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Dragon Boat Festival 2014
13 Teams At River DunesAugust 12, 2014
Teams line up to get on boats.
Four teams – in helpfully different colored T-shirts – step in to the dragon boats just before the last race.
A decorated boat and crew. A few of the Marine team, Neuse Winds Freedom Riders..
Oriental Dragon Master’s Linda Parker (in yellow vest) leads the team in stretches before their final race. Some began singing “Twist and Shout”. The team hit the final race with very synchronized paddling and something to shout about. Among the four Oriental-based teams, The Masters, average age 63 came in second only to Deatons.
Two of the four dragon boats, provided by the Florida company that stages these races in the Eastern US. A half hour lunch break was a rare moment when no one was going in to or coming out of a boat.