Jun 27
2011

UPDATE: August 16th, 2011: Last day to register for the Champion Sprints! Teams registering after the 16th will be placed on a waiting list.

Update: August 4: Montana’s will be providing the food and refreshments, with an amazing menu that includes BBQ ribs, pulled pork sandwiches. salads and much, much more!
UPDATE – July 27, 2011: Champion Sprints will be limited to 20 teams competing in three classes (Open, Women & Mixed). Teams registering after the limit has been reached will be kept on a waiting list. If the waiting list reaches 6 teams, a third Champion 9m boat will be added, and the waiting teams will be able to race. Registration deadline is August 16th, 2011.

How Fast Can Your Team Move One Of These Rockets?

The 2011 Canadian National Dragon Boat Championships winning times for 200 meter sprints were as follows:

Mixed University: 47.29, Mixed Senior A:  47.90, Mixed Under 23: 47.90, Women BCS: 55.92, Mixed Premier D Final: 48.60 and Mixed Premier C Final: 48.59.
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VCKC Guts ‘n Glory Dragonboat Races (Sat. Aug 27th 2011)

2nd Annual Guts ‘n Glory Dragonboat Event
on Saturday 27th August 2011
On the Victoria Gorge Waterway

The Victoria Canoe and Kayak Club (VCKC) will hold their dragonboat races two weeks after the Victoria Dragon Boat Festival. There will be two separate events offered during the festival, and teams can register for either one, or both.

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Event #1: Guts & Glory: Two 1250 meter races in VCKCs two 6-16s, with times being combined to determine the results.

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Event #2: Vancouver Island’s first Champion Sprints. Teams of ten paddlers will participate in 200 meter sprints (drag races, really) in Champion 9 meter dragon boats.

Prizes will be awarded in both events.

Registration fee will be $10 per crew member, i.e. $220 for the Guts & Glory event, and $120 for the Champion Sprints. Paddlers will also get a special “Beer and Burger” deal you won’t see anywhere else, and there will be terrific live entertainment. You do NOT want to miss this groundbreaking event!

 

Full details will be posted on the VCKC website (http://vckc.ca/dragonboat)



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Jun 25
2011

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I have uploaded 160 images from 2011 Nanaimo Paddlefest. Most of them are my routine fare – people – but this one intrigues me:
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I don’t remember who was drumming for the TD team, but she’s either recovering from a near-dunking, or invoking a hitherto-unseen maneuver to spook the opposition. As a friend recently said, “You can do anything in a Millenium and nothing will happen.”

What are the most likely choices here?

1. She decided to walk back to the Crab Dock?

2. She felt a sudden urge to take a dip?

3. She decided to change horses in mid-stream?

(I thought she fallen off the seat – as it turned out, she was balancing a 17-paddler crew load. Way to go, Leslie!)

Let’s hear your suggestions, folks – anything’s possible in a dragon boat icon smile 2011 Nanaimo Paddlefest photos online

[Click on either image to see the full photo set on Flickr.]

 
GoRow has posted summary results here and full results here.
 

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Jun 13
2011

The Gorging Dragons training video, “Key Elements to the Gorging Dragons Stroke,” has been added to our forum.

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Jun 13
2011

A paddler I know peripherally watched me the other day while I was pumping an inch of rain water out of a 9 meter Champion docked at a local marina.

After a short time, she said, “I don’t know about you, but I’d never set foot in one of those Champions.”

Now, most folks know that I am the marketing dude for Nightstar Yacht Sales Ltd, the sole Canadian importer and distributor of Champion dragon boats, so I was a bit surprised to hear this.

I smiled politely and asked her why. Her response, given that she’d never been in a Champion, and had no plans to paddle in one any time soon, struck me as strange.

“They’re unsafe,” she said, “and tippy, too. Everybody knows that!” I asked how she, specifically, knew that, and she told me that, “one had rolled over right here in Nanaimo not long ago.”

I replied with what I thought was an obvious question, “So, if a dragon boat rolls over, that means it isn’t safe?” “That’s obvious,” she said, with a mildly patronizing smile, “nobody wants to be in a boat that rolls over.”

She was right about a Champ rolling over – I watched it happen in May of last year, right here in Newcastle Channel. She was wrong, however, in believing that (1) the event was unusual, or (2) that the incident was indicative of a flaw in the boat’s design.

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Jun 9
2011

Courtesy the Gorging Dragons, Victoria, BC.

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