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Wouldn’t it be great to know when the next dragonboat event is on in a country you will be visiting next? I know just the place to find out and it’s listed on Worldwide Dragon Boat Calendar. This site was designed for dragonboat paddlers and spectators who are interested in finding dragonboat events, festivals and races around the world. It features events in Africa, Australia, USA, Canada, Hong Kong, China, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, New Zealand, Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Slovakia, Switzerland and United Kingdom.

It’s a site that gets updated regularly and also has some tourism links to help people find out more about the country they want to potentially visit. At the moment I see it’s still in it’s infancy stage and would be great if they could have a “visual” calendar like in Outlook that shows month by month or week by week of what is happening around the Dragonboating world.

Here’s a snippet of the site down below:

I was reading about some interesting dragonboat articles and saw this event called DragonTug that happens in Singapore. It’s a dragonboat regatta with a twist. Rather than race in lanes of say 5-6 dragonboats, you have two teams head to head in a 12 crew boat.

How it works:
At push-off, the sprint begins. Where both teams are evenly matched, both reach within approximately 4 metres of the Victory Flag, restrained by the tough cable that links both boats. Then the ultimate tug of war begins and the winning boat tugs ahead and claims the Victory Flag.

Where is it held:
One Fullerton, Singapore River

How to become the Ultimate DragonTug Champion:
1. Aces the Round Robin
2. Survives the knockout
3. Wins the semifinals
4. Tugs to victory in the Grand Finals

An event well worth attending and to be part of. I would love to see this happen at Darling Harbour Sydney one day!

Between the 31st July to 3rd August 2008, the Club Crew World Championships and Asian Dragonboat Championships were held at Teluk Bahang Dam, Penang Malaysia.

The 2008 CCWC consisted of the following Competition Classes:

Open
(Premier, Junior U18, Senior O40, Grand Dragons 050) – 200m, 500m and 2000m.

Women
(Premier) – over 200m, 500m and 2000m

(Junior U18, Senior O40, Grand Dragons 050) – 200m, 500m.

Mixed
(Premier, Junior, Senior O40, Grand Dragons 050) – 200m, 500m and 2000m.

The 2008 ADBC consisted of the following Competition Classes:

Open
Standard Boat (22 crew) over 200m, 500m and 1000m.

Small Boat (12 crew) over 200m and 500m

Women
Standard Boat (22 crew) over 200m, 500m and 1000m.

Small Boat (12 crew) over 200m and 500m

Mixed
Standard Boat (22 crew) over 200m, 500m and 1000m.

Small Boat (12 crew) over 200m and 500m

There were a good solid 4 days of racing from crews from around the world. Below is a breakdown of the results from each event.

Day 1 – Results
Day 2 – Results
Day 3 – Results
Day 4 – Results