Three things happen.
1) We have our first races of the season against 23 other teams.
2) We help to raise money for the Bill Alley scholarship fund, by bringing out our Chinese lions and dragon to create a special event.
3) It's an incredible team bonding experience that a) makes new friends of team mates and b) gives the new paddlers their first race event!

The next TWO
practices are IMPORTANT
Sunday – May 1st 11am
Wednesday
May 3rd  6pm

These are the final two
practices before May 7th Race at Barnett Marine Park.
This is one of
our funnest events of the year…. Our team is ready for a race now.  Our paddlers have now paddled 500m distance (not a full strength) but they have done full
strength starts and finish…. so this coming week will have full race pieces.

At the Burnaby event, there will be 2 warm-up races +
Division Final + Challenge Final.  Usually every paddler
on our team will spare one race out…. so everybody paddles at least 3
races… for about 2 1/2 minutes.

We now need everybody to sign
the Team Race Waiver
cost per event is $30 per person – includes
CORA fee.

We will be at the race
site aprox 9 to 3pm.  We have tents, tarps and usually set up a bbq. 
Bring your own picnic chair and blanket. 

Here is a link to my
blog story about our race at Lotus last year:
https://www.gunghaggis.com/blog/DragonBoatInformation/_archives/2010/5/2/4519875.html

more
information + maps – can be found here:
http://lotussports.com/races/lotus-dragon-boat-regatta