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Saturday
500 Metre Final - 6-16 Boats - Winner gets 2006 Alcan Entry
1. 1:58.720 FCRCC Mixed
2. 2:00.350 Pacific Reach
3. 2:10.180 Specialty Subaru WRX
4. 2:11.750 TD Lightning

DragonZone practice prize goes to Vancity Thunder.

Sunday
Obstacle Course 6-16
Pacific Reach had overall fastest time at 4:03.xxx.

Team Momentum was winner of $3000 prize.

[StraightLine]

I just wanted to say that the dragon boat races at SeaVancouver were a lot of fun.  Having the different distances was a nice change from the 500m standard and the obstacle course of Sunday was entertaining and a great challenge for paddlers and steerspeople alike.  Who was the evil genius who thought of switching strokes during the middle of the event?

General consensus from my team was that the obstacle course was created over the consuming of copious amounts of beer!


Hats off to the race organizers for a well run event.  They were able to work around the problem of the 500m start line/1000m turn around line being cut and a couple squatter boats sitting on the race course, and keep the event running smoothly.

Also, hats off to the first few teams racing the 1000m and having to rely on a verbal command from a coach boat to make your turn at the top of the course.

Now, if only the rest of the SeaVancouver Festival could learn from the DB portion.....

StraightLine.

[Photog]

Tall Ships may not get paid
July 12, 2005 - 7:12 am
By: Tammy Moyer/The Sun

The Sea Vancouver Festival could be sunk. Festival organizers have had to tell owners of  Tall Ships they may not be paid for taking part. Bad weather wreaked havoc with the event and some participants understand. Other owners say they've got contracts and expect to be paid. One couple sailed up from Mexico and were promised over $7,000 US to take part. They've only seen $750 and may be ready to take legal action.

[rightarm]

The DB regatta was as usual a fun event.  No bones to pick there.  In fact the obstacle course was incredibly creative, kudos to whoever thought that up!

But Sea vancouver as a whole, speaking as someone who has a background in event production and promotion, had to be one of the most poorly organized public festivals I have ever seen.  If they seriously are trying to blame the low attendance and revenues on the weather, then they are truly out to lunch.  Who ever thought it would be a good idea to have a main attraction in one location which, they KNEW, would be a human-traffic nightmare and occupy most of the visitor's time, along with a series of satellite locations which required paid entrance with little benefit once inside.  Obviousyl this makes for a result of barely anyone attending.  I mean hell, look at the site where the regatta was held.  They could pay $20 to come inside where the racers were and see a few lame exhibitors and watch a couple of performers, or for free they could stand on the science world deck, watch the races, still hear the performers, get a better view of hte finish, and get food from whitespot.  Where is the incentive to pay $20 to come inside?  Were the organizers relying on the goodness of their hearts or something?  A sense of civic duty to support a poorly organized festival?

So when the festival "sinks" (pun intended) where are they going to make up the revenues from? of course the main attraction around which the half-baked idea was created... the tall ships!  I say more power to the tall ships owners, if they have contracts they deserve to be paid.

[Colossus]

wow, it was $20 to get in??  glad i only hung around by science world.  it didnt' look like much from the skytrain, and i didnt' feel like paying to be able to go inside for a bit to hang out with the paddlers.

[ConfusedAsian]

Hmm wow that was pretty pricey didn't even see half the people alcan had.

[rightarm]

i think they would have counted themselves lucky if they got half the people alcan did.  except for hte paddlers, the festival area at the east end of false creek was a ghost town.

[Photog]

from www.news1130.com

Sea Vancouver festival sinking
July 14, 2005 - 6:41 am
By: Reaon Ford

The brand new Sea Vancouver Festival, held for the first time just last weekend, has already sailed into some stormy waters. Organizers have filed for bankruptcy protection and many entertainers haven't even been paid. Unlike recent Tall Ship shows in Victoria and Steveston, which had too many people, the Sea Vancouver Festival had problems with too few. Organizers expected 28, 000 people to show up, but only 20,000 did. They're blaming the turn out mainly on the poor weather,  but some say the organizers themselves are to blame. One lady says she was excited to see the ships, but finding where they were was too tough. Others say planners dropped the ball on promoting the festival. Several say they didn't even know about it until just a few days before. For now organizers will have to put together a plan to raise the more than $180,000 they still owe to entertainers and Tall Ship owners. If that plan is rejected by the creditors, the festival society will be dissolved completely and its assets frozen and divvied up.

[Colossus]

'tis a shame.  lots of potential with a festival like that

[~@ngel~]

Does anyone have photos from this event??

[Colossus]

Does anyone have photos from this event??

they're in this thread here:  http://www.dragonboatwest.net/viewtopic.php?t=2653

[~@ngel~]

oops - I guess I didn't look hard enough!