After several months of waiting, Exe-Calibre recently took their newest dragon boat Mercury back to the water following the all clear from the British Dragon Boat Association (BDA), for a return to training. The crews have been significantly reduced to comply with Covid 19 guidelines and procedures put in place to make sure that everyone stays safe during the training sessions. The crew is now a helm and 8 paddlers (rather than 20) , with each paddler on a separate seat and on alternating sides. We train on Tuesday and Thursday evenings and on Sunday mornings. If you are interested in trying dragon boat paddling, please text Sue Bath on 07845 953835.

It was around a year ago that Exeter Chiefs tried their hand at dragon boat racing to show off their colourful new club shirts. Here we see them enjoying themselves in our race boat Isca with our own Chrissie Hunt at the helm. We, of course, wish the Chiefs continued success with their restart this weekend.

Every year, Exe-Calibre normally introduces many new faces to our exciting team sport - guides, scouts, school and college students, charity crews, corporate team building events and so on. Sadly, we are not yet in a position to do so this year as we are still only training ourselves in small groups of single crew boats (see below). Hopefully, we'll be back in Isca soon.