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Girls-only regattas are catching on. The last one organized by the Real Club Náutico de La Coruña with the Isabel Zendal regatta, which seems that since Isabel Ayuso, the brilliant President of the Community of Madrid, had the spectacular idea of building that great hospital that Isabel Zendal baptized, everyone is joining the bandwagon of recognition of that great Galician female disease.
The fact is that the Monte Real Club de Yates de Bayona pioneered the organization of women’s regattas with the Ladies Cup, which is included in the Prince of Asturias Trophy. A few years ago, it was copied, with less success, by the Real Club Náutico de Palma within the Cup
del Rey and then more clubs have been getting on the bandwagon.
Since the World Sailing (International Federation) decreed that there had to be parity in the Olympic Games and forced that as of Paris 2014 there will be classes such as the 470 with mixed crews, several regattas such as the Ocean Race forced the teams to save one or two positions for female crewmembers, a measure that some teams accepted because they had no choice, amid quiet protests.
Before all this bullshit, in the Vuelta Ibérica there were already boats with a completely female crew, such as the Hola, which starred in two tours of Spain with great success.
If we really want women to mix with men in the crews, the first thing there has to be men who assume that any woman can perform the functions of a man on a ship. There are positions in which it is, but there are positions in which it has been shown that it has not.
The women have already proven their worth on board the ships. Several of them have carried out solo ocean regattas and A Dos with more or less success, but they have finished them.
What we do not usually see on the regatta fields are women integrated into the cruise crews, although every day more are part of some J80 class regatta teams, but generally the regatta fields in Spain are male .
Where women do have a special relevance is in the Race Committees, where some perform functions of great sailing ladies, such as María Torrijo, PRO of the America’s Cup and the Olympic Games and Ariane Mainemare, PRO of the class Swan50 and the Maxis.
Women’s sailing is full of successes and those that have yet to arrive, but we still have a long way to go to recognize that “girls are warriors” and that they are as much or more capable than boys to haggle in the “great” regattas of the Spanish circuit.
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