Washington DC Dragon Boat Festival

06/27/2011

Congratulations to Out of Sight Dragons, or local blind dragon boating team, who paddled in the 500m races this past weekend in Baltimore!

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06/22/2011

A nice video about UMUC Virtual Dragons' weekend at the festival

The University of Maryland University College (UMUC) www.umuc.edu Virtual Dragons, UMUC's Dragon Boat Team, is comprised of paddlers from UMUC staff, student...

06/21/2011

Thanks to Steve Newsome for this great video. Congratulations to DCH for a stellar performance!

The 2011, 10th Annual Washington DC Dragon Boat Festival and the DCH Racing Team. Held on June 18-19th, 2011, at Thompson Boat Center in Georgetown. http://d...

06/19/2011

Fantastic First Day of racing! See you all tomorrow morning. Don't forget about the road closures... leave yourself plenty of time.

06/18/2011

Boats and docks are ready, schedules have been printed, referees are in town. We are ready to rock and roll! See everyone in a few hours!

06/17/2011

Set up for the festival has begun. Boats are on the way, and docks and course will be start being installed shortly. See you all in less than 24 hours!

06/16/2011

The weather and river and looking great for our event this weekend. We're so relieved! New race schedules are up on the site www.dragonboatdc.com.

05/25/2011

We're very happy to announce that we got permission to have the festival on June 18th and 19th! It's the same day as the DC Triathlon, and their bike race course will go right by our meeting spot by the Watergate, so we're still working out issues on how to co-exist with this other event. But get ready for a great weekend of racing!

05/24/2011

Stilll working to see if a new date is possible. Should know more later this week.

05/21/2011

It’ll be hard to miss the breast-cancer survivors at Saturday’s Dragon Boat Festival in Georgetown—just look for the pink

05/20/2011

Photos taken May 19, 2011 during race organizers meeting at Thompson Boat Center in Georgetown. The committee decided to cancel the event after judging that there was no way to safely run the race under these conditions.

05/20/2011

Photos taken May 19, 2011 during race organizers meeting at Thompson Boat Center in Georgetown. The committee decided to cancel the event after judging that there was no way to safely run the race under these conditions.