Langkawi Race week gets going after fluky start

The Royal Langkawi Yacht Club hosts this now anual Regatta in January. Following light winds at the start of the week the Racing is now well underway as competitors fight it out round the cans. With a great turn out  of 50 boats there are a series of classes so everyone has a chance of winning. With boats coming from as far as Hong Kong, this regatta is for the more serious racer and in line with the Kings Cup in Phuket.
Well organised and supported I question why we do not see such event along the Spanish Coastline, sure there are the odd regattas but these generraly tend to be Club racing, making them closed shop. Also the Asian Regattas tend to be run over a week with events going on off the water and enough sailing talk to keep even the most hardened of sailors happy.