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Calculated Shard: 103 (from laksa176)

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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa103.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical, ml_categories_json AS ml_categories_json, ml_types_json AS ml_types_json, ml_intent_types_json AS ml_intent_types_json, meta_language AS meta_language, attrs_author AS attrs_author, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(attrs_publish_time), 0) AS attrs_publish_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(attrs_original_publish_time), 0) AS attrs_original_publish_time, ifNull(attrs_is_republished, 0) AS attrs_is_republished, ifNull(attrs_nr_words, 0) AS attrs_nr_words, ifNull(attrs_boilerpipe_nr_words, 0) AS attrs_boilerpipe_nr_words, ifNull(body_ext_links_number, 0) AS body_ext_links_number, ifNull(body_int_links_number, 0) AS body_int_links_number, ifNull(meta_nofollow, 0) AS meta_nofollow, ifNull(meta_noarchive, 0) AS meta_noarchive, ifNull(props_was_rendered, 0) AS props_was_rendered, ifNull(src_redirect, \'\') AS src_redirect, ifNull(download_time_msec, 0) AS download_time_msec, ifNull(download_ttfb_msec, 0) AS download_ttfb_msec, ifNull(download_size, 0) AS download_size FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://pksca.net/cultural-programs/dragon-boat-race/\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://pksca.net/cultural-programs/dragon-boat-race/\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

Response:

{"found_url":"https:\/\/pksca.net\/cultural-programs\/dragon-boat-race\/","crawl_time":1776851192,"first_indexed_time":1740600925,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"net,pksca!\/cultural-programs\/dragon-boat-race\/ s443","src_root_hash":"9050760971267750303","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"Dragon Boat Race | PKSCA","meta_descriptions":["The PKSCA presents the Portland Rose Festival Dragon Boat Race, the 2nd Saturday after Memorial Day, at the South Hawthorne Waterfront Park. June 7-8, 2025"],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"*This section is on the culture and history of the Portland Rose Festival Dragon Boat Race. To view race information visit the\nmain page\n.\nPORTLAND ROSE FESTIVAL DRAGON BOAT RACE WEEKEND IS THE SECOND WEEKEND AFTER MEMORIAL DAY!\nJune 6-7, 2026 8am to 4pm\nSouth Hawthorne Waterfront Park\nThe PKSCA is excited to present the Portland Rose Festival Dragon Boat Race, the 2nd Saturday after Memorial Day, at the South Hawthorne Waterfront Park.\nSouth Hawthorne Waterfront Park, Portland, OR, 2nd Saturday after Memorial Day – The Portland-Kaohsiung Sister City Association (PKSCA) presents the Portland Rose Festival Dragon Boat race annually. The race is the second Weekend of June and is free and open to the public. This race involves around 50 teams, Women’s, Mixed, Open, and High School, racing in the incredibly special traditional-style Dragon Boats from Taiwan. Each race has 4 teams compete by sprinting 500m down the Willamette River ending at the bowl in the South Hawthorne Waterfront Park where their flag catcher reaches out from the dragon’s head to capture their flag.\nSaturday’s heats define the playoff bracket, and Sunday is when they compete for their medals. The opening ceremony is Saturday, 8am. Races run from 8am till around 4pm Saturday and Sunday. The awards ceremony takes place around 3:30pm on Sunday . Come enjoy Race weekend with us, there will be food and retail vendors, and many exciting races for all to enjoy on the waterfront at\n1403 S Harbor Way, Portland, OR 97201\n. The event is free and open to the public.\nThe first Portland Rose Festival Dragon Boat Race was put on by the PKSCA in June of 1989, 34 years ago. The race attracts teams from the Pacific Northwest and around the world. The traditional-style boats are unique and incredibly special. Each of the 8 boats is just over 40’ long with a colorful dragon head molded in fiberglass on the front and a tail in the back. During a race each boat has a caller, a drummer, 20 paddlers, a flag catcher, and a tiller.\nThe race ends after a 500 meter dash when the flag catcher climbs the dragon head and reaches out to capture the flag. Each team has its own culture and story, made up of people 14 and up, from all walks of life drawn together by their love for Dragon Boat racing. This year we are introducing an Open Division, with no gender restrictions. It is a rare sport where everyone is seen and treated as equals, and where there is access for so many. Dragon boating is for everyone, every age, every ability, every body.\nThe Dragon Boat Festival, 端午節 (Duānwǔ jié) in Traditional Chinese, has it’s history in the Warring States period of China, in 278 BCE when virtuous Qu Yuan, an advisor in the court of Chu and the people’s poet, drowned in the Miluo River in Hunan Province after the capture of the Chu Emperor. After his death he became a water spirit that needed to be appeased.\nThe dragon enters the story as a fundamentally vital part of Chinese culture for over 6000 years, symbolizing divine power and energy that controls the water. The festival, generally considered to have begun about 1500 years ago, has expanded around the world. Today there are year round races and several variations on the nature of the race itself. Although, the joy and spirit of the Dragon Boat Race is shared by all. The PKSCA Portland Rose Festival Dragon Boat Race is proud to be part of this tradition.\nThe Portland-Kaohsiung Sister City Association (PKSCA), founded in 1987, has presented the Portland Rose Festival Dragon Boat Race annually, since 1989. The mission of the Portland-Kaohsiung Sister City Association is to promote people-to-people exchanges of educational, artistic and cultural activities in accordance with the spirit of the Sister City International and to promote Portland and Kaohsiung, Taiwan to the world. The race is a celebrated and sanctioned part of the Portland Rose Festival. Additionally, the PKSCA works with the Shu-Te High School in Kaohsiung who participate in the annual Rose Festival Grand Floral Parade, as well as having a Dragon Boat team with one of their older traditional-style Dragon Boats in the Starlight Parade.\nCome enjoy the Dragon Boat Races this year at the South Hawthorne Waterfront Park (\n1403 S Harbor Way, Portland, OR 97201\n) June 7th and 8th and learn more at\npksca.net\nor follow us on social media @pksca.db.race.","attrs_markdown":"[![🔝](https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/svg\/1f51d.svg)](https:\/\/pksca.net\/cultural-programs\/dragon-boat-race\/#top)\n\n[Skip to content](https:\/\/pksca.net\/cultural-programs\/dragon-boat-race\/#primary)\n\n- [Instagram](https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pksca.db.race\/)\n- [Facebook](https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pksca.db.race\/)\n- [TikTok](https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@pksca.db.race)\n- [Bluesky](https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/pksca-db-race.bsky.social)\n- [Threads](https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@pksca.db.race)\n- [YouTube](https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCdTlpBnz5Nq4pHfFTOzNbUQ)\n- [Mail](mailto:info@pksca.net)\n\n[![Donate Now](https:\/\/pksca.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/donate-button.png)](https:\/\/www.zeffy.com\/en-US\/donation-form\/ee1e67e1-420f-4ebd-87c2-4b1a481e8ba2 \"Donate! 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We have **Mixed**, **Women’s**, and **Open** Divisions for **Local**, **Out-of-Area**, and **Youth** teams.\n\n![Race Weekend 2026](https:\/\/pksca.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/PKSCA_DB_RACE-Light-Logo.png)\n\n**Race Weekend \\| June 6-7, 2026 \\| [South Hawthorne Waterfront Park, Portland Oregon](https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/South+Hawthorne+Waterfront+Park\/@45.5126402,-122.6767764,17z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x54950b5dbd70cb2b:0xae96a03eb2fa65f6!8m2!3d45.5126365!4d-122.6742015!16s%2Fg%2F11qfbz78b4?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTIxMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D)**  \nOur 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.\n\n[Home](https:\/\/pksca.net\/) \\| [Cultural Programs](https:\/\/pksca.net\/cultural-programs\/) \\| Dragon Boat Race\n\n# Dragon Boat Race\n![Portland Rose Festival Dragon Boat Race - Textual Logo for Teams\/Dragon Boat Race](https:\/\/pksca.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Textual-Logo-Teams-100.jpg)\n\nPortland Rose Festival Dragon Boat Race – Textual Logo\n\n![Traditional-Style Dragon Boats mid-race.](https:\/\/pksca.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2024-6-9-Race-b-30.jpg)\n\nTraditional-Style Dragon Boats mid-race.\n\n![Traditional-Style Dragon Boats near the flags at the end of a race.](https:\/\/pksca.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2024-6-9-Race-b-31.jpg)\n\nTraditional-Style Dragon Boats near the flags at the end of a race.\n\n![Full Dragon Boat at End of Race with Flag Captured.](https:\/\/pksca.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2024-6-9-Race-b-32.jpg)\n\nFull Dragon Boat at End of Race with Flag Captured.\n\n![Full Dragon Boat at End of Race with Flag Captured.](https:\/\/pksca.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2024-6-9-Race-b-37.jpg)\n\nFull Dragon Boat at End of Race with Flag Captured.\n\n![Traditional-Style Dragon Boat head at the Dock.](https:\/\/pksca.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2024-6-9-Boat-Race-a_23.jpg)\n\nTraditional-Style Dragon Boat head at the Dock.\n\n![Traditional-Style Dragon Boat head at the Dock with a person in position to catch a flag.](https:\/\/pksca.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2024-6-9-Boat-Race-a.jpg)\n\nTraditional-Style Dragon Boat head at the Dock with a person in position to catch a flag.\n\n![Tail of a Traditional-Style Dragon Boat with a Portland Rose Festival Flag.](https:\/\/pksca.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2024-6-9-Boat-Race-a_27.jpg)\n\nTail of a Traditional-Style Dragon Boat with a Portland Rose Festival Flag.\n\n![A Traditional-Style Dragon Boat fully loaded near the dock.](https:\/\/pksca.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2024-6-9-Boat-Race-a_29.jpg)\n\nA Traditional-Style Dragon Boat fully loaded near the dock.\n\n![A volunteer, Mike, at the rallying point for teams before a race.](https:\/\/pksca.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2024-6-9-Boat-Race-a_46.jpg)\n\nA volunteer, Mike, at the rallying point for teams before a race.\n\n![2 Traditional-Style Dragon Boats in a race.](https:\/\/pksca.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2024-6-9-Race-b-2.jpg)\n\n2 Traditional-Style Dragon Boats in a race.\n\n![Traditional-Style Dragon Boat in front of the crowd in the Bowl.](https:\/\/pksca.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2024-6-9-Race-b-6.jpg)\n\nTraditional-Style Dragon Boat in front of the crowd in the Bowl.\n\n![Traditional-Style Dragon Boat side view after race.](https:\/\/pksca.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2024-6-9-Race-b-28.jpg)\n\nTraditional-Style Dragon Boat side view after race.\n\n![Side view of Traditional-Style Dragon Boat returning after race.](https:\/\/pksca.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2024-6-9-Race-b-60.jpg)\n\nSide view of Traditional-Style Dragon Boat returning after race.\n\n![Flag being captured during end of a race.](https:\/\/pksca.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2024-6-9-Race-b-67.jpg)\n\nFlag being captured during end of a race.\n\n![Flag being captured during end of a race.](https:\/\/pksca.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2024-6-9-Race-b-73.jpg)\n\nFlag being captured during end of a race.\n\n![Audience for the Race in the Bowl.](https:\/\/pksca.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2024-6-9-Race-b-101.jpg)\n\nAudience for the Race in the Bowl.\n\n![Audience for the Race in the Bowl.](https:\/\/pksca.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2024-6-9-Race-b-112.jpg)\n\nAudience for the Race in the Bowl.\n\n![Dragon Boat Team at marshalling point before race.](https:\/\/pksca.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_4533.jpg)\n\nDragon Boat Team at marshalling point before race.\n\n![Dragon Boat Team at marshalling point before race.](https:\/\/pksca.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_4550.jpg)\n\nDragon Boat Team at marshalling point before race.\n\n![Traditional-Style Dragon Boats. View From end of boat with tail and more boats in the distance.](https:\/\/pksca.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/PXL_20240608_024938335.jpg)\n\nTraditional-Style Dragon Boats. View From end of boat with tail and more boats in the distance.\n\n\\*This section is on the culture and history of the Portland Rose Festival Dragon Boat Race. To view race information visit the [main page](https:\/\/pksca.net\/portland-rose-festival-dragon-boat-race\/).\n\n### **PORTLAND ROSE FESTIVAL DRAGON BOAT RACE WEEKEND IS THE SECOND WEEKEND AFTER MEMORIAL DAY\\!**\n**June 6-7, 2026 8am to 4pm [South Hawthorne Waterfront Park](https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/South+Hawthorne+Waterfront+Park\/@45.5126365,-122.6742015,17z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x54950b5dbd70cb2b:0xae96a03eb2fa65f6!8m2!3d45.5126365!4d-122.6742015!16s%2Fg%2F11qfbz78b4?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTIxMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D)**\n\nThe PKSCA is excited to present the Portland Rose Festival Dragon Boat Race, the 2nd Saturday after Memorial Day, at the South Hawthorne Waterfront Park.\n\nSouth Hawthorne Waterfront Park, Portland, OR, 2nd Saturday after Memorial Day – The Portland-Kaohsiung Sister City Association (PKSCA) presents the Portland Rose Festival Dragon Boat race annually. The race is the second Weekend of June and is free and open to the public. This race involves around 50 teams, Women’s, Mixed, Open, and High School, racing in the incredibly special traditional-style Dragon Boats from Taiwan. Each race has 4 teams compete by sprinting 500m down the Willamette River ending at the bowl in the South Hawthorne Waterfront Park where their flag catcher reaches out from the dragon’s head to capture their flag.\n\nSaturday’s heats define the playoff bracket, and Sunday is when they compete for their medals. The opening ceremony is Saturday, 8am. Races run from 8am till around 4pm Saturday and Sunday. The awards ceremony takes place around 3:30pm on Sunday . Come enjoy Race weekend with us, there will be food and retail vendors, and many exciting races for all to enjoy on the waterfront at [1403 S Harbor Way, Portland, OR 97201](https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/1403+S+Harbor+Way,+Portland,+OR+97201\/@45.5125383,-122.6745588,16z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x54950a12003ddae5:0x7c8ae84b2c81e1de!8m2!3d45.5125383!4d-122.6745588!16s%2Fg%2F11c29hrpq7?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDIyNC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D). The event is free and open to the public.\n\nThe first Portland Rose Festival Dragon Boat Race was put on by the PKSCA in June of 1989, 34 years ago. The race attracts teams from the Pacific Northwest and around the world. The traditional-style boats are unique and incredibly special. Each of the 8 boats is just over 40’ long with a colorful dragon head molded in fiberglass on the front and a tail in the back. During a race each boat has a caller, a drummer, 20 paddlers, a flag catcher, and a tiller.\n\nThe race ends after a 500 meter dash when the flag catcher climbs the dragon head and reaches out to capture the flag. Each team has its own culture and story, made up of people 14 and up, from all walks of life drawn together by their love for Dragon Boat racing. This year we are introducing an Open Division, with no gender restrictions. It is a rare sport where everyone is seen and treated as equals, and where there is access for so many. Dragon boating is for everyone, every age, every ability, every body.\n\nThe Dragon Boat Festival, 端午節 (Duānwǔ jié) in Traditional Chinese, has it’s history in the Warring States period of China, in 278 BCE when virtuous Qu Yuan, an advisor in the court of Chu and the people’s poet, drowned in the Miluo River in Hunan Province after the capture of the Chu Emperor. After his death he became a water spirit that needed to be appeased.\n\nThe dragon enters the story as a fundamentally vital part of Chinese culture for over 6000 years, symbolizing divine power and energy that controls the water. The festival, generally considered to have begun about 1500 years ago, has expanded around the world. Today there are year round races and several variations on the nature of the race itself. Although, the joy and spirit of the Dragon Boat Race is shared by all. The PKSCA Portland Rose Festival Dragon Boat Race is proud to be part of this tradition.\n\nThe Portland-Kaohsiung Sister City Association (PKSCA), founded in 1987, has presented the Portland Rose Festival Dragon Boat Race annually, since 1989. The mission of the Portland-Kaohsiung Sister City Association is to promote people-to-people exchanges of educational, artistic and cultural activities in accordance with the spirit of the Sister City International and to promote Portland and Kaohsiung, Taiwan to the world. The race is a celebrated and sanctioned part of the Portland Rose Festival. Additionally, the PKSCA works with the Shu-Te High School in Kaohsiung who participate in the annual Rose Festival Grand Floral Parade, as well as having a Dragon Boat team with one of their older traditional-style Dragon Boats in the Starlight Parade.\n\nCome enjoy the Dragon Boat Races this year at the South Hawthorne Waterfront Park ([1403 S Harbor Way, Portland, OR 97201](https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/1403+S+Harbor+Way,+Portland,+OR+97201\/@45.5125383,-122.6745588,16z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x54950a12003ddae5:0x7c8ae84b2c81e1de!8m2!3d45.5125383!4d-122.6745588!16s%2Fg%2F11c29hrpq7?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDIyNC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D)) June 7th and 8th and learn more at [**pksca.net**](https:\/\/pksca.net\/portland-rose-festival-dragon-boat-race\/) or follow us on social media @pksca.db.race.\n\n- [Portland-Kaohsiung Sister City Association](https:\/\/pksca.net\/)\n- [Privacy Policy](https:\/\/pksca.net\/privacy-policy\/)\n- [Terms and Conditions](https:\/\/pksca.net\/terms-and-conditions\/)\n- [Contact Us](https:\/\/pksca.net\/about\/contact-us\/)\n- [© 2026 Portland-Kaohsiung Sister City Association](\"Copyright 2026 Portland-Kaohsiung Sister City Association\")\n- [PO Box 80404 Portland, Oregon 97280](\"PKSCA Mailing Address: PO Box 80404 Portland, Oregon 97280\")\n- [info@pksca.net](mailto:info@pksca.net \"Email Address: info@pksca.net\")\n- [Login](https:\/\/pksca.net\/wp-admin \"Login to Manage Your Team\")\n\n- [Instagram](https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pksca.db.race\/)\n- [Facebook](https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pksca.db.race\/)\n- [TikTok](https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@pksca.db.race)\n- [Bluesky](https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/pksca-db-race.bsky.social)\n- [Threads](https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@pksca.db.race)\n- [YouTube](https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCdTlpBnz5Nq4pHfFTOzNbUQ)\n- [Mail](https:\/\/pksca.net\/cultural-programs\/dragon-boat-race\/)","attrs_readable_markdown":"\\*This section is on the culture and history of the Portland Rose Festival Dragon Boat Race. To view race information visit the [main page](https:\/\/pksca.net\/portland-rose-festival-dragon-boat-race\/).\n\n### **PORTLAND ROSE FESTIVAL DRAGON BOAT RACE WEEKEND IS THE SECOND WEEKEND AFTER MEMORIAL DAY\\!**\n**June 6-7, 2026 8am to 4pm [South Hawthorne Waterfront Park](https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/South+Hawthorne+Waterfront+Park\/@45.5126365,-122.6742015,17z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x54950b5dbd70cb2b:0xae96a03eb2fa65f6!8m2!3d45.5126365!4d-122.6742015!16s%2Fg%2F11qfbz78b4?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTIxMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D)**\n\nThe PKSCA is excited to present the Portland Rose Festival Dragon Boat Race, the 2nd Saturday after Memorial Day, at the South Hawthorne Waterfront Park.\n\nSouth Hawthorne Waterfront Park, Portland, OR, 2nd Saturday after Memorial Day – The Portland-Kaohsiung Sister City Association (PKSCA) presents the Portland Rose Festival Dragon Boat race annually. The race is the second Weekend of June and is free and open to the public. This race involves around 50 teams, Women’s, Mixed, Open, and High School, racing in the incredibly special traditional-style Dragon Boats from Taiwan. Each race has 4 teams compete by sprinting 500m down the Willamette River ending at the bowl in the South Hawthorne Waterfront Park where their flag catcher reaches out from the dragon’s head to capture their flag.\n\nSaturday’s heats define the playoff bracket, and Sunday is when they compete for their medals. The opening ceremony is Saturday, 8am. Races run from 8am till around 4pm Saturday and Sunday. The awards ceremony takes place around 3:30pm on Sunday . Come enjoy Race weekend with us, there will be food and retail vendors, and many exciting races for all to enjoy on the waterfront at [1403 S Harbor Way, Portland, OR 97201](https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/1403+S+Harbor+Way,+Portland,+OR+97201\/@45.5125383,-122.6745588,16z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x54950a12003ddae5:0x7c8ae84b2c81e1de!8m2!3d45.5125383!4d-122.6745588!16s%2Fg%2F11c29hrpq7?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDIyNC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D). The event is free and open to the public.\n\nThe first Portland Rose Festival Dragon Boat Race was put on by the PKSCA in June of 1989, 34 years ago. The race attracts teams from the Pacific Northwest and around the world. The traditional-style boats are unique and incredibly special. Each of the 8 boats is just over 40’ long with a colorful dragon head molded in fiberglass on the front and a tail in the back. 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*This section is on the culture and history of the Portland Rose Festival Dragon Boat Race. To view race information visit the main page . PORTLAND ROSE FESTIVAL DRAGON BOAT RACE WEEKEND IS THE SECOND WEEKEND AFTER MEMORIAL DAY! June 6-7, 2026 8am to 4pm South Hawthorne Waterfront Park The PKSCA is excited to present the Portland Rose Festival Dragon Boat Race, the 2nd Saturday after Memorial Day, at the South Hawthorne Waterfront Park. South Hawthorne Waterfront Park, Portland, OR, 2nd Saturday after Memorial Day – The Portland-Kaohsiung Sister City Association (PKSCA) presents the Portland Rose Festival Dragon Boat race annually. The race is the second Weekend of June and is free and open to the public. This race involves around 50 teams, Women’s, Mixed, Open, and High School, racing in the incredibly special traditional-style Dragon Boats from Taiwan. Each race has 4 teams compete by sprinting 500m down the Willamette River ending at the bowl in the South Hawthorne Waterfront Park where their flag catcher reaches out from the dragon’s head to capture their flag. Saturday’s heats define the playoff bracket, and Sunday is when they compete for their medals. The opening ceremony is Saturday, 8am. Races run from 8am till around 4pm Saturday and Sunday. The awards ceremony takes place around 3:30pm on Sunday . Come enjoy Race weekend with us, there will be food and retail vendors, and many exciting races for all to enjoy on the waterfront at 1403 S Harbor Way, Portland, OR 97201 . The event is free and open to the public. The first Portland Rose Festival Dragon Boat Race was put on by the PKSCA in June of 1989, 34 years ago. The race attracts teams from the Pacific Northwest and around the world. The traditional-style boats are unique and incredibly special. Each of the 8 boats is just over 40’ long with a colorful dragon head molded in fiberglass on the front and a tail in the back. During a race each boat has a caller, a drummer, 20 paddlers, a flag catcher, and a tiller. The race ends after a 500 meter dash when the flag catcher climbs the dragon head and reaches out to capture the flag. Each team has its own culture and story, made up of people 14 and up, from all walks of life drawn together by their love for Dragon Boat racing. This year we are introducing an Open Division, with no gender restrictions. It is a rare sport where everyone is seen and treated as equals, and where there is access for so many. Dragon boating is for everyone, every age, every ability, every body. The Dragon Boat Festival, 端午節 (Duānwǔ jié) in Traditional Chinese, has it’s history in the Warring States period of China, in 278 BCE when virtuous Qu Yuan, an advisor in the court of Chu and the people’s poet, drowned in the Miluo River in Hunan Province after the capture of the Chu Emperor. After his death he became a water spirit that needed to be appeased. The dragon enters the story as a fundamentally vital part of Chinese culture for over 6000 years, symbolizing divine power and energy that controls the water. The festival, generally considered to have begun about 1500 years ago, has expanded around the world. Today there are year round races and several variations on the nature of the race itself. Although, the joy and spirit of the Dragon Boat Race is shared by all. The PKSCA Portland Rose Festival Dragon Boat Race is proud to be part of this tradition. The Portland-Kaohsiung Sister City Association (PKSCA), founded in 1987, has presented the Portland Rose Festival Dragon Boat Race annually, since 1989. The mission of the Portland-Kaohsiung Sister City Association is to promote people-to-people exchanges of educational, artistic and cultural activities in accordance with the spirit of the Sister City International and to promote Portland and Kaohsiung, Taiwan to the world. The race is a celebrated and sanctioned part of the Portland Rose Festival. Additionally, the PKSCA works with the Shu-Te High School in Kaohsiung who participate in the annual Rose Festival Grand Floral Parade, as well as having a Dragon Boat team with one of their older traditional-style Dragon Boats in the Starlight Parade. Come enjoy the Dragon Boat Races this year at the South Hawthorne Waterfront Park ( 1403 S Harbor Way, Portland, OR 97201 ) June 7th and 8th and learn more at pksca.net or follow us on social media @pksca.db.race.

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[Home](https://pksca.net/) \| [Cultural Programs](https://pksca.net/cultural-programs/) \| Dragon Boat Race # Dragon Boat Race ![Portland Rose Festival Dragon Boat Race - Textual Logo for Teams/Dragon Boat Race](https://pksca.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Textual-Logo-Teams-100.jpg) Portland Rose Festival Dragon Boat Race – Textual Logo ![Traditional-Style Dragon Boats mid-race.](https://pksca.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2024-6-9-Race-b-30.jpg) Traditional-Style Dragon Boats mid-race. ![Traditional-Style Dragon Boats near the flags at the end of a race.](https://pksca.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2024-6-9-Race-b-31.jpg) Traditional-Style Dragon Boats near the flags at the end of a race. ![Full Dragon Boat at End of Race with Flag Captured.](https://pksca.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2024-6-9-Race-b-32.jpg) Full Dragon Boat at End of Race with Flag Captured. ![Full Dragon Boat at End of Race with Flag Captured.](https://pksca.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2024-6-9-Race-b-37.jpg) Full Dragon Boat at End of Race with Flag Captured. ![Traditional-Style Dragon Boat head at the Dock.](https://pksca.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2024-6-9-Boat-Race-a_23.jpg) Traditional-Style Dragon Boat head at the Dock. ![Traditional-Style Dragon Boat head at the Dock with a person in position to catch a flag.](https://pksca.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2024-6-9-Boat-Race-a.jpg) Traditional-Style Dragon Boat head at the Dock with a person in position to catch a flag. ![Tail of a Traditional-Style Dragon Boat with a Portland Rose Festival Flag.](https://pksca.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2024-6-9-Boat-Race-a_27.jpg) Tail of a Traditional-Style Dragon Boat with a Portland Rose Festival Flag. ![A Traditional-Style Dragon Boat fully loaded near the dock.](https://pksca.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2024-6-9-Boat-Race-a_29.jpg) A Traditional-Style Dragon Boat fully loaded near the dock. ![A volunteer, Mike, at the rallying point for teams before a race.](https://pksca.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2024-6-9-Boat-Race-a_46.jpg) A volunteer, Mike, at the rallying point for teams before a race. ![2 Traditional-Style Dragon Boats in a race.](https://pksca.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2024-6-9-Race-b-2.jpg) 2 Traditional-Style Dragon Boats in a race. ![Traditional-Style Dragon Boat in front of the crowd in the Bowl.](https://pksca.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2024-6-9-Race-b-6.jpg) Traditional-Style Dragon Boat in front of the crowd in the Bowl. ![Traditional-Style Dragon Boat side view after race.](https://pksca.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2024-6-9-Race-b-28.jpg) Traditional-Style Dragon Boat side view after race. ![Side view of Traditional-Style Dragon Boat returning after race.](https://pksca.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2024-6-9-Race-b-60.jpg) Side view of Traditional-Style Dragon Boat returning after race. ![Flag being captured during end of a race.](https://pksca.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2024-6-9-Race-b-67.jpg) Flag being captured during end of a race. ![Flag being captured during end of a race.](https://pksca.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2024-6-9-Race-b-73.jpg) Flag being captured during end of a race. ![Audience for the Race in the Bowl.](https://pksca.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2024-6-9-Race-b-101.jpg) Audience for the Race in the Bowl. ![Audience for the Race in the Bowl.](https://pksca.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2024-6-9-Race-b-112.jpg) Audience for the Race in the Bowl. ![Dragon Boat Team at marshalling point before race.](https://pksca.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/IMG_4533.jpg) Dragon Boat Team at marshalling point before race. ![Dragon Boat Team at marshalling point before race.](https://pksca.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/IMG_4550.jpg) Dragon Boat Team at marshalling point before race. ![Traditional-Style Dragon Boats. View From end of boat with tail and more boats in the distance.](https://pksca.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/PXL_20240608_024938335.jpg) Traditional-Style Dragon Boats. View From end of boat with tail and more boats in the distance. \*This section is on the culture and history of the Portland Rose Festival Dragon Boat Race. To view race information visit the [main page](https://pksca.net/portland-rose-festival-dragon-boat-race/). ### **PORTLAND ROSE FESTIVAL DRAGON BOAT RACE WEEKEND IS THE SECOND WEEKEND AFTER MEMORIAL DAY\!** **June 6-7, 2026 8am to 4pm [South Hawthorne Waterfront Park](https://www.google.com/maps/place/South+Hawthorne+Waterfront+Park/@45.5126365,-122.6742015,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x54950b5dbd70cb2b:0xae96a03eb2fa65f6!8m2!3d45.5126365!4d-122.6742015!16s%2Fg%2F11qfbz78b4?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTIxMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D)** The PKSCA is excited to present the Portland Rose Festival Dragon Boat Race, the 2nd Saturday after Memorial Day, at the South Hawthorne Waterfront Park. South Hawthorne Waterfront Park, Portland, OR, 2nd Saturday after Memorial Day – The Portland-Kaohsiung Sister City Association (PKSCA) presents the Portland Rose Festival Dragon Boat race annually. The race is the second Weekend of June and is free and open to the public. This race involves around 50 teams, Women’s, Mixed, Open, and High School, racing in the incredibly special traditional-style Dragon Boats from Taiwan. Each race has 4 teams compete by sprinting 500m down the Willamette River ending at the bowl in the South Hawthorne Waterfront Park where their flag catcher reaches out from the dragon’s head to capture their flag. Saturday’s heats define the playoff bracket, and Sunday is when they compete for their medals. The opening ceremony is Saturday, 8am. Races run from 8am till around 4pm Saturday and Sunday. The awards ceremony takes place around 3:30pm on Sunday . Come enjoy Race weekend with us, there will be food and retail vendors, and many exciting races for all to enjoy on the waterfront at [1403 S Harbor Way, Portland, OR 97201](https://www.google.com/maps/place/1403+S+Harbor+Way,+Portland,+OR+97201/@45.5125383,-122.6745588,16z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x54950a12003ddae5:0x7c8ae84b2c81e1de!8m2!3d45.5125383!4d-122.6745588!16s%2Fg%2F11c29hrpq7?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDIyNC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D). The event is free and open to the public. The first Portland Rose Festival Dragon Boat Race was put on by the PKSCA in June of 1989, 34 years ago. The race attracts teams from the Pacific Northwest and around the world. The traditional-style boats are unique and incredibly special. Each of the 8 boats is just over 40’ long with a colorful dragon head molded in fiberglass on the front and a tail in the back. During a race each boat has a caller, a drummer, 20 paddlers, a flag catcher, and a tiller. The race ends after a 500 meter dash when the flag catcher climbs the dragon head and reaches out to capture the flag. Each team has its own culture and story, made up of people 14 and up, from all walks of life drawn together by their love for Dragon Boat racing. This year we are introducing an Open Division, with no gender restrictions. It is a rare sport where everyone is seen and treated as equals, and where there is access for so many. Dragon boating is for everyone, every age, every ability, every body. The Dragon Boat Festival, 端午節 (Duānwǔ jié) in Traditional Chinese, has it’s history in the Warring States period of China, in 278 BCE when virtuous Qu Yuan, an advisor in the court of Chu and the people’s poet, drowned in the Miluo River in Hunan Province after the capture of the Chu Emperor. After his death he became a water spirit that needed to be appeased. The dragon enters the story as a fundamentally vital part of Chinese culture for over 6000 years, symbolizing divine power and energy that controls the water. The festival, generally considered to have begun about 1500 years ago, has expanded around the world. Today there are year round races and several variations on the nature of the race itself. Although, the joy and spirit of the Dragon Boat Race is shared by all. The PKSCA Portland Rose Festival Dragon Boat Race is proud to be part of this tradition. The Portland-Kaohsiung Sister City Association (PKSCA), founded in 1987, has presented the Portland Rose Festival Dragon Boat Race annually, since 1989. The mission of the Portland-Kaohsiung Sister City Association is to promote people-to-people exchanges of educational, artistic and cultural activities in accordance with the spirit of the Sister City International and to promote Portland and Kaohsiung, Taiwan to the world. The race is a celebrated and sanctioned part of the Portland Rose Festival. Additionally, the PKSCA works with the Shu-Te High School in Kaohsiung who participate in the annual Rose Festival Grand Floral Parade, as well as having a Dragon Boat team with one of their older traditional-style Dragon Boats in the Starlight Parade. Come enjoy the Dragon Boat Races this year at the South Hawthorne Waterfront Park ([1403 S Harbor Way, Portland, OR 97201](https://www.google.com/maps/place/1403+S+Harbor+Way,+Portland,+OR+97201/@45.5125383,-122.6745588,16z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x54950a12003ddae5:0x7c8ae84b2c81e1de!8m2!3d45.5125383!4d-122.6745588!16s%2Fg%2F11c29hrpq7?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDIyNC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D)) June 7th and 8th and learn more at [**pksca.net**](https://pksca.net/portland-rose-festival-dragon-boat-race/) or follow us on social media @pksca.db.race. - [Portland-Kaohsiung Sister City Association](https://pksca.net/) - [Privacy Policy](https://pksca.net/privacy-policy/) - [Terms and Conditions](https://pksca.net/terms-and-conditions/) - [Contact Us](https://pksca.net/about/contact-us/) - [© 2026 Portland-Kaohsiung Sister City Association]("Copyright 2026 Portland-Kaohsiung Sister City Association") - [PO Box 80404 Portland, Oregon 97280]("PKSCA Mailing Address: PO Box 80404 Portland, Oregon 97280") - [info@pksca.net](mailto:info@pksca.net "Email Address: info@pksca.net") - [Login](https://pksca.net/wp-admin "Login to Manage Your Team") - [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/pksca.db.race/) - [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/pksca.db.race/) - [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/@pksca.db.race) - [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/pksca-db-race.bsky.social) - [Threads](https://www.threads.net/@pksca.db.race) - [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdTlpBnz5Nq4pHfFTOzNbUQ) - [Mail](https://pksca.net/cultural-programs/dragon-boat-race/)

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\*This section is on the culture and history of the Portland Rose Festival Dragon Boat Race. To view race information visit the [main page](https://pksca.net/portland-rose-festival-dragon-boat-race/). ### **PORTLAND ROSE FESTIVAL DRAGON BOAT RACE WEEKEND IS THE SECOND WEEKEND AFTER MEMORIAL DAY\!** **June 6-7, 2026 8am to 4pm [South Hawthorne Waterfront Park](https://www.google.com/maps/place/South+Hawthorne+Waterfront+Park/@45.5126365,-122.6742015,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x54950b5dbd70cb2b:0xae96a03eb2fa65f6!8m2!3d45.5126365!4d-122.6742015!16s%2Fg%2F11qfbz78b4?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTIxMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D)** The PKSCA is excited to present the Portland Rose Festival Dragon Boat Race, the 2nd Saturday after Memorial Day, at the South Hawthorne Waterfront Park. South Hawthorne Waterfront Park, Portland, OR, 2nd Saturday after Memorial Day – The Portland-Kaohsiung Sister City Association (PKSCA) presents the Portland Rose Festival Dragon Boat race annually. The race is the second Weekend of June and is free and open to the public. This race involves around 50 teams, Women’s, Mixed, Open, and High School, racing in the incredibly special traditional-style Dragon Boats from Taiwan. Each race has 4 teams compete by sprinting 500m down the Willamette River ending at the bowl in the South Hawthorne Waterfront Park where their flag catcher reaches out from the dragon’s head to capture their flag. Saturday’s heats define the playoff bracket, and Sunday is when they compete for their medals. The opening ceremony is Saturday, 8am. Races run from 8am till around 4pm Saturday and Sunday. The awards ceremony takes place around 3:30pm on Sunday . Come enjoy Race weekend with us, there will be food and retail vendors, and many exciting races for all to enjoy on the waterfront at [1403 S Harbor Way, Portland, OR 97201](https://www.google.com/maps/place/1403+S+Harbor+Way,+Portland,+OR+97201/@45.5125383,-122.6745588,16z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x54950a12003ddae5:0x7c8ae84b2c81e1de!8m2!3d45.5125383!4d-122.6745588!16s%2Fg%2F11c29hrpq7?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDIyNC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D). The event is free and open to the public. The first Portland Rose Festival Dragon Boat Race was put on by the PKSCA in June of 1989, 34 years ago. The race attracts teams from the Pacific Northwest and around the world. The traditional-style boats are unique and incredibly special. Each of the 8 boats is just over 40’ long with a colorful dragon head molded in fiberglass on the front and a tail in the back. During a race each boat has a caller, a drummer, 20 paddlers, a flag catcher, and a tiller. The race ends after a 500 meter dash when the flag catcher climbs the dragon head and reaches out to capture the flag. Each team has its own culture and story, made up of people 14 and up, from all walks of life drawn together by their love for Dragon Boat racing. This year we are introducing an Open Division, with no gender restrictions. It is a rare sport where everyone is seen and treated as equals, and where there is access for so many. Dragon boating is for everyone, every age, every ability, every body. The Dragon Boat Festival, 端午節 (Duānwǔ jié) in Traditional Chinese, has it’s history in the Warring States period of China, in 278 BCE when virtuous Qu Yuan, an advisor in the court of Chu and the people’s poet, drowned in the Miluo River in Hunan Province after the capture of the Chu Emperor. After his death he became a water spirit that needed to be appeased. The dragon enters the story as a fundamentally vital part of Chinese culture for over 6000 years, symbolizing divine power and energy that controls the water. The festival, generally considered to have begun about 1500 years ago, has expanded around the world. Today there are year round races and several variations on the nature of the race itself. Although, the joy and spirit of the Dragon Boat Race is shared by all. The PKSCA Portland Rose Festival Dragon Boat Race is proud to be part of this tradition. The Portland-Kaohsiung Sister City Association (PKSCA), founded in 1987, has presented the Portland Rose Festival Dragon Boat Race annually, since 1989. The mission of the Portland-Kaohsiung Sister City Association is to promote people-to-people exchanges of educational, artistic and cultural activities in accordance with the spirit of the Sister City International and to promote Portland and Kaohsiung, Taiwan to the world. The race is a celebrated and sanctioned part of the Portland Rose Festival. Additionally, the PKSCA works with the Shu-Te High School in Kaohsiung who participate in the annual Rose Festival Grand Floral Parade, as well as having a Dragon Boat team with one of their older traditional-style Dragon Boats in the Starlight Parade. Come enjoy the Dragon Boat Races this year at the South Hawthorne Waterfront Park ([1403 S Harbor Way, Portland, OR 97201](https://www.google.com/maps/place/1403+S+Harbor+Way,+Portland,+OR+97201/@45.5125383,-122.6745588,16z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x54950a12003ddae5:0x7c8ae84b2c81e1de!8m2!3d45.5125383!4d-122.6745588!16s%2Fg%2F11c29hrpq7?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDIyNC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D)) June 7th and 8th and learn more at [**pksca.net**](https://pksca.net/portland-rose-festival-dragon-boat-race/) or follow us on social media @pksca.db.race.

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