The entity has suffered losses in recent years, but the board of directors led by Gabriel López wants to launch a viability plan
The 800 members of the Real Club de Regatas de Cartagena (RCRC) will decide this Sunday whether the centennial entity will disappear or approve an economic viability plan to tighten their belts and survive. The meeting is at 10:30 am and has as one of the points of the day to announce the financial status of this organization, which has seen losses of more than 60,000 euros in recent years.
The years 2019, 2020 and 2021 closed with negative surpluses of 31,563, 30,310 and 10,522 euros respectively. The forecast for this 2022 does show a positive result of 32,082 euros. In any case, the call to all partners states that the RCRC is in “insolvency” and is obliged to request “the voluntary insolvency of creditors” because “it is not fulfilling its current obligations and has to postpone it until the next month”.
A heated meeting of partners several months ago led to the resignation of the previous board of directors headed by José García-Bravo. The team led by Gabriel López Escobar, a 66-year-old accountant from Madrid who has lived in Cartagena for years, was chosen from the elections held in early August.
The new president has already informed the navigators before the vote. He warned members of the “technical bankruptcy” of the Real Club de Regatas de Cartagena and its “negative net worth”. Although the dissolution is on the agenda for this Sunday, López Escobar’s intention is to “close the gaps”, improve productivity and increase compensation for passers-by arriving at the Alfonso XII pier, he assured LA TRUTH before he was elected. There are about thirty employees and some have been laid off to make ends meet.
This newspaper tried to locate the RCRC chairman, but without success. Nearby sources indicated that he will not make any public statements “out of respect for the partners” until the meeting is over. There are nine points of the day in today’s session.
The first is to approve the minutes pending due to the resignation of the previous directive. And then make the entity’s accounts public. It will be in the next section when the 800 members decide whether to agree to the continuity or possible dissolution of the centennial club. If it is ultimately decided to proceed, two of the most urgent tasks will be to renovate the RCRC’s construction concessions adjacent to the cruise terminal and maintain the marina’s 400 berths.
The club organizes trials at regional, national and international level. The regattas of the Vuelta a las Islas, Cartagena-Ibiza and Navegante Juan Fernández are well known, as are light sailing events such as the city of Cartagena. It also stands out in dragon boating, rowing, and sport fishing, among other modalities. The RCRC maintains the Blue Flag for water quality in the marina. The directive aims to make better use of all its resources: there is a swimming pool, gym, cafeterias and rates are below the national average.
Source: La Verdad
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