We designed a race paddle for one-armed use by Gary, a local veteran. Gary enjoys dragon boat racing, but his current shoulder-mounted paddle hurts, limits motion and fails race specifications. We ...

Those include the Portland Rose Festival, the World Beat Festival in Salem and the Paddle for Life in Ridgefield. The dragon boat season runs March 16 through Oct. 4. Practices are Wednesdays from ...

Every March the Arizona Dragon Boat Association hosts an annual festival bringing thousands of people to Tempe Town Lake’s ...

We had to paddle pretty far to catch up to this gentleman ... t had any contact with him since his rescue. WATCH: Local dragon boat paddlers win 3 gold medals at world championship in Italy ...

The community was deeply saddened by his death and paddled out in search of his body, hitting the water with their paddles and beating drums. Thus, tradition was formed by creating dragon boat ...

Each weekend, from inside a 600-pound, 40-foot boat made of fiberglass and wood and carved into the shape of a snarling dragon ... the strokes while 20 rowers paddle furiously; in the back ...

Each team is led by a drummer, who set the pace that the team paddles to. Another tradition for the Dragon Boat Festival is wearing five-coloured string bracelets, usually called five-coloured braids.