As late as the 1930's, this narrow and unusually calm stretch of river was known as Scullers Row.
Eight-mile self-guided raft trips on a calm stretch of river are $12 per person.
The playing had blazing colors and clattering energy, and the deceptively calm stretches were just as riveting.
After loaded outbound trains left in the evening, there would be a calm stretch around midnight for paperwork.
During low water, algae blooms occur throughout the calm stretches of the river, depleting its oxygen supply.
The marina is on a calm stretch of tidal fresh water off the main channel and is well protected from passing wakes and foul weather.
It would be ungainly, but if they could find a calm stretch of river, they could make it.
Hippopotamuses are abundant along most of the calm stretches of the river, and many crocodiles are also present.
They were to be driven to a wide, calm stretch of the Farmington River a few minutes from the campus.
It is the first non-tidal club on one of the longest and calmest stretches of rowing water in the UK.