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September 2024

Zodiac signs, special delivery, 2023 sanlorenzo sl86.

With its signature Italian stylings, this sparkling new SL86 available from Worth Avenue Yachts is streamlined, sophisticated, and spacious.

2024 Targa 41

Renowned Finnish boat builder Targa brings an elevated experience to off-shore boating with the brand-new 41; find the comforts-packed vessel now at Cardinal Yacht Sales.

2008 Oyster 53

Sail to new adventures aboard the Oyster 53, an absolute beauty of a sailing yacht now available via Waterline Boats.

Making Waves – September 2024

All the news and nautical notes from around the Pacific Northwest for September 2024.

The Islands Down Under

The Whitsunday Islands offer divine waters, idyllic scenery, and incredible diving opportunities, all from their stunning situation in the Great Barrier Reef.

Goods + Gear – September 2024

Check out the latest Goods + Gear for September 2024.

Bring out the best in Pacific Northwest cod with this flaky, flavorful Veracruz-style preparation that is finished with a medley of tomatoes, peppers, and olives.

Pearl’s Picks – September 2024

First rate picks for your pooch from our favorite first mate, Pearl.

Capital ‘J’

With the J/24 World Championships set to start here in the Northwest later this month, Doug Hansen outlines the many attributes and accolades of the high-flying J/Boat fleet.

There’s No Boat Like Home

Now available in the Northwest via Marine Servicenter, the new houseboats from Poland-based La Mare offer stylistic and modern avenues to experiencing life on the water.

Silver Mettle

Go, fight, win: Mark Yuasa outlines winning strategies for reeling in some of those feisty migratory coho this fall.

August 2024

The August 2024 issue of NW Yachting features include a journey to Everett as well as highlights UV protective clothing.

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Sailing from Scotland to Ireland: ‘The mountains were swathed in a blanket of cloud and the waves became enormous’

The magic and mystery of the western isles of Scotland capture my imagination and draw me back every summer. This once-great sea kingdom ruled by the Norse and Gaels is…

Tragic sinking of superyacht Bayesian; Italian prosecutors investigate

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• August 29, 2024

Greek Transit Log now available online

New Leaderbox Blue marine conservation project backed by Henri-Lloyd

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Maiden crew’s First Mate Rachel Burgess: ‘The girls showed how tough they were’

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Jeanneau has contacted Sun Odyssey 410, 440 and 490 owners amid safety concerns

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How to deal with an unwell member of your crew

How to tension your yacht’s rig with wire or rod rigging

How to pass your Yachtmaster Practical Exam

Sail more with J-Boats

A magical cruising ground just a stone’s throw from France

Golden globe race.

Jeremy Bagshaw on his 2022-23 Golden Globe Race

Michael Guggenberger on his 2022-223 Golden Globe Race

Abhilash Tomy on his 2022-23 Golden Globe Race

Visiting the D-Day Normandy Beaches by boat

‘We passed no living creature apart from three cows and a lone sheep’

10 hidden must-see destinations on the West Coast of Scotland

Cruising life.

Scandinavia’s largest regatta: ‘More like a cruising rally than a race’

Sailing across the Irish Sea: ‘We had never seen such evocative scenery’

CLOSING SOON: Coppercoat Brian Black Memorial Award 2024 with £4,000 up for grabs

Design I number 08

The view from here.

Having spent his younger years messing about in dinghies, self-taught sailor and world-class designer Malcolm McKeon knows a thing or two about sailing yachts. Here, the award-winning naval architect shares some personal insights on his four decades in the industry, as well as his ideas for the future

Travel I number 08

The high low: french polynesia.

French Polynesia brings to mind ambrosia; lush days spent lounging on chalk-fine sand, crystalline waters lapping gently along the shore. But there’s more to this archipelago nation than palm trees and beaches, and one way to get to know her is through her rich food heritage

Sailing I number 08

Ribelle with a cause.

Even at seven years old, this 33m lightweight Superyacht remains a masterclass in boat-craft. Here, her Skipper and creator share what makes – and keeps – her a cut above

Hidden Gems: Teti’aroa, French Polynesia

It was the dreamily secluded island atoll that stole Marlon Brando’s heart. Now, with a flock of celebrities using it as their get-off-the-grid getaway, Teti’aroa’s own star status is rising even higher, thanks to its stunning vistas, exceptional food and incredible backstory as an elite royal Tahitian retreat

French Polynesia

While the Marquesas have unmissable mountains, the Windward Islands have enormous pods of humpback whales and the Tuamotus have some of the most stunning natural shows on earth. Here are all the places to make the very most of all these sensational islands

TIDE MAGAZINE I NUMBER EIGHT

Our sailing lifestyle, beautiful and audacious, in stores worldwide.

For TIDE’s eighth and two-year anniversary issue we explore the seafarer's dream location of French Polynesia, including long-standing hidden gem Teti'aroa, an atoll that delighted Marlon Brando so much he quickly chose to call it home. We check into The Brando, the hotel he helped devise, and which continues to set ecotourism standards today. Elsewhere, we spend a calm afternoon sailing off Antigua with the owners of two yachts from go-to Dutch designers Dykstra and Hoek, have a tour around legendary designer Malcolm McKeon’s new studio and cruise 107' Ribelle , one of his creations, as well as look back at one of Perini Navi’s big distinctive boats, Asahi – plus much, much more.

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Checking In: Le Taha'a

There’s a subtle scent of vanilla flower mixed in with the gentle breeze that’s pulling in salty sea air. Underfoot is the palest blue-turquoise water of a shallow lagoon. Ahead: nothing but the horizon. This is Le Taha’a by Pearl Resorts, an award-winning resort by a motu of the same name

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Atoll protected.

As it undertakes its mission to conserve the islet’s special environment and culture, the hard-working Teti’aroa Society has also sketched out a pathway for the restoration of oceanic islands in general

Asahi's Secret

Captain Angus Biffin and his crew reveal the endless passion and meticulous processes that go on behind the scenes to ensure the yacht charter is equally magical and unique for every client that steps onboard

A Tale of Two Owners

Every yacht has a yarn to tell, but with both these especially beautiful, traditional-yet-contemporary examples, it’s more joyful than usual – thanks, in no small part, to the love bestowed on them by their owners

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The kamalame cay.

Under the careful watch of the Hew family, an untouched strip of sand in the Bahamas was transformed into Kamalame Cay, a laidback private-island resort

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• Kevin Costner Cruised on This Luxe 75-Footer Last Summer. Now It’s Debuting at Cannes Yacht Fest.

The Hollywood star gave the Pardo GT75 the requisite plugs about “elegance” but missed the big picture. This new vessel is an innovative bridge between a dayboat and weekend cruiser.

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The GT75 enjoyed pre-show publicity courtesy of actor Kevin Costner, who used the 75-footer to cruise last summer through Calabria, Sicily, and the Aeolian islands. Costner gave the vessel a PR sound bite, noting its “elegance, 360-degree views and many comfortable spaces for sun and relaxing just a step from the sea.” But his onboard video is much more detailed in his assessment of the boat.

But the Hollywood star missed the big picture—specifically, how this vessel stands in a class of its own by successfully combining serious dayboat exterior space with an interior designed for weekend cruising.

The dayboat component is apparent across the upper deck, with not one, but two forward sets of seats—a dining arrangement with a table in the center of two sets of seats, and a separate lounge forward of those.

But the real differentiator is the aft beach club zone, which includes a generous swim platform (with a foldout ladder that has a mini-platform, a queen-size lounge that looks back over the platform, and fold-down terraces on each side that have become standard features on this style of boat.

The interior by Nauta Design features lots of windows on the superstructure of the salon, as well as a massive roof window, with lounges set along the bulkheads. The overall is sense is open space and light, which compensates for the unusual amount of exterior space. The salon also includes a galley area, with side doors on both sides, to increase the sense of space.

The GT75 also has generous space belowdecks, with the standard layout of three staterooms and three heads, along with options of two or four cabins (with a nicely concealed crew cabin). The full-beam primary mimics the light and space in the salon, with a sense of roominess and large windows on either side of the queen-size bed. The glassed-in shower, separate from the toilet and sink, is another feature that helps the boat stand out in a busy 75-foot-plus space.

Of course, the vessel’s smart design, which includes the open space up top and generous below-deck arrangement, is what really sets it apart. Then there is its impressive top speed. The standard engine package, triple Volvo 1050s mated to IPS drives, give the 75-footer a top speed of 41.5 mph. Volvo IPS 1350s upgrades lift the top end by another 3 mph.

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Forget the Yacht. The Best Travel Is on Foot, Through Wilderness.

By Nicholas Kristof

Opinion Columnist reporting from Mount Hood, Ore.

Some folks think the best way to travel is by private jet. Or yacht. My choice: by foot.

Some think that the best thing about America is its wealth, technology and modernity. Others point to its Democratic institutions. But I’m with the writer Wallace Stegner that America’s “best idea” is our spectacular inheritance of public lands — purple mountain majesties — amounting to about 40 percent of our nation. As Stegner said of our national parks: “Absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best.”

Some people worship in a church, others in a temple or mosque. I attend the cathedral of the wilderness, for among wildflowers in an alpine meadow we can all connect to something grander than ourselves.

I don’t want to overromanticize the wild; my cathedral has no thermostat, so it’s always too cold or too hot, and it can be filled with mosquitoes. But wilderness still fills me with semireligious awe.

The 17th-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza argued that God and nature were the same, and perhaps in an age of declining religious practice some can find in nature another kind of higher power to be inspired by. Like religion, wild spaces teach us humility and patience (certainly mosquitoes do). Wilderness puts us in our place, calms us, soothes our souls. Like prayer or meditation, walking through the wild gives us an opportunity to detach, to reflect, to self-correct.

So here I am in my alpine cathedral on the slopes of Mount Hood in Oregon, marking the end of summer with my wife, Sheryl WuDunn, as we backpack on the Timberline Trail. My family hikes this loop around the mountain almost every year.

We cowboy camp, without a tent — if rain seems likely we set up a small tarp — and fall asleep watching shooting stars. Then we rise with the first orange rays of the sun: A sunrise serves as caffeine. We stow our sleeping bags and hike, with no schedule or plan. When we’re tired, we rest and eat. When we’re thirsty, we stop at a rushing creek and fill a water bottle with snowmelt. When dusk approaches, we find a flat patch of ground and lay out our sleeping bags.

As we walk, we ponder. What I’m pondering is how lucky we are that our forebears more than a century ago — prophetic leaders like Theodore Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot — fought industrial interests and succeeded in preserving wild spaces for our public use in 2024, and our great-great-grandchildren’s use in 2124.

The original model for America was to privatize nearly all land, so by one analysis only about 15 percent of New York State is now publicly owned. But over time in newer states, with champions like Roosevelt, national parks and forests were created and more state and city lands set aside as well.

Today a majority of the land in states like Oregon, California, Idaho and Nevada is held by the public. Alaska is an extreme example: About 85 percent of Alaska is set aside for the common good.

I can’t help thinking that if we were to allocate land in today’s more calculating age, America might make a different choice and sell pristine spaces to the highest bidder, perhaps with naming rights to mountains and rivers. This might be Mount Musk, and we’d be outside the fence wistfully exchanging stories of the glaciers on a billionaire’s playground.

Perhaps that would be more efficient. Private landowners might do a better job controlling forest fires than the government. But what a loss for the nation.

On our first night out on this trip, Sheryl and I found a spot under soaring fir trees beside a babbling brook, as the mountain and its glaciers loomed over us. During the night, some large animal, perhaps Bigfoot, woke us by crashing through the brush, adding priceless atmospherics.

This was a spot that no billionaire could buy. It was ours that night, perhaps some other hiker’s the next night, and maybe on the third night Bigfoot had it all to himself. In our shared wilderness, there are no tiers of pricing as at Disneyland; we are all equal before the majesty of nature.

In some parts of America, private beaches are the playgrounds of the affluent. But Oregon beaches are all public, so earlier in the summer my family backpacked on the Oregon Coast Trail, which meanders from Washington to California along deserted beaches (and forced us once, when we miscalculated the tides, to make a run for it around a small cape to avoid the waves). Those glorious beaches are mine, are yours, are ours .

In many ways, America is a class society. Rich and poor live in different neighborhoods, shop at different stores, send kids to different schools and inhabit different worlds. But one place of true democracy is on our public lands.

My daughter and I hiked the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada over six years ( best parenting I ever did ), and the trail was the most egalitarian space I’ve seen. We met C.E.O.s, nurses, construction laborers and students, with none of the usual cues to judge status. We all stank.

In the course of writing a recent memoir , I came to realize that I probably had suffered a mild case of PTSD from covering too many wars and massacres. It was in this same period that I developed a passion for backpacking, and I suspect that I unconsciously prescribed myself wilderness therapy to heal.

It works. I see wild spaces as a place to think, to escape cellphones and editors (sorry, boss!), to connect with loved ones, to be dazzled and humbled by the vastness of space and the slowness of geologic time, to escape class divides, to purge ourselves of frustrations and political toxicity, to bare our souls, to be recharged.

Thank God for America’s best idea.

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How Ukraine Caught Putin’s Forces Off Guard in Kursk — And Why

The attack on a portion of the russian region represents the largest seizure of the country’s land since wwii.

“Russia’s borders do not end anywhere” ran Vladimir Putin’s electoral slogan in January 2024, in seeming justification of a war of conquest in Ukraine meant to be over shortly after it began. But in a surprise turn two and a half years after the full-scale invasion, Ukraine decided to make good on Putin’s loose definition of sovereignty by invading the Kursk region in southern Russia on Aug. 6, in what has become the largest seizure of Russian land since World War II.

Ukraine’s top commander, Oleksandr Syrskyi, says his forces have captured about 400 square miles of the region, which is opposite the northeastern Ukrainian region of Sumy.

“The situation is stable and in our favor,” he said during a broadcast meeting chaired by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Ukrainian border raids into Russia are nothing new, although none has been undertaken with this type of forethought and ambition.

If true, in under a week Ukraine has taken more of Russia than its adversary has taken of Ukraine so far in 2024. Even if Syrskyi exaggerated, it wasn’t by much. Geolocated footage of Ukrainian troops and armor — much of it Western-provided — suggests Ukraine’s near-total control of the town of Sudzha. Footage published on social media showed a Ukrainian military unit driving through the area in an American Humvee. “This is the central square of Sudzha,” one Ukrainian soldier can be heard saying.

A subsequent video from the same military unit shows another standing in a deserted street in another part of Sudzha. A dead Russian soldier lies on the ground. No gunfire or artillery can be heard in the distance, indicating the town is uncontestedly in Ukrainian hands. In notable contrast to settlements seized by Russian forces in Ukraine, the buildings of Sudzha seem almost completely undamaged. Much of this likely owes to the little resistance Ukrainians faced in their blitzkrieg.

A Ukrainian source close to the military with firsthand knowledge of the operation told New Lines that the invading troops were shocked by how many prisoners of war they were able to capture on the Russian side and at the initial ease of their breakthrough across the border.

All of Russia’s legal national boundaries are controlled by the FSB Border Guard, officers of which vanished during the assault. Russian troops — almost all of them conscripts — had no idea their enemy was on the march, according to a senior Western diplomat. “Many just laid down their arms and fled,” said the diplomat, who spoke to New Lines on condition of anonymity. “The initial incursion was mounted with a strike force of only 2,000 or so. They wiped out 20 Russian trucks coming to the rescue.”

At least 120,000 inhabitants of Kursk Oblast have left their homes and an additional 60,000 are subject to evacuation, Kursk’s acting governor, Alexei Smirnov, told Putin in a televised remote meeting on Aug. 12. Smirnov clarified that Ukraine controls 28 settlements in the region. (The reliable pro-Ukrainian conflict mappers Deep State claimed it was actually 44 settlements.)

Even official channels in Moscow offer oblique hints of just how far Kyiv has pressed. On Aug. 12, for instance, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed it was engaging Ukrainian forces near the villages of Tolpino and Obshchy Kolodez, an acknowledgment that the latter had advanced almost 19 miles into Russia.

Ukraine’s first tactical victory was silence: Not since its successful counteroffensive in Kharkiv in 2022 had it been able to maintain total operational security, abetted by Russian obliviousness. A person close to the Kremlin told Bloomberg that Russian Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov “dismissed” warnings from the country’s intelligence services that the Ukrainians were mustering forces near the border by Kursk as early as “two weeks” before the invasion. Putin, moreover, was said to be uninformed about that intelligence, an oversight that typically carries heavy consequences in Moscow.

Andriy Zagorodnyuk⁩, Ukraine’s former defense minister, told New Lines that “most likely, the Russians decided we were congregating troops around the area to prevent a Russian attack on Sumy,” a contingency that the current attack in the opposite direction might well have forestalled. “The disaster of the counteroffensive last summer,” Zagorodnyuk⁩ said, referring to Ukraine’s much-touted but failed effort to sever Russia’s direct line of communication in southern Ukraine, “was to a great extent with its advance warning and publicity — half a year of discussion and preparations, everybody talking about it. Ukraine can learn a valuable lesson here: This was a total surprise to everybody, even a lot of people in the Ukrainian government were kept in the dark about it.”

In the past, raids have been mainly carried out by the Russian proxy forces of the so-called Russian Volunteer Corps and the Freedom of Russia Legion, irregular units of anti-Kremlin militants directly controlled by Ukraine’s military intelligence service. Both of these units have charged into the Russian region of Belgorod, just north of Ukraine’s Kharkiv, with the intent of humiliating Moscow and generating good propaganda for Kyiv.

The difference here is the sophistication and scope of this operation, as well as the open involvement of regular formations of the Ukrainian military.

Ukraine deployed powerful electronic warfare equipment to hamper Russian communications and remotely mined key roads along which the Russians would likely send reinforcements. It also sent some of its best brigades as the vanguard of the breach. On Aug. 9, three days into the incursion, Ukraine hit Lipetsk air base, about 140 miles northeast of Kursk, obliterating its ammunition dump and hundreds of glide bombs, cheap but relatively accurate long-range weapons that have devastated Ukrainian positions in the past few months.

At least some of the troops Kyiv used are in fact newly mobilized, suggesting their first combat experience has not been on the battlefield at home but on foreign soil. The elite 80th and the 82nd Air Assault Brigades, equipped, respectively, with American Stryker and German Marder armored fighting vehicles, were some of the first units deployed. Later, Ukraine brought up its heaviest tube artillery, including the Pion howitzers, the same guns whose massive shells had helped blunt the initial Russian attempt to take Kyiv at the start of the current war in February 2022. (Use of the Pion has been scant in recent months as its supply of 203-millimeter shells had largely been expended.)

More provocative is what else Ukraine is using in Kursk: its most powerful Western-supplied artillery rocket platforms, High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) and M270s. Washington has forbidden Kyiv from using these strike targets on Russian soil unless in a strictly defensive move, to preempt another Russian axis of attack. (Even that policy took some doing, coming in the aftermath of Russia’s reinvasion of Kharkiv in May and Ukraine’s inability to countermand it without firing at launch sites and artillery pieces inside Russia.)

Video footage shows what looks to be a HIMARS or M270 strike on a Russian column in the village of Rylsk on Aug. 9. Multiple precision artillery rockets then slammed into the vehicles, leaving nearly a dozen smoldering husks and scores of Russian soldiers lying dead on the asphalt.

So far, the Biden administration’s response has been to label the Kursk offensive a perfectly kosher defensive action linked to a prospective Sumy axis opening up and to offer, if anything, tacit encouragement. Ukraine “has the right to defend itself from attacks that are carried out across the border and because of the need for crossfire,” Pentagon deputy spokesperson Sabrina Singh said in a press conference on Aug. 9. “So they’re taking steps to protect themselves from attacks that come from a region where they can operate with our weapons under U.S. policy.”

The Kursk operation was likely planned with several goals in mind, according to Ukrainian and Western sources.

First was the PR value: the utter humiliation of an aggressive enemy currently racking up points on the board in Ukraine’s east combined with the need to demonstrate that Kyiv’s exhausted and depleted army still has a few haymakers left. Russia is now exposed as far more vulnerable than assumed, with Putin facing the kinds of crises he usually inflicts on his neighbor. He is rattled by the high number of internally displaced people, and his government’s calls on the international community to condemn an invasion appear feckless. Meanwhile, his soldiers are surrendering en masse (and being carted off in NATO vehicles) and there is chaos in a borderland area, whose inhabitants feel their government has abandoned them. Deserting Russian soldiers have been recorded looting the homes of their compatriots, an ironic reversal on one of the most notorious events of the 2022 invasion, when Russian soldiers were filmed stealing toilet bowls and electronics from ransacked Ukrainian homes.

The mood in Kyiv in light of this act of strategic jujitsu is gratification. Kursk comes as a much-needed morale boost amid ammunition shortages, untold losses at the front and a fitfully executed mobilization effort. More and more Ukrainians have lately expressed a reluctance to fight, citing grievances with their commanders, shortages in ammunition or protective gear, or the simple fear of being sent to certain death from Russia’s overwhelming firepower in the east.

The second goal was to cause political headaches for the Putin regime. The out-of-nowhere assault has already exacerbated tensions between and among different Russian military units. Wagner paramilitaries are casting blame on Chechen “Akhmat” Special Forces, some of the first discombobulated troops to run and hide in the face of Ukraine’s invasion — and then record themselves shooting up forests to escape accusations of cowardice. Apti Alaudinov, commander of Chechen forces, called fleeing Russian soldiers “roosters,” prison slang referring to the socially lowest level of inmates, often male rape victims. Alaudinov also claimed “some leaders of the Defense Ministry kept lying and lying,” recriminations reminiscent of the late Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin’s denunciations of Sergei Shoigu, Russia’s then-defense minister, and Gerasimov for failing his cadres in Bakhmut last year — a tension that eventually led to Wagner’s mutiny and Prigozhin’s assassination.

Third, Ukraine did it because it could. Much of the modern Western equipment now on display in Kursk has proven of limited value in the trenched wastelands of Ukraine’s east, where Strykers and Marders have little freedom of maneuver. Armored vehicles in that theater immediately attract a swarm of Russian drones, and even assuming they didn’t they must still navigate vast minefields that can paralyze them in their tracks. Under these conditions, the vehicles are effectively relegated to “battle taxis” fit only for transporting infantry to and from their positions, evacuating wounded and delivering supplies, but incapable of mounting breakthroughs.

In contrast, Ukrainian mechanized troops in Kursk have been able to enjoy an unparalleled freedom of movement. In the opening hours and days of the Kursk offensive they were able to penetrate deep into Russian territory. In many cases, they didn’t waste time engaging Russian trench lines and other prepared fighting positions; they just drove around them. Unimpeded land routes allowed Ukraine to advance miles in mere hours.

A fourth motivation was to get Russia to divert its war-making resources and manpower from Donbas, where it has been steadily advancing for months, to fortify Kursk. One officer in Ukraine’s National Guard who is based in Kharkiv told New Lines : “On the one hand, maybe they’ll be willing to redeploy some of their forces from the east. What is the most threatened now is not only Povrkosk,” a city in danger of being encircled by the Russians, “but the Kramatorsk/Slavyansk agglomeration.” If Povrkosk is taken, then Ukraine comes closer to losing its last remaining redoubt in the Donetsk region, and Putin will thus consolidate control over another of the four Ukrainian regions he illicitly “annexed” in 2023.

Dmytro Lykhoviy, a Ukrainian army spokesman, told Politico on Aug. 13 that there are indications Russia is “pulling troops out of both Zaporizhzhia and Kherson,” two of the other regions in southern Ukraine, and sending them to Kursk. The Western diplomat quoted earlier also told New Lines that there are indications Russia is beginning to yank personnel from Crimea. The occupied peninsula is now seen as a more viable target for recapture by the Ukrainian General Staff, which has for months degraded Russia’s naval and air defense assets in combined drone and missile strikes, not to mention driving the entirety of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet out of the vicinity.

But this redirection of Russian energy is by no means a foregone conclusion. “Knowing the Russians, their strategy and tactics, I would not rely on this gambit working out because the edge of the Donetsk region is much more important for them than booting us out of the north,” the Ukrainian National Guard officer said. In spite of Kursk, the Russians have continued to advance in the Donetsk direction, taking three villages in the past 24 hours and threatening to take multiple large settlements, including Pokrovsk.

A fifth objective of the offensive was to snatch territory in order to trade territory. By occupying Kursk, Kyiv might have put itself in a more advantageous position to negotiate the terms of a ceasefire of final settlement, something that may be imposed on it by the United States in the event Donald Trump wins the upcoming presidential election. Zagorodnyuk⁩, the ex-defense minister, said Ukraine isn’t angling to leave Kursk soon and may be digging in indefinitely, by building its own trench lines and fortifications.

“Things are turning into positional war there,” he said, meaning static lines of contact on a battlefield defined by artillery fire, similar to what obtains in Donbas. “I believe Ukraine can hold the line there for quite a long time unless Russia dedicates very serious resources to kicking us out.” One person who agrees is Russian parliamentarian Andrey Gurulev, a retired lieutenant general, who said on state-run Russian television: “We must look at this situation with sobriety. We won’t be able to push them out quickly.”

Finally, Ukraine’s Kursk campaign may have been designed as much for the benefit of Washington and Brussels as it was for Moscow — namely, to show that the perennial fear of escalation with Putin is not rooted in political reality. As of now, the Kremlin has declared only an “anti-terrorism” operation, which is the remit of the FSB rather than the Russian Armed Forces. An all-out declaration of war on Ukraine would trigger Russia’s strategic defenses, which might lead to the launching of nuclear weapons. Gerasimov, meanwhile, downplayed the size of the occupying forces as no more than 1,000, while the Russian Defense Ministry later claimed that all of those plus another 120 were killed.

Ed Bogan, a former senior CIA operations officer who follows Ukraine closely, told New Lines that the campaign has already delivered a “heavy psychological blow to the enemy, as it clearly exposes several of Russia’s many military and political deficiencies and challenges our policy assumptions. Now would be a good time to lift the remaining restrictions and let Ukraine move towards finishing this thing on their terms.”

Those restrictions include using American-sent missiles, such as long-range Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) to strike Russian airfields deep inside Russia — exactly the kind of sorties Ukraine has been conducting, as with Lipetsk, using its homemade fleet of drones. The Ukrainian government has been lobbying the U.S. for months to erase this red line, too, in order to reduce Russia’s ability to launch missiles and glide bombs on civilian and military targets alike in Ukraine. A HIMARS strike in Kursk not met by Armageddon but shrugs in the Kremlin makes the case more forcefully for that allowance and other relaxed preconditions on security assistance.

There are tentative signals it may be working.

On Aug. 11, Markus Faber, the head of the German Bundestag Defense Committee, tweeted that the Kursk offensive is “advancing more successfully than anticipated,” a fact that Faber believes justifies increasing the number of German Leopard 2 tanks made available to Ukraine’s Defense Forces. Given that Berlin has typically been the most reluctant to ramp up the fight against Putin, this recommendation carries significant weight in the pro-Ukraine coalition.

“In order to change the course of the war, we need to resort to nonstandard steps,” Serhii Kuzan, the chair of Ukrainian Security and Cooperation Center and ex-adviser to the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence, told New Lines . “This is the principle of asymmetric warfare. We cannot wage a symmetrical war, because there are simply more Russians.”

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History of Kursk

11th century, first mention.

Although archaeological evidence suggests that there was a large settlement in the location of Kursk before the 8th Century, Kursk was first mentioned in 1032 in the Hagiography of St Theodosius (Feodosi) of the Kiev-Caves, who grew up in Kursk which was by then already a large, developed and important city. In approximately 1095 Izyaslav Vladimirovich, a son of Vladimir Monomakh, became the first prince of Kursk although he only ruled there for a year as shortly afterwards he was elevated to prince of Murom. However Prince Izyalslav had enough time to build a fortress in Kursk, making the settlement one of the strongest on the borders of Kievan Rus.

12th Century

Princes of kursk.

As only a minor principality, the Kursk Principality did not always have its own prince and never had its own dynasty of Ryurikid princes. The principality often passed between the various factions of Ryurikid princes during this period of time when internecine wars were common. In 1127 Vsevolod Olgovich took Chernigov from his uncle. To stop Mstislav the Great interfering in this conflict Vsevolod gave him Kursk and the surrounding lands. In turn Mstislav the Great made his son Izyaslav prince of Kursk. Izyaslav Mstislavich ruled as prince of Kursk until 1130 when he became prince of Polotsk. The Olgovichy princes were able to regain Kursk in 1136 : Gleb Olgovich ruled Kursk up to his death in the city in 1138 and was followed by his younger brother Svyatoslav Olgovich who ruled in Kursk until 1139 when he returned to be prince of Novgorod. In 1146 Svyatoslav Olgovich became prince of Novgorod-Seversky, which included Kursk. Svyatoslav gave Kursk to Ivan Yurievich, son of his ally Yuri Dolgoruky. Ivan Yurievich died in 1147 and Svyatoslav gave the principality to Ivan's younger brother Gleb who ruled in Kursk until 1148 .

Tale of Prince Igor's Campaign

In 1161 Kursk once again had its own prince - Oleg Svyatoslavich, son of Svyatoslav Olgovich. Oleg ruled in Kursk until 1164 when he became prince of Novgorod-Seversky. Oleg's brother Vsevolod succeeded him in Kursk. Vsevolod Svyatoslavich was known as Vsevolod Bui-Tur, meaning something along the lines of Mighty Bull. As his sobriquet suggests he was known for his bravery in dealing with the Cumans (Polovtsians). In 1185 Prince Igor of Novgorod-Seversky led an unsuccessful campaign against the Cumans which is the subject of the famous 12th-century Tale of Prince Igor's Campaign. Prince Vsevolod Bui-Tur accompanied his brother on the campaign and also features as one of the heroes in the tale. Vsevolod Bui-Tur remained prince of Kursk until his death in 1196 .

13th Century

Mongol-tatar invasion of rus.

After Vsevolod Bui-Tur's death in 1196 , it is unclear who became prince of Kiev. It is possible that he was succeeded by his nephew Prince Svyatoslav Olgovich of Rylsk. In 1223 a Prince Oleg of Kursk participated in the Battle of River Kalka against the Mongols, Prince Oleg was a descendent of Prince Oleg Svyatoslavich of Novgorod-Seversky, possibly the son of Prince Svyatoslav Olgovich of Rylsk. After Prince Oleg, information on the princes of Kursk is unclear. In any case the principality came to an end in 1238 when Kursk was destroyed during the Mongol-Tatar Invasion of Rus. Later Kursk was once again devastated by Mongol-Tatar forces in response to the citizens of Kursk rising up against the Mongol representative there.

14th and 15th Centuries

The Mongol-Tatar Invasion significantly weakened Russian territories and Grand Duke Algirdas of Lithuania took advantage of this situation. In the 1350s Algirdas managed to capture the Chernigov and Novgorod-Seversky lands, including Kursk, and incorporated them into the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Kursk would remain part of Lithuania up until the beginning of the 16th century. In 1402 Kursk is mentioned as a Lithuanian city in an agreement between Lithuania and the Teutonic Order. Throughout the 15th century the city was raided by Crimean Tatars and the Nogais.

16th Century

Russian-lithuanian wars.

The Russian-Lithuanian War of 1500 - 1503 was very successful for Russia which gained control of one-third of Lithuanian territory, including Kursk. After the Russian-Lithuanian War of 1507 - 1508 a peace treaty was signed between Russia and Lithuania under which Grand Duke Sigismund I the Old of Lithuania recognised the territory won by Grand Prince Ivan III of Rus during the 1500 - 1503 war as territory of Russia. In 1597 Tsar Fyodor I had a new fortress constructed in Kursk to protect it from Crimean Tatar raids.

17th Century

Znamensky monastery.

Kursk was one of the first cities to declare its support of the First False Dmitri in 1604 . When Dmitri was in Kursk he demanded the Our Lady of the Kursk Root Icon be brought to him and later he took it with him to Moscow. In 1612 Polish interventionists began besieging the Kursk fortress. The defenders refused to surrender even though the situation looked hopeless. Legend has it they made an oath to build a monastery should the Virgin Mary protect them. Several weeks later the siege was lifted and the fortress did not fall. The defenders immediately began to fulfil their oath and built a wooden church dedicated to the Nativity of the Virgin Mary. In approximately 1615 , Tsar Michael returned the Our Lady of the Kursk Root Icon to the nearby Korennaya Hermitage and in 1618 the icon was transferred to a newly established monastery in Kursk. It remained in Kursk thereafter only returning to the Korennaya Hermitage on annual religious processions. In 1649 on the orders of Tsar Michael a new  stone cathedral was built especially to house the icon and from this point onwards the monastery became known as the Znamensky monastery.

18th Century

Administrative reform.

In 1708 Kursk became part of the Kiev Governorate and in 1727 part of the Belgorod Governorate. In 1779 it was elevated to the administrative centre of the Kursk Viceroyalty. A coat of arms was officially approved for the city in 1780 which depicts three partridges flying on a blue strip on a silver background. In 1781 there was a major fire in Kursk and subsequently a new general plan was adopted for the city. Kursk became the administrative centre of the  in 1797 .

19th Century

Our lady of the kursk root icon and religious processions.

In the mid-19th century the religious procession with the Our Lady of the Kursk Root Icon from Kursk's Znamensky Monastery to the nearby Korennaya Hermitage became one of the biggest religious events in the empire and tens of thousands of people took part in it. In 1883 the artist Ilya Repin depicted this religious procession in his famous painting in which he shows the various social strata in Russia at the time. In 1898 an anarchist placed a bomb in the Our Lady of the Sign Cathedral of the Znamensky Monastery under the Our Lady of the Kursk Root Icon. The explosion caused great damage to the cathedral but when the priest found the silver case of the icon in the rubble, he discovered that the icon itself has miraculously survived.

20th Century

In 1917 Soviet power was declared in Kursk, but the volunteer army of General Anton Denikin briefly occupied the city from September to November 1919 when the Soviets retook the city. When Denikin's army left Kursk they took with them the Our Lady of the Kursk Root Icon, which was eventually taken to the USA where it remains today. In 1934 Kursk became the centre of the newly-established Kursk Region.

Second World War

On 29 August 1941 Kursk experienced its first bombing raid by the Luftwaffe and on 1 November 1941 the city was attacked. Kursk fell two days later on 3 November 1941 and was only liberated on 8 February 1943 by the 60th army of the Voronezh Front. The liberation of Kursk resulted in what is known as the Kursk Salient - a Soviet-controlled bulge on the frontline around the city. It was obvious to the Soviets that soon Hitler would launch an attempt to recapture the city. Marshal Zhukhov was among those who argued that the Red Army should go on the defensive and only once the Nazis had been exhausted should they launch a counter-attack. This proved to be a successful tactic and at the Battle of the Kursk Salient, which was fought between 5 July to 23 August 1943 , the Soviets were victorious, although at a very high cost. The Battle of Prokhorovka (often also called the Battle of Kursk) took place during the Battle of the Kursk Salient in Prokhorovka outside Belgorod and was the largest tank battle in history. After the Battle of the Kursk Salient, the Nazis remained on the defensive for the rest of the war.

21st Century

After the fall of the Soviet Union, many of Kursk's churches were once again reopened.  This included the Znamensky Monastery and the new century saw the religious procession from the monastery to the Korennaya Hermitage being revived and gaining in popularity.  In 2007 Kursk was awarded the title of City of Military Glory for the “courage, endurance and mass heroism, demostrated by defenders of the city in the struggle for the freedom and independence of the Motherland”.

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Next-Level Cruising: 2022 Palm Beach PB70 For Sale

• By Donny Gilbert
• September 4, 2024

Looking for a stout, finely finished, high-performing Downeast-style yacht with a thoroughly modern build? Falcon , a 2022 Palm Beach PB70, has just entered the market with Grand Banks at $4.999 million.

“Her lines are much sleeker than those of most other boats in her class, many of which tend to skew more classical and, frankly, more boxy,” Yachting previously reported . “This boat is sexy, with a raked windshield and gently curving sheer line that reaches aft toward a generous tumblehome.”

Construction is vacuum-infused E-glass with carbon fiber for structural areas. The deck and superstructure are built with infused carbon fiber for strength without added weight. Coring is Airex and Corecell foam.

Boarding Falcon via the teak swim platform, the cockpit is accessed through a transom door to starboard. The first things I noticed were the teak sole, fixed Bimini and al fresco space to entertain family and friends. Guests can relax on an L-shaped settee with a custom hi-low teak table or the aft-facing L-shaped settee with table to starboard. Grill a few burgers for lunch on the Kenyon electric BBQ before grabbing a few water toys out of the garage. Falcon ’s tender garage is currently used for stowage with the tender stowed on the hardtop. Rinse off using the cockpit shower with fresh hot/cold water and dry off in the sun on a couple sun pads or an inset settee for two on the foredeck. Some other amenities include:

• Remote docking station
• Underwater lights
• Cockpit courtesy lights
• Cockpit cover
• Cockpit wet bar with Silestone “Eternal Calacatta Gold” countertop with AC/DC refrigerator, freezer, sink, storage
• Designated glassware cabinet
• Teak cockpit sole with day hatch to the tender garage
• Garage w/built-in with electric door, ladder, custom paddle board holders, custom bike holders, custom storage box for snorkeling gear & Seabob
• Opacmare Transformer hydraulic swim platform (900-pound capacity) with stainless-steel staple rail and removable tender chocks

A set of double teak doors from the cockpit lead to the salon. A Burmese teak interior is illuminated by natural light flowing in through the windows that surround the salon. Relax on the portside sofa with a hi-low teak table that converts to an additional berth, settee with table to starboard, barrel chair and custom ottoman with flip fabric/teak lid. Solid teak cabinetry and lockers provide stowage space for salon accessories. Catch a game on the retractable flat- screen TV or nose into a book using the custom reading lights. 

Forward, and open to the salon, is Falcon’ s helm station. The helm has a custom Sisal “Samarra” carpeted sole on the raised portion of the helm, matching the salon, a teak sole through the helm companionway and a teak helm console. Optional. leather Stidd helm chairs were added along with a custom portside companion helm seat with a fixed armrest. Falcon has the following electronics and navigation tech:

• 2/Garmin 8617 displays
• Volvo autopilot
• GMR Fantom 24″ dome radar
• Garmin 315 VHF
• Engine room camera
• Cockpit aft-facing camera, starboard bulkhead
• Garmin WiFi
• WiFi booster, WL-510 with Asus RT-AC1200G+ router
• Volvo 7″ display with new sonar function
• Starlink SAT communication system

Falcon has a one-of-a-kind tender, a Palm Beach PB14, that is mounted on the hardtop and can be easily launched using a custom transformer davit with powered hoist and rotatable base built into the mast. The carbon fiber tender with a Honda 30 hp outboard includes one Garmin GPSMAP 753XSV, Fusion Marine black box MS-BB1100 entertainment system with bluetooth wired remote and NMEA 2000, Fusion 4″ speakers and custom upholstery.

Down a few steps and forward the helm station is Falcon ’s galley. It has a teak sole and teak cabinetry, large countertops and a stainless-steel sink. appliances include a Miele KM6320 3-burner induction cooktop, Miele DA 1260 with optional odor-free charcoal filter, DKF 18-900 range hood and Miele H6200 BM speed microwave/convection oven. Other galley amenities include the following:

• Sub-Zero ID-24R refrigerator/freezer
• Water purification system
• Hideaway pull-out disposal bin at inboard end of galley
• Overhead locker above cooktop on forward bulkhead of galley
• Plate rack with cup holders
• Drawer stowage

After a long day on the water, retire to one of three staterooms. The amidships master stateroom has a king-sized island berth with under-berth stowage and an en suite head. The sole is covered with a custom Sisal “Samarra” carpet with acoustic underlay and the teak cabinetry has a satin finish. Owners will find plenty of stowage for their personal belongings in a hanging locker with mirror, stowage lockers with positive locking hardware as well as a Diplomat hotel P25EN safe. Catch the rest of the game on the flatscreen smart TV or turn on one of the six custom reading lights to finish the chapter before falling off to sleep. The VIP has a queen-sized island berth with en suite head. Personal belongings can be stowed in a dresser and stowage lockers with teak cabinetry. The guest stateroom has two single berths with teak cabinetry and custom portholes. Stowage lockers, dressing cabinet with mirror and custom teak shelves provide stowage for personal belongings. The guest stateroom could also be used as crew quarters. 

Where is Falcon located? The yacht is currently lying in Stuart, Florida.

Take the next step: call the listing agent, Carvey Iannuzzi , (616) 889-7766, Grand Banks

Quick Specifications

• Length Overall: 70′
• Maximum Beam: 19.17′
• Max Draft: 4.25′
• Cruising Speed: 25 knots
• Max Speed: 33 knots
• Hull Material: Fiberglass
• Engine Make: Volvo
• Engine Model: IPS1350
• Fuel Type: Diesel
• Combined Horsepower: 2,000 hp 
• Fuel Capacity: 1,575 Gal.
• Range:   732 nm
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