We are getting a team together from Texas to come this year, I grew up on Manhattan Island and back then('81) there was raw sewage being dumped in the east river. Today I am going on faith that it is clean enough to sail through, I do not intend to capsize and will wear clothing that sheds water so as long as I do not get too much spray in the face I am expecting to live through it. If the Department of happy water of New York city blesses it then I believe them,