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« on: August 30, 2009, 06:35:43 PM »
Another year, a few dollars raised for BC Children's Hospital Foundation.
As with others in the Metro Vancouver dragon boating community, members of Team Storm volunteered in various capacities this year.  I seemed to go well both dry land and on the water.

Only two issues I heard of. One was an unfortunate incident of a steersperson falling in to the water during the obstacle course. The other was a moored sailboat that happened to drift into lane 3 during a race.

All in all, I had fun, in particular, the obstacle race.  
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« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2009, 06:49:49 PM »
Results

MORNING HEAT


FINAL HEAT
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« Reply #2 on: August 30, 2009, 06:54:12 PM »
Pictures from Heat 11

CanWEA & Friends




CanWEA & Friends with a cropping of KWL Tailgators


AMEC Dragon Wings
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« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2009, 07:29:44 PM »
Thanks so much for this! Looks like fun! Did you have junior teams starting at this event? I'm looking for attractive races for our junior team in 2010...
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« Reply #4 on: August 30, 2009, 08:51:17 PM »
I think we had two juniors, one who steered for an corporate team, and another who drummed for another corporate team.  Both coached these teams as they have never dragon boated before. They seemed to handled themselves well with the grown-ups.

Some established teams did participate, but there were a lot of people from the paddling community who volunteered. To give you an idea, 14 of 24 crews required both drummer and steersperson at this event.  A number of teams were short the minimum paddlers and had to recruit from other volunteers and rival teams.

It is a fun event, which a lot of the paddlers are experiencing dragon boating for the first time.
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« Reply #5 on: August 30, 2009, 09:01:38 PM »
Oh wow... may be it's better if we come and steer and drum for you then Smile
Hope it was fun!
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« Reply #6 on: August 31, 2009, 09:08:32 AM »
Actually the steersperson fell in during the obstacle race...I know...I was the caller.
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« Reply #7 on: August 31, 2009, 01:39:25 PM »
Thx three_wishes5, I will correct my post.
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« Reply #8 on: August 31, 2009, 04:31:22 PM »
Did anyone catch how much money was raised overall this year?
I missed that.

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« Reply #9 on: August 31, 2009, 05:06:23 PM »
Over 90,000 I believe.
All I know my h2o geeks had a blast (13 of them never even been a dragon boat before July) 
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« Reply #10 on: September 01, 2009, 12:39:08 PM »
Thank you, Paddling Geek.

I heard back from P4K today and was told:

The total announced on-site was $90,062... but some additional donations have come in post-event to put our total at $95,681!

Good work everyone!
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