There will be more excitement Saturday as athletes return to the water for the second day of the Head of the Charles Regatta.

The annual three-day rowing event, celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, is the largest in the world.

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There are 2,700 entries representing some 12,000 athletes and 860 clubs, according to Race Director Brendan Mulvey. That includes 45 states from the U.S. and 26 countries from around the world -- paraplegic rowers, military veterans, cancer survivors and even the man who started the event back in 1965, 86-year-old D'Arcy McMahon. There were multiple rowers in their 80s and 90s joining him, as well.

The event first got underway Friday morning at the start line at the DeWolfe boathouse

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