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The festival also hosts the Starlight Parade, a fireworks display, and carnival rides along the Portland waterfront, among other events. Dragon boat races on the Willamette River have been included every year since 1989. [14] The Golden Rose Ski Classic is an annual ski race originating in 1936.
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The USDBF is divided into four regions: Pacific, Midwest, Southeastern, and Eastern regions. Each region is governed by its own regional body; these governing bodies are the Pacific Dragon Boat Association of the West Coast (PDBA), the American Dragon Boat Association of the Mid-West (ADBA), the Southeastern Regional Dragon Boat Association (SRDBA), and the Eastern Regional Dragon Boat ...
The International Dragon Boat Federation defines a dragon boat, within competition regulations, to be: "a long displacement boat of an open design, that is based upon a rib-less carvel form of hull construction, with the following distinguishing characteristics; no stem, hard chine bilge; W in cross section, minimum freeboard, punt-like entry and exit; rocketed keel that is set back from the ...
The Dragon World Championship is an international biennial sailing regatta in the Dragon class organized by the International Sailing Federation and the International Dragon Association. [ 1 ] Several sailors have won twice; Jesper Bank , Johan Palmqvist , Ole Børresen , Poul Richard Høj Jensen , Vincent Hoesch , and Erik Hansen all have two ...
Dragon Boat Atlanta in Atlanta, Georgia, formed in 2004, took first place in the 2007 Peachtree City festival, and competed in the 2014 ICBPC Festival in Sarasota, Florida. [ 92 ] Pink Steel , a breast cancer survivor team within the Steel City Dragons organization in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania , won the 2010 U.S. Dragon Boat Federation Club Crew ...
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This competition was resolved in about 1896, when Shaver Transportation took its boats off the Portland/Astoria run in return for a monthly subsidy from ORNC. In 1897, Shaver Transportation bought their fourth boat, the No Wonder , which had been built in 1877 by another founder of Portland, by George Washington Weidler, for log-towing purposes ...