Dragon Boat Supplier!
Lively Dragon will be supplying RDY Boats to the following Events!
Start your event off right! Book RDY Boats Now!
Lively Dragon provides clean, high quality equipment for you and your client's enjoyment. Lively Dragon people are paddlers who understand the value of a smile, and a positive word. Participants are here to race and have a good time. Our job is to ensure they do!
The great part about booking with Lively Dragon for your dragon boat event is you tell us the price!
We will supply and be involved as little or as much as you want.
Paddles
The majority of our paddles are now Apex Durablades Composite paddles
Below picture of wood
paddles
We provide competition quality paddles for your event. These paddles are lighter than the club paddles and are very much appreciated by both your competitive and recreational paddlers. Our paddles are maintained and inspected on a regular basis, ensuring quality.
Life Jackets
Our life jackets are all matching with a dragon logo on the back. Having the racing dragonboats on each jacket enhances the hype and the feel of your event.
Say good-bye to those smelly mildewed jackets! We wash our jackets by hand on a regular basis. We pay attention to how they are stored ensuring fresh clean life jackets for your racers.
Steering Oars
We went to sea faring folk for this one. Our steering oars are custom made from clear Ash and Oak for us in Nova Scotia. They are very strong with a good solid feel. Created from multi laminates of wood keep them straight and true.
Heads and Tails
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Our heads and tails are light and colourful fabricated from fibreglass with several individual floatation chambers inside.
Each head and tail is designed with your event in mind. They are almost indestructible. Each unit is designed to pivot away rather than break. This makes the odd bump with a dock or boat problem free, helping keep the flow of your event on time.
The flexible attachment is a great safety feature in the event of a collision between boats. The head (and tail) is easily pushed aside by paddlers on the other boat.
If a head or tail is damaged during your event there is no cost to you.
The horns on our dragons are bright, festive and also not breakable
RDY Dragonboats
An RDY dragon boat is 41
feet long designed to conform to the IDBF standards. The boats have a
ten seat layout with buoyancy chambers for and aft, a large level steers
person platform. Oak arm with a stainless steel hoop for the steering oar
and white oak top rail finished with teak oil around the upper edge of the
hull.
The RDY boat was designed for open water lake conditions. The hulls are foam core construction that compliment the floatation chambers that are positioned at either end of the boat. This added buoyancy enhances the boats performance even when it has taken on water. The drum constitutes an additional floatation chamber at the bow of the boat, it is designed to assist righting the boat in the event of a capsize. These added features enhance the safety and speeds recovery of participants and boat if there is an upset during your event.
As well as safety
features, the boat has convenience features not found in any other dragon
boat in the world. Water bottle holders are unique characteristic of
RDY Boats.
Seems like an insignificant trait for a boat to have. However, when you remember that during a practice the paddlers are working hard for usually an hour or more at a time in the boat... the holders are much appreciated by everyone!
Steering at RDY boat is a dream. The boats handle very well having a smooth transition into and out of turns. This makes it far easier for a steers person to maintain a straight and true course and if needed...correct an error during a race. The steers person's platform is large and level with a skid free surface, specifically designed with the cox in mind. In the above picture Travis (9years old) is steering the boat during the Lively Dragon River Run in October 2003
Safety and comfort is foremost in the RDY boats. The inside bottom of the hull has a skid free surface. Even the seats are skid free. This enhances the paddler's stability while paddling and the safety while paddlers are loading the boats. Stepping from a wet dock into a boat can be treacherous however, the skid free surface helps paddlers to be sure footed.
For a more detailed look
at the boats under construction
http://www.dragon-boats.com/rdyboats.htm
Race Course
If you need the race course set up for you. We can do that. The lanes will have marker buoys on both sides of each lane. The marker buoys at the 250 metre mark will be doubled up to assist teams gage their race strategy.
Our buoys are Canadian made. The are 9 inches in diametre. They come in two colours, red and white.
To schedule your event with Lively Dragon contact us. We would love to hear how we can help make your event the best one yet!
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Email: Ramsay Drummond-Young 905 407-2174 |
Email: Jackie Taggart |
Be sure to check out the following sites!!!
www.dragon-boats.com/milton/index.html
www.dragon-boats.com/Hamilton/index.html
http://www.dragon-boats.com/christie/index.html
www.lively-dragon.com/boatbuilding.htm