Club Nàutico Portonovo

The Portonovo Nautical Club was founded on August 15, 1992 in an assembly held on the premises of the Portonovo fish market, with forty people interested in water sports and interested in promoting them in the area. It is located in the city of Pontevedra in Portonovo, municipality of Sanxenxo. Its first president was D. Juan Salle Barreiro Pérez.

From the beginning, the company was very connected to Portonovo and felt a calling to serve as a meeting point between its inhabitants and partners from outside, united by the same passion: the sea.

The Nautico adopted the Portonovo shield as a pennant: two crossed oars on a yellow and white cross with a blue background.

It started with a boat service during the summer months, but the increase in membership and thus demand made it necessary to extend it to twelve months a year.

Its basic purposes are, among others, to improve its area of influence of water sports, particularly sailing, fishing and diving, which has its respective sports, federated and sailing and diving sections.

Currently, the Yacht Club has more than 330 members, their families and 160 boats. It presents year-round seamanship services. The temporary headquarters is located at Calle Rafael Picó 44º. It remains open year-round.

Since 1993, a sailing school has sought to consolidate the sport among younger people. El Náutico has a fleet of thirteen boats: seven Optimist type, four cadet type, one raquero and one vaurien.

As part of the sailing or cruising competitions, the Club has organized the two-day Hotel Galatea Trophy in August since 1996, which is included in the calendar of the Galician Sailing Federation. This race has been marked since 2003 for the Galicia Cruise Cup. Also since 2003, another cruise regatta is celebrated in July: Estrella Seguros Trophy.

In early 2002, a diving activities section was established in which recreational diving lessons were given, equipped with a standard Coltri MCH 16 compressor and equipment for diving trips.