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The biennial Resolute Cup, which has serves as a Corinthian Championship for U.S. Yacht Clubs, was won in 2022 by Corinthian Yacht Club in Marblehead, MA . Would it be the trifecta of Corinthianism if Corinthian Yacht Club of San Francisco (Tiburon, CA) took the 2024 title?

That’s the plan by San Francisco sailor Daniel Thielman who will be competing in the event hosted by New York Yacht Club on September 11-14 in Newport, RI.

Thielman has been on fire this year on the national racing circuit, winning multiple championships in the Melges 20 class where he’s also the defending world champion. He also claimed the 2024 IC37 National Championship title, but this will mark the first time his club has fielded a team in the Resolute Cup.

With up to 28 teams competing, the bonus for winning the Resolute Cup is to gain entry into the prestigious Rolex New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup, which uses the IC37 and will next take place in September 2025.

“Members of our Corinthian Yacht Club purchased an IC37 back in 2023 to prepare for the Invitational Cup,” says Thielman. “After a year of preparation, we’ve assembled a team that is ready to make a qualifying bid.”

Thielman will be sailing with trimmers Jen Canestra and Auric Horneman, who have been his constant and trusted teammates for over 10 years of racing Melges boats together, and Nick Voss.

“We currently race in the Melges 20, Melges 14, and IC37 one-design fleets around the country, and PHRF race our Melges 32 on San Francisco Bay,” Thielman says. “We hope that adding Nick as a tactician for the Resolute Cup, with his many years of junior, college, and adult team racing experience, will give us the edge we need to be competitive.”

While Thielman has the resume, the Resolute Cup uses the Sonar, a displacement boat with a symmetric spinnaker, which is a bit of a departure from what he and his team normally sail.

“Every boat we own, and every fleet we compete in, has asymmetric kites,” he says. “We have gotten in limited practices on J/22s to prepare, but with our aggressive championship race schedule in other fleets, we are mostly going to be winging it with a symmetric kite. I would not be surprised if we have a slow start, with results that steadily improve.”

Other first-time competitors in the Resolute Cup in 2024 include Edgewater Yacht Club (Cleveland, Ohio), Bay Waveland Yacht Club (Bay St. Louis, Miss.), and Charleston Yacht Club (Charleston, S.C.).

A passion for small-to-medium boat one-design sailing is the driving force behind Lee Sacket’s long-standing interest in the Resolute Cup. As the skipper representing Edgewater, he’s excited about the diverse and skilled team his club has put together.

“We’re very lucky to have Jeff Eiber; he is extremely accomplished winning in almost every fleet and can make any boat go fast,” says Sackett. “My first priority was securing him for the event. Lance Polen is also an accomplished sailor, winning the Highlander fleet several times, while Abby Probst has tons of time sailing in several classes, mostly the Lightning. I’m excited about the different assets each individual brings to the team.”

Representing Bay Waveland Yacht Club is skipper Zak Fanberg, who grew up sailing on Minnesota’s Lake Minnetonka, He met his wife Sarah Taylor at the College of Charleston where he was on the sailing team and they still race together.

The couple will be racing with friends Eugene Schmitt and David Blouin; Taylor crewed for Schmitt as far back as high school, so the sailing connection between the Bay Waveland team is tight.

“David and Eugene are both fantastic sailors in their own right, Eugene was a two-time All-American at the Naval Academy, he’s one of the nation’s top Sunfish sailors, and we race Vipers together a lot,” says Fanberg.

“Being in Newport this time of year is phenomenal given it’s so hot down south, so that’s a really good reason for our team to compete in the Resolute Cup! We’re really looking forward to fantastic competition; a lot of old friends from college will be sailing the event so it will be like a reunion of sorts—it brings back memories of racing in college sailing these type of short races.”

Details: https://nyyc.org/2024-resolute-cup

Hosted by New York Yacht Club on September 11-14, racing in Sonars will take place on Narragansett Bay, with the fleet halved on the last day for three final double-point races.

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American liberty-newest cruise ship in the usa christened in newport, ri.

American Cruise Lines is pleased to announce that American Liberty, the 3rd new Coastal Cat in the company's groundbreaking series of 100-passenger ships, was christened in Newport, Rhode Island this week. The celebration took place on a glorious sunny day at Fort Adams State Park, where all American's small ships dock when visiting Newport . American Liberty was visiting the historic seaside town along its inaugural cruise with guests, sailing one of the Line's most popular summer itineraries, a New England Islands cruise, roundtrip from Providence, RI .

GUILFORD, Conn.  , Aug. 22, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- American Liberty's christening celebration included cruise guests, community members, officials from Sail Newport and Fort Adams State Park, and a small group of American's executives and crewmembers. Charles B. Robertson , President & CEO of American Cruise Lines, gave remarks as did American Liberty's Godmother, Clare Harington , Vice Commodore of the New York Yacht Club. Brad Read , Executive Director of Sail Newport, and Lauren Carson, RI State Representative, also spoke at the event, both commending American Cruise Lines for its steadfast commitment to sustainable cruising and the company's continuous introduction of new, environmentally friendly small ships. Musical trio, The Victory Belles, were also on hand to entertain guests with patriotic music as everyone gathered on the ship's top deck for the official blessing and ceremonial bottle smash. The christening was followed by a traditional New England Lobsterbake at Fort Adams State Park where guests enjoyed a discussion and live demonstration of the region's ancient Native American cooking process.

"We are honored to be able to host this event in Fort Adams State Park with our fantastic partners from the community and Sail Newport. We are especially honored to have Vice Commodore Clare Harington of the New York Yacht Club serve as godmother of American Liberty. We look forward to further developing our longtime partnerships in Newport and many other historic coastal towns along the Eastern Seaboard." said Charles B. Robertson , President & CEO of American Cruise Lines.

American Liberty's Newport celebration follows the christenings of series flagship, American Eagle, on Buzzard's Bay, Massachusetts ( August 2023 ); and American Glory's christening, in Key West, Florida ( November 2023 ). American Cruise Lines 4th new Coastal Cat, American Legend, is scheduled to begin sailing this November 2024 .

American Liberty will continue operating the company's New England Islands cruises into September, then the newest ship in the country will sail a mix of the Line's exclusive East Coast itineraries from Hudson River Fall Foliage cruises, roundtrip from NYC, to popular Historic South & Golden Isles cruises, between Charleston, South Carolina and Amelia Island , Florida ( November 2024 through spring 2025).

Because of American's innovative new ships and expanding array of domestic itineraries across the country, demand for the company's specialized cruise experiences continues to grow. Unlike any other cruise line operating in the U.S.A. , all American's coastal itineraries operate just like river cruises, sailing in sight of land and visiting only U.S. ports of call. The company has introduced 19 of the 22 U.S.-built cruise ships launched over the past two decades. American Liberty is part of the company's ongoing Project Blue Series—a series of 12 new small ships

Like its sister ships, American Liberty accommodates just 100 guests, features 4 decks, and a unique catamaran bow. The Coastal Cat also offers elegant interior design, private balcony accommodations, a beautiful top deck for amazing views, comfortable lounges both inside and out, a main restaurant and casual café, and a walking track and fitness center, unusual amenities for small ships.

A virtual 360-degree tour of American Liberty and the company's Coastal Cats is available here: American Cruise Lines Virtual Coastal Cat Tour. Ship photos and more information are always available on the company's main website under the "ships" tab.

About American Cruise Lines: American Cruise Lines is the largest river cruise line in the U.S.A. with 19 small ships exploring the Mississippi River and waterways around the country. The company's award-winning fleet and domestic itineraries build on a 50-year history of delivering curated all-American explorations. Today, the company offers luxury river cruise experiences in 35 states and operates the only 100% U.S. flagged fleet of riverboats and small ships in the world, all sailing exclusively in the U.S.A.

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The Red Bull Alinghi AC75 boat sails pass The American Magic AC75 'Patriot' boat during a training ... [+] session in Barcelona. Photo by David Ramos

Resentment against the effects of massive tourism has been brewing for years in Barcelona, and that sentiment has reached new heights this summer precisely as the America’s Cup , the world’s premier sailing competition, starts and becomes the latest target of protests and criticism.

Protesters are blasting the oldest sporting race in the world that runs from August 22 to October 27 as ‘elitist and opaque’, claiming that it’s “just for rich people,” driving up prices for locals and putting the Spanish city under more pressure.

The Platform Against the America’s Cup, created last year to fight “against an event that will generate mass tourism and is already causing the massive diversion of housing to seasonal rentals,” as stated on their site, has said that new protests against the event are being organized as six teams compete to claim the 37th victory of the yacht race .

“A lot of people involved in the race have taken up long-term rents on apartments in the city center and pushed up prices for local people,” Martí Cuso of the Platform warned. “There will be protests coming in the first week of September.”

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Poster by The Platform Against the America’s Cup in Barcelona

According to the daily La Vanguardia of Barcelona, “the America's Cup 2024 disguises the agony of beach clubs in Barcelona and all Catalonia.”

The article explains how, paradoxically, the celebration in Barcelona of the oldest regatta in the world coincides with the demolition of local nautical clubs. “This global event hides the anguish of Catalan sailing clubs threatened by a rigid enforcement of the State Coastal Law.”

“The great legacy that the Cup will bring for Barcelona is the recovery of the coast,” Barcelona’s mayor told El Periodico newspaper.

Las Ramblas pedestrian street with crowds of tourists

Looking for “Quality Tourism”....for the rich

From the official side, The America’s Cup — the ultimate sporting competition for the super-rich — is, in fact, an effort by city officials to attract “quality, rather than quantity” tourism.

The yacht competition is sponsored by the luxury fashion house Louis Vuitton , which in late May had already organized a star-studded fashion show in the Park Güell, one of Barcelona’s most popular tourist attractions, designed by the architect Antoni Gaudí, that caused serious clashes between residents protesting the closure of the park for the glitzy event and baton-wielding police charging at protesters.

A model parades during a Louis Vuitton fashion show at Park Guell on May 24, 2024, in Barcelona, ... [+] planned as part of the 37th America's Cup. Photo By Lorena Sopena

Since then, anger has been growing over the fact that the city is being overrun by tourists and glitzy international events to the detriment of local life.

“Local people say they have been bombarded with calls from estate agents and speculators wanting to buy their homes to cash in on the event, which they say is pushing up rents” the Guardian writes.

Two models of AC75 sailboats during the first day of the last preliminary race of the America's Cup, ... [+] in the Port of Barcelona, on 22 August, 2024. Photo By Alberto Paredes

Displaced by the crowds

Much of the local population has already been driven out of the areas of Barcelona most affected by mass tourism and campaigners fighting for more stringent controls argue that “rather than attracting a ‘better’, high-spending type of tourist, events such as the America’s Cup simply bring more people to a city already struggling to cope with the mass of visitors.”

Those who live near hot spots in the city are frustrated with daily life where, as reported in the New York Times , they feel “displaced by the crowds; pollution along the waterfront where massive cruise ships dock; and everywhere, it seems, an apparent disregard for local culture.”

Jaume Collboni, the socialist mayor of Barcelona, has said that the contest will bring €1.2 billion in revenue for the city, and create jobs. Critics, on the other hand, say that the potential income from the lavish competition will be enjoyed by few as the tournament itself is followed mostly by the elites.

“This is not like the Olympics, where people are interested in the sport,” Cuso told the web news site i . “This is just for rich people who can afford to go and see the yachts on their own boats at sea.”

He went further to explain that the yachts are sponsored by luxury brands that want to use Barcelona to promote their products.

America's Cup trophy

Tensions and hostility rising

Tensions over tourism that finally boiled over into outright hostility has triggered splashy headlines globally, such as the incident last month when some 3,000 residents took to the streets to protest against tourism , some squirting visitors on the city’s famed boulevard Las Ramblas with water guns.

In 2023, 12 million tourists visited Barcelona, a city of 1.6 million residents, making it the favorite destination in Spain. This year, tourism officials ex[ect at least 13 million visitors.

“Their impact includes skyrocketing housing prices, dirty beaches, crowded thoroughfares and the transformation of historic neighborhoods into what locals refer to as “theme parks,” The New York Times writes.

Barcelona is the second Spanish city to host the competition. Valencia hosted two consecutive editions in 2007 and 2010.

Security reinforcements

As for the multi-million pound America’s Cup, a major security operation has been launched around the event and competition areas with more than 650 police deployed in land, six boats patrolling the sea and helicopters flying above Barcelona. The Civil Guard has also deployed divers to reinforce security at sea.

Following years of technological innovation and hundreds of millions of euros of investment from super-rich backers, the Emirates Team New Zealand will be defending the title against challenges by boats from Italy, Switzerland, France, the U.K. and the U.S.

At the round-robin stage, which will last until September 8, each challenger crew races each other twice, with the top four progressing to the semi-finals. Those Challengers of Record will face-off against the reigning champions in a series of races in October.

Most of the teams have had established bases for training in Port Vell, the city’s old port, since last year.

The America’s Cup was first staged on the Isle of Wight in 1851 and is claimed to be the oldest international sporting event in the world. It was last held in 2021 in Auckland, New Zealand, and was won by the hosts.

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Ukraine steps up strikes into Russia as Moscow pushes ahead in the east

As Ukrainian forces fight to isolate a large group of Russian soldiers caught between a river in Russia’s Kursk province and the Ukrainian border, Ukraine has launched a series of strikes at airfields, ports and oil depots in other regions of Russia aimed at degrading the Kremlin’s war effort.

A Ukrainian missile strike on the Black Sea port of Kavkaz hit a large cargo ferry laden with fuel Thursday, triggering a towering blaze at the facility, according to Russian and Ukrainian officials as well as video posted to social media channels. Kavkaz is one of the country’s largest passenger ports and the main ferry terminal connecting Russia with Crimea.

“This ferry is one of the key links in the Russian military logistics chain, primarily for supplying the occupying forces with fuel and lubricants, but it also transported weapons,” a Ukrainian navy spokesperson, Dmytro Pletenchuk, said in a statement.

The strike on the port is the latest in Ukraine’s effort to step up its attacks inside Russia as the two countries pound each other with a series of punches and counterpunches, using both direct assaults and more precision-guided drone and artillery attacks.

As Russia presses on in eastern Ukraine, threatening to take a strategic city, Ukraine holds more than 490 square miles in southern Russia – an area about the size of Los Angeles – and is launching attacks into other areas of Russia to bring the fight to its adversary.

The attack on the transit hub came after strikes on the only bridge linking Crimea to Russia over the Kerch Strait left it partly damaged, according to Ukrainian officials and military analysts, limiting the weight of cargo that could be carried by train across the span, forcing Moscow to increasingly rely on large ferries capable of carrying rail cars to support its occupation forces on the peninsula, which it annexed in 2014.

“The ferry sank, effectively blocking the operation of this part of the port,” Pletenchuk said. “They still have one platform left for loading rail cars onto ferries. However, there are no ferries available.”

The RIA state news agency of Russia, citing emergency services, said that a fire sparked by the attack had “practically” not affected the port’s infrastructure but that the ferry struck by Ukraine was half submerged. It was not possible to independently assess the extent of the damage.

Ukraine’s stepped-up targeting of sites in Russia is part of an attempt to counter Moscow’s decided advantages in the east. In recent days, Moscow’s troops have seized at least three settlements, closing in on Pokrovsk, a logistics hub for the Ukrainian army in the region. With the city of roughly 60,000 people under threat of Russian artillery, Ukrainian officials have urged civilians to leave.

While the Kremlin is moving reinforcements to the Kursk area in hopes of blunting the Ukrainian advance, it has made clear that it will not relax its assault in the east around the cities of Pokrovsk and Toretsk and the town of Niu-York.

“They have a firm position not to withdraw troops” from these offensive operations, Roman Kostenko, the secretary of the defense and intelligence committee in Ukraine’s parliament, told Ukrainian journalists. “This is a strategic direction for them, and we now see that even though they realize they have no reserves to recapture Kursk, they are still focusing on the territory of Donetsk.”

Ukraine’s attack on the ferry depot was part of a long-running effort to isolate Russian forces on the peninsula, which served as one of the launchpads for Russia’s full-scale invasion and continued to play an important role in supporting Russian occupation forces in southern Ukraine.

The Ukrainians also targeted the Marinovka military airfield in Russia’s Volgograd region before dawn Thursday, using long-range drones to hit the base around 180 miles from the Ukrainian border.

The strikes damaged hangars and other facilities at the base, according to satellite imagery verified by military analysts and data from NASA that tracks fires, as well as videos and photographs circulating on social media that have been geolocated by military analysts. A precise damage or casualty toll could not be independently verified.

Andrey Bocharov, the governor of the Volgograd region, claimed “most of the drones” were destroyed and the damage was caused by falling debris.

The assault came as Ukraine increased its attacks on Russian airfields, striking four in western Russia last week.

At the same time, a giant blaze at the Proletarsk oil storage facility in the southern Rostov region of Russia continued to burn Friday, nearly a week after a Ukrainian drone strike Aug. 18. While local Russian authorities have declared a state of emergency in the area, Russian state media quoted local officials urging people “not to give in to panic.”

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the Ukrainian campaign to seize land inside Russia and the long-range strikes were part of a coordinated effort to bring the war to Russians in a way they have not felt to date.

“We must all understand that to drive the occupier from our land, we must create as many problems for the Russian state as possible on its own territory,” he said Thursday at a forum for military veterans. “This heroic work is becoming more precise, more long-range and more effective.”

President Vladimir Putin of Russia has sought to distance himself from loss of hundreds of square miles of Russian territory. Speaking during an online meeting with politicians, including the governors of the Kursk, Belgorod and Bryansk regions Thursday, the Russian leader described the territorial losses there as “security issues,” asserting that the “problems” in Kursk “are the responsibility of the security forces.”

Alexei Smirnov, the acting governor of Kursk region, reported that around 133,000 civilians had evacuated from border areas of the region, while around 20,000 still remained.

Ukrainian officials hope the battlefield calculations for the Russians will become more complicated as Ukraine’s forces threaten to encircle a large grouping of Russian soldiers now caught between the western reaches of the Seym River and the Ukrainian border.

This week, the last of three bridges spanning the meandering waterway was destroyed. Russia has responded by building temporary crossings, but they have been quickly targeted by Ukrainian artillery and drones, according to combat footage verified by military analysts.

Ukrainian officials have speculated that as many as 3,000 Russian soldiers could be trapped in a 270-square-mile pocket. It is impossible to independently verify how many Russians might be in the area.

Lt. Gen. Mykola Oleshchuk, the commander of the Ukrainian air force, said for the first time Friday that Ukraine was using its warplanes to fire guided bombs supplied by its Western allies to hit targets inside Russia as part of the Kursk operation.

He released one video showing the destruction of two of the crossings over the Seym this week and another showing an attack on a Russian base.

“This is what the air force airstrike with high-precision American GBU-39 bombs looks like on a platoon base in the Kursk region,” he wrote.

This article originally appeared in The New York Times .

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