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Lake Champlain Dragon Boat Festival
Dear Lake Champlain Dragon Boat Festival Participants,
“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain.”
Well, we were dancing up a storm in Burlington this year at the Lake Champlain Dragon Festival! You all turned the rain into liquid sunshine with your exuberance. Clearly, you didn’t let the rain dampen your good sports or good cheer.
We thank you all—our sponsors, volunteers, paddlers, Captains, donors, coaches, and vendors. A very special thank you goes out to our Dragonheart team who worked tirelessly all year long to bring you this amazing community event.
Our Pledge Partner this year is the Cancer Patient Support Program’s Emergency Fund. It is a fund that is near and dear to Dragonheart’s hearts with is generous help it provides to cancer patients in our area.
The weather hampered some of our efforts to raise money for the Emergency Fund and our Community Dock, so if you or someone you know would like to give a helping hand, please send in your donations today.
Thank you all for making our 2008 Lake Champlain Dragon Festival a shining success!
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF OUR 2008 TEAMS FOR
PADDLING THEIR HEARTS OUT!
Winner of 2008 Citizens Bank Champ Cup
REO Speeddragon (Select Design Team)
| Division A Final – Citizens Bank Champ Cup |
| 1 | REO Speeddragon | 01:17.38 |
| 2 |
The Good, the Bad, the Dragon |
01:18.25 |
| 3 | Jocks and Bonds | 01:21.28 |
| 4 | Dragons of Heaven |
01:21.42 |
| 5 | Paddling in Vein | 01:26.42 |
Division B Final- Silver Cup |
| 1 | McDugan’s Clan | 01:18.31 |
| 2 | Sheraton Swashbucklers |
01:18.81 |
| 3 | Hammerheads | 01:19.45 |
| 4 | Dragonheart VT Mixed Nuts |
01:19.98 |
| 5 | Potvin Pirates | 01:21.25 |
Division C Final - Bronze Cup |
| 1 | Crouching Broker, Hidden Dragons | 01:17.68 |
| 2 | The Conner Crew |
01:19.38 |
| 3 | Rays of Hope | 01:20.58 |
| 4 | Patient Support Oars |
01:21.58 |
| 5 | Smith Barney/Investing in a Cure |
01:24.45 |
Division D Final- Pewter Cup |
| 1 | Always in Heat | 01.18.78 |
| 2 | NRG Wind Dragons |
01:19.81 |
| 3 | VNA Hearts on Fire | 01:22.65 |
| 4 | Montpelier Paddle Pushers |
01:22.85 |
| 5 | Stocks and Blondes | 01:25.25 |
Division E Final - Granite Cup |
| 1 | DR Power Paddlers | 01:21.08 |
| 2 | Paddling Pro Se |
01:21.58 |
| 3 | Jazzin’ Dragons | 01:21.72 |
| 4 | Unbreakable |
01:25.32 |
| 5 | Cat Scan Fever | 01:21.72 |
View the complete 2008 race results (720 kb; PDF)
SPIRIT AWARDS
Congratulation to Spirits Award Winners! It was very hard to make a decision. All 96 teams were winners in our minds! Love your spirit!
| Spirit Award Name |
Awarded to |
Song in my HEART
Best team song
|
The Conner Crew
Dragon Techs |
All HEART
Not the fastest, but all heart
|
Lack O Ladies
Richford River Paddlers |
Cheerful HEART
Best team cheer |
FairPoint Ferrocious Firebreathers
Porter's One-Eyed Flying Purple Paddlers
|
HEART Throb
Best looking shirts |
Dragonflies
Always in Heat
Making Waves
|
HEART-felt
Best Banner
|
Rays of Hope
6 Degrees of Paddlers for Patricia |
HEART Pounding Fun
It's all about fun
|
Cresent Beach Amazons
Chuckwagon |
Home is where the HEART is
Best Camp
|
Blazzing Paddles
Northfield Savings Flying Pig Paddlers |
Let me call you SweetHEART
Best name
|
Patient Support Oars
Paddling in Vein
Jocks & Bonds |
Rhythm of my HEART
Best Drummer
|
NRG Wind Dragons
McDugan's Clan
M5 Heart Throbs
|
Green HEART
The Greenest team |
Citizens of the Sea |
presents
7:30 am to 4:30 pm
Help us buy a new dock!
We need your help. Dragonheart has unexpectedly found itself faced with a dilemma involving our docks for the festival. It's going to take a community like ours to solve it. We have a plan and with your help the result will last a lifetime! Click for Dock Appeal.
Welcome to the home of The Lake Champlain
Dragon Boat Festival. You've come to the right place to learn
all about our dragon boat races to be held in Burlington, Vermont. What
is dragon boating? Just the HOTTEST sport going! It's the fastest and
most fun paddle team sport around. Twenty paddlers sit aboard a 40-foot
long canoe and power through a racecourse with synchronicity. Teamwork
with a capital "T"! Come on, everybody. Join us August
3rd. Cheer on your favorite teams. Ride The Dragon!
This is the Third Annual Lake Champlain Dragon Boat Festival.
It is hosted by Dragonheart Vermont, a breast cancer
survivor and supporter dragon boat team. For those fortunate enough
to have taken part in the last two years, they already know what an
extraordinary experience this is. Our goal is to create a waterfront
event that will get our entire community involved. As a breast cancer
survivor team first and foremost, we strive to send out an inspirational
message of living life fully after a cancer diagnosis. On top of all
the fun and the fitness, we plan to raise funds for two community non-profits
— Dragonheart Vermont and the Cancer
Patient Support Program’s Emergency Fund. This fund offers
essential emotional and financial support to local people in need as
they face the challenges of cancer treatment.
< Click here for more about our
Pledge Partner>
Dragonheart Vermont has a winning tradition. In 2006,
we gathered together 1200 racers, 12,000 spectators, and many generous
sponsors to raise $35,000 for the FAHC Oncology Radiation Department.
In 2007, we upped the excitement with 2000 racers, 22,000 spectators,
and even more generous sponsors to help us raise $80,000 for the VNA’s
Hospice of the Champlain Valley and Vermont Respite House and for Dragonheart
Vermont.
Don’t you want to be a part of our event this year? You can!
Just gather together a group of 21 of your friends, family, and/or co-workers
(20 paddlers and a drummer) and register to race. It’s a thrill
a minute. Registration and payment is online this year. The cost is
$1470 a team or only $70 per person. This fee includes a practice session,
a festival tee shirt, 2 to 3 races, a medal, a chance to vie for a divisional
cup, and a chance to race in the Citizens Bank Champ Cup. You truly
get more than you give!
We expect to sell out again this year so please act now! The first
75 teams to complete their registration with payment of race fees will
be paddling in the Lake Champlain Dragon Boat Festival. You
don’t want to miss out! Register your team today! <
Click here for more>
Can't paddle but want to be involved in this fun event?
Please sign up to be a volunteer. Fill out the volunteer form for a
two-hour time slot. It is great way to give back to the community. Sign
up to volunteer today. <Click here for more>
Help us reach our $100,000 fundraising goal this year
by giving a donation today. <Click here
for more>
The Sisters at Heart Celebration and the Lake Champlain Dragon
Boat Festival are non-smoking, non-alcoholic events.
View the 2008 LCDBF PHOTO GALLERY
