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...friend of mine once woke up at 5 a.m. on a Saturday morning in the spring to watch Harvard race, only to realize that the crews battle upstream for two kilometers--so that one can watch the start or end of a race, but never both. Crew is definitely not a spectator sport...
...Boats racing have right of way over all other boats. Boats not racing shall not proceed upstream along any part of the course after the start of the first race of the day until the conclusion of the last race...
...After crossing the finish line, boats should immediately paddle upstream to the end of the line of buoys before turning around...
...race course starts a the Boston University Boat House and goes almost immediately under the combination of a railroad trestle bridge and the B.U. Bridge. It then proceeds through five triple arch bridges to the finish line approximately three miles upstream. While the railroad trestle bridge's second arch from the right (Cambridge) shore is the mandated lane and the center arch of the five remaining bridges is the preferred route over the rest of the course, the right (closest to the Cambridge shore) arch of four of those remaining bridges may be used when a center arch appears...
...This spurs the harmful overgrowth of algae and the spread of toxic microbes that can kill fish and cause human health problems, such as liver and kidney ills and amnesia. Billions of fish died along the Middle and Southern Atlantic coast in recent years because of suspected pollution from upstream sources. On a tour of the land area around Big Sur, my guide from the California Coastal Commission, Lee Otter (yes), noted as a caution and as a fact that "something always lives downstream from something else...