About us
My name is Luis Nin Estévez, I was born in Montevideo, capital of Uruguay in 1954.
Before me, nobody in my family sailed in sport sailing boats. My father, Mario, always become seasick when sailing, so he never acompanied me; my grandfather, Celedonio Nin y Silva, whose passion was literature and religion study only had a rowing dinghy by 1920 in his little farm in Pando city, 40 miles away from Montevideo. Maybe who sailed more in my family was my great-grandfather Celedonio Nin Pons, who came to Uruguay from Spain in 1870 onboard a brig named "Cacique" of 25 m. of length, which set sail from the port of Tarragona, near Barcelona, Cataluña.
Sea and sail love came to me when I was 13 years old, when a college mate invited me as he had obtained his license to sail in the Yacht Club Punta del Este in a 4.5m keeled sailing boats named there as “finkeels”, big mainsail and very little jib. It was 1967 and in such finkeels and in the “Río de la Plata” class (sloops with 8 m of length) of the YCPE in which I started in the things of the sea and the sails (today I continue in such initial stage...).
Afterwards I had some other sailing boats, the last one "Polynesia", a 26 feet catamaran class Tiki 26, which is the main vessel of the family. See "Other sailing boats".