Cancer survivors can easily start their own dragon boat team with the following advice. After Beverly Booth heard about the Abreast In A Boat team after her breast cancer diagnosis in 1999, the ...

The Portland Rose Festival Dragon Boat Races brought hundreds of people to the edge of the Willamette River on Sunday. Among the crowd and out on the river were two of the Portland dragon boat ...

It was the year 2000. Henry Ha was 16 years old, and had just arrived in San Francisco from Vietnam two years earlier. Out of nowhere, Sarah Wan popped the question: “Do you wanna go paddle?” Wan ...

On a sunny afternoon in late May, a few Portland City Councilors and their staff navigated the Willamette River in a long yellow and purple boat painted to resemble a dragon. “This is fun!” yelled ...

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Dragon boat racing, originating in ancient China, involves 40-foot canoes decorated with dragon heads and tails. The modern sport grew from a Hong Kong festival in the 1970s and now boasts millions of ...

Early risers might have seen crews of young people rowing boats and beating drums on Vasona Lake in Los Gatos, where one of the few South Bay dragon boat teams was practicing for an upcoming ...