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Eye-Dotting Ceremony | March 29, 2025 11-12:30pm | Outside Kimpton RiverPlace Hotel
AWAKEN THE DRAGON! Join us for the Eye-Dotting Ceremony as we officially kick off the Portland Rose Festival Dragon Boat Race season! …More Details

Tiller Training | March 21st & March 29 @ 1pm | RiverPlace Marina Public Dock
Whether you are a new tiller, or just looking for more experience come join us for our 2 days of tiller training this season. See you on the water! $20 fee covers any and all clinics. Read More About Tiller Training.

Dragon Boat Race Registration | January 2nd-May 7th, 2025 | Register
Registration for Mixed, Women’s, and Open Division From 7am January 2nd, 2025 through May 7th.

Race Weekend | June 7-8, 2025 | South Hawthorne Waterfront Park, Portland Oregon
Our annual traditional-style dragon boat race held during the Portland Rose Festival. Free to the public. Come and enjoy an exciting weekend of Dragon Boat Races and local food and shopping vendors.

Photos: Dragon boat racing tradition continues during Portland’s 2014 Rose Festival

Posted on June 9, 2014February 28, 2025

Oregonlive.com | Source | PDF

2014 Portland Rose Festival Dragon Boat Races
Archives: Google Photos Album – 2014 Race Weekend

By Xiaojie Ouyang | The Oregonian/OregonLive

The annual dragon boat races have been going for 25 years now and this past weekend, June 7-8, the tradition continued strong in downtown Portland.

More than 80 different teams competed on the Willamette River near Tom McCall Waterfront Park. The competition was broken down into three different divisions: Mixed, women and high school.

The eight Taiwan-style dragon boats that teams, consisting of 23 people, rowed in were provided through the Portland-Kaohsiung Sister City Association.