On Tuesday morning, crews taking part in the Bonifacio IRC Cup, a unique sailing competition, were available to the Race Committee and its director, Gilles Chiorri. The event involves regattas, or competitive sailing races, scheduled for today and tomorrow near cliffs with a coefficient of 1, and the Tour de Corse, a longer race of 250 miles with a coefficient of 2.5. The overall winner of the Bonifacio IRC Cup will be the boat that achieves the best combined result from both the regattas and the Tour de Corse. Eight yachts are entered in the Bonifacio IRC Cup, and they are part of a larger fleet of 41 yachts registered for the Tour de Corse, which is set to begin on Thursday at noon. The yachts competing in the Bonifacio IRC Cup include teams such as Team Guenifey (Julien Llorca), Arobas 2 (Gérard Logel), Glen Ellen (Dominique Tian), Happy Few Two (Guy Delcroix), Leu Sec (Thierry Deseine), Team 42 (Hippolyte Marchetti), Télémaque 2 (Eric Merlier), and Yenael 3 (Franck Perrier). The fleet includes several regular participants from Bonifacio, such as Gérard Logel and Dominique Tian. On Thursday, all the yachts will line up for the start, with the goal of breaking the mythical record set by Lionel Péan in 2014 during the VOR, a race that took 25 hours and 57 minutes to complete. Last night, the skippers—those in charge of the yachts—gathered at a local fishermen’s house on the North quay for the official opening briefing of the Bonifacio IRC Cup. Meanwhile, in Corsica, students have been organizing demonstrations and calling for calm. The race has fallen significantly behind schedule, with the expected arrival of the yachts now set for Wednesday morning. During a demonstration in front of the prefecture in Bastia, a police officer was injured, adding to the tension surrounding the event.