Mike & Jessica Duncan

Stacey Kostavicki & Angela D’ Alessandro 

Megan Chapman & Bryan Morelock

Jim & Jennifer Richardson

Kristen Phillips & Ashlee Warner

T

he 5th Annual Pensacola Dragon Boat Festival is a yearly 
paddle boat race organized by the Northeast Pensacola 
Sertoma Club. On Saturday, September 8, teams gathered to 
row to the fi nish line and compete for bragging rights. The 

festival consists of dragon boat races, athlete’s village festivities, arts and 
craft vendors, food vendors, and family activities, including face painting, 
free caricatures, and balloons. The races feature twenty-one individuals 
on a team paddling a forty-two-meter paddle boat three hundred meters 
down Bayou Texar. Opening ceremonies consisted of a performance 
from the McGuire’s Pipe Band and the Young Marines of Pensacola 
introducing the teams. 

In the past four years, the festival has delivered over eighty thousand 

dollars to the Gulf Coast Kids House. A record breaking thirty-nine 
teams and thirty vendors signed up for this year’s festival. The event is a 
great team building exercise for companies, organizations, krewes, non-
profi ts, and raises awareness to the local community. This year, proceeds 
benefi ted both Gulf Coast Kid’s House and Junior Achievement of 
Northwest Florida, Inc. 

Adam Medley & Liam Longsworth

   VIP Pensacola at Bayview Park

photos & story by

 

Kristina Wright 

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