Bart de Zwart AKA Mr.Endurance is Dutch but has been living in Hawaii for 17 years. He started as a windsurfer and had several windsurf centers in Greece and Venezuela before settling in Maui. After he sailed around the world he became a Starboard Dream team rider and has been on that team for 8 years. He has won the 11-city tour, 4 times and is well know for his Ultra long distance races, expeditions and open ocean crossing in all continents of the world. 24hr SUP distance record holder and 2 time winner of world’s longest race the Yukon River Quest. Bart is running a windsurf / SUP store in Maui where he trains and surfs big waves in the winter.
10 Jul 2018
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 […]
5 Jul 2018
Long distance solo champion Florent Dode, Janneke Smits, Prone paddler Mathieu Chevalier, Tandem paddlers Sébastien Le Meaux and Stéphane Leblond have all announced audacious plans to break the world record for 24 hours paddling. The attempt will be to paddle the greatest distance in a 24 hour period all in their respective categories. TotalSUP is excited to […]
15 Jun 2018
Le 23 juin prochain deux frenchies décolleront pour le Yukon, au fin fond du Canada, à la frontière avec l’Alaska, avec un triple challenge de taille dès le 27 juin: être les premiers français à aller au bout de la course la plus longue du monde, sur un SUP tandem en formant un duo handi-valide. […]
27 Apr 2018
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 […]
20 Apr 2018
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 […]
5 Jan 2018
Joanne Hamilton-Vale (JHV) 24-hour female record holder and founder of UK Paddle Endurance Series talks to TotalSUP about her ultra endurance paddling, recent relocation to Australia and her epic 404km paddle down the River Murray, where she became the 1st solo paddler to complete it. A Brief Introduction – How is Oz? How is the SUP […]
11 Dec 2017
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 […]
7 Dec 2017
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 […]
4 Dec 2017
Indomitable Dutchman Bart de Zwart is no stranger to endurance tests in the world of stand up paddle! We know him best for his innumerable exploits, from breaking the 24-hour world distance paddling record to setting a new best recorded time at last year’s Great Glen Challenge in Scotland, or indeed, taking part in the […]
8 Sep 2017
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 […]
4 Jul 2017
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 […]
31 May 2017
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. […]
19 Oct 2016
By Bart de Zwart, international endurance SUP Racer — Green mountains, hairy cows, old castles and the Loch Ness monster … what a more perfect backdrop for a spectacular SUP race than Scotland! Unfortunately the former organizer of the Great Glen Paddle, announced that it was simply cancelled 4 weeks before the event. Luckily, fellow ultra long distance […]
15 Sep 2016
En pleine organisation de l’édition 2017 de Ze Caribbean Race sur sa mer natale de Guadeloupe, Romuald Mamadou a pris le temps de revenir pour nous sur son incroyable voyage à Hawaii en juillet dernier. Un rêve de gosse enfin réalisé avec en ligne de mire plusieurs courses mythiques où le nouveau downwinder du Team Starboard […]
