The sailors Gustavo del Castillo, Marta Mansito, Simón Martín and Lili Skomska won the gold medal of their respective categories at the Pel Escuder Memorial Trophy in Optimistic 2023which brought together about a hundred athletes from different islands in the waters of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
The Pel Escuder is the first qualifying championship of the year for the Optimist class of the three planned to form the teams that will represent the Royal Canarian Sailing Federation in the national events of the class: Spanish Cup and Spanish Championship.
The Real Club Náutico de Gran Canaria made it to the men’s under 16 podiumwhich was formed as follows: Gustavo del Castillo, 1st; Jorge Castellano, 2nd and Pedro Scherschinski, 3rd.
In the female under 16 category, the medals were distributed between Tenerife and Lanzarote: gold for Marta Mansito and silver for Sofía Hernández, both from the Real Club Náutico de Tenerife. The bronze It was for the sailor of Club Deportivo Código Cero Atteneri Garciafrom Lanzarote.
simon martin (RCNGC) wins the gold in male under 13, followed by Jorge Pérez (RCNT), 2nd, and by Cristian Ayose Vega (RCNGC), 3rdth.
In the female under 13 categoryall the positions are from the Gran Canaria club: Lili Skomska (1st), Rocío González (2nd) and Victoria Krujitzer (3rd).
The regatta fulfilled the planned program and celebrated six sleeves, in two complicated days where there were showers, rolls, a lot of south current and north-northeast wind that oscillated between the minimum intensity of seven knots and the maximum intensity of 20.
On February 25 and 26 the second Optimist class qualifier is held in Lanzarote and on March 11-12, the third in Gran Canaria. With the results of these three regattas, the Canarian ranking is drawn up, which will be used to form the Canarian teams for the cup and the Spanish championship of the class.
The tournament organized every year by the Real Club Náutico de Tenerife by delegation of the Royal Canarian Sailing Federation pays homage to the figure of Pel Escuder, who disappeared prematurely in 1991 when he presided over the Tenerife Island Sailing Federation and was immersed in carrying out projects such as the Tenerife Marine Sports Center (Cidemat). World champion in the Vaurient class together with his brother Fernando, an excellent companion and enthusiastic promoter of the sport, his death at the age of 29 shocked Canarian sailing, which honors him every year with this trophy.
