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Dragon Boat Festival 2014
13 Teams At River DunesAugust 12, 2014
For its last heat, the green-shirt Marines were without the requisite drummer. To the rescue came Nol Engel, who’d already tapped out the beat for his hometown team, the Oriental Dragon Masters.
A member of the Hope Floats team scopes out the waters of Grace Harbor. The cancer-awareness group, who paddled kayaks from Raleigh to Oriental one week in April, were making their first trip to the Oriental Dragon Boat Festival. They drove, rather than kayaked, to River Dunes for the event.
The Hope Floats team on the course. At the steering position was one of the team from the Florida company that provides boats and personnel to run events such as Oriental’s Dragon Boat Festival..
A high five between two members of the Hope Floats team.
Some of the scouts on the BSA team. They placed third overall.
Near the dock, heaps of paddles and life vests that paddlers pulled from on their way to the boats.