Our club’s annual Dragon Boat Event took place on May 18th on the great lake at Himley Park.
The weather was fantastic (after all, we did order it back in February…) and the crowds came in droves.

The Dragon Boat Event Company looked after all of the on-water proceddings beautifully – ensuring that all 34 teams raced on time and were kept safe. If not a little ‘splashed’ here and there hoho!

Members of the Wolverhampton Central Youth Theatre did all of the early marshalling of cars in and out of the event area so it’s a big thanks to them too.

And we definitely have to congratulate Crafted Kitchens
who took the honours in the Grand Final followed closely by Sponsored Breaks Buoys, and in third place, How to Drown your Dragon.

In fact, first and second place were separated by 8 hundredths of a second!

Pretty close eh?
In the minor final, Dewsbury and Proud came home first with Wintech’s Brettalion in second place followed by the anaesthetists from the Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust, and their boat Row-Crew-Ronium (it’s a play on words for a type of anaesthetic haha) coming home third.
And in this race, the difference between 1st and 6th was less than a second.
Again, wow!

This major fund-raising event is a huge team effort with a great many people supporting the event in one way or another, with our own club turning out in numbers on the day.
We couldn’t do it alone- so thank you to everyone who played a part.
More details and photos on the links below…..