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Tom Dolan wins second leg of the Solitaire du Figaro Paprec

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Tom Dolan of Ireland leads Stage 2 of La Solitaire du Figaro Paprec

Louis Vuitton Challenger Series – Thunder and Lightning brought Day 5 to an early finish

Tom Dolan crossed the finish line in the second leg of the Solitaire du Figaro Paprec, securing victory after a three-day sprint from Gijón to Royan

La Solitaire du Figaro – Tom Dolan leads at Malpica, first of the 36 boat fleet

After the opening day of the Finn Gold Cup, Hungary’s Domonkos Nemeth leads from World No. 1 Laurent Hay, from France

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37th America’s Cup – 12-Metre Class and J-Class yachts have arrived in Barcelona

Between the Challenger Selection Series and the 37th America’s Cup, the boats that were once legends of the past America’s Cups have reached Barcelona.

Caterina Banti retires on top after second Nacra 17 Olympic Gold

Caterina Banti, the Italian,, two-time Olympic gold medalist in the Nacra 17 class paired with Ruggero Tita, announced her retirement from competitive activity.

5.5 Metre class World Championship opens at Yacht Club de l’Odet

29 teams from 10 countries, including Australia and the Bahamas, are at the Yacht Club de l’Odet, France for the 5.5 Metre class world championship.

Solitaire du Figaro Paprec – Course change for light wind start from Gijon

The route of the second leg of the Solitaire du Figaro Paprec was modified due to the light weather forecast to the north of the Spanish coast

Louis Vuitton Cup Challenger Selection Series – Finally, what we had hoped to see

It took a while, but Barcelona finally delivered what we had hoped to see, with the America’s Cup AC75 class providing an all-action day packed with lead changes, overtakes, and match-racing tactics.

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Rescuers racing to reach Spirit of Mateship yacht in distress off NSW coastline, 185 kilometres east of Nowra

By Danuta Kozaki

Topic: Maritime Accidents and Incidents

The 19-metre yacht is roughly 150 kilometres offshore from Nowra. ( Supplied: Rolex/Daniel Forster )

A major rescue mission has been launched to retrieve two people stuck on board a 19-metre yacht roughly 185 kilometres off the New South Wales coastline.

NSW Police said officers were informed of the yacht's distress call at about 1pm on Monday.

What's next?

Rescue teams are expected to rendezvous with the vessel early on Wednesday morning.

A major rescue mission has been launched off the New South Wales South Coast, following a distress beacon being activated on the Spirit of Mateship yacht.

The distress beacon was switched on about 185 kilometres east of Nowra.

NSW Police said officers were notified of the distress call at about 1pm on Monday.

"Officers from the Marine Area Command and Australian Defence Force were notified by the Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre a 19-metre yacht had activated a distress beacon," NSW Police said in a statement.

A spokesperson for the Australian Defence Force said HMAS Arunta was currently heading towards the 19-metre yacht. ( Supplied: Royal Australian Navy )

A spokesman for the Australian Defence Force said that two people were on board the yacht.

On Tuesday night, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) said it was battling up to five-metre seas and 70 to 90 kph winds, with the weather conditions preventing rescue efforts from taking place on Monday night. 

A RAAF C-130J Hercules aircraft stayed on the scene until 9pm after leaving from Richmond, but was forced to return. 

"HMAS Arunta arrived to the scene at 6pm AEST this evening, with HMAS Canberra on route also arriving at 11pm AEST," AMSA said in a statement. "NSW Water Police vessel Nemesis is expected to arrive on scene about 2am AEST tomorrow [Tuesday] morning."

The rescue operation is due to begin early on Wednesday, but whether or not it can begin then will depend on the weather.

The Spirit of Mateship is believed to have sustained a mechanical issue and is taking on water.

Yacht a Sydney to Hobart race veteran

The Spirit of Mateship has raced in several Sydney to Hobart yacht races, starting in 2013.

Ahead of its inaugural Sydney to Hobart race, then-prime minister Tony Abbott officially launched its name Sprit of Mateship in honour of its crew, made up of injured ADF personnel.

Speaking at an event at the National Maritime Museum in Sydney before the race, Mr Abbott said how proud he was to be part of its launch.

The yacht in distress, named Spirit of Mateship, previously raced in a number of competitions, including the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race.  ( ABC: 7.30 )

"It is really good to be here at Mates 4 Mates and to help launch the Spirit of Mateship," he said.

"We owe it to the members and former members of our armed forces to stand by them in their time of need and Mates 4 Mates are people who are there for each other in tough times."

NSW Police said there were no reports of injuries on board the yacht.

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7 Global Sailing Races to Follow

By: Zeke Quezada, ASA Destinations , Event , Inside Sailing , Sailing Fun

As American Sailing evolves our curriculum to offer more racing options through North U, I am attempting to learn more about sailboat racing. If you are following along with my journey to become a racer, you know that I am a neophyte when it comes to racing. I am a cruiser. I am a self-described “lazy sailor” that does not focus on trimming my sails and instead works on not dropping my chips and salsa while sailing.

You can get an idea of my journey in my last two pieces on sailing and racing:

SAIL TRIM FOR CRUISERS: WHY TRIM YOUR SAILS?

HOW TO GRADUATE FROM CRUISER TO RACER — STEPS TO START RACING SAILBOATS

I plan to find out more about the serious and not-so-serious side of sailboat racing. Many people, even non-sailors, know what the America’s Cup is, and may have even turned on a sports network to catch a SailGP race. But there is far more to sailing races than those two.

Here’s an overview of seven of the big races, regattas, and race series that occur regularly around the world. These are iconic events, both old and new, that shape the world of racing and have inspired sailors for generations to challenge themselves to new heights, both on and off the water.

Cowes Week is one of the oldest and most prestigious sailing regattas in the world, held every August in the Solent waters off Cowes, UK. The event has been around since 1826, and it’s known for attracting some of the best sailors from around the globe. It’s the largest sailing regatta of its kind in the world, with up to 1,000 boats and 8,000 competitors taking part in the 40 daily sailing races.

Whether you’re an Olympic or world-class pro, or just a weekend sailor, Cowes Week is an event that has something for everyone. And even if you’re not into sailing, the regatta is still a spectacle to behold – with stunning views of the coastline and plenty of festivities both on and off the water. 

Once you discover the allure of racing it appears that Cowes Week might be worthy of a sailing vacation that includes either participating in a race or just being involved as a spectator. I am not there yet, but it could happen.

Next Race Date: July 29 – Aug 4, 2023 Cowes Week Website

The Ocean Race

I do know about The Ocean Race only because prior to the new owner taking over, it was the Volvo Ocean Race for twenty years and that is how they got me to buy a Volvo. I walked into the dealership and saw some mesmerizing sailboat pictures and I signed the contract and drove away.  I am a sucker.

The Ocean Race is a round-the-world yacht race that occurs every three years. It’s known as one of the most challenging sailing races globally, spanning over 45,000 nautical miles. The race consists of multiple legs and lasts about nine months. The race starts in Europe and ends in Asia or Oceania. The exact route changes with each edition of the race.

Both professional sailors and amateur sailors can participate in this race. The teams are composed of eight sailors, all racing on the same boats. These boats are specially designed to be fast and robust, capable of enduring the tough conditions of the open ocean.

This race used to be known as the Whitbread Round the World Race until it was renamed the Volvo Ocean Race and now is known as The Ocean Race.

Next Race Date: Currently in progress at the time of the post! The Ocean Race Website

America’s Cup 

My first foray into sailing racing was when Dennis Conner won the America’s Cup.  I was a kid watching the news and learned about sailing through this huge event on the vessel, Stars and Stripes. Years later I took a ride on what I was told was the same boat. I was skeptical about the origin of the vessel I was on but that day I learned a lot about how much I loved the idea of sailing. A couple of years later I bought a boat.

The America’s Cup is held every few years on dates agreed between the defender and the challenger. There is no fixed schedule, but the races have generally been held every three to four years. The most recent America’s Cup match took place in March 2021. 

The 37th America’s Cup Official Opening Ceremony will be held in Barcelona on 22 August 2024. The Final Preliminary Event and the Challenger Selection Series will follow, leading up to the America’s Cup Match that will start on 12 October 2024. During 2023/early 2024, there is potential for up to three preliminary events. By June 2023, all the teams will have their base set up and be training in Barcelona.

The competition takes place between teams representing different countries or yacht clubs. The event involves a series of races where high-tech racing yachts, known as America’s Cup Class boats, compete in head-to-head races that test their speed, agility, and teamwork.

The competition dates back to 1851 when a schooner called America won a race around the Isle of Wight. The trophy, now known as the America’s Cup, was donated to the New York Yacht Club and has since become one of the most prestigious prizes in sailing.

Next Race Date: October 12, 2024 The America’s Cup Website

Vendée Globe

If I was a racer I am sure that The Vendée Globe would be the race that would inspire me to go hard into this type of adventure. The Vendée Globe is a single-handed (solo) non-stop yacht race around the world without assistance. It takes place every four years and is an extreme form of sailing.  It is said that more people have been into space than have finished the Vendee Globe. First held in 1989, the race starts and ends in Les Sables-d’Olonne, a small town on the west coast of France, and covers a distance of approximately 45,000 km.

Sailors must navigate their way through some of the most treacherous waters on the planet, including the Southern Ocean and the Cape Horn. Sailors must rely solely on their own skills, knowledge, and experience to complete the race. They face extreme weather conditions, sleep deprivation, and the constant threat of danger as they navigate their way around the world. 

The boats are designed specifically for the event and are some of the most advanced sailing vessels in the world, capable of speeds of up to 30 knots.

Next Race Date: November 10, 2024 The Vend é e Globe Website

St. Maarten Heineken Regatta

I must confess that I had a very nice t-shirt from this regatta that I purchased at the St. Maarten airport. I was leaving the country and realized that I had not bought any souvenirs so I found this shirt in the terminal and wore it like a proud sailboat racer. I was an imposter, I had never even seen any of the race and I did not know it existed.

The St. Maarten Heineken Regatta is a massive sailing event that takes place on the island of Sint Maarten in the Caribbean. It’s actually the biggest regatta in the Caribbean and the largest warm water regatta in the world.

The event attracts top sailors from 37 countries, who compete in a series of races over four days. The competition draws in sailors that are both professionals and passionate amateurs who just love to sail.

Next Race Date: Feb 29 – Mar 3, 2024 St. Maarten Regatta Website

Transpacific Yacht Race (Transpac)

If you live and sail in Southern California, you will hear about Transpac. I have heard about it, and I did not realize it was a race. I always figured it was a group of sailors who sailed across the Pacific to Hawaii in a large caravan, like a large flotilla, without any daily stops. I will confess that when I sailed my Catalina 27 five times a week, I had a few fantasies about tagging along in my boat and stopping over in Hawaii with the Transpac crowd. But, unfortunately, I was misguided.

The Transpacific Yacht Race (Transpac) is a biennial offshore yacht race held in odd-numbered years starting off the Pt. Fermin buoy in San Pedro, California, and ending off Diamond Head in Hawaii, a distance of around 2,225 nautical miles (2,560 mi; 4,121 km). It is one of the world’s oldest major ocean races for sailing yachts. The race was first held in 1906 and made a biennial event in 1939 to alternate with the Bermuda Race.

Next Race Date: June 27, 2023 TransPac Website

Now in its 4th season, SailGP is a newer series race held as a competition between nations on identical F50 catamarans. Currently the nations competing include Australia, New Zealand, Emirates Great Britain, France, Canada, Denmark, United States, Switzerland, and Spain. The race is held on weekends in iconic locations around the world modeled in a grand prix format similar to Formula 1 in which points accumulate throughout the season based on winnings from each race and contribute toward a championship. 

The race series has a really great app you can use to follow along and watch live, or on YouTube, and they are doing wonderful work expanding the sport’s impact initiatives through their second championship leaderboard that tracks the positive actions the teams make to reduce their overall carbon footprint and help accelerate inclusivity in sailing. The coverage of this series is great to watch – it has a high production value including live mics on the sailors and post race interviews with the sailors. The commentators do a good job educating the audience as to the basics of sailboat racing as well as explaining the racing rules.

Season 4 Opening Race: June 16-17, 2023 Chicago Sail GP Website

So which race strikes your fancy? Here’s hoping you enjoy some of these and find some new inspiration in your sailing journey!

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BREAKING: Hunter Biden to enter guilty plea at his federal tax trial without agreement on sentencing

Polls show a changed, close 2024 race heading into Labor Day

Two words sum up the national and battleground state polls released ahead of Labor Day weekend, with fewer than 10 weeks to go until Election Day: changed and close.

Changed, because most of the surveys — conducted after President Joe Biden’s exit from the 2024 race, after the Democratic convention, and after independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr. endorsed former President Donald Trump — show Vice President Kamala Harris with narrow leads nationally and in key battlegrounds. 

That’s compared with polling that mostly showed Trump with a narrow edge before Biden’s departure. 

And close, because almost all of Harris’ leads are within the polls’ margins of error. And given the polling errors of 2016 and especially 2020, a candidate holding a 1-, 2-, or 3-point advantage in surveys doesn’t guarantee victory — far from it. 

Nationally, almost every recent survey shows Harris doing better than Trump by a handful of points. The latest  Wall Street Journal poll  finds Harris getting support from 48% of registered voters, while Trump gets 47%, well within the poll’s margin of error. The  previous Wall Street Journal poll , conducted immediately after Biden’s exit, had Trump ahead by 2 points, 49% to 47% — again within the margin of error. 

In addition, a  national Quinnipiac University poll  shows Harris ahead by 1 point among likely voters, 49% to 48%. It’s Quinnipiac’s first poll measuring likely voters, so there isn’t a past apples-to-apples comparison. But prior Quinnipiac polls of registered voters found Trump narrowly ahead of Biden  in June  and 2 points ahead of Harris  in July . 

And a  USA Today/Suffolk poll  looking at a multicandidate field has Harris ahead of Trump by 5 points among likely voters — again within the margin of error. 

In the battleground states, meanwhile, a set of  Bloomberg News/Morning Consult polls  have Harris and Trump tied in Arizona and North Carolina; Harris ahead within the margin of error in Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and Pennsylvania; and Harris ahead outside the margin of error in Wisconsin. 

But the battleground state polling picture is more varied: An  EPIC-MRA poll of Michigan  shows Trump with a narrow 1 point over Harris in that battleground, 47% to 46% among likely voters. Still, that’s a change from this poll back in June, when Trump enjoyed a 4-point lead over Biden. 

Here are other key takeaways and observations from the recent polling: 

The Sun Belt is more than in play for Harris

This might be the most significant polling change since Biden’s exit. When Biden was in the race, the states of Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and North Carolina seemed out of reach for the president.

But they are more than in reach with Harris at the top of the ticket.

Before the June 27 Biden-Trump debate, Biden was trailing Trump by thin margins in the Great Lakes swing states and by wider gaps in the Sun Belt. Not only is Harris doing better everywhere, but the distance between the margins in many of those states appears to have tightened with her leading the ticket.

Is this Harris’ peak?

The timing of these polls also is important. They come nearly six weeks after Biden bowed out of the 2024 contest, after the Democratic convention, and after what’s been a political honeymoon for Harris. 

Does that momentum, which has coincided with  increased Democratic enthusiasm , last? Or will Harris eventually come back to Earth? 

It’s pretty easy to explain why either of those scenarios could be true. The only way to find out for sure is to wait and see. 

Trump’s near-constant 47%

Notice a pattern in Trump’s ballot share in these recent polls? He’s at 47% nationally in the Wall Street Journal poll; 47% in that EPIC-MRA Michigan poll; and 47% in Georgia and Michigan, per the Bloomberg/Morning Consult surveys. 

As it turns out, 47% was Trump’s popular-vote share in the 2020 election (which he lost), and it was 46% in 2016 (which he won). 

The third-party vote shrinks

The major reason why Trump’s 46% was a winning number in 2016 and why 47% wasn’t in 2020 was the  size of the third-party vote . 

In 2016, the third-party vote share was 6%. But four years later, it was just 2%. 

And the most recent polls — with Kennedy out of the contest — show third-party candidates receiving a combined 2% in  Quinnipiac’s national poll , and getting a combined 4% in the  USA Today/Suffolk poll . 

By comparison, when Kennedy was in the race, that third-party share was bigger, even after falling from higher heights in the early summer.

Mark Murray is a senior political editor at NBC News.

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America's Cup races postponed due to storms a day after lightning struck near yacht

BARCELONA, Spain — The America’s Cup organizers have called off Wednesday's racing due to stormy weather, a day after lightning struck near a sailing yacht.

The race committee opted to push back the day's races to an unspecified date after storms gathered over Barcelona’s Mediterranean coast and unleashed more lightning and steady rain.

The decision came after a race was called off on Tuesday when lightning struck a few hundred meters (yards) from Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli's racing boat. Organizers immediately ordered for the race against Team Emirates New Zealand to be abandoned and both boats hurried back to their bases in Barcelona's old port.

The opening stage of the competition will eliminate the lowest-scoring yacht by Sunday.

Luna Rossa leads with a 4-0 record. INEOS Britannia is 3-1, NYYC American Magic 2-2, while Alinghi Red Bull Racing and Orient Express Racing Team are 1-4.

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The remaining four boats will enter two-round playoffs to decide which one will take the Louis Vuitton Cup and earn a place in the America’s Cup match, where it will face holder New Zealand.

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