Over £33,000 raised from the 2010 festival
Welcome to the Chester Dragon Boat Festival Website.
Set up as an Open Dragon Boat Festival that any local, regional and even national charitable cause can benefit from, the aim of the event is two fold:
1. To give people the opportunity to enjoy the different, high adrenaline sport of dragon boat racing and benefit from expert instructors
on the day,
2. To have a great day out whilst helping your favourite charity to raise much needed funds.
If you have never been to one of our dragon boating events before, then was the planned Race Schedule for the day:
09:30 – Team Captain’s briefing.
09:40 – First six teams to be called up for briefing.
10:00 – Round 1 start.
12:30 – Round 2 start,
14:00 – Round 3 start
15:40 – Qualifying races completed.
15:55 – Finalists loaded and making their way up to the start.
16.10 – Grand Final Race
16.30 – Award Ceremony
16:45 – Festival End
The 2010 Chester Dragon Boat Festival held on the River Dee at Sandy Lane on Sunday June the 13th was the largest and most successful Chester Dragon Boat festival ever. Twenty nine teams supporting a total twenty four different charities all competed on the day to become the 2010 Dragon Boat Champions of Chester, raising between them a total over over £34,000.
Dragon boating is highly progressive in that the skills and technique are very quick to pick up, which makes the sport is suitable for both novice crews and experienced paddlers alike.
So that every team got the best out of the day, we gave each team three timed qualifying races throughout the day and then used each team’s single fastest time for qualification into the Grand Final. The top six teams then went through to the Grand Final, which was a race to the finish using all six dragon boats in what was without doubt, the highlight of the day and the most impressive race as well.
Racing throughout the day was three boat racing, the only exception being in round three for the four teams involved in Challenge Races.
Challenge Races are our way of offering any company who are entering two or more teams into the festival the opportunity to have an inter-company competition. We seed their teams so they don’t meet in the firs two rounds, thus giving them the opportunity to get some experience in first before putting them together in Round 3 for their ‘Challenge Race’.
Not surprisingly, Challenge Races are highly competitive and offer companies the opportunity to enjoy corporate team building benefits at charity rates. For more about Challenge Races, click on the Challenge Race button in the menu.
The Chester Dragon Boat Festival is now in its sixth year and with lots of new teams already registered, promises to be the biggest festival yet. With a maximum of thirty team places available, places are booked on a first come, first served basis.
Thu 17th June. Pictures from this year are now up on the site.
Pictures and reports from last year’s event are still available until we are able to get this year's pictures on to the site, To read about the2009 event click here.
Teams registered for the 2010 festival
| Team Name | Charity |
| Team Name | Charity |
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| Fresenius Kabi 1 | The Bobby Moore Fund |
| Fresenius Kabi 2 | The Bobby Moore Fund |
| The Hospitable Shepherds | The Hospice of the Good Shepherd |
| Roberts Rowers | The Neurofibromatosis Association |
| Row DMC | Help for Heroes |
| Mother Goose Nursery | Multiple Sclerosis Cymru |
| Miles of Smiles 1 | Miles of Smiles |
| Miles of Smiles 2 | Miles of Smiles |
| The Thirsty Nights | Doddleston pre-school & primary school PTA |
| Pool of Life | Breast Cancer Survivors |
| Puff the Tragic Dragon | Alder Hey Imangine Appeal |
| Acme Downright Dangerous | The Britsh Heart Foundation |
| The Rowing Stones | Nightingale House Hospice |
| Red Rangers | The British Red Cross |
| Cheshire Youth Action Team | The Joshua Tree |
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| Deeside Dragons | Papyrus |
| T.B.C. | The Britsh Heart Foundation |
| Blazing Paddles | Peter McFarren Incubator Appeal Clatterbridge Oncology Centre Cat protection Miles for Smiles |
| Fairbridge | Fairbridge |
| Knutsford Nutters | The British Red Cross |
| CHP Evolution | The Anthony Nolan Appeal |
| Oliver & Co. Solicitors | MacMillan Cancer Support |
| Wimslow Wolves | Christies Hospital, Manchester |
| Redbridge Titanics | Alder Hey Imangine Appeal |
| Cestrian Vikings | CLS Care Services |
| Wah Lei Chinese Association | The Hospice of the Good Shepherd |
| Money Super Dragon | Hope House Children's Hospice |
| Boatylicious | Arthritis Research Campaign |
| Catterbridge Radiographers | Catterbridge Centre for Oncology |
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