12-year old event attracts boaters throughout the Mid-Atlantic
Posted: 06/19/2010
BALTIMORE, Md. - It’s a show of the dragons in Tide Point this weekend.
Several teams from across the East Coast are in dragon boats, racing by the beat of a drum – an ancient Chinese tradition.
For the second year, the Baltimore Dragon Boat Club hosted the event, bringing in 15 teams from New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC.
The mission is teamwork.
"Paddlers sit in tandem and you paddle on one side, and it's a sport where you're really working together as a team and have to be in sync," said John Pezzula, President, Baltimore Dragon Boat Club.
The dragon boat races started in Baltimore by Catholic Charities in 1998 as an opportunity for companies to do team building races.
It grew in popularity, so it evolved into a club, which currently has 60 members.
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