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wouldn't the current negate the paddling as you go farther out?
Portugal to French Guiana means following the North Atlantic Gyre - The Canary Current then the North Equatorial Current.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Atlantic_Gyre

Looking at the current maps, I think most of the paddling will be southward, to get down to South America rather than the Caribbean.

For example, Thor Heyerdahl's Ra II, a square-sailed reed boat, went from Morocco to Barbados - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_Heyerdahl#Boats_Ra_and_Ra... .

The people I've heard of who have rowed across the Atlantic generally do Canary Islands to the Caribbean. There's even "The World's Toughest Row" for that route - https://www.worldstoughestrow.com/ .

Seems like a really inefficient way to paddle?
It's rather stretching the definition of a SUP if you ask me, but fair winds and following seas to him anyway.
More power to him and I hope he makes it but ambitious action against climate change this is not. Under no circumstances will modified paddleboards become standard modes of transportation nor will anyone with the ability to make change look at this as something other than a rich dude risking their life.
I don't see the point beyond feeding one's ego. I think he does it because such experiences brings in money in his talks.
Naive question - how will he handle storms? This is hurricane season.
Is there going to be anyone checking that he is actually standing up all the time he's paddling, and not taking a sneaky kneeling break?
Why stand up and not use your legs at all?? People have rowed it.

This is a weird stunt that won’t prove anything. If he (magically) made it in a week people would still fly.

What’s the point? Don’t say “raising awareness”. Whose mind does the exercise have a chance of changing about what question? What behavioral change will that changed mind cause?

Like...why? Why do we need to try this?
"Ubaid/Uruk did not possess the blue ocean technology to reach America. All cultural diffusion models assuming external impulses in the creation of Caral / Olmec civilizations are ruled out"

Writing, Metallurgy, Weaving, Pyramids, … all co-evolution? Could be. Or…

Climate change fanatics are not just climate change fanatics
I'm intrigued how he will store 600,000 kcals of food for the 2500 hours+ on that board. And Water... Any help from a helicopter will be a bit disingenuous.
I don't quite understand this. I guess the point is to do a stunt, but it also shows how useful carbon dioxide emissions are. You can cross the Atlantic in 100 days with zero emissions or a few hours with carbon dioxide emissions...
Looking at the plotted journey....IE Portugal, ivory coast, west to FG.... Isn't this a route normally/regularly done by sail?

Before modern era, surely was done this way in antiquity..

I guess I just don't get it. Does the "paddleboard" represent something more than sail?

This seems… ill-advised.