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Join the Gung Haggis Fat Choy Dragon Boat team
for lots of summer fun, fitness and friendship. We are a social team full of cultural vigor, that likes to eat.

We have been featured on television, local, national and international. We have a unique and internationally famous fundraiser dinner event.

We practice Sunday 1:30 pm -3:30 pm Tuesday 6pm-7:45pm Wednesday 6pm - 7:45 pm

We meet at Dragon Zone clubhouse - just south of Science World in Creekside Park above the Aquabus and dragon boat docks.

Our coach Todd Wong has 15+ years of experience including novice, recreational and competitive levels, and both community and corporate teams.

Our 2005 Season brought us the David Lam Award for being the team that best represented the multicultural spirit of the Alcan Dragon Boat Festival, and Bronze medals at the Vancouver International Taiwanese Dragon Boat Race. In 2007, we won Gold in B Division at Vernon Races.

For more information:
Click on Gung Haggis Fat Choy Dragon Boat team information
phone: 604-987-7124-
e-mail: gunghaggis at yahoo dot ca

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2009 TICKETS Available in October 2008

WHAT: GUNG HAGGIS FAT CHOY: Toddish McWong's Robbie Burns Chinese New Year Dinner - 12th Annual Dinner, celebrating 250th Anniversary of Robert Burns' birth + Chinese New Year's Eve.

WHEN: 6PM January 25 2009, SUNDAY
doors open 5pm

WHERE: Floata Chinese Restaurant,
#400-180 Keefer St.

CULTURE: Our Performers create something special for us every year with traditional and contemporary performances featuring everything in-between and beyond!

FOOD: A quirky fusion/mix/buffet of Scottish Canadian and Chinese Canadian culture 10 course Chinese banguet dinner
2004 - The debut of Gung Haggis Won-Ton
2005 - Haggis lettuce wrap!
2007 - Haggis dim sum appetizer buffet
2008 - Scotch tastings!
Watch for more surprises in 2008!

Description of 2006 Gung Haggis Fat Choy Dinner featuring performers: Rick Scott & Harry Wong, The Shirleys, Joe McDonald & Brave Waves, Sean Gunn, author Joy Kogawa, with co-host Prem Gill .

Media Inquiries
Call Gung Haggis Productions 604-987-7124

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Friday, September 5

Special Kilts at Doolin's: Tim's Birthday + Frommer's shows up to review the night life!

by Todd on Fri 05 Sep 2008 11:01 PM PDT

Kilts Night is always special when the Gung Haggis dragon boat paddlers show up.... especially when the "Halifax Wharf Rats" are playing their celtic tinged folk and rock songs!

HPIM2978 by bunnybears.

Happy Birthday Tim! Bass player Tim Renaud of "Halifax Wharf Rats" with Alissa and Marion of the Gung Haggis dragon boat team - photo Todd Wong/Bunny Bears.

It's "Kilts Night" - the first Thursday each month. We meet at Doolin's Irish Pub. If you wear a kilt, you receive a free pint of Guinness beer.

There is great music by the Halifax Wharf Rats" which specializes in Canadiana music with a celtic twist of folk and rock.

Deb, Marion and Hillary enjoy a pint of Strongbow and Guinness. - photo Marion

When you can learn thewords to songs like "Farewell Nova Scotia," "Alberta Bound," "Four Strong Winds," and "Barrett's Privateers," - you know you're Canadian.

And when you can wear a kilt and look around you at your friends all wearing kilts, and realize that half of them are Canadians of Asian ancestry, and you don't think that's weird - then you know you are amongst your friends on the Gung Haggis Fat Choy dragon boat team... and that feels Canadian.

Vancouver's heritage is full of diversity, and nothing brings people together easier than music and a good drink.

Welcome to Kilts Night - Gung Haggis Fat Choy style!

Alissa got a bulls-eye, while shooting darts with Todd - photo Marion

A writer and photographer Derrick Lepper, for Frommer's travel guide showed up researching Vancouver's night life. They took a picture of Marion pulling the darts out of the dart board - photo Todd/Marion

Yvonne and Tony showed up sans kilts, but promised to wear kilts for next month - photo Marion

A favorite activity is to dance to the Proclaimer's song "500 Miles" Leanne, Hillary, Alissa, Jim (hidden) and Todd- photo Marion

And we raise our hands as we dance and sing... Leanne, Raphael and Tony - photo Marion

Next Kilts Night is Oct 2. First Thursday of the month for October!

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Monday, September 1

Gung Haggis dragon boat team makes C Group final at Taiwanese Dragon Boat Races

by Todd on Mon 01 Sep 2008 01:37 PM PDT

Gung Haggis team paddling in a barrel race (10 paddlers) on Saturday. Wendy is drummer and Todd is steering. Lead strokes are Colleen and Hillary, followed by Sher & Raphael, Brooke and Cindy, Dave & Tony, Jonas & Devon. photo courtesy of Ben Lee

It was our final dragon boat event of the season (sniff, sniff).

Special thanks to Captain Ernest for leading our team for the Vancouver International Taiwanese Dragon Boat Races. We had a good core of paddlers and some good developing paddlers + some guest paddlers.

Future races are:
Sep 28th, Sunday, UBC Day of the Long Boat - 10 paddlers
Oct 11th, Saturday Ft. Langley Cranberry Canoe Regatta - 10 paddlers

TAIWANESE RACE REVIEW:

We performed well on Saturday and Sunday, posting 2nd, 3rd and 3rd in our preliminary and semi-final races. We made it to the top 3 finals out of 5 heats. We raced against some pretty experienced recreational teams and paddlers in C Group, such as Elephant & Castle, Draco Stealth (Calgary + Vancouver paddlers), Synergy Rice Rockets.

We had fun racing the fun races... It's always good to get extra time in the boats. On Saturday, we did a barrel race and had good compliments from other paddlers. Our time of 2.33.46 made us 7th of 12 teams. Fastest was FCRCC at 2.01.06 Slowest was The Eh Team 2.53.52

On Sunday we had a good Nogard race too... coming the closest ever to grabbing the flag on the way back. We weren't the fastest team to the flag, but we had one of the fastest turnarounds, and when we changed direction we were very close to the flag. Our team switched seats, started paddling. We kept the flag close to the boat, but we were too close to the flag. Paddles hit the flag, and when Jane reached to grab the flag, it dipped down out of her reach.... by inches... We turned everybody around in the boat, and went to go pick up our flag. Then we grabbed the last remaining flag, and handed it to the boat that forgot to get their flag.

With a time of 3.58.94 we were 11th out of 15 boats, probably the fastest of the teams who missed their flags. Fastest time was FCRCC at 2.58.27 Flying Butts were 4.18.84 and Race Face United was DNF.

Unfortunately for us at year's Taiwanese Dragon Boat Races, we didn't have much paddler depth. Usually we always have at least 2 extra paddlers. But Labour Day weekend holidays and work schedules took their toll. We rotated 2 Saturday only paddlers for 2 Sunday only paddlers. This race, we almost always raced with 18 paddlers - no spares. And once on Sunday morning - we were waiting for a missing paddler because we had no spares.

With so many new and smaller paddlers on our team, we were only 10 seconds slower than Scaly Justice Bytes' 3rd in B Division, 7 seconds slower than Eh Team's 3rd place in our final, 3 1/2 seconds than Naluwan Lightning Silver's 3rd place in the D final. Resting tired paddlers and having more experienced veteran paddlers for depth could easily have made up 5 seconds or so that is needed to catch a medal.

But that's racing... We can't control the other teams, but we can control our own abilities on the boat. We had fun, we felt good, and we can be proud of our accomplishments this weekend.

Final rankings and times are posted on www.dragonboatwest.net

You can see our final race here (we are at the end at the 1:15 mark):

C Final
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=IpK-2Gd29wU&fmt=18
(The chase boat had to park near the party cruise boats to keep an eye out as they came out, so only about half the race could be recorded)

see other races:

A Final
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=TV6KsuvNdZ8&fmt=18

B Final
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=8b8QMb4g6-Y&fmt=18

D Final
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=rUV0Te0Nh04&fmt=18

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