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Embark on a thrilling journey to the untouched wilderness of Norway’s Lofoten islands with renowned ultra-long-distance paddleboarder and adventurer Bart de Zwart. Last year in May, Bart left his sailboat in French Polynesia and traveled all the way to the North of Europe to paddle through the dramatic landscapes of the Lofoten archipelago on his […]

Starboard Dream Team Rider Bart de Zwart conquered Loch Ness this past weekend and won The Great Glen Challenge non-stop SUP race in an impressive 12hrs and 18mins. This was his 3rd September non-stop ultra-endurance SUP race after the gruelling 220km non-stop tour of the SUP 11-City Challenge and the 223km Muskoka River X Coureur […]

Imagine a race challenge so extreme that only 20 teams out of 68 finished it this year due to radical weather conditions. Imagine only one stand up paddler among those teams who completed the race in 32 hours. Welcome to The Muskoka River X Coureur des Bois challenge: 223km. 39 portages. No resupplies. No support. […]

Starboard SUP team rider and endurance paddler Bart de Zwart has taken the fourth consecutive win in the 2019 Yukon River Quest, completing the 715km (444 miles) paddle expedition race from in Whitehorse to Dawson City, Canada in a winning time of 56 hours 47 minutes and 47 seconds. Race to the Midnight Sun Known […]

Starboard paddler Bart De Zwart has just landed back from his expedition in Vanuatu. The expedition evolved from found memories of sailing through the islands in 2007 with his family. A journey that made Bart fall in love with the people, nature and culture of the islands. The Dutch expedition paddler gives TotalSUP an account […]

By Bart de Zwart Once or twice a year I am lucky enough to go on one of those special trips. I call them expeditions because it is an exploration into the unknown.  A stand up paddle board my preferred way to travel.  I honestly don’t know where I going to sleep tomorrow. I know […]

Starboard long distance paddler and adventurer Bart De Zwart is fresh off the Yukon River Quest. Bart gives TotalSUP a breakdown of his 715 km race through the Yukon where he paddled using the Carbon Sandwich All Star 14 x 24.5, a board that performed exceptionally throughout with its brilliant combination of a good race shape […]

Follow Starboard SUP adventurer Bart de Zwart as he explores the Marquesas Islands for the next 12 days tracing the footsteps of the famous Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl powered by WindSUP. Here is the latest diary update from Bart as he arrives on the island of Hakahau. Yesterday I did 70 nautical miles (130km) this […]

Follow Starboard SUP adventurer Bart de Zwart as he explores the Marquesas Islands for the next 12 days tracing the footsteps of the famous Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl, powered by WindSUP. The Starboard WindSUP design  is based on a popular Starboard paddleboard shape, to which they added a mast track and centre-fin box to plug in […]

And that’s a wrap! Going from strength to strength, year on year, Ironmana 2017 has come to a close for another edition. And our man on the ground, the one and only Starboard SUP racer Bart de Zwart, gives us his parting words as he says goodbye to Huahine, where the event was held for […]

Bart de Zwart has been in Huahine, French Polynesia, since last weekend, waiting for Ironmana 2017 to kick off. Now that it has, the Dutch king of endurance is keen to share with us his thoughts and impressions of how things are advancing thus far. Letting us in on the ins and out of each […]

With so many ultra long distance successes behind him, one would be forgiven for wondering what further challenges Bart de Zwart could possibly set for himself. But the indomitable Dutchman is not one to remain idle. On the eve of his tenth participation in the SUP 11-City Tour in his homeland, Bart de Zwart was […]

By Bart de Zwart- Not long ago, Chris Parker of SUP Racer asked me, “what motivated you to actually do it?” He was referring to the 24-hour record. With races like this, you always have to ask yourself the same question. Why do it? Signing up is easy. That’s the first step. You can be sitting […]

After having paddled all day and all night on Lake Biel, Switzerland, Starboard rider Bart de Zwart, who already participated in multiple SUP challenges (Great Glen Paddle Challenge, Yukon River Quest, French Polynesian crossing), broke a 24-hour record yesterday. He submitted a recorded distance of 193.8 km (123.4 miles), which exceeds that of previous record-holder Joanne Hamilton-Vale. […]