08/30/2026
From all of us at DragonBoat PEI Inc., a heartfelt THANK YOU to everyone who helped make this year’s festival a success. ❤️
To all our new and returning teams, thank you for believing in our vision of promoting wellness, teamwork, community spirit, and sharing the sport of dragon boating with more people. A special thank you to the teams who travelled from New Brunswick and Ontario to race with us here in PEI.
A very special THANK YOU to the City of Charlottetown for your tremendous support of the 2nd Charlottetown Dragonboat Festival.
Thank you for believing in our vision and for supporting an event that brings people together through sport, wellness, teamwork, and community spirit. We are very grateful to have the City of Charlottetown as an important partner in growing the Charlottetown Dragonboat Festival. ❤️
⚓ To HMCS Queen Charlotte Rabble Rousers and Rowing PEI for your continued support, and for providing the safety boats and First Aid Team (Navy), that helped keep everyone safe throughout the event.
⛵ Thank you to the Charlottetown Yacht Club, our Gold Sponsor, and to the management and staff for helping us with the launching and retrieval of our dragon boats and supporting us throughout the event.
📻 To Inspire FM, our Silver Sponsor, for helping us spread the word through your media platform and helping our festival reach communities across PEI and beyond the Island.
🥉 To our Bronze Sponsors: Atlantic Beef Products, Maritime Electric, and Stay Golden Custom, thank you for your generous support and for believing in what we are building for our community.
❤️ To our Friends of the Festival: Jewells Country Market, Buns & Things, Rob Gurette, CBC News- PEI, Nancy Russell, Kiwanis Dairy Bar, Rowing PEI, Dominos Pizza, thank you for your generosity, friendship, and continued support.
👏 To our community who came out to watch, cheer, and support the event and their teams, THANK YOU! Seeing everyone along the waterfront and hearing you cheer for the paddlers brought incredible energy to the festival. Having you there made the day even more special.
💙 A special thank you to Make-A-Wish Foundation, our beneficiary, for being part of this year’s festival. We are proud that this event is not only about racing and competition, but also about coming together as a community to support a meaningful cause and help make a difference.
🙌 To all our amazing VOLUNTEERS, A huge THANK YOU! From preparation and setup, assisting our teams and paddlers, helping throughout race day, and staying with us until cleanup was finished. You were a huge part of making this festival happen. We could not have done this without you. ❤️
To our umpires and race officials 22Dragons, thank you for sharing your time and experience and for helping us deliver a safe and exciting day of racing.
To our families and friends, thank you for being there behind the scenes, understanding the long days and late nights, and supporting us every step of the way. ❤️
And finally, to the men and women behind our Organizing Committee, THANK YOU. ❤️💪 For the countless hours of planning, meetings, phone calls, preparation, last-minute changes, problem-solving, setup, and cleanup, we did it together.
This festival is not the work of one person. It is the work of a TEAM.
There are so many people and organizations to thank, and we may not be able to mention everyone individually. Please know that every contribution, big or small, helped make this festival possible.
In only our second year, we are proud of how far we have come, and we are excited to continue growing, learning, bringing people together, and sharing the spirit of dragon boating with our community.
From all of us at DragonBoat PEI Inc. THANK YOU for believing in our vision and for being part of this journey! ❤️
PADDLES UP!
