Fleetwood Rotary Dragon Boat Extravanganza

Thank you for your interest in taking part in this event. Before registering, please read the following important information as this will constitute the terms of the Agreement between your team and Fleetwood Rotary.

Date, Time and Location

The event will take place on 21^stJune 2026 at the Boating Lake, Fleetwood, Lancashire.

NB, the Boating Lake is not the rectangular lake as marked on Google Maps; this is the Model Yacht Lake.  The Boating Lake is the other, larger one.

The event will run from 10am until approx. 4pm; trophy presentations will finish at around 4.30pm.

Composition of Teams

Teams will be made up of 16 paddlers and 1 drummer making a total of 17 (max) subject to the overall weight of the crew and prevailing conditions.

Crews may be male, female, adult or youth but there is a minimum age of 12 and a minimum height of 130 cms.

Cost of Entry

The cost per team is £425 (£25pp).   A 25% non-refundable deposit is required with your booking with the balance to be paid by 22^nd May 2026.  An invoice will be sent for the balance with a card payment option.

Fundraising

Each team is required to raise a minimum sponsorship of £1190 per team (equivalent to £70 pp). We are asking each team to set up one joint JustGiving page that the whole team can use.  This page should then be linked to our JustGiving Campaign page here:

www.justgiving.com/campaign/fleetwoodrotarydragonboats

Teams may choose to donate up to 50% of their sponsorship to a charity of their choice.  Details of the charity should be emailed to the Secretary of Fleetwood Rotary, Jenny Haytree, at jennyhaytree@gmail.com Fleetwood Rotary will pay your chosen amount to your chosen charity after all your fundraising has been received.

By registering to take part in this event you agree to raise the minimum fundraising amount and pay this to Fleetwood Rotary via our JustGiving Campaign page within 4 weeks of completing the event.  In the case where this condition isn’t met you may be asked to make up the shortfall.

For further information on fundraising please use the contact form at the bottom of this page.

Registration

To register your team of 17, use the booking system below. This will need to be completed by someone who is willing to be the Team Captain.

The Team Captain will be our point of contact, and by completing the registration process for this event, you give us consent to contact you with details about this event.  It will be the responsibility of the Team Captain to circulate all information to the rest of the team as necessary.

Furthermore, as the representative of the team, and by completing the registration process, you, the Team Captain, confirm that you have read and understood all the requirements stated herein for this event, and agree to be bound by them.

Safety

Race the Dragon Ltd will provide the boats and the organise the races.  They will have full authority and discretion with regards to the safety aspects of the racing.

All able-bodied crew members must be declared competent in deep water and capable of swimming 50 meters with the aid of an approved personal flotation device (buoyancy aid). Race the Dragon will provide such buoyancy aids for competitors’ use whilst on the water.  Fleetwood Boating Lake is typically c. 4 feet in depth.

Special provision will be made for competitors who register as having special needs. Compliance with this provision is the responsibility of the Team Captain.

All team members must attend a safety briefing before being allowed to race. Final crew members for each race will be at the sole discretion of Race the Dragon Ltd’s appointed Chief Official.  No refunds will be offered for crews competing or entering with less than the prescribed number.

In circumstances where any team member(s) are, in the opinion of any official from Race the Dragon Ltd, suffering from the effects of drugs or excess alcohol, or deliberately trying to capsize the boat or behaving in such a way that could result in either damage to the boats or a danger to the crew, then those officials have the authority to request the Event Director to cancel that team's race time or in more serious cases, disqualify the team member(s) from further participation in the day.

Where such person(s) are disqualified but refuse to leave the crew, it is the responsibility of the Team Captain to remove the disqualified person(s). If the disqualified person(s) still refuses to leave, then the whole team may be disqualified from further participation in the day. No refund will be due to any person/team disqualified and the Event Director's decision is final.

No previous experience of dragon boat racing is necessary to enter this event, and all team members accept that there is an inherent risk with dragon boat racing, and that they will be competing at their own risk.

To register your team go to the registration page.