Yep, you heard right. Massive challenge and an awesome adventure for a few of Australia & the world's best prone paddlers.

The guys are:

Brad Gaul (Aussie) - 2 x Molokai Paddleboard Champion 2012 & 2013
Zeb Walsh (Aussie) - Molokai Stock Paddleboard Champion 2013
Jack Bark (from California) - Molokai Stock Paddleboard Champion 2012

More info & follow their journey at:
www.facebook.com/DateWithTheStrait?fref=ts

Island hopping and perfect timing with the weather would be the way to go..

Sleeping on Islands along the way was the quote!
Hell of a Journey to make , good luck and fair winds to them!

I've been following the lead up to this, can you believe they are doing it on stock 12 foot boards...

pretty sure its been done before in kayaks , same method island hoping , think the longest distance travelled was about 40 ks

well we better get some sup guys in training !! can't let the prone boys get 1 up on us . could turn into the next Molokai ???
just too bad i'm up here in qld

Believe it or not, a guy declares he did it on his hobbie cat !!!
This story has been told to us many times. ( by him personally)
Believe it or not!
Windsurfers, kites , kayaks , Hobbie Cats, why not Paddle boards, good on them

geared4knots said..

Believe it or not, a guy declares he did it on his hobbie cat !!!
This story has been told to us many times. ( by him personally)
Believe it or not!
Windsurfers, kites , kayaks , Hobbie Cats, why not Paddle boards, good on them

And OC6 outrigger canoes, we did it in 2009 island hoping. Was stranded on Deal Island for 3 days due to massive storms, it was an awesome paddle experience and raised $50000 for the Cancer Foundation. I also put together a video of the crossing but the video host has since removed it.
rambos-locker.blogspot.com/2009/06/crossing-for-cancer-video.html
rambos-locker.blogspot.com/2009/03/crossing-for-cancer.html

Good luck to be boys, it's a once in a lifetime opportunity, Dean Gardiner is also with them Unofficially on a Surfski.
Also Ex Ironman Guy Andrews did the crossing on a ski a few years ago, actually it's quite common hundreds of people have done it.

log man said..

PTWoody said..

HumanCartoon said..

An old salt who worked Bass Strait for years once told me that if you island-hop the chain at the eastern end of the strait (which their route looks like) the max distance between islands is about 20-25k...but some of those islands would be have to be fairly inhospitable.

An epic adventure - all strength to them!

Actually some of the islands that ARE inhabitable are in fact not so hospitable in the Deliverance country sense, if you know what I mean.

You're talking the whole of Tassie there brother,...............er .....sister?

Cousin will cover it.