The Lagos Sailing Club was founded on April 20, 1950, with the publication of the statutes in the Government Gazette on April 25 of that year.
Since then, it has been the only nautical sports club in the City, never having interrupted its activity.
It has fulfilled local requirements and requests for the use of Baía de Lagos, which is considered the best national sailing track and one of the best in Europe.
Initially the main activities were sailing and sport fishing and later they diversified and others emerged such as swimming, diving, spearfishing, canoeing, sailing board, triathlon, big game fishing and Jet-Ski corresponding to new requests. To this end, it organized sailing regattas, sea fishing competitions, national and international championships and other competitions, with more than two hundred participants participating in each of these sporting activities. The Sailing Club of Lagos has collaborated regularly in the organization of the National Beach Handball Championship, in the competitions that take place in Lagos.
Since 1950, CVL’s headquarters and part of its facilities have been located next to Praia da Solaria in a building provided by the Municipality of Lagos, which has always supported this Club in recognizing its importance, both in terms of sports, social, cultural and tourism and in a building built by CVL in 1990, on land in the maritime public domain. In 1991 CVL installed a small floating pontoon at the Fishing Dock at the Port of Lagos for mooring small boats owned by CVL members.
In 2003 this pontoon was expanded and greatly improved. For the occupation of the riverbed and area at Cais da Solaria, the CVL pays the IPTM annually. In 2005, a new support building was built at Cais da Solaria with new changing rooms, a training room and a small shop.
It has also always received support from other official bodies, both from departments of the Ministry of Education in providing rooms in schools to accommodate athletes and for prize distribution parties, as well as the Ministry of Defense in providing tents and loaning facilities, as well as the Ministry of the Navy in support of regattas.
The Algarve Tourism Board, the Civil Government of Faro and the Coordination Commission for the Algarve Region have provided financial support.
The Institute for Ports and Maritime Transport, as well as the bodies that preceded it, have also contributed to the development of CVL by providing areas that have been allowing the construction of essential infrastructure.
It is also worth noting the support provided at the local level, namely by the Lagos Marina, the Lagos Volunteer Firefighters, the Lagos Nucleus of the Portuguese Red Cross, local merchants, etc.
The Clube de Vela de Lagos was recognized as a Legal Person of Public Sports Utility on October 23, 1990, for everything it has done for the sports development of the City and the Country.
The following competitions that the CVL already carried out are worth mentioning:
– Tournaments of Sport Fishing at Sea from October 8, 1950 to ………., some with the participation of over one hundred athletes.
– Inter-partner Sport Fishing Contests from December 1953 to ……….
– Clay pigeon shooting tournament in October 1950
– National Moth Championship in 1952
– 1958, 1972, 1992 and 1995 National Snipe Championship
– 1970 National Sharpie Championship – 1973
Iberian Snipe Championship – 1973
National Junior Snipe Championship –
1982, 1990, 1992 and 1995 National Championship of Europe
– 1982 420 National Championship
– 1989 and 1991 Vaurien National Championship
– 1992 Iberian Vaurien Championship – 1993
Snipe Class Southern European Championship –
1993 and 1998 Laser National Championship
– 1993 420 National Junior Championship
– National Championship 470 of 1993
– Iberian Championship of 470 of 1993
– Portuguese Championship of Olympic Classes of 1994
– 1995 Optimist National Championship
– 1st and 2nd Selection Round for the Atlanta 96 Olympic Games in 1995
– 1995 Junior Laser National Championship –
1996 Europe Class Mediterranean Championship
– Regional Schools Championship 1996
– 1997 Match Racing Regional Championship – 1997
National Model Sailing Championship – 1998
National Masters Championship
– 1998 Dart 18 European Championship
– 1998 Portuguese Dinghy Sailing Championship
– Qualification Match Racing South 1999
– 1st Heat of Optimist National Championship 1999
– Jods National Championship 1999
– Festival do Mar with the support of RTA in 2000
– European Championship 29 er 2002
– European Skiff Championship 18 2002
– Dart World Championship 18 9 to 16 July 2004
– Jet-Ski competitions in 1993 , 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2004 and 2005 –
Several PAR and PAN
– Algarve Championship regattas, annually
– 6 Hours of Lagos
– Lagos International Sailing Weeks from 1970 to 1974 and from 1985 to 2007
– 3 Hours of Lagos
– Crossing the Bay
– Navy Day
– 10th June
– Lagos Open (light sailing), since 2004
– Regatta of the Ports of the Discoveries Ports (alternately, Lagos- Palos de La Frontera and Palos de La Frontera – Lagos), annually since 1990 (sailboats) – 3 Lagos Days (sailboats) – City Day (sailboats) –
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– Lagos Cup (sailboats)
– Several sea swimming competitions
– International Sea Fishing Contests
– 1st International Coarse Fishing Tournament in Lagos on 25 and 26 September 2004 and since then annually in the month of September.
– In spearfishing, we organized several competitions for national championships in different categories. Some of our athletes have won national championships and international competitions.
– In September 2003 we organized the XXIV European and African Spearfishing Championship, with our athlete Rui Torres winning the silver medal. Portugal took first place by teams.
In cruising sailing, several national and international competitions have been won by CVL athletes.
In 1989 and 1990, a CVL junior women’s team participated in the Vaurien-class World Championships, which were held respectively in Uberlingen, former Germany, and in Neptune, Italy.
In 1989, two CVL athletes were part of the national team that competed in the Triathlon World Championship in Avignon, France.
In 2003 the athlete Magda Silva participated in the European Championship of the Europe class, in Denmark.
In 2003, athletes António Viegas and Amélia Domingues Viegas participated in the Dart 18 Open World Championship, in England.
Since its founding, the CVL has been concerned with the training of athletes, regularly offering initiation and improvement courses in the various sports. The swimming school operated for a few years. It currently has beginner, competition and adult sailing schools and a windsurfing school.
The Escola de Vela was founded in 1951.
It was CVL who started manufacturing and took charge of the first Portuguese secretary of the Optimist class, which was unknown in Portugal and where it came to be implanted, as in other countries in the world, as the most popular class. important in the initiation and promotion of sailing.
The CVL has also been promoting cultural events, such as photography and painting exhibitions, floral games, window contests, conferences and participation in television and radio programs, always with the theme “The Sea”.
In 2005 we organized the Absolute Portuguese Sailing Championship with FPV.
In 2006 we organized the National Children’s Meeting with the FPV.
In 2006 Júlio Monteiro was Vice-Champion of the World in the BLUE MARLIN WORLD CUP, integrating the Portuguese team.
In 2006 Martinho Fortunato became Snipe Iberian Champion.
In 2007 we organized the Portuguese Youth Championship with FPV.
In 2007 we organized the Portuguese Cruise Championship.
In 2007 we organized the Regional Championship of Cruises in IRC
Martinho Fortunato was in 3rd place in the National Snipe Championship in 2007.
Catarina Viegas was crowned Champion of the Algarve for Children in 2005 / 2006.
Catarina Viegas was Vice-Regional Champion of the Algarve Juvenil B in 2007.
Pedro Costa was in 3rd place .th place in the Algarve Regional Championship in 2007.
The CVL was in 2nd place in the National Children’s Meeting in 2007, which took place in Setúbal.
Ana Caneco was in 3rd place in the general classification and in 1st place for women in the National Children’s Meeting in 2007.
In October 2007, the access ramp to the water at Cais da Solaria was expanded, which will allow for the organization of more international competitions .
In 2008 we organized the Portuguese Junior Championship.
In 2008, CVL organized the 1st International Snapper Jigging Tournament, at European level (sea sport fishing).
From the 23rd to the 29th of August 2008, together with Funchal 500 Years and the Associação Naútica da Madeira, we organized the 1st Lagos-Funchal Ocean Regatta.
The CVL Athlete, Tiago Borba, was qualified and participated in the Laser Class 4.7 World Championship, in Trogir, Croatia.
CVL Athlete, Júlio Monteiro, ranked 3rd in the Blue Marlin World Championship.
In 2008 João Marreiros was regional runner-up in the Laser 4.7 class and runner-up in the Algarve in the same class.
The boats from CVL, SEITA II-CIDADE DE LAGOS and AXA-MULTI were crowned Champions of the Algarve in their respective classes.
As in the past and in the present, we foresee in the future the contribution of the Sailing Club of Lagos in the increase of the nautical activities and in the occupation of the free time of the locals, namely of the young people.
Lagos, December 31, 2008
Contact Info
Address:
Cais da Solaria, 8600-315 Lagos, Portugal
Phone: 351 282 762 256
Email: clubvelalagos@gmail.com
Website: www.cvlagos.com
