2024 Canada Day

Dragon Boat Regatta

Taking place Monday, July 1, 2024 (Canada's 157^th birthday)
on Toronto's Centre Island (Allan A. Lamport Regatta Course).
Our boats and docks are supplied by GWN Events.

This is the 22nd annual event with dragon boats!

Mixed Gender Division only - $895 / team (no taxes added) - NEW lower price!
Four races: 500m, 200m, 200m, 500m final

In 2022 we honoured Jim Farintosh who brought the sport to this event 20 years earlier.

In 2023 we honoured Ramsay Drummond-Young and Jackie Taggart who founded Lively Dragon.

We will announce who we are honouring in 2024 in early 2024.

2024 TEAMS (as of Nov 02/23) - capacity: 12 teams
1. Guns n Roses

2. We Will Rock You

3. Liberty Waves

4. Barracudas

5. Water Wizards

6. Strokes of Luck

7. Motley Crew (collective team)

8. Beach Dragons

9. Para Dragons

10. <Available to book>
11. <Available to book>

12. <Available to book>

+ 2 or more Mixed Ability teams (separate Division).

Is your team interested?
Contact Tim@RustyDragons.ca ASAP for more information.

Welcoming all dragon boat teams from across the province. This event is part of one of the oldest mixed sport regattas in the world, involving canoe clubs and rowing clubs since 1884, and then dragon boats added in 2003 as the third sport. The event is run by the Dominion Day Regatta Association (DDRA), for which Tim MacFarlane is the Dragon Boat Coordinator and general committee member since 2007. Ontario Public Service (OPS) employees have volunteered to coordinate the dragon boat portion of this event since the start, hence the reference to being the unofficial OPS Canada Day Regatta (Tim works for the OPS). Rusty Dragons Adventures Inc are now officially the producers of the dragon boat portion of this event, which is limited to 18 teams due to the canoe, kayak, and rowing races also on the race card. This is a small recreational regatta located on scenic Toronto Islands on Canada Day.

Welcoming all dragon boat teams from across the province

This event is part of one of the oldest mixed sport regattas in the world, involving canoe clubs and rowing clubs since 1884, and then dragon boats added in 2003 as the third sport.

The event is run by the Dominion Day Regatta Association (DDRA), for which Tim MacFarlane is the Dragon Boat Coordinator and general committee member since 2007. Ontario Public Service (OPS) employees have volunteered to coordinate the dragon boat portion of this event since the start, hence the reference to being the unofficial OPS Canada Day Regatta (Tim works for the OPS). Rusty Dragons Adventures Inc are now officially the producers of the dragon boat portion of this event, which is limited to 18 teams due to the canoe, kayak, and rowing races also on the race card. This is a small recreational regatta located on scenic Toronto Islands on Canada Day.

Welcoming dragon boat teams

This event is part of one of the oldest mixed sport regattas in the world, involving canoe clubs (ICF) and rowing clubs (FISA) since 1884, and then dragon boats (IDBF) were added in 2003 as the third sport.

The event is run by the Dominion Day Regatta Association (DDRA), for which Tim MacFarlane is the Dragon Boat Coordinator and general director since 2007. Rusty Dragons Adventures Inc are now officially the producers of the dragon boat portion of this event, which is limited to 12 mixed teams due to the canoe, kayak, and rowing races also on the race card. This is a small recreational regatta located on scenic Toronto Islands on Canada Day.