About Grandragons

Grandragons' Race Schedule for 2008
April 26	Dash for Charity - Deep Cove
May 03 May 17 May 24	F.C.R.C.C. Spring Regatta Barnet: Bill Alley Memorial Women's Regatta
June 7 June 21-22	Alcan Dragonboat Festival Regatta Alcan Dragonboat Festival (Vancouver)
July 12-13 July 14 July ??	Nanaimo Kent, Washington, USA Pemberton
Aug 16-17	Victoria (BC) Dragonboat Festival
Sept 13-14	Kelowna Festival
Grandragons will attend all the above races

About the Grandragons:

The Grandragons, the first mixed seniors dragon boat racing team formed in Canada began in 1997 with a group of seniors who wanted to keep fit and have fun doing it. They opted for dragon boating because it was physically challenging and looked likes fun. They were right! Based in Vancouver’s False Creek, the Grandragons, who range in age from 55 to 81, have taken a lead role in promoting senior’s dragon boat racing on the West Coast of Canada and the U.S. Over the years, the team has developed into a strong competitor at dragon boat festivals, usually finishing in the top two in senior events and in the top third in competition with younger teams in recreational division events. In the 2002 Northern California Dragon Boat Championships, held in San Francisco, the team placed third in open competition in the recreational division.
Now grown to two full boats of paddlers – Grandragons and Grandragons Too – the team is expanding to include a third boat, Great Grandragons.

The colorful history

of the Grandragons was written by Ron MacDonald, reveals many not widely known facts about how this group was formed. Best time for Grandragons in 2006 was 2.07.80 compared to 4.20 in the 1998 first race.

When and where we practice?

We practice every Monday and Thursday at False Creek from 10am to 12:30pm.
Meet for practice outside the Community Center.

Our Mandate:

The Grandragons are committed to promoting and assisting the development of seniors dragon boat racing across Canada as an excellent activity to enable seniors to continue living healthy, independent lives. We believe that, following retirement, too many formerly active men and women slip into inactive, unhealthy lifestyles and end up prematurely in hospitals and health care facilities. Many, after the death of a partner, also become socially isolated. We believe that participating in dragon boating is an excellent way to retain good health and a zest for living.
More precisely, the purposes of the Grandragons Team, as stated in our constitution are:

a) to promote dragon boat racing for seniors (men and women aged 50 and up) across Canada as an activity to enable them to continue living healthy, mobile, independent lives;
b) to demonstrate that seniors are physically capable of participating in this demanding sport by competing strongly in dragon boat festivals throughout Canada and elsewhere;
c) to disseminate information about the benefits of seniors dragon boat racing through representations, publications, videotape productions and news media exposure;
d) to assist groups of seniors to organize new teams and to work with other existing seniors teams in programs aimed at advancing seniors dragon boat racing in Canada.

Grandragons' Race Schedule for 2008

The colorful history

When and where we practice?

Our Mandate:

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