Welcome to the website of Kingston Royals Dragon Boat Racing Club, one of Britain's oldest and most successful dragon boat teams. We are a competitive dragon boat racing club based on the Thames in Teddington, south-west London. Explore our website for more information or contact us to find out more about this exciting sport.
Kingston Royals in 2010
All talk and no action
Sunday, 28 February 2010
We really wish we had exciting stuff to talk about but the floods mean that we can train but can't race... so instead we're planning and scheming for the rest of 2010.
Kingston Royals spent nearly all of its first twenty years as a section of the Royal Canoe Club - alongside sections dedicated to outrigging and kayaking. The minutes of the Royal Canoe Club give an insight into how the club worked in its early days...
The clocks have gone back, the leaves are falling from the trees and toffee apples are back in the shops - it can only mean one thing: the Henley Winter Series is back with us...
After Saturday's blow-out we were optimistic that we'd get some results on Sunday, twenty-one years to the day after RCC set up a dragon boating section. And we did, in style: National Ladies Champions National Mixed Champions (and 5th place too!) National Open Plate Champions
