New Zealand born Suplove Co-Founder and 2013 NZ SUP Champion, Stuart Murray, will be embarking on a Two Oceans stand up paddle expedition on Friday April 12, 2013. This wil be the first adventure of SupExplore!
·Leslie Kolovich of the Sup Radio Show recently conducted a really fun interview with Dave Cornthwaite, an extreme stand up paddle adventurist. Find out what he's up to today.
Leslie Kolovich (SUP Radio Show) interviewed Shane Perrin just hours after he returned home to St Louis from Key West Florida! ·He not only tells the AMAZING story of the highs and lows of paddling 300 miles, but also of taking it another 100 miles to Key West! Read & Listen to the Radio Show Here!
International River Team Stand Up Paddles the 75 mile Coastline from Trestles to Tijuana River to raise awareness of Riverview Mapping System.
SUP Ambassador and former pro surfer Jodie Nelson, has generously supplied six 14' Surftech Bark Dominator Stand Up Paddle Boards and six Quickblade Paddles for the first Annual 70 mile paddle from Trestles to TJ. Below the Surface and Paddle with Purpose, two non-profit organizations based in San Diego, CA and Orange County, CA are currently on the journey.
On Thu May 24th, Kevin Horgan a long distance Stand Up Paddler from Kauai, managed to complete the first circumnavigation of Hong Kong Island on a Starboard 14' Coast Runner, a distance of around 44km or 27.3miles in 8 hours and 7mins. Kevin left Shek O Main Beach at 7.53am and arrived back at 4.00pm.
Last weekend watermen Bill Whiddon and Thaddeus Foote attempted the first-ever crossing of the Gulf Stream from the Bahamian Island of Bimini to the shores of Miami Beach, Florida on stand-uppaddlboards (SUPs) to raise awareness of the impacts of plastics in the ocean. Did they make it?
Bart de Zwart arrived safely at a 12:45am on Friday June 1st to "The Spot" in Zandvoort, Holland after crossing the North Sea solo, non-stop and unsupported in almost 39 hours. This was the first time anyone has attempted and succeeded at paddling from England to Holland!
Bart de Zwart, a 42 year old man from Maui, is setting off on another long distance SUP Journey. Last summer he completed an unsupported, solo, non-stop SUP trip from the Big Island of Hawaii to Kauai. This time he will paddle across the North Sea from England to his original homeland of Holland.
Delaney Kuepper is one ambitious 8 year old girl. Just this past weekend she completed an 11.8 mile stand up paddle journey to help raise money for Rady Children's Hospital. What an incredible feat, especially for someone so young.
Last Friday, December 10th, Arnaud Frennet has crossed the Strait of Magellan in SUP as part of the “MallSport Magellan Expedition”, a Stand Up Paddle trip to the most Southern region of the world. It was the very first time the mythical Strait was ever crossed in SUP and for Arnaud it concluded a project that had begun 3 years before.
Sometimes people think they are crazy. Why travel half-way around the world to paddle for 24 days? But when Sydney firefighters and SUP lovers Ben Chalmers and Shane Austin tell their story, thoughts of crazy turn to impassioned support for their adventure.