The traineras competing in the ARC2 League this season will participate in a total of fourteen regattas, two more than last year. In eight of these, they will share the stage with boats from the ETE Women's League. Five events will be time trials, and nine will be in-line races with four lanes. The competition will kick off on June 20 with the Real Astillero de Guarnizo flag race, an individual time trial consisting of four lengths and three turns, concluding in Castro on August 15.
Teams will transition from the calm waters of the Cantabrian estuary to two open-sea regattas: on Saturday, June 27, in the waters of Elantxobe, and the following day in Mutriku. The fourth league day will take place in the waters of the Ibaizabal, in Bilbao, where the eight ARC2 traineras will race against the clock in the traditional regatta course of the Biscayan capital. The second weekend of July will host a double header. On Saturday, July 11, the bronze division teams will travel to Camargo to compete in an in-line regatta set in Santander Bay. Hours later, they will compete in the traditional Lekeitio regatta course on Sunday morning.
The ARC2 League competition will reach its halfway point on July 18 with the seventh league day, a time trial organized by Lutxana Arraun Elkartea. On Sunday, the eight traineras will compete in the waters of Portugalete, this time divided into four lanes, where they must complete four lengths and three turns. Sestao will host the eighth league day on Saturday, July 25, with a two-lane time trial regatta.
After three regattas, two of which were time trials, in the waters of the Ibaizabal, the teams of the third division of men's trainera rowing will return to the open sea to compete in the waters of Laredo on the last Sunday of July, and in Ondarroa on the first day of August. Both regattas will be in-line, with the traineras distributed in four lanes.
Cantabria will host the last three events of the ARC2 League in the first half of August. The twelfth day of the calendar will take place in the waters of Santander Bay, and six days later, the last of the five individual time trial regattas will be completed. The competition will be held in the Treto estuary, in Colindres, at the mouth of the Asón river.
The Brazomar cove, in Castro, will host the fourteenth and final league regatta. Once the regular season competition concludes, the first-place team will achieve direct promotion to ARC1, while the traineras classified in second and third positions will have the opportunity to compete in a play-off against the teams ranked tenth and eleventh in the silver division.
The men's bronze division of rowing will feature eight boats this year, two more than the previous season, following the additions of Mutriku and Deusto B. The list of participants is completed by Busturialdea, Camargo, Castreña, Laredo, Lutxana, and Portugalete. Hibaika and Orio B are absent after achieving promotion to ARC1. These spots are filled by La Marinera de Castro and the Camargo boat, which were relegated last season. Last season, the ARC2 League only had six boats participating, compared to the eighteen crews that competed in the 2017 campaign. The entry of two new teams has improved this situation.
