Submitted by Nicole Zander.
Photos by Detlev Kalter, Anka and Birgit
De Pinke Deerns, Bremen, Germany
Our team was founded in May 2023, and became a member of the IBCPC in October 2023. We will be participants in Aix les Bains in August 2026!
To start our season this year, we had to wait until floods were thing of the past.
The flow speed of the Weser River has normalized, so we started to paddle on April 2nd, 2024 in Bremen.
The football stadium, “Weser-Stadion“, is our paddling territory, you can see it on one the photos. 14 pink dressed beauties in wind and weather (12C, rain, windy) started the 2024 season. What a great feeling for all of us!!
Two of us just learned the position of the helmswomen in the dragon boat last season. Friendly dragonboat clubs have guided us. Ladies try it! It’s worth it. Now we control and train ourselves. What an honour and what an adventure.
We started last year with 11 women, now there are already 23 of us. That’s a true confirmation. Fun and joy of life are in our foremost in our lives.
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We are pleased to be a part of the wolrdwide connection. We will meet you in Aix les Bains!! We just booked the accommodations. We are incredibly happy! In this sense: paddle forward.
I won’t get on the boat without you.
