French kitesurfer and the founding father of the sport has led the way yet again for the kids to follow! Having paved the way for the sport, the forty-three-year-old Manu Bertin has also paved the way across the Atlantic ocean on a kiteboard.
Christopher Columbus set out to discover the new world from the island of La Gomera in the Canaries, and it is somewhat fitting that the Frenchman chose to hit the huge challenge from this same island on April 26th. After nearly three weeks of riding, Bertin completed the massive ocean crossing.
Bertin oscillated between three different means to get pulled along by a kite, one after the other: the surfboard-shaped kite-surfing board with which he has already crossed the English Channel, the Mediterranean and the Straits between Maui and the main island of Hawaii; a catamaran whose floats are large surf boards and an inflatable longboat named Cochise – for the periods of rest and eating.
Sidelined by a 50ft catamaran, "Baies du Monde" a four-man crew aided him with the logistics and supplies, but Bertin did not go on board during the entirety of the attempt.
Fulfilling his sporting goal of going as far as possible towards the Caribbean - some 3000 nautical miles to the west - the dude is hard.
With 11 years experience of kite-surfing behind him, the man claerly knows very little about giving up. Manu Bertin has also surfed through the giant waves of Jaws in Hawaii, surfed between the icebergs in Greenland, crossed the 95-mile Channel between France and England, and crossed the Mediterranean between Cape Camarat (Var) and Calvi (Corsica) in 2005. Congrats, guy!
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