Captain: Bart De Zwart
Bart has been in the water all his life growing up with parents who had a sailings school and sail charter business. He has been sailing all his life and captained many boat for deliveries, charters and privately.
Bart, also called Mr Endurance is known for his Stand up paddle crossings and expeditions all over the world. Bart studied tourism in Holland and then left top explore the world. Sailing every year for about 3-6 months in the Mediterranean, Red Sea, Atlantic and Caribbean.
Then started semiprofessional windsurfing, and sailing, then owning windsurf centers in Greece, Venezuela and later Maui. In 2005-2008. He sailed around the world with wife and daughter.
He became a professional Stand up paddler since 2010. He always had a passion for the long-distance racing on a SUP he won the 11-city tour (the tour de France of stand up) 4 times In 2018 he won the SUP category of the Yukon 1000, world’s longest paddle race. 1000 miles through the wilderness of Canada and Alaska.
Bart is a waterman, with big wave license, captain license, big wave surfer, windsurfer, wing foiler and stand up paddler racer.
CHEF: Dagmar DE ZWART
Dagmar was a graphic designer in Germany until 1992, then spend the second half of her career in watersports.
She learned how to sail in 1990. From 1993 onwards she owned and managed windsurf centers with her husband in Greece, Venezuela and Hawaii. From 2005-2008, she sailed around the world with her husband and daughter.
In 2009 she started with her husband a windsurf learning and rental center in Maui.
Cooking has always been a passion of her, and in 2019, Dagmar started advanced cooking classes.
In 2020 Dagmar and her husband started working full time on a 57 ft Catamaran as chef/captain couple.