Important Information for Paddlers
1. Please carefully review the race map.
2. Tape your number to right (starboard) bow of boat.
3. PFDs must be worn at all times.
4. The course has regular boat traffic. Racers do not have the right of way.
5. Yield the center channel to larger boats.
6. Be careful of tricky currents as you go under the bridges.
7. Just about one mile into the race you will come to a yacht club.
8. Racers will want to stay in the main channel by going to your left.
9. When you come into Medford Square there is an old dam. The turn around buoy for the 3-mile race will be before the dam.
10. 3-Mile Racers should make a CLOCKWISE turn around the buoy and proceed back to the Start/Finish line.
11. 12-Mile Racers should move to their left and go under the bridge/dam carefully. Please blow your whistle and listen carefully for oncoming boat traffic.
12. At just about the three-mile point Alewife brook joins the Mystic River on river right. YOU DO NOT WANT to enter Alewife Brook. Stay to your right as you are paddling upstream.
13. A large buoy on the water will mark the portage between Lower Mystic Lake and Upper Mystic Lake and balloons will be tied to the trees along the portage route up into the parking lot.
14. You will cross the parking lot and put in at the boat ramp.
15. The turn around buoy will be placed just by the mouth of the Aberjona River.
16. Make a CLOCKWISE turn around the buoy.
17. If you need to drop out of the race you must call 617-893-0209.