The Course
The course is 3.2 miles long and stretches from the start at Boston University's DeWolfe Boathouse near the Charles River Basin to the finish just after the Eliot Bridge and before Northeastern University's Henderson Boathouse. The course is renowned for being challenging for crews to navigate without incident or penalty. The course contains 6 bridges in total, which appear in this order from the start: Boston University/Railroad Bridge, River Street Bridge, Western Avenue Bridge, John W. Weeks Footbridge, Anderson Memorial Bridge, and Eliot Bridge. The Weeks and Eliot Bridges fall at sharp turns in the course, and collisions occur here more than any other part of the course.
This year the Regatta will be hosted by Robert Allen Oakes IV.
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