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Forthcoming
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April 27, 2008 - 51st Festival of Sport Dragon Boat Competition - 200mFor more information on this event go to the Results page. Mixed Final - HKIPC take 1st and 2nd with 2/100s between them!
Welcome to the Hong Kong Island Paddle Club website!We are a competitive paddle club that races dragon boats and outrigger canoes and we welcome new members to our well-established training programme. We offer paddlers an opportunity to paddle year-round in both dragon boats and outrigger canoes, the only club with both capabilities in Hong Kong. Our home is in Deep Water Bay at the Victoria Recreation Club which is the oldest sporting club in Hong Kong. The club was founded initially as a dragon boat club on 22 October 1993 by a group of enthusiastic and committed paddlers who decided that they could gain more success and have more fun in competition by forming their own team rather than joining others. HKIPC is a racing paddling club and our goals and objectives are therefore focused on raising the standard of dragon boat and outrigger paddling amongst our members to improve overall personal and crew performance. The club has a regular paddling membership of more than 80. There is not a national identity that brings us together, as we have or have had, American, Australian, British, Canadian, Chilean, Chinese, Dutch, Ecuadorian, English, Filipino, French, German, Hong Kongers, Japanese, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, New Zealander, Polish, Scottish, Singaporean, South African, and Welsh team members. There is also no common professional strain. While we may be a bit heavy on the architects, engineers and teachers, there are also journalists, solicitors, dentists, a couple of town planners, writers, clerks, purchasers, environmentalists, nannies and the odd banker, paddling with us. We have had teenagers and septuagenarians as a part of our membership, though our average age is about 33. 
Many of our local events involve marathon excursions to outer islands and exhibition races, while our annual overseas race itinerary includes major races in Micronesia, Hawaii, and Australia. Several members even journeyed to Rio in December 2005. Our club crosses international waters by paddling from Hong Kong to Macau, participates in the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club’s &lrquo;Around The Island Race“ and even hosts its own regattas. Our club expanded our fleet of outrigger canoes with the arrival of Tai Nui and Quee Queg — Advantage OC-6's — in 1999, and a mixture of club- and member-owned OC1's and OC-2's. It is the birth of OC paddling in Asia and we are excited to be a part of it. While Hong Kong’s paddling culture is very much rooted in dragon boating, our success as an outrigger club relies on our interest and respect for local paddling traditions. Today, the club has six outrigger canoes and a flotilla of one-man and two-man canoes. |
Sponsors
Outrigger Connection 
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Saffron Cruises 
Devils Advocate 
Power Bar 
Typhoon 8 
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