For first-time spectators to the Head of the Charles Regatta, the world’s largest three-day rowing competition, there’s much to see across the span of the race route between Cambridge and Boston.

The thick of the regatta is on Saturday, Oct. 18 and Sunday, Oct. 19 when dozens of races take place on the Charles River as hundreds of thousands of spectators line the riverbanks and gather on the river’s bridges each year to watch.

The 74 race events are scattered throughout the morning and afternoon and are subdivided by factors such as gender and age, in addition to races varying from single rowers, to doubles and crews of quads, fours to eights.

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Head of the Charles Regatta, which began in October of 1965. More than 12,000 athletes are expected

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