Handing out life memberships are not taken lightly by the club, especially to non residents… but if anybody else wants to paddle a kayak to the island ‘twice’ from the mainland, they’re welcome to one.

He has not just paddled over 600 kilometres to the Island….. He has done it twice.

This is his second attempt to cross the Tasman Sea from Australia to New Zealand single-handedly by kayak.

Scott is trying to raise awareness about asthma, a condition he suffers from. 

To make this journey to the island once, is unbelievable, but doing it twice…on paper, would seem near impossible. 

Four years ago when Scott paddled into our lagoon unannounced on his first attempt, news quickly swept across the island.

We’re just a mere dot in the middle of the Tasman Sea. Never before has anybody arrived in such a small ‘man powered’ craft, it’s unheralded. Nobody thought they’d ever see that feat repeated…. Obviously, we didn’t know Scott. 

The Lord Howe Island Aquatic Club is a non-profit organisation that maintains the Community Boat Shed.

The shed was originally built in the early 1970’s to house a fleet of sailing dinghies, which were raced weekly. Nowadays it houses kayaks, surfboards, sailing dinghies and paddle boards for our members. Currently we have 51, (which includes children).

Scott is our first ever life member from off the island. His double crossing of the Tasman Sea (to Lord Howe), will be written into Island folklore and the Members of the Aquatic club, believe it needs to be recognised as one of the greatest feats of human endurance, this island has ever witnessed.

Not since Sir Francis Chichester in 1931, who flew solo across the Tasman Sea in a Gypsy Moth bi-plane, (from New Zealand to Australia), has Lord Howe seen such an amazing solo effort in such a small craft.

Scott is aiming to make landfall on the Taranaki Coast of New Zealand – a distance of 2200 kilometres (from Coffs Harbour), although he will end up paddling around 3000 kilometres.