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Welcome to Dragon Boat West

Dragon Boat West is an interactive web site delivering dragon boat news, events, race results and a discussion forum for the growing community of dragon boat paddlers in Greater Vancouver and its surrounding regions. Our goal is to provide a venue for dragon boat paddlers, organizers and volunteers to discuss anything that relates to the sport of dragon boat racing. This site will be the place where you can get race news, announcements, results and other information with a focus on BC and the West Coast.


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Dragon Boat West News & Announcements
xx 2008 250m Gorge Super Sprints
Today at 12:38:08 AM by paddleBOT
4th Annual 250m Gorge Super Sprints

Regular Deadline: May 16
Late Deadline: Subject to available space

Registration is still open! See you on May 24!

Current list of teams racing
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xx 2008 MEC Paddlefest
Today at 12:21:43 AM by paddleBOT
2008 MEC Paddlefest

Join us for Paddlefest 2008, hosted by all MEC stores. Paddlefest is an urban celebration of canoeing and kayaking. The festival will feature learning opportunities on water and on land. Paddlers of all skill levels are welcome.

Direct link to MEC Paddlefest

DBW comment: Paddlefest is hosted by MEC stores in major cities across Canada.  The goal is to promote paddle sports, with an emphasis on canoe and kayak.  This is a great opportunity to learn more about other paddling disciplines.  Check the listing to see what is offered in your city. 
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xx 2008 False Creek Womens Regatta - May 24
May 08, 2008, 11:48:48 PM by paddleBOT
2008 False Creek Women's Regatta

Date: Saturday, May 24, 2008
Location: Dragon Zone, south of Science World (Creekside Park)

More info:
http://www.falsecreekwomen.com/2008regatta.html

and http://www.fcrcc.com

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Dragon Boat News From Yahoo News

Help Miles of Smiles in Dragon Boat Race (ic CheshireOnline)
DRAGONS heading to the area need the support of Ellesmere Port & Neston folk. Chester’s annual charity Dragon Boat Festival is set to make an Olympic-sized splash on Sunday, June 15, when more than 400 competitors from across Cheshire and North Wales region compete on the River Dee.

Dragon Boat ladies return triumphant (The Maclay Argus)
MEMBERS of the Flamin’ Dragons Abreast Dragon Boat Club competed at the national and State titles of Dragon Boating recently.

Filipinos rule Boracay Dragon Boat Festival (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
ILOILO CITY—Rowers from the Philippines ruled four of the six events in the recent Fila 2nd Boracay International Dragon Boat Festival at the world-famous island-resort.

RP rowers win 4 of 6 events in Boracay Dragon Boat Fest (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
ILOILO CITY, Philippines -- Rowers from the Philippines ruled four of the six events in the Fila 2nd Boracay International Dragon Boat Festival held at the world-famous island-resort.

Dragon Boat Race 2008 (WTSP - Tampa Bay's 10 News)
Tampa Bays 10 News participated in this years Dragon Boat Race 2008.

Dragon Quest (Metro Weekly)
Using the Out2Paddle calendar, 2006 was Year One. That was when this dragon-boat team, affiliated with Asian/Pacific Islander Queers United for Action (AQUA), made waves as the first officially gay team in the annual Washington D.C. Dragon Boat Festival.

Boracay to host dragon boat tilt (Cebu Daily News)
ILOILO CITY—Boracay will host this week an international dragon boat competition that aims to bring in hundreds of rowers from at least nine countries.

A behind-the-scenes blog about stories, features and ideas from the pages of Metro Weekly (Metro Weekly)
In this week's f eature story package on the GLBT Asian and Pacific Islander Pride & Heritage celebration, we highlighted the two people (Joseph Truong and Trang Duong) and one organization (South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT)) being honored on Saturday for, according to Pride & Heritage, "work empowering the local A/PI GLBT community."

Teams hit the water of Buffalo Bayou (ABC 13 Houston)
Drums, boats and festivities -- all part of the Houston Dragon Boat Festival!

Aliens, dragons among weekend attractions around area (Spartanburg Herald-Journal)
A look at events happening in and around Spartanburg this weekend

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