Dragon Boat West

Okay, no results but here are some pictures:

Presenting the Millennium Dragon Boats
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Heat 2 with Dragon Hearts Team Ultimate (3)  in the lead with BMO Pearcing Dragons (4) and Paddlers of the Fifth Moon (2)
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Race for second place in Heat 2
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Excalibur getting ready for a race
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Are the Castaways ready?
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Here is Race 23 Blind Ambition (1), Blu-By-U (2), Sweet & Sour Dragon Balls (3), Vintage Sake (4), Abreast of Life (5):
The Race (http://s102.photobucket.com/albums/m92/gingersnaps1969/Victoria%20Dragon%20Boat%20Festival%202006/?action=view&current=100_2280.flv)

Once again, the Shaggin Dragons are ready to lube you up
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Umm..I don't see any pics..anyway you can try and post them again? Thx! :lol:

Gee you are fast Backward Rowing!!!!  Good pics...nice day of racing - looking forward to tomorrow!

Thanks for the pictures backwards rowing. Hoping to see more!

Kai was fr**kin' awesome!

Great racing, great conditions, great race all around.

Thanks to everyone.

Hear Hear ... good work Victoria - a great weekend of racing and fun!!!

And most importantly, a good time was had by all!!!!

Fantastic weekend, fanastic racing!  There's a reason Victoria is my favourite festival year after year.

Congrats to Sudden Impact, Storm, Alpha, and Hampton Woods - that was the best final I've been in all year!

Unofficial Results - Platinum / Diamond Divisions

Platinum A
1. 1:52.78 Kai I'kaika
2. 1:53.44 Gorging Dragons
3. 1:58.74 Dragonauts
4. 2:02.06 Xtreme Reach
5. 2:04.60 Capital Iron Dragons

Platinum B
1. 2:03.22 Precision Impossible
2. 2:03.70 Team Ultimate
3. 2:03.75 Navy Dragon Anchors
4. 2:04.04 Sweet & Sour Dragon Balls
5. 2:06.62 sssSteam Heat

Diamond A
1. 2:04.09 Sudden Impact
2. 2:04.82 Team Storm
3. 2:05.14 Alpha
4. 2:05.48 Swordfish
5. 2:05.83 Hampton Woods

Diamond B
1. 2:09.32 Team Phoenix
2. 2:09.51 Seattle Team Sake
3. 2:09.83 St'Keya
4. 2:09.90 Stumptown
5. 2:11.38 Dogpaddlers

Hi all.  Great times by all.  A little wet, but none worse for wear.

Here is Platinum qualifier race 1 Sunday morning.  Lane 1 - P.I. (Precision Impossible), Lane 2 - Xtreme Reach, Lane 3 - Kai Ikaika, Lane 4 - Dragon Hearts Team Ultimate, Lane 5 - sssSteam Heat
Race 53 (http://s102.photobucket.com/albums/m92/gingersnaps1969/Victoria%20Dragon%20Boat%20Festival%202006/?action=view&current=100_2340.flv)

Here is Platinum qualifier race 2 Sunday morning. Lane 1 - Capital Iron Dragons, Lane 2 - Dragonauts, Lane 3 - Gorging Dragons, Lane 4 - Sweet & Sour Dragon Balls, Lane 5 - Navy - Dragon Anchors
Race 54 (http://s102.photobucket.com/albums/m92/gingersnaps1969/Victoria%20Dragon%20Boat%20Festival%202006/?action=view&current=100_2343.flv)

Final Platinum B race. Lane 2 - P.I. (Precision Impossible), Lane 3 - Dragon Hearts Team Ultimate, Lane 4 - Sweet & Sour Dragon Balls, Lane 5 - Navy - Dragon Anchors
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Okay, it's hard to paddle and take pictures on the boat, so here is something else to feast your eyes on.

Height comparison between paddlers
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Team Phoenix
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Kids at play
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Do you know this man? 
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She saw me across a crowded floor
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Beforewarned about the Shaggin Dragons
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Worse, run from the Scurvy Dawgs
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Be boarded by the Navy Dragon Anchors
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Fake Kai Ikaika mounting a boy
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Just downloading my camera onto the site.

The BC legislature in the background
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The tower of power
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Puff the Magic Dragon
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Yet another race start
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My favourite
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Well...there goes my predictions for Victoria! Kai came in STRONG (with a little "Creek" odor.. :lol:) but paddled an amazing (and FAST) time in the Finals. GDs,...Well are gthe GDs and gave them a fight to the end. The Dragonauts gave them a battle in the semis but were edged out in the finals!
NOW I have a few pics I could post out of the 1300 I took at the Festival. I was kind of shocked to hear my name mentioned over the PA as the photographer (at least they didn't call me Lethal Weapon!)
They were selling a DVD with all the pics on it and soon as I finish processing them all I will send them out to the paddlers who ordered them. If you would like one you can email me and paypal me $15.50 and I will ship one off to you as soon as they are ready! Partial proceeds go to the Victoria Dragonboat festival (and a few bucks to me to buy a new lens....Lens envy.....drool...) so pm of email me and I will get one out to you.
I'll post some teaser pics up tomorrow when I am back!

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All right All Right!
Here are some pics of the 1500+ (I miscounted) I took this past weekend
Had a misfunction with the lens when it started to lose focus on some shots but blamed that on too much vibration on the coach boat with my mono pod but so there should have been even more shots!
Annyways...here are a few teasers and I believe I managed to get pretty much every team out there. Hey Backward Rowing! I'll email you tomorrow and I'll get you both DVDs! There's a day or two of some DB pic viewing!
Enjoy!

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and a few more! Full res shots on the DVD!
Thanks!

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Jade A Final Results

1 - 2:07:10 - V02Max
2 - 2:07:23 - Portland Fire Dragons
3 - 2:07:75 - Scurvy Dogs
4 - 2:09:10 - Hot Sake Black
5 - 2:10:83 - Save on foods Dragonslayers

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Another close one for Fifth Moon up against TD Lightning in Race 47 on Sunday Morning

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Now watch Fifth Moon come from behind to win gold in Gold.


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All in all it was a great weekend!  Lots of close races and a few surprises as well.  I was totally impressed with the Scurvy Dogs!.   :beaten:  For only having 7 weeks or so of practice they kicked some...... booty.  A lot of the established teams took notice.  Everyone I have talked to hopes they return next year!


Z

 I agree- it was a great weekend and the Scurvy Dawgs did impress, not just with their paddling but with their spirit and enthusiasm as well.  I'd also like to give a shout-out to the Dogpaddlers and Sssteam Heat for having such a terrific year.  I'm a little sad that it will be almost a year until I get to raise a glass with all of you in the beer gardens again. 

PS- thanks to everybody who has posted photos, awesome!!

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is that GD's mascot?!?!

Ah-Ha!!

As it happens, our number one sponsor, the nice folks who rep Kirin out here on the Left Coast, included a couple of BIG bottles of their product (empty replicas, I'm sorry to say) with the swag they gave us in 2003.

But one of them oh so "mysteriously' disappeared (at Alcan 2003, I think it was, or maybe '04).

Hmmmm ...

This will take some thinkin' (as to what will be a suitable come-back), methinks ...  :wink:

Water-cannons at 20 paces??

(and GD was only a couple of tents down from us this past weekend, too ... we missed a "launch window", it seems)

Dan

Actually, the GDs took the bottle from the Alcan beer garden THIS year.  One of our more intrepid females slyly snuck away with the fully inflated bottle under her shirt...

Sunday results

http://www.victoriadragonboat.com/documents/06Results.pdf

Another close finish @ Platinum B

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Now how in tarnations name can you steer, command and call while taking pictures with a very water-sensitive device?  Was somebody NOT doing their job staying focused in the boat?  :whistle:

I have to agree,  sternin2ellenback, taking pictures while steering a Dragon boat (at any time, not just racing)  is an accident waiting to happen.   :shock: 

Oh darn ... and here I was hoping for a good excuse for a water-fight, next time we bump into the GDs!! :lol:

Actually, our Team Manger told me earlier this week that she gave one of the Kirin Large Pops to the GD folks during the beery hoo-rahs in the b-g at Alcan this year, just because they were such "nice people".

Hmmm ... I think I would have liked to have seen the "intrepid female" with the thing tucked under her shirt!!!  Waddle, waddle??  "So tell us, when are your octuplets due?"

And anyway, it turns out we in fact have a bushel of the things.

Let's see ... what about if we give one to every team we race against, then get them all filled up (with Kirin, naturally!) while we are all celebratin' in a b-g somewhere, and then have a chugging contest?
:Cheers:

Oh my achin' head ...  :roll:

D