Nowra Waterdragons

AusDBF and DBSA are pleased to announce the dates for 2027 AusChamps below:

Day 1 - Saturday 10 April - Premier/Jnr/BCP/ACP - 200m+2km open/women

Day 2 - Sunday 11 April - Premier/Jnr/BCP/ACP - 500m+2km open/women

Day 3 - Monday 12 April - Australian Championships (formerly State v State) - 500m + 1km turn race

Day 4 - Tuesday 13 April - Seniors - 500m

Day 5 - Wednesday 14 April - Seniors - 200m

Day 6 - Thursday 15 April - Seniors - 2km

Venue: AM Ramsay Regatta Course

Further details for AusChamps can be found on the AusDBF here -

https://www.ausdbf.com.au/events1/auschamps

AusDBF and DBSA have lots of exciting plans and initiatives to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of AusChamps. Start your club plans now, so you don't miss out on being in Adelaide to celebrate the 30th Anniversary.

Saturday was a joint training session for Snr B mixed and BCP crews from and respectively. Both crews continue their prep for .dragonboat.sport CCWC in Taiwan, happening in a handful of weeks.

Great to have so many Sydneysiders training with us in the southern NSW region on a chilly Saturday. Thanks for travelling all the way for the session.

Plenty of Waterdragons clubbies were there, too, keepin’ ‘em honest as we tackled 2km turns, 500s and 200 metres racing in an epic mid-winter session.

Two people in attendance on Saturday. deserve special mention:

1. Coach Rosie - our metro coach - who has been appointed by as Snr C division coach. Congratulations Rosie, we are so proud of you! We are all behind you, cheering you on, as you take on this amazing coaching role with Snr C paddlers.

2. First-time paddler, Alicia, who participated in the entire session on Saturday, including racing dragon boats against paddlers with decades of experience and who are 3, 4 and even 5 times her age. Amazing effort by this young first-time paddler.

Well done Rosie & Alicia.

(Photo: Fiona E)

Photographs with kind permission of Yvonne Young, photographer and club member of Shoalhaven Photographic Club Inc, who captured these wonderful images of dragon boats racing on Shoalhaven River on Saturday, 16 May 2026.

Thank you Yvonne for allowing us to share these images.

If anyone is looking for an unedited copy of one of these images, email us and we'll pass on Yvonne's email to you.

Enjoy!

Regatta results now available on our regatta page.

Go to https://nowrawaterdragons.com.au/regatta for times and placings for all heats in the 200m and 1km turns races:
- mixed 20s crews
- women 20s crews
- men 10s crews
- women 10s crews

AND

all heats of the Community Teams races

AND

winners of the erg competition

AND

the winners of the Dragon Spirit award.

Congratulations everyone!

(Images: Rachel, Carli, Marilyn, Carol, Rob S, Jason Cox)

A message from Club President Marilyn Prothero on the morning after hosting the Southern Region Sports & Community Dragon Boat Regatta, at Riverbank Reserve, North Nowra on the beautiful NSW South Coast:

“What a fantastic day yesterday hosting the Southern Region Sports and Community Dragon Boat Regatta.

On behalf of Nowra Waterdragons, I want to sincerely thank our club members, volunteers, officials, paddlers and participating clubs and community teams for helping make the day such a success.

I am incredibly proud that our small regional club was able to organise and run such a positive, welcoming and well-supported event for our paddling and wider community.

We extend our thanks to Marine Rescue Shoalhaven, Red Medical, Traffic Professionals, Northy Gym, our VIP guests, and all the vendors.

Thank you to everyone who contributed — on the water, on land, behind the scenes and in the lead-up, not forgetting today’s clean-up!

Days like this show the strength, generosity and spirit of our dragon boat community.”

💙🩵♥️💛
Marilyn

(Photos: Carol, Marilyn, Trish - with many, many more to follow)