He XXIV HM The Queen Trophy It is already a reality since this Friday and the first day, at the Real Club Náutico de Valencia, has not disappointed. It had been 15 years since the event had gathered no more than a hundred boats and, regardless of quantity, there is also quality. The sample is that among the fleet there are two world champions such as the Porrón X, owned by Luis Senís, and the Elena Nova, owned by the owner Javier Sanz and skippered by Christian Plump. These two Swan42 compete in the queen category of the SM La Reina Trophy, the MSC ORC 0-1 and precisely Elena Nova is the first leader, with five points, after signing a first and a fourth place in the two disputed sleeves. The DK46 Urbania, owned by Tomás Gasset, and the Swan 50 Tenaz, owned by Pablo Garriga, lie in wait just one point away.
The conditions of the race course were typical of summer in Valencia, with an east/southeast wind of about ten knots and a large swell. The starts of all classes (MSC ORC 0-1, Mercedes-Benz Valdisa ORC 2, Varadero Valencia ORC 3, ORC 4, Royal Bliss J80 —which is also a date for the Spanish Cup—, ORC Open and Clase UPV Promotion) They went on after 2:00 p.m. In the Manel Casanova field, which hosted the sleeves of the MSC ORC 0-1 and Mercedes Valdisa ORC 2 classes, Two regattas were held, with a windward/leeward route of 1.7 miles, and after the start, the pressure from the left made them opt for that route. In the first, the Elena Nova was the winner, with the Mercedes-Benz Valdisa second. The DK46 skippered by Luis Martínez Doreste is also one of the favorites to take the title in this class, but in the second heat he broke the spinnaker at the start of the second stern and finished seventh. In this the winner was the Aifos of the Spanish Navy. Luis Martínez Doreste, from Mercedes-Benz Valdisa, explained that “this has only just begun, we have five tests ahead of us. We can’t afford to fail any more tests, but the others may also fail at some point. We can only get better.”
In the rest of the classes, the leaders are Maverta-Defcom Seguridad en Mercedes-Benz Valdisa ORC 2; L´Immens-Laplaza Assessors in Varadero Valencia ORC 3; and Enewtec in ORC 4. The Royal Bliss J80 class, with 12 boats, is also in the spotlight at the Real Club Náutico de Valencia. Here is the Dorsia Covirán, winner in 2022, and for the moment, after three sleeves, he is fifth in the general classification. The leader is Forners, owned by the owner Eduardo Valderas and skippered by Alfredo González, after winning two firsts and a third. The president of the RCN of Valencia, Marisa Arlandis, is also competing, aboard the SomVela I, and lived a day full of bad luck. She didn’t manage to complete any heats due to problems with the stick.