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[madcap]

Dan: If you have ever cleaned a dragonboat that has been sitting in the False Creek waters for three weeks of solid sunshine and red tides, there is more than a "film" on the bottom. Try barnacles, and strange funny sand dollar looking creatures. Olde One can elaborate on the gunk and corruption collected on dragonboats in False Creek, as his team (Grandragons)has been doing this for ten years.....

[Lethal Weapon]

Dirty Gems???!!Slimy Buks???!?!?!?
I am sorry...but none of them compare to the ancestor of all these boats....BARNEY!
Purple , Happy, slower than the line up at the beer tent in Victoria and less glide than a DB pulling a tire....
I say we bring back 6-16's and at least we know which ones are pigs!
And besides, they are good in crazy water (like Kelowna!)

[LittleSchrodinger]

I almost want to learn to clean a dragonboat just to see those strange funny creatures.

[DiggerPig]

Wow some interesting threads going on here.  This is almost better than watching a soap opera ... NOT that I do that or anything ......  .... ackward .... 

I said it last year and I will say it again.  Why can we not have our premier event in our Dragon Boat Community - Alcan run with only BUK's?  There must be enough BUK's around to get 16 for Alcan.  I know that two BUK's at Cultus Lake are just sitting idle that weekend and have been used in the past by Water's Edge and will be used in the future at Harrison this year. 

I know that Burnaby has a few, although I don't know if they are being used.  It just doesn't make sense to me.  We have this International Event but we have two different style of boats being used that can effect times and position.  For many teams this is their premier event for the season. 

I just don't get it but then again look in the archive and you'll see that I've written about this before.

 

[NFW]

I said it last year and I will say it again.  Why can we not have our premier event in our Dragon Boat Community - Alcan run with only BUK's? ... We have this International Event but we have two different style of boats being used that can effect times and position.  For many teams this is their premier event for the season 

This is a question I am wondering about as well, anyone able to explain the reason why we cant achieve this for RTADBF?
I know Colossus has a pretty good idea on how to get this done and it sounds feasible.

I almost want to learn to clean a dragonboat just to see those strange funny creatures.

Are you referring to seeing the "barnacle-eating magical unicorns"? lol!

[LittleSchrodinger]

Doesn't Deep Cove have a couple of BUKs to spare as well?

I have a feeling it has to do with logistics that we can't have an all-BUK Alcan. Considering that the Gems are already in False Creek water and we have too many of them, it's a lot less hassle to simply use them than to gather BUKs from all over the region, load them into trailers, drive them to Festival, clean them, and when it's all done, drive every single BUK back to their original places. (I'm sure gas will factor into it.) It's also going to take a lot of manpower if it's to be done close to the festival without disrupting their users' practices.

Yes, I'm all for an all-BUK Alcan festival and just about every competitive paddlers I know prefers BUK over it. This is really important especially we're using qualifying heats' time to determine separate comp teams from rec teams. Even if when using differential time, the differences between the boats still can potentially affect those teams bordering Rec A and Comp D. For now, I guess we'll have to wait for the Gem to start wearing out and become the new 6-16.

[ian]

I am sorry...but none of them compare to the ancestor of all these boats....BARNEY!
Purple , Happy, slower than the line up at the beer tent in Victoria and less glide than a DB pulling a tire....
I say we bring back 6-16's and at least we know which ones are pigs!

Oh Ben,  you just made Humpty & Dumpty start pulling at their mooring ropes ,

[Garbage Miles]

The Sunday results are up now on the Alcan site.  Eric Hamber finished first in the A final and TD Lightning took first in the B Final.  The results show that the A and B finals were in BUK, while the C and D were in Gemini.

http://dragonboatbc.ca/racing-downloads.html

[Backward Rowing]