Course Description

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The finish line will be in front of the stadium seating at Ross' Landing.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Launching. All CREWS </B>will launch from Ross landing.<B>  </B>Crews should plan to adjust foot stretchers and tie shoe laces after launching.  <B>Novice crews should launch at least one hour prior to their event </B>to allow sufficient time to row to the start.  The docks will be closed for an event 45 minutes prior to the start of the event.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Rowing to Starting Line. </B> Immediatley upon launching, boats should proceed across the river to the North Shore. You will proceed upstream hugging the North Shore and not in the navigation channel. You will row past GPS dock which could be used for emergency evacuation.  You will find the warm up area and staging area in the vincinity of the Starting Line.</div> <div> <B>Coxswains should be conscious of the fact that commercial traffic will not be suspended during the day. This means that barge traffic may be encountered.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Warm up. </B>Once boats are upstream of the starting line, they may use the part of the river between the green channel markers and the North shore to warm up.  Crews are advised to stay out of the main river channel while warming up.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Staging. </B>Approximately 10 minutes before the scheduled start of their event, boats should proceed to the staging area just upstream of the starting chute on the Chattanooga side of the river and line up in numerical sequence of bow numbers.  USRA officials will assist in the staging area.</div> <bR> <div> <B>The Start. </B>All boats must pass through the starting chute to begin the race.</div> <bR> <div> <B>The Race. </B>During the race, boats should keep the large orange inflatable buoys on their starboard side at all times. <B>The orange buoys must always be on the starboard side. Passing an orange buoy with the buoy on the port side will result in a 1 minute time penalty for each violation,</B></div> <bR> <div> As boats approach the Rowing Center buoys mark the course on the port side. All boats should row between the buoys and Maclellan Island.  <B><U>Any boat rowing outside the lane defined by </U></B><B><U>buoys </U></B><B><U>and the island will be </U></B><B><U>disqualified.</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Passing and Being Passed. </B>Slower boats must give way to overtaking crews, <B>allowing the overtaking crew the shortest course. Failure to give way may result in disqualification.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The Finish. </B>The finish will be marked by two large inflatable buoys. <B>All boats must finish between these buoys.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Takeout. </B>After finishing, boats should turn toward the Chattanooga bank and proceed back to the location they launched from, hugging the Chattanooga (launching) side bank.</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>