Rose Festival Dragon Boat Races

2ND WEEKEND IN JUNE 2007
Well, this year, the weather was a bit wet. As a matter of fact, it was REALLY wet and miserable. For the paddling, it's not so bad, but for the spectating, it wasn't so great. Regardless, the Stumptown Paddlers had a fun time this year.

There was great food by a couple members of our team (two different caterers!). We did well enough to get seeded into a fairly high division (Subdivision 3 out of 5... 60 mixed teams total), but then we were ousted in the first round after a VERY fast & close race (2:55.07).

ALL of the times in ALL subdivision heats in the quarterfinals were slower than ours EXCEPT the other 3 boats in our heat (and Kai I'kaika in Subdiv 1). That made us the 5th fastest boat in the quarterfinals! But we still didn't move on to the semis. And actually, only 3 other boats in Subdivision 1 had better times the rest of Sunday! That's pretty darned good for Stumptown!