Nothin’ Dragon Rock and Roll at Vessi 500 on June 1, 2024
The weather cooperated providing a cloudy cool day on June 1 with calm waters for racing at the Vessi 500 Championships dragon boat festival in Vancouver at False Creek.
Thanks to all who attended, with special mention to Brent J for early a.m. tent delivery.
Coach Denise was again tasked to put together teams with last minute roster changes.
Congrats started early with a couple of golds 🥇 being won by related Womens teams. The Rapids youth team we support also medaled.
Teams Rock and Roll took to the water in race 6 with team Roll bettering Rock by 9 seconds.
Team Rock worked on improving focus throughout the day and in the F Final just missed a third place medal by .5 of a second.
Team Roll progressed to an amazing D final which had 1st place boat far ahead and then a 7 boat cluster fractions of a second apart, (Roll came in 6th place), all in the 2 min and 21-23 second range. Well done all!
Race results:
Race 6: Nothin’ Dragon Rock – 2:34.065
Race 6: Nothin’ Dragon Roll – 2:25.790
Race 14: Nothin’ Dragon Rock – 2:38. 681
Race 15: Nothin’ Dragon Roll 2:29.179
Race 22: Nothin’ Dragon Rock – 2:31. 600 (Division F)
Race 24: Nothin’ Dragon Roll – 2:23.219 (Division D)
