Puerto De Javea  

The beginnings of the Yacht Club Jávea The space in which the Jávea Nautical Club is located is intimately linked to the works of the Levante pier. The great engineering work of the period dates back to 1949, when the project of the new dam and contradiction was created, which will replace the scarce rocks with massive concrete blocks. The project was written by the engineer Vicente Vicioso Vidal, of the Ports group of Alicante-Valencia, and assigned to the contractor Bernal Pareja S.A. January 28, 1952 for an amount of 18,520,265 pesetas. Work began in 1952, the first phase of the mega-project, but not until 1973, when it finally liquidated recent work, which would leave juts of East and West, as we know them today. In 1956, a second restructuring will include larger basins linked to the contradiction (Poniente breakwater) following the renewal of fishing. All the breakwater reforms would have been done from the beginning to favor the local fishing industry, a strong pillar at that time for the subsistence of the fishing district of Aduanas de la Mar. Dams were the biggest local attraction of the moment for five years. The people referred to the dike of the Levante as "dam" and according to the testimonies of the old fishermen, then the people of the country and surrounding approached the customs to see the progression of the work, something unheard of at the time. Beginning in 1957, when he began to see the end of the work of repair, began construction of the docks for small boats and between them a service road for the passage of machinery (now access to the Club on the road and parking). Behind the current Club parking lot, facing the old infirmary, one can still see, in relatively good conditions and the half hidden among the trees, the building in which the stone used for the construction of the Levante dam and milled rails with which the wagons have evacuated the excess rock from the excavation of the mountain. The only buildings existing in that area in the 50s belonged to the Shipwreck Rescue Society. A tangone or Tangó LIFEBOAT, located on a promontory in the bay of the same name, which served to shelter fishermen, in case of rough seas, could not approach the coast, in the absence of a sheltered port. In the port there was another building, which would be known years later as "Casa del Contramaestre". The first seat of the Jávea Yacht Club is an agreement between the Shipwreck Rescue Society and, on behalf of the Club, the then president, Jaime Cruañes Cholbi, and the secretary Juan Crespo Ruaño. As stated in the 1958 constitution, "the occupation of the building and other equipment that they own in this local station is established, so that until the final site is resolved, it is considered a social building". The old building has been renovated and qualified as a headquarters. Later it would be the home of the Bosun and the mechanical workshop. That was the first seat of the Nautical Club of Jávea, a dilapidated construction used in 1955 as a nautical object shop where peons and workers of the dam had been sheltered from the cold. The building would later host the meetings of the first board of directors of Jaime Cruañes and the few members who owned a club still in diapers. Much has changed since then, although perhaps only outside, because the entrepreneurial spirit of the first partners is still alive in 2008, 50 years later. Presented in 1964, the Yacht Club had already obtained the necessary administrative concession to develop its nautical activities. Jaime Cruañes left the office with his duties and a new president took power. D. Federico Noreña Echeverría seized by the reins a Club that has already started to grow vertiginously. He was inaugurating the presidency with a new headquarters and a very modest pier, just in front of the old entrance of the Club. The "six hundred" ordered in the parking lot contrasted with the messy little boats of the two small dry docks that could not cope with so many nutshells. The social building dates back to 1964. A few years later it will be expanded with the pool and concierge buildings, located next to the old dance floor, where so many parties were celebrated in the years when we saw everything in black and white with rhythms rhythms and the sound of the Pekenikes The Nautical Club continues to grow rapidly and in the 70s its members are hundreds. In those years, the building where the Sailing School is located today is created, the main entrance of the Club is moved where it is currently located, the infirmary is created and next to it, the new secretariat. At the local level, in 1977 the definitive project of the port's fish market began, which was then rebuilt in 1995. It was also in that period that we received an illustrious visit, such as that of D. Juan de Borbón, who was seen more than once crossing the Bay of Javea.