Anybody here going?
Been there once and it was fun, but strangely organized.

Go to visit the city, not to paddle. A catastrophe in terms of organization (ask anyone who went in 2004).

Can't bring your own paddle, must use either a 45 or 51 inch club paddle provided by the festival (retarded rule)
Can't wear your own lifevest unless all paddlers wear the same kind and colour (WTF?)
Inexperienced steers (collisions, flipping, etc...)
Peter Lew should be ashamed
2003 festival was cancelled for lack of funding
MAD shows up on the Sunday only and clinches the festival.

'Nuff said.

They really stick the "living root" to you don't they

don't forget about the geese crap covered team area!!

I forgot about the avian excrement. The nice part is they close off the streets lining the river so people can watch. Bostonians are great. The festival is shyte!

"don't forget about the geese crap covered team area"
glad to hear that boston is not the only place that have geese.

Is "geese crap" the same as goose shit?

what's the date of this geese crap fest?

But why bother?

>They really stick the "living root" to you don't they


"livng root" ?? That is the Boston team, right?

Boston is a nice city to visit, but not to paddle in. The level of racing is novice at best. I wouldn't go there if you are expecting high level racing.

Agreed. Go to NYC in August or San Fran if you're looking for a real competition.

it is one of the oldest DB race in the States.

Boston captures it's own championship from New York MAD after 4 straight years of losing. The curse has been broken!

A championship finals results:
Lane
1 DBCB - Wake Riders 3 2:52.12
2 MAD - Team 1 2 2:40.86
3 DBCB - DrachenFurie 1 2:39.06
4

Nice. Yankees Suck! Oh wait, this is not baseball!

Congrats guys!

Wow some really fast times. Is it a 1000m race coarse?

The Boston race course is 500 meters.

The weekend of this year's Boston Dragon Boat Festival involved a relatively strong downstream current going against all teams as the locks at the bottom of the Charles River were open during most of the racing to allow the increased rainwater to flow directly into the harbor. This normally happens during periods of heavy rain in Boston, as was the case on the Saturday of the race.

The current is estimated to have added 20-30 seconds to everyone's times, depending on their lane assignment.

Kind regards,

Bob Lee
President
Living Root Dragon Boat, Inc.
www.livingroot.org

So they beat NY MAD, not like it's a great accomplishment. Who has MAD ever beaten? Whoahday????

Philly?

Philly without Mike Blundetto and 2/3 of the Berlin team...

"Philly without Mike Blundetto..."

Wouldn't that be a GOOD thing?!

Who has MAD beaten? what kind of question is that? your obviously willing to talk smack, I hope your also willing to go up one -one with any of the MAD crew either on the erg or an outrigger of some sort cause you will deff get smacked..