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[Lethal Weapon]

Overcast and windy day at Barnett Marine Park for the 9th annual Lotus Regatta (Bill Alley Memorial) but No Rain!
14 teams showed up for their first races of the year. Teams from Chilliwack and Langley plus seniors and local mixed and junior teams from Vancouver were present. I don't have the official times but the top 5 team in the open category were:

1. Sudden Impact (showed lots of power and won most races with Open Water)
2. Grand Dragons (as usual tough to beat but not as fast this time around...or are the other teams getting better?)
3. SOAR (Fort Langley Spirit of a Renegade) (Second year team who did some serious consistent times)
4. Chilliwack Thunder Strokers (inconsistent but had some good times)
5. Dogwood Nothing Dragons (another consistent FCRCC Seniors team)

Always a fun regatta which IMHO is a nice day of racing in an informal beautiful setting. A good first regatta for any team that wants to test the waters early in the season!
Pic to follow later tonight

[Lethal Weapon]

Here are a few pics of some good racing,  a Scottish Steers and beware...Pirates About!

[gunghaggis]

Thank you for the pictures LW

Officially - there were 16 teams entered
Check out the Lotus Sports Club website
http://www.lotussports.com/page.cfm?PageID=11

Now what were the official results of the FINALS races?   (this is from memory!)

Junior Category -
Lotus Juniors 1 or A  (can't tell the names apart!)
Lotus Juniors A or 1

Women's Category
WOW - Women on Water (Ft. Langley)
Abreast in Barnet

Senior's Division  -
FCRCC Grand Dragons
Dogwood Nothin' Dragons (Coquitlam)
The Eh Team
Dogwood Nothin' Dragons Challengers
FCRCC Grand Dragons (withdrew and did not race finals) - correction courtesy of the Olde One

Mixed Adult - 
Sudden Impact
SOAR - Spirit of a renegade (Ft. Langley)
Chilliwack Thunder Strokers (Chilliwack)
Pirates  (Chilliwack)
Lotus Mixed
Gung Haggis Fat Choy
Smoke on the Water (Chiliwack) (withdrew and did not race finals)

 
                         
                         

                           
                                   

[Olde One]

A correction to the list given by gunghagis.
In the Senior Division, it was the FCRCC Grandragons Too that withdrew (not Nothing Dragon Challangers).

[gunghaggis]

Pictures

1 - WOW - Women on Water in yellow shirts on the Doriana, being challenged by a FC Grand Dragons team on the Scotiabank DB

2 - SOAR - Spirit of A Renegade in blue shirts passing the Chilliwack Thunder Strokers in yellow.

3 - FCRCC  Grand Dragons and SOAR - Spirit of a Renegade

4 - SOAR and Chilliwack Thunder Strokers

5 - Pirates in Dragon Canoe Club boat, leading Gung Haggis Fat Choy in Doriana
      That's Pirates Captain Ian Paul in as left stroke

6 - Good shot of Pirates

7 - Clan Chieftain of Gung Haggis Fat Choy - Todd Wong (my goodness, that kilt sways in the wind!) - steering the Gung Haggis boat crew

8 - Overall winners of the day!   Sudden Impact - with co-captain Pam in front left stroke position.

[gunghaggis]

The Lotus Sports Club's Bill Alley Memoria Dragon Boat Regatta is always a fun friendly race.  Chilliwack and Ft. Langley teams really support it well.

There is a prize raffle draw with proceeds going to the Bill Alley Memorial scholarship.  Bill Alley was a founding member of Lotus, and dedicated to the Lotus Sports Club.  Each year I help donate prizes to the raffle and help promote it as an event during Asian Heritage Month.

Format is round robin for first 3 races - so you get to race the other teams.

Race finals you are put into one of each category:  Junior, Women's, Mixed or Seniors.
seeding is decided by cumulative race times.

The Open category is decided by the cumulative race time that is the fastest!

The rotation of the races is pretty fast, so that would help discount for other effects such as tide, wind, officiating, start position.
But this is meant to be a FUN regatta, so the start positions were not overly picky, especially with wind causing drift at the start line.

Teams swapped paddlers here and there.  Gung Haggis loaned about 10 paddlers at one point for Smoke on the Water's 3rd race - because the beginner team from Chilliwack had paddlers that needed to leave or for other reasons.  Gung Haggis raced 18 paddlers for our first two races, than added 2 paddlers in race 3, then raced the final  with 19 paddlers.

Lotus Junior team raced with only 17 paddlers beating 2 other teams in their race.

Put this event on your calendar for next year.   FOUR races,  Great Fun, beautiful pebble beach setting, lots of trees for shade or rain protection, Friendly hosts, and BBQ friendly!   No medals - just awards for the top finisher in each category + Top 3 finishers in Open category, AND a team picture already framed to take home!