Second overall - John Lavery and Alan Green It put Biggs and Evans a point ahead of National Champions John Lavery and Alan Green who moved up from fifth overnight to take second overall but only after a tie break with Shane MacCarthy and Chris Doorly of the National Yacht Club who finished third. Racing on a similar course area to where Biggs claimed a Class Two ICRA national title a fortnight ago, the HYC duo sailing Checkmate XIX scored two fifths in the final races. Northern Ireland Waters Northern Ireland Watersĭespite an overnight cushion of six points, Nigel Biggs and Peter Evans of Howth Yacht Club were chased all the way in today's final races of the Flying Fifteen Irish East Coast Championships off Dun Laoghaire Harbour.įive races were sailed with one discard applied in a buoyant turnout of 23 boats.Mixed Offshore Keelboat Mixed Offshore Keelboat.Flying Fifteen - At A Glance Flying Fifteen - At A Glance.Sailor of the Month Sailor of the Month.

It’s kind of, if you have a mission, you have to complete it. “I did get called out once in one of the buildings by a guard, but I just moved the board a little bit farther to the other side. “The first question people would ask me is, ‘Do you have permits for this?’ ” she says. So far, Alcantara says, she and her volunteers have yet to get arrested. In the meantime, she’s selling a few of the boards on the website,, for $800 each, to raise funds for Comparte con una Vida, a Venezuelan charity that delivers formula and other supplies to babies in hospitals and orphanages. They say, ‘What’s going on in Venezuela?’ ‘How can we help?’ ”Īlcantara intends to continue the project through the end of the week - or as long as she has boards to spare. And a lot of people stop and ask questions. “That happened in Williamsburg, in Jersey. “Some walked the whole city with their ,” she says.

Venezuela erupts in chaos as protests continue One guy sent Alcantara an Instagram message saying he was holding one of her boards hostage. Some volunteers stay with their board for hours, taking the pieces home at the end of the day and reinstalling them the next morning. They installed the boards in heavily trafficked areas like campuses, Central Park’s Strawberry Fields and the High Line, as well as symbolic institutions such as the United Nations and the Venezuelan Embassy. On Monday, after a month of strategizing, Alcantara and her volunteers loaded the chessboards and bags of sidewalk chalk into their backpacks and set out. “I wanted to juxtapose the beauty of what the chocolate meant as a child growing up in Venezuela - and as an iconic thing that represents our culture - with the situation going on,” she says. She pasted the 12 chess pieces on the board’s surface before adding a little (painted) Venezuelan flag, her Instagram handle and the hashtag #CheckmateMaduro. On the bottom of each, she glued one of her pop-arty photos of Venezuela’s signature chocolate bonbon, el Toronto, against a blue sky. Once she did - at a wholesale shop on West 26th Street - she bought 60 of them. She said the hardest part was finding the chessboards. That classic game of power moves “was the perfect metaphor” for the doings in Venezuela, says the Murray Hill resident, who moved to New York in 1999. The idea came to her while she was working on another installation, one depicting scenes from her childhood in Caracas and featuring a chessboard. “I’m not a politician, but I thought, ‘How, as an artist, can I raise awareness?’ ” “As an expat dealing with not being in Venezuela while seeing everything that’s going on, it’s difficult,” says Alcantara, 38. The works aim to raise awareness of the violent protests and government brutality ravaging her native Venezuela under its authoritarian president, Nicolás Maduro. That someone is likely Lara Alcantara, who, along with some 120 volunteers, placed 55 of these guerrilla installations throughout the five boroughs - two have even made it to New Jersey.

On the ground, someone’s chalked the words “Venezuela” and “#CheckmateMaduro.” There are just 12 chess pieces, one of them a king on the verge of being toppled by its opponent’s knight. Peeking out from under each 12-by-12-inch translucent surface is a photo of a brightly wrapped chocolate bonbon. Maybe you’ve seen one: that mysterious chessboard on the ground in Times Square, by the Astor Place cube, at the 86th Street Q stop. Tales of survival emerge as death toll in Venezuela landslide hits 34 US to expel Venezuelan migrants to Mexico as Biden works to secure border Mexico refused to accept Venezuelans under Biden's new deal: Texas pol says Tears, desperation at the border as Venezuelan migrants are deported

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