Looking for spares? Wanting to spare?

Below is the list of regattas being attended by Fort Langley teams. If you are interested in sparing for any of these teams, please contact them directly. Some regattas are very popular, so get your name in to them early! Think about sharing of out-of-town accommodations (you may get a deal) and car-pooling as well.

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Results at the foot of the page.

	May 7	May 7	May 29	May 28	June 11-12	July 1-3	July 9-10	July 10
	Lotus Bill Alley	False Creek Sprints	Alcan Warm-up	False Creek Womens'	Alcan Festival	Canadian Nationals	Nanaimo	Kent
Abreast with Fortitude				x	x
Chicks Ahoy				x
Dragon Alliance				x
Dragon Spirit	x			x				x
Fast and Furious		x	x	x	x	x
Fort Fury				x
Fort Fusion	x
FORTified	x		x		x		x
Fraser Dragons	x			x				x
Kindred Spirit		x	x	x	x		x
Paddle Pushers				x				x
Spirit of a Renegade	x				x		x
Sun Dragons		x		x	x			x
Women On Water	x			x			x

	July 10	July 23	August 6	August 13-14	August 16-20	August 20	Sept 10-11	Sept 10-11	Sept 16-18
	Kelowna	Harrison	Cultus	Victoria	BC Seniors Games	Steveston	Portland	Penticton	San Francisco
Abreast with Fortitude									?
Chicks Ahoy			x			x
Dragon Alliance		x	x				x
Dragon Spirit			x					x
Fast and Furious
Fort Fury		x						x
Fort Fusion		x						x
FORTified					x
Fraser Dragons			x					x
Kindred Spirit						x		x
Paddle Pushers		x				x		x
Spirit of a Renegade		x				x		x
Sun Dragons				x			x
Women On Water		x						x

Portland Sept 10 - 11, 2011.

2 Fort Langley teams headed south to try their luck on International waters. FLCC Sun Dragons and FLCC Dragon Alliance both participated in the Portland Dragon Boat Regatta. There were a total of 75 teams; this was comprised of 30 Women’s teams and 45 Mixed as well as a junior division.

The weather was hot with no sign of a cloud or raindrop. The races got underway first thing Saturday morning. There were a total of 3 regular races on Saturday to seed each of the teams for the Sunday Semi-finals and Finals. SunDragons landed in the 2nd Division where they finished up with a Silver Medal. Dragon Alliance raced hard and fast into the third division and missed bronze by the skin of their fangs!

SunDragons also qualified to enter one of the Specialty races; the Women’s Master Race which added a 4th race to their Saturday agenda.

On Sunday the 11th there was a beautiful tribute to all the fallen from 9/11. The local Fireboat was on the water with a water show choreographed to a specially written song and the scene was quite touching with paddlers standing on the beach waving their paddles back and forth in the air, this was followed by a minute of silence before everything got underway again.

Once the final races were run, the 2000m Bridge to Bridge races were run. This was made up of the all the Gold and Silver medal winners from both the Women’s and Mixed Divisions.

There were plenty of vendors to check out and a rockin’ party at the end of Sunday in the ever popular beer garden. All in all this was a fantastic venue, and a well organized, smoothly run regatta. I would highly recommend other teams to give it a try.

Stats for the Fort Langley teams are:

Portland 2011
	500m	500m	250m	500m	500m
SunDragons	2:15.15(3)	2:10.42(3)	1:15.17(2)	2:09.88(1)	2:09.36(2)	2nd division
Dragon Alliance	2:25.57(5)	2:18.92(3)	1:22.28(3)	2:20.28(2)	2:23.30(4)	3rd division

Penticton Dragon Boat Regatta Sept 10/11 2011

Eight FLCC teams attended this regatta – there were a total of 43 womens and 45 mixed teams allowing for separate women’s and mixed divisions for both the Saturday and Sunday races. All teams had two 500m races on Saturday and Sunday. The weather was hot and sunny and lake was calm and inviting. The regatta was run by GO Rowing and Paddling using Millenium boats. The team tents were set up on the grass in the park by Skaha Lake and the music played throughout the day with prompt announcing of race results. Loading was done off the beach with friendly and efficient volunteers getting the boats loading and unloaded so the races were running on time or even ahead of time. Many of the FLCC members had been practicing our Thriller flash mob moves which were very well received by the many other teams at the event.

Womens teams
Kindred Spirit	2:23.14(1)	2:21.13(1)	2:22.58(2)	2:20.90(4)	Platinum (top division) A
Fort Fury	2:27.65(1)	*****	2:23.02(3)	2:25.40(5)	Platinum (top division) A
Fraser Dragons	2:34.17(2)	2:27.91(2)	2:29.89(3)	2:29.91(4)	Diamond (second division) A
Women on Water	2:39.85(3)	2:35.95(4)	2:34.09(1)	2:30.15(1)	Jade (third division) A
Paddle Pushers	2:42.43(4)	2:36.39(3)	2:42.77(5)	2:34.80(1)	Jade (third division) B
Dragon Spirit	2:46.58(4)	2:43.85(5)	2:45.73(3)	2:42.53(5)	Gold (fourth division) B

Mixed teams
SOAR	2:15.24(2)	2:14.35(1)	2:15.76(5)	2:14.11(5)	Platinum (top division) B
Fort Fusion	2:19.32(2)	2:19.32(2)	2:19.35(2)	2:13.45(4)	Diamond (second division) A

Lotus - Bill Alley

Womens teams       round 1                 round 2                final race
Dragon Spirit          2:35.0 (4)             2:33.2 (4)             Bronze Division   2:47.2 (5)
Fraser Dragons     2:19.4 (3)           2:38.4 (4)         Bronze Division   2:25.0 (2)
Women on Water    2:21.8 (4)            2:23.2 (3)         Silver Division     2:18.5 (1)

Mixed teams
SOAR       1:57.7 (1)            2:14.2 (2)             Gold Division      2:12.6 (4)
Fort Fusion         2:10.5 (2)            2:13.3 (1)             Bill Alley Final     2:08.1(4)

Mixed Masters
Fortified              2:09.8 (1)           2:20.00 (2)           Gold Division       2:06.6 (1)

Womens A Division - Women on Water        2:18.7 (1)
Womens A Division - Dragon Spirit              2:25.0 (2)
Womens A Division - Fraser Dragons           2:26.6 (3)

Adult Mixed A Division - Fusion - did not race
Adult Mixed B Division - SOAR                    2:20.6 (2)

Masters Mixed - Fortified                         2:15.0 (2)

DZ Sprints - 200m races in 10 person DBs
Four FLCC women`s teams competed in the Dragonzone sprints. Each team had two races in the ten-person dragon boats. It was a rainy wet morning but all teams enjoyed the challenge.

Team name Race 1 Race 2 Average

FLCC Abreast with FORT-itude A 1:19.32 1:15.59 1:17.5
FLCC Abreast with FORT-itude B 1:20.96 1:19.24 1:20.1

FLCC Fast & Furious 1:15.76 1:11.21 1:13.5

FLCC Kindred Spirit A 1:13.88 1:12.50 1:13.2
FLCC Kindred Spirit B 1:13.56 1:13.84 1:13.7

FLCC Sun Dragons A 1:14.01 1:12.73 1:13.4
FLCC Sun Dragons B 1:13.35 1:10.14 1:11.8