Sunday, January 20, 2013

Chris Bertish - The SUP Crossing, The Fastest Self Propelled Trans-Atlantic


The most arduous, amazing and extreme journey ever attempted on a Stand Up Paddle board!

Over 2007 Miles/3225km, across the Atlantic from Dakar, Senegal to Camocim, in Northern Brazil, for the first ever Trans-Atlantic solo-attempt in December 2013.

Chris Bertish is a 37 year old Cape Town watersports champion who is an accomplished waterman across several watersports disciplines such as sailing, swimming, windsurfing, kite-surfing, big wave surfing and stand up paddling.

Chris has won major big wave surfing events against all odds, and is used to turning adversity into opportunity - as he did when he won the 2010 Mavericks Big Wave Championship, held in the biggest surf recorded in the history of the sport, merely hours after touching down from a 42hour flight from South Africa - on a borrowed board!

Chris has also recently returned back from competing in the first ever ISA SUP World Champs, where he represented RSA in the distance/ flat water racing discipline, where he finished in 9th in the world.
More; http://thesupcrossing.com/

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