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Spaulding Marine Center — Hands-On Boatyard Hub

Spaulding Marine Center on the Sausalito waterfront schedules boat lifts, hull maintenance, and rigging turns year‑round, coordinating service windows with nearby marinas and charter operators to minimize downtime for rental fleets and private yachts.

4 min·12 Mar

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Latitude 38 Crew List Party — San Francisco

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Golden Gate Yacht Club at 1 Yacht Rd, San Francisco provides free public parking in the large lot by the stone lighthouse and guest-dock access through GGYC and San Francisco Marina for arrivals to the March 5, 2026 Latitude 38 Spring Crew List Party, which runs from 6–9 p.m.

4 min·12 Mar

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DN Worlds 2026: Relocation, Ice Risks and a New Champion

Organisers moved more than 120 DN sleds and support trailers across borders, coordinating customs, truck slots and local hauling crews as the championship caravan shifted from Norrköping, Sweden to the Darlowo/Dąbki region in Poland — a logistic operation that required rapid route planning, ice reconnaissance and contingency warehousing to keep registration, measurement and rigging schedules on track.

4 min·12 Mar

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Biograd Hosts Melges 24 Cup Spring Opener

Seventeen crews have confirmed entries for the Biograd regatta and organizers now require every Melges 24 to carry a Vakaros RaceSense unit, creating a tight pre-event logistics window for equipment checks, spares and on-board installations at the marinas.

5 min·12 Mar

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Black Jack 100 Claims Monohull Line Honours in 2026

Black Jack 100 completed the 2026 RORC Caribbean 600 with an elapsed time of 01 Day 20 Hrs 31 Mins 36 Secs, immediately proceeding to berth at Antigua’s dock for crew turnaround, rig checks and rapid provisioning to prepare the yacht for post-race transport and maintenance.

4 min·12 Mar

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Howth YC Frostbites Races 11–12 Report

Two committee boats were deployed and marks were re-positioned down-tide to compensate for a westerly breeze backing into a flooding tide, allowing the race team to run two Olympic courses despite frequent shifts, gusts and lulls; the second race was shortened at the final gybe mark to keep the fleet safe and competitive.

5 min·12 Mar

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Casey Stays Ahead After Tricky Third Day in Brisbane

The race committee had to shift the course twice as the wind veered through 50 degrees, forcing late starts and a compressed schedule on the Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron race area.

4 min·12 Mar

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Class40 Crews Reset Sights on Route du Rhum

The Class40 calendar pins the Route du Rhum as the 2026 season pivot, with skippers scheduling refits, painting windows, freight bookings and class inspections around the race entry deadline; shipping slots from Caribbean yards to European regattas are already being locked in to ensure boats arrive rigged and certified on time.

4 min·12 Mar

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Valencia Hosts 412 Young Sailors at Optiorange 2026

At Real Club Náutico de Valencia the organisers will run a compact schedule of 12 races across four days (26 February–1 March 2026), with qualifying flights on Thursday and Friday (three races per day) and final series on Saturday and Sunday (three races per day), fielding 412 sailors from 30 countries and using fleet groupings including the decisive Gold group once four qualifying races are completed.

4 min·12 Mar

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Harken Unveils Advanced ILCA Kicker System

Reduced rigging friction and lighter hardware on Harken's new ILCA kicker translate directly into faster turnaround for fleet operators and rental marinas, cutting on-water adjustment time and lowering service frequency for charter boats.

4 min·12 Mar

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Argo vs Final Final - Zoulou: Caribbean 600 clash

Argo completed the 600‑mile RORC Caribbean 600 in an elapsed time of 01 Day 12 Hrs 01 Mins 46 Secs, finishing off Fort Charlotte, Antigua, with only about a one‑mile separation to Final Final - Zoulou—a logistical finish that required rapid harbour coordination and immediate berth allocation at Falmouth Harbour for two foiling MOD70 trimarans arriving within minutes of each other.

4 min·12 Mar

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Kai Marks Dasent at the ILCA 6 Midwinters in Miami

Berthing and equipment transfer for the ILCA 6 Midwinters East required coordinating over 100 trailers, launch windows at Key Biscayne Yacht Club and temporary marina berths along Biscayne Bay to support the fleet of Olympic-class dinghies.

4 min·12 Mar