereira, an Olympic rower, and Carlos Moreno, who was the managing director of the Monte Real Yacht Club of Baiona) proceeded to postpone it due to the harshness of the The sea and wind conditions little by little the situation was improving and an hour later Pereira sounded in the middle of a light rain, with the traditional boats being the first to leave, in the wake of the century-old schooner Evangelina armed by Xoan Silva.
The Crossing began at the height of Bouzas, and after skirting the O Morrazo peninsula it crossed the finish line, marked today by the majestic Rande Bridge and once marked by the fortresses of O Carbeiro in the north and Rande in the north. the south. Traditional sailing units, classic boats, sailboats, motorboats, inflatables and trawlers formed the commemorative procession, including a BCS crew from Tiran, who did not want to miss Rande’s event, which coincided with World Breast Cancer Day.
Already on the land of the Redondela council, the Rande Sports and Cultural Association, in its Meirande center, received the Peace Fleet with cultural celebrations of great content, which were attended by more than two thousand spectators, and had been successfully completed. the first edition of a Bouzas-Rande Nautical Voyage, which with the support of Vanguard and numerous cultural associations and nautical sports clubs of the Vigo estuary.
The birth of Abanca Week, a national multinautical benchmark event in October 2000, was the next celebration, then, of the third centenary of the Battle of Rande. With the Nautical Journey, its founding principles have been fulfilled, by commemorating that fight in its waters between more than twenty thousand combatants (9,663 British and 3,924 Dutch on board 138 ships… of which about five hundred died).
The Evangelina, sailed this weekend from Torbay in 1702 with the British admiral George Rooke in command, but without any sense of war… but with a crew of sailors and sailors with the great Xoan Silva as captain transmitting a message of peace of brotherhood to our dear old Europe.
After concluding the Rías Baixas and Galicia Interior versions, where grassroots sailing, Olympic sailing, cruise sailing, canoeing, water skiing, wakeboarding and wakesurfing competitions have been held; Abanca Week heads to La Coruña to complete the Rías Altas Version, which will take place in the capital of Hercules with the help of the Real Club Náutico de La Coruña.
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