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On Saturday, November 22, from 2 to 5 PM, we are holding our "2025 End of Season Celebration" event at Woodbine Heights Legion (1240 Woodbine Ave - 3rd floor).  ALL are welcome, including team members, guests who have paddled with us, and anyone wanting to know more about our club and teams.  We'll recap the season for each team, thank our coaches, captains, and volunteers, and all paddlers.  We'll also reveal the results of our end-of-season survey and provide a sneak peek at exciting changes for 2026!


2025 Summer Season Recap:  

> Our We Will Rock You and Motley Crew teams did well and had fun at the recent Christie Lake Regatta held in Hamilton's Bayfront Park.  Six races each including 2 x 200m races, Back It Down race, Figure Eight race, surprise race (hold paddle with one hand), and end-of-day 2000m race with 4 turns.  Motley Crew came 1st of 26 crews in the Figure Eight race, and 4th overall (8 seconds from 3rd) in the "A" Division 2000m last race of the day.  Congrats to everyone!


> Our Liberty Waves and Flying Dragons teams had a great time racing in Stratford on Sept. 13 (the Lake was refilled!).  Congrats to all on their season-ending performances and fun at this special event run by Stratford Rotary.

 

> Our Barracudas and City of Toronto teams raced at the GWN Challenge on Sept. 6-7 at Marilyn Bell Park in Toronto.  Both won bronze medals in exciting grand finals. Barracudas lost silver medals by 0.01 seconds in the B Grand Final.


Our Sunday practices (detailed below) ended Sunday, October 5th.  Many attendees got the chance to try steering.  We also ventured into places that regular practices never get to go.


> FYI: We have a Mixed international team (Motley Crew) registered for Puerto Rico on the Jan. 31 & Feb. 01, 2026 weekend.


Beginners are most welcome at our club (it's our primary focus).  We start with the basics and build on that week by week until we are ready to race after several practices.  Dragon boats are 40-foot-long stable boats, and the use of paddles and life jackets is included.  Anyone is welcome to join the club.

 


The summer 2025 team practices are summarized as follows...

 

Sunday Crew - Drop-In Sundays all summer, 10:30 AM. 
Barracudas - Mondays & Thursdays at 7 PM. 

Flying Dragons - Thursdays 7:10 PM. 

We Will Rock You - Tuesdays at 5:50 PM. 

Strokes of Luck - Saturdays 10:30 AM. 

Liberty Waves - Sundays 10:30 AM. 

City of Toronto - Tuesdays 5:45 PM at Ashbridges Bay in June, Sundays in August at 10:30 AM at Outer Harbour.


 

Mixed Ability Dragons - Saturdays at noon. 

For paddlers of all abilities, skill levels, and experiences.  Members include paddlers with Down Syndrome, autism spectrum, and people of any ability.  

 

Want an extra regatta on the side this summer?
Motley Crew  (racing at various events and open to anyone from any team or club, anywhere in the world).

ENABG - The club is working with the indigenous youth support agency ENABG to create a new dragon boat team for them in 2026!



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UPCOMING... 

Our teams

Rusty Dragons offer a unique range of coached and collective teams. Select any of our teams to learn more about registration, practices and regattas.

Barracudas

Practicing Mondays and Thursdays at 7 PM

Barracudas

Strokes of Luck

Practicing Saturdays at 10:40 AM

Strokes of Luck

We Will Rock You

Practicing Tuesdays at 6 PM.

We Will Rock You

Flying Dragons

Formerly known as Guns n Roses

Flying Dragons

Liberty Waves

Practicing Sundays at 10:40 AM

Butts in a Boat

Practicing Thursdays at 5:45 PM

BUTTS IN A BOAT

Motley Crew

This is our mixed-gender composite team name. They race at various events allowing both club members and those outside the club to come together for one-off races together.

Motley Crew

We'll Help you
Create New teams

We can help create NEW teams to practice and race, or create team-building events for any organization looking to get out on the water and enjoy the sport. Anyone can enjoy the sport and we can help make it happen! For more information please contact Tim@rustydragons.ca or call 647-971-7332. 

We'll Help you Create New teams

We also help create NEW teams to practice & race

We also help create NEW teams to practice and race, or create one-off team-building evenings / weekends for any organization looking to get out on the water and enjoy the sport. Anyone can enjoy the sport and we can help make it happen! For more information please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call 647-971-7332. Now is the time to plan! The cost for a group of up to 20 for a two hour intro to dragon boating (one hour on land, one hour on water) is under $250 ($12 a person) and the use of paddles and life jackets is included. We can also help create teams with 8 practices (once a week in evenings), and race on Canada Day for about $150/person.

New in 2018: We will pre-set several dates available to run Corporate Team Building for anyone interested. .



Stay tuned for details on our new 3rd team for youth & young adults with a developmental disability.

If you have any questions,
please don't hesitate to contact us

We also help others form teams by providing whatever support they need through shared resources: website pages, budget templates, TeamSnap for registrations, PayPal and budgeting, booking practices, hiring coaches, advice, etc.  Contact the club as detailed below.