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Sa Jun 10, 2017 7:08 pm

oK,
muss es BAD sein!? Lese es gab ein paar innerpolitische Zerwuerfnisse vor einigen Jahren und das damalige Team hat sich gesplittet in mehere andere Teams. Also anstelle von BAD/nur BAD koennte ich mal bei der CBDA anfragen:
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Mo Jun 12, 2017 7:13 am

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Möglicherweise Einladung an die CDBA direkt schicken, um weiteres Netz zu spannen?
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there are a great many dragon boat teams in our area, and it is hard to know who is who. Therefore, I checked around several "corners" to get to someone who has an overview, and I finally got a satisfactory answer: Please feel free to share this email with Bernd as well, especially, since he should clarify the situation for us as an orientation for possibilities not just now, but also in the future:
1) Is Kiel looking for a whole team - i.e. 20 paddlers plus a steer person?
or
2) would they consider accommodating a few interested individuals fromSan Francisco, in case 1) cannot be provided at this time?

I discussed the situation with a few people, explaining the details and referring also to the non-answer you had received. (No one seemed to know the individual who wrote to you).
Finally, one person, who knows all the clubs and the presidents of the clubs around here, reached out to her former teammates, including the recent previous president and VP of CDBA (California Dragon Boat Association). The latter two suggested to email the current president and VP of external relations of the CDBA:

J. K.
H. C.

I think this is a good idea, since they can reach out to all Northern California teams and come up with possibilities.

If further help is needed, let me know. We can reach out to several more people. But I think this should be a good start. And contacting those two people would bode well for the future!
Although I do not know the names of the recent previous president and VP, you can refer to their recommendation that we contact the "currents", since there are interesting prospects for the future.

We are in the midst of boating season, with training and trial races. Everyone is busy preparing for the 2017 Northern California International Dragon Boat Festival, sept.23 - 24, (on nearby Lake Merrit). Note that this is "international" (maybe the Kielers would be interested?).
The Kiel event being just two weeks before that event here might be an obstacle to get a whole NorCal team to Kiel this year - but individual boaters might still want to go to Kiel as well...

Other boating:

I myself have only experience in sailing and kayaking on the Bay.
My trainer, on the other hand, is an avid boat racer, especially in the outrigger canoe ocean racing. Dragon Boat paddlers are sometimes cross training with the Outrigger Canoe teams, but the dragon boaters race mostly on one of our numerous lakes or other calmer lagoon-type waters, as far as I know. While she has participated in (at least one) dragon boat race, she prefers having to fight the wavy and choppy waters of the ocean in the outrigger canoe races.
Her team is extremely good, they race successfully even against native Hawaiian teams between the Hawaiian islands. Their schedule is also booked through September . However, I think she might be interested to come to Kiel for the dragon boat event. Any possibilities?

So another question for the future would be, if Kiel has might have any interest in outrigger canoe events also. I suppose this could also be done on the Baltic, even if it does not exist already.

So, please contact the CDBA people - best for all purposes also for the future, share this email also with Bernd, and do keep me in the loop. I would like to maintain informed contact with the people who have made such an effort on our behalf. I am sure they would come through again, if further help is needed.
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... good and not so good news for you: the good good news is that there is definitely interest on part of individual boaters, even for this year. One of them I know, the other one I do not know. Both want to know what the accommodations would be like , and I cannot answer the question.
At any rate, it would mean quite a bit of figuring out, since they would have to squeeze this in somehow between their already scheduled races.
By the way, around here competition is always friendly but serious. THAT is considered fun. This is our mindset.

Also, just this week there was a group of enthusiastic high- school students downtown carrying huge signs; they were fundraising for their Dragon Boat team!

So, there IS interest.

The not so good news is that you will probably not have any results for this year:
1) TheCDBA connection will apparently not work for THIS year. We can discuss this in Kiel.
2) For the two interested serious boaters there would be much coordination necessary - probably illusory at this point.
3) High School might be a great opportunity, but this would have to be coordinated with the school, and no one has the time to do this for now.

Moreover,
Currently, there seems to be no clarity in our group as to WHO will assume responsibility for this. ....

Best,
Renata