Dover was the scene of a new world-record after group of surfers became the first relay team to cross the English Channel on stand-up paddleboards and one of the team set a new solo record for the crossing.
Conditions were great for the 21-mile crossing to Calais with light winds and the sun shining enabling the team to achieve a relay benchmark World record of 5 hours and 38 minutes.
The relay team included 2009 UK stand up paddleboarding champion Jock Patterson, Matt Argyle, Chairman of the British Stand Up Paddle Association (BSUPA) and ranked 2nd in the UK for stand up paddle boarding, and Simon Bassett, BSUPA head coach. Welsh longboarding champion Elliot Dudley, who is also SAS’s South Wales Representative, also set a magnificent solo time of 5 hours and 38 minutes, which may also stand as a new World-record, it being the first ever official solo Channel crossing by SUP.
The team set out in support of Surfers Against Sewage and raised almost £10,000 in sponsorship money to support SASs campaigns to protect surfers, waveriders, waves and beaches around the UK.
SAS Director director, Hugo Tagholm, said: "I am thrilled that the riders have completed this massive challenge in support of SAS’s ongoing campaigns to protect the UK’s beaches and seas for all to enjoy. Well done to them all for setting such fantastic new World-records, which we hope the Guinness Book of Records will endorse as soon as possible. I’d like to say a massive thank you to the riders for all their efforts and for contributing so much to our campaigns against marine pollution."
Dover was the scene of a new world-record after group of surfers became the first relay team to cross the English Channel on stand-up paddleboards and one of the team set a new solo record for the crossing.
Conditions were great for the 21-mile crossing to Calais with light winds and the sun shining enabling the team to achieve a relay benchmark World record of 5 hours and 38 minutes.
The relay team included 2009 UK stand up paddleboarding champion Jock Patterson, Matt Argyle, Chairman of the British Stand Up Paddle Association (BSUPA) and ranked 2nd in the UK for stand up paddle boarding, and Simon Bassett, BSUPA head coach. Welsh longboarding champion Elliot Dudley, who is also SAS’s South Wales Representative, also set a magnificent solo time of 5 hours and 38 minutes, which may also stand as a new World-record, it being the first ever official solo Channel crossing by SUP.
The team set out in support of Surfers Against Sewage and raised almost £10,000 in sponsorship money to support SASs campaigns to protect surfers, waveriders, waves and beaches around the UK.
SAS Director director, Hugo Tagholm, said: "I am thrilled that the riders have completed this massive challenge in support of SAS’s ongoing campaigns to protect the UK’s beaches and seas for all to enjoy. Well done to them all for setting such fantastic new World-records, which we hope the Guinness Book of Records will endorse as soon as possible. I’d like to say a massive thank you to the riders for all their efforts and for contributing so much to our campaigns against marine pollution."
Dover was the scene of a new world-record after group of surfers became the first relay team to cross the English Channel on stand-up paddleboards and one of the team set a new solo record for the crossing.
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