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Dragon Boat Canada


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Canoe Kayak Canada

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[selltile]

Ask Jackie--She had a new first today.
We took a brand new Dragoboat and flipped it in a clinic.
The suggested new name for the Dragonboat is Titanic

[DBWTim]

This wouldn't have something to do with this (http://www.canada.com/mobile/story.html?id=2979849), does it?

Someone wants to fill the rest of us in on what happened?

[selltile]

That would be the one. Had nothing to do with the new dragonboat--though I'm not really going to buy one myself. The boat that had the cameras and crew, etc was a big Chris-Craft and he gunned it away after filming. Just didn't think, I quess. No time to turn the biat into the wave and we were broadsided and over in a couple of seconds, Search and rescue was close so they were right there. Everyone in the water responded in a sensible manner. Do go over your safety plan however. One of the people ended up under the boat and it could have been a bigger disaster rather than a good story to tell. You know the 50 foot shark infested wave!!!
I learned I shouldn't go swimming so early in the year and that I should do my lifejacket up tighter.
Kudos to Sue who doesn;t swim and kept her cool. And go over that disaster plan in the boat. Drill with calling your seat numbers and establish just who is going to be the one to help the person trapped under the Dragon Boat. All fine to say it should be the seat mate but what if the seat mate can't swim a lick.
As for the OC--I think I'll wait til I move to a warmer climate.

[paddlemonkey]

The Champion DB that flipped is very much like a BUK, and for many of the paddlers involved, a Millenium is the only boat they had ever been in. Quite a transition in the best of condtions...Add to that the top heavy addition of a drum and a head/tail (why they had it on the boat, I don't get, but whatever) it makes for a pretty easy capsize.  Not a hull well suited for Nanaimo chop, man made or otherwise.

[tjl]

And go over that disaster plan in the boat. Drill with calling your seat numbers and establish just who is going to be the one to help the person trapped under the Dragon Boat. All fine to say it should be the seat mate but what if the seat mate can't swim a lick.

I have seen crews who flipped dragon boats put them right side up and bail them out and paddle back (or do the race in one case where a youth team flipped behind the start line).  Although I have seen other situations where they didn't, or where they got the boat right side up, then all tried to get back in on the same side, causing the boat to flip over again.

As for the OC--I think I'll wait til I move to a warmer climate.

Actually, an OC(-6 or -1) is much more stable in rough water.