![]() ![]() More information about the new facility in Grevillea Park is available on the Built for CBR website: The new Dragon Boating facility at Grevillea Park will provide a space to share passion, fitness and friendly competition, as well as allowing DBACT to host its regattas. We’ve recently been involved with an initiative with Deaf ACT, where we developed Auslan signs for Dragon Boating, which hasn’t been done before as far as we’re aware of and we’re aiming to do more of this.” “It will also give us the opportunity to engage more with the Canberra community. ![]() We’ll have somewhere to store our equipment and it’s nice to have a facility that everyone can use too. “The new facility will give us somewhere for our members to congregate, to have coffee, to host our meetings. “We’ve been lobbying for quite some time to have our own building, and, above all, it will give us permanence, a place to call home,” Nikki said. Nikki White, Vice President of DBACT, has been Dragon Boating on Lake Burley Griffin for eight years and is ecstatic to see construction of the new facility get underway. Canberran paddlers also travel to represent club, state, nd country at interstate and international races.Īll clubs train from their temporary home at Grevillea Park, on the eastern shores of Lake Burley Griffin, which will soon be made into a permanent fixture with a $1.7 million investment from the ACT Government with construction for the new facility to get underway in the coming months. Dragon Boating ACT (DBACT) is the sport’s governing body in the ACT, with 600 members spread across eight clubs and two school clubs.Ĭlubs race against each other at regattas held throughout the year here in Canberra. The sport is renowned for its camaraderie, focusing on fitness, cooperation, and teamwork. Combining a 12-metre boat adorned with a fearsome dragon head with a drum and a 20-person crew, Dragon Boating is one of Canberra’s most popular water-based sports. ![]()
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