THE FRENCH POLYNESIAN CROSSING

In 2014, Bart de Zwart completed a three-night, four-day open ocean journey on his stand up paddleboard, crossing from Tahiti to Bora Bora. With his impressive multi-day crossings, Bart is making a name for himself in the SUP world as a man of big missions.

Words: Bart de Zwart / Photography: Tim McKenna and Bart de Zwart

It was three years after my first big crossing, and here I was again, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with no land in sight.The night before, I had slept on and off and gotten enough rest, but now deflating my bed and strapping the gear bags tight to the board, I felt seasick again. The three different cross swells didn’t help. Two minutes after choking down a small breakfast, my body rejected it. I knew I had better pull myself together and get some food and liquid in or this was going to be a long and very tough crossing. I was just 30 miles into a 180-mile crossing between Tahiti and Bora Bora. I had fallen in love with these islands and their people after sailing there in…

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Kayak Session (Digital) - 1 Issue, SUP World Magazine 2015

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