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Want to join Club Nautico Espanol de Vela?

by ValenciaSailing.com on 30 Oct 2007
Desafio Espanol on Day 7 of the Louis Vuitton Cup Semi-Finals. Joining their club does not seem to be an easy task! Desafio Espanol 2007 Photo http://www.desafioespanol2007.com

Can one become member of the Club Nautico Español de Vela?

Imagine you wanted to join the yacht club whose privilege is to be the Challenger of Record in the world's oldest and most prestigious sailing competition in order to show off at your friends and boast about over dinner talk. According to the story that Jaume Soler's blog runs today, this is next to impossible.

Macarena Lainez, a well-known sailing journalist in Spain and director of the monthly magazine 'Barcos a Vela', wanted to write an article on the required procedure in order for someone to become member of the CNEV (Club Nautico Español de Vela) and inform the general public about the organization, activities and services of the yacht club that challenges Alinghi in the 33rd America's Cup.

Nevertheless, what was supposed to be a simple task, gather some basic information, turned out to be an odyssey. Lainez finally had to talk to the CNEV's president, Manuel Chirivella, mostly because the club has only a handful of members; Manuel Chirivella (President), José María Martín Puertas (Vice president), José Ángel Rodríguez (Treasurer and Secretary) and Luis Merino (Director), all of them vice presidents of the RFEV (Spanish Sailing Federation).

For the rest of this story see: www.valenciasailing.blogspot.com
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