Chinese American Association of Watertown, Massachusetts

CAAW Night Herons are in the news again, courtesy of the Watertown Cable News! See the original article by Daniel Carito at Watertown’s Night Herons Make Impressive Debut at Boston Dragon Boat Festival.

The Night Herons had a fantastic first appearance at the Boston Dragon Boat Festival! The weather was fantastic and the team performed a respectable 9th place out of 12 in Division C. With 72 teams across Divisions A through F, this means we were 33rd out of the 72 teams! The day’s best was in… Read more: Night Herons — CAAW, CAAW, CAAW!

It was a wet day but the CAAW Night Herons have completed a major milestone — we completed the teams first ever timed trials at the Boston Dragon Boat Festival! The competition format was for the teams to race in 2 heats of 200 meter races against 3 other boats. The average time between the… Read more: CAAW Night Herons Made Division C at Timed Trials!

The dragon boat team was captured practicing on the Charles River by the Watertown Cable News! See their full article write up, Watertown Launches First-Ever Dragon Boat Team for Boston’s Annual Festival, written and videoed by Dan Hogan, on May 30.

We have had two practices so far in the Charles River with coaches and steerers from the Boston Dragon Boat Festival! The team is doing great being all novices who have never done dragon boat before! We’ve also experienced two completely different weather patterns, between it being gorgeous on the first practice and it being… Read more: Night Herons are Practicing in the Charles River!

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