New Zealand, The Land of the “Long White Cloud” or Aotearoa is a very special place to me. They say, Home is where the heart is, my family draws me home to New Zealand. While I’m there of course, I take the opportunity to SUP the amazingly awesome paddle boarding rivers that are there. Te […]
Tay in a Day
The River Tay in Scotland has got to be one of my UK favourite rivers to SUP paddle. It’s a great mix of long flat sections, amazing highland scenery and wicked white water, and it just happens to be the Longest River in Scotland. A Lochan on the slopes of Ben Lui. The Munro that […]
Mac Coast To Mac Coast Scotland SUP Adventure 2015
After the Source to Sea on the Severn River our return to normal lives, showed us that there are a lot of things in life that aren’t really needed. Don’t get me wrong they are great to have around but you don’t really really need them to survive. What we all noticed was that we […]
Wild Descent 2015- The Clutha River SUP Tour Adventure
While training in Wanaka for the Coast to Coast event I heard of another Event on the Clutha River, I was gutted to hear that it had been planned to run it 2 weeks beforehand and the river was to high so it had been postponed. As a child I what always be captivated by […]
Source To Sea – River Severn
It was August Bank Holiday 2012 and I was doing what I do best. Well I am World Champion at it, with my Guinness Book of world Record title and All, Fastest man in a Bathtub over 100 m. Tristan Bawn, had been along to the World Bog snorkeling Championships in my Welsh home town […]
The Circumnavigation of the Isle of Anglesey
For the last few days I had watched as they readied their yachts. It was time again for the round Anglesey yacht race, where yachts raced around the Isle of Anglesey in a day. I sat in the sun watching and chatting to the crews stowing their bags on board. They were telling of past […]
Achievable By All.
Quite a few people have said that I’m mad. Thinking I can do the Yukon River Quest on a SUP. Yep some of them who know me well, have the right knowledge of me and info to make that statement. Mad because I want to paddle 444 miles or 715 kms down the Yukon River. […]
Where do you want to paddle?
Ever since I was a boy there have been 3 things I have really wanted to do. It may seem odd, but when you look at it they were all water based activities. The first was to paddle on the Clutha River (New Zealand), I’d sit in the back of the car and stare down […]
What Board to Ride ?
For me there is only one type of board that suits my lifestyle and where i want to paddle. I was recently asked why I was using an Inflatable on the Yukon River Quest. My immediate response was: Why not !! They told me that they had seen the speed of a 14 foot rigid […]
SUPthing Old, SUPthing New
Some think sup is new, well it was new to me in 2012. But surfers have used paddles to paddle between off shore breaks for some time. Its not as if they can put their paddle in some sort of umbrella stand by the waves while they surf. So they started to surf with the […]