This past weekend was the Canadian Downwind Championships in Squamish, BC. Location was absolutely gorgeous, the Squamish fjord winds back into a glacial valley north of the city of Vancouver and dead-ends with the huge Squamish Cheif rock mass looming over the water. The wind is funnelled through the fjord and builds as you get…
Doheny State Beach, Southern California – Saturday 30th October As the fog lifted on Day One of the Pacific Paddle Games 2017 and the sun came out for a beautiful day of fun out of stand up paddle racing. The Starboard Dream Team had stellar performances in the quarter finals (men) and semi finals (women) with the top 10…
Next weekend, the best of the best stand up paddle racers will once again descend upon Doheny State Beach in Southern California for Pacific Paddle Games, the „Superbowl of SUP“. But before next weekend’s showdown in the waves, team Starboard offered a showcase of skill in another iconic California location, far north of Doho –…
Last weekend, the legendary race Molokai 2 Oahu took place for the 21st time with the grueling 32 mile crossing of the Ka’iwi Channel between the two hawaiian Islands. M2O as it’s abbreviated is considered one of the most difficult races in the world. Penelope Strickland took an amazing victory this year in the women’s…
At the same time and location as the Eurotour Long distance race in Schaerbeutz, Germany, the Mercedes Benz SUP World Cup added a technical beach race and another long distance race. Incredible performance by Dream Team rider Olivia Piana showing extraordinary form this summer in Europe and winning both long distance races during the same…
This last weekend was the second racing stop of the APP World Tour so most of the best paddlers in the world converged towards Japan to race it off in the Trump Wetsuits Japan Pro Am. With very windy conditions for the first day of competition the long distance race was launched in difficult waters.…
Starboard duo Leo Nika and Penelope Strickland have taken out the first stop of the 2017 EuroTour, saluting at the ‘Agios Nikolaos on SUP’ festival in epic downwind conditions on the beautiful Greek island of Crete. Leonard Nika, who was the most winningest athlete last year on the EuroTour with 6 victories started off his…
Last weekend saw epic racing in Hossegor, France for the 12’6 SUP nationals to not be confused with the 14’ nationals that took place 2 weeks ago. Starboard women dominated both the beach race and long distance with Dream Team rider Olivia Piana taking first place in front of fellow team rider Amandine Chazot in…
While some paddlers were still racing the Dutch canals for the 11 City SUP, another important race was being held this last weekend. The Japan Cup in Chigasaki that offers 30.000 USD in prize money, the biggest prize purse in Asia, attracted several of the worlds best paddlers. Michael Booth, Australian Starboard Dream Team rider…
With less than 20 seconds difference between them, it’s the younger of the Hasulyo brothers who wins the 2016 version of one of the most challenging races in the world and big brother Daniel taking the second place in front of defending champion Steve Teihotaata who manages to finish third behind the SUP Broz. This…
One of the most difficult and famous SUP race in the world took place on Sunday: the 32 mile channel of bones crossing between Molokai to Oahu. Connor Baxter, who has already won four times this race finished third this year and sent us his recap of the race that you can find here below.…
The Starboard ACE board took first place in the team divisions for men and women in the M2O 14’ stock class with the victories of Lara Claydon and her friend Kali’a Alexio who just won the Woman’s Team division on the 2014 14′ Ace in 5:40:30. Last year Starboard team rider Lara Claydon had won…
Last weekend Leonard Nika won the penultimate stop of the Eurotour his fifth event in the Eurotour and also his fourth consecutive win at the Marotta Adriatic Crown in his home country of Italy. This latest victory shows he is definitively a force to be reckoned with in the SUP Race World and consolidating his…
Bart wins the second ultra endurance race of his 2016 season in Missouri, USA at the MR340, a 547 km race (or 340 miles hence the name) along the Missouri river crossing major US cities starting in Kansas City and finishing in Saint Charles near Saint Louis. Bart also set the new record for the…
Starboard Dream Team rider Connor Baxter does it again in the famous downwind race between the islands of Maui and Molokai in Hawai for a seventh year in a row and also ever since the event began. Connor arrived with almost a two minutes advantage over Australian Travis Grant managing for the second time ever…
Leonard Nika already had the most wins on the 2016 Eurotour after his third win in Finland last week. He just bettered that record with another event win this last weekend in his homeland during the Noli SUP Race on the Northern West coast of Italy close to Genova. Congratulations also to French Starboard riders…
Starboard domination continued last weekend in Sieravuori, Finland during week 10 of the Eurotour presented by the Tiki brand with the third event win of Leonard Nika, the Italian Dream Team rider. Leo is the only male athlete with three wins in the Eurotour (Portugal, Greece and Finland), placing him in fourth position on the…
The EURO Tour 2016 presented by Starboard continues on in Europe and last weekend saw stop number 9 head for Marathon in Greece. The Starboard domination also continues, this time with Starboard Dream Team Rider Leonard Nika from Italy taking first place with a gap of over a minute over Frenchman Eric Terrien in the…
We just received at Starboard HQ this complete Recap by Bart de Zwart after his incredible win in the first ever SUP participation in the Yukon River Quest, an ultra resistance race through the Canadian wilderness. Enjoy: „Just got back to internet country last night. Now flying back to Maui, so no early race update.…
After a successful launch on World Oceans Day and joining the Starboard SW Tiki Tour across California, Arizona & New Mexico, the SUPKids team are heading to Noli, Italy to run the first European SUPKids training program. They’ll be joining forces with the Noli SUP Race to run a 2 day training program for the…
