Every year is unique, and each one brings its own challenges and accomplishments, however big, small, or meaningful.

We hope you’ve had a great 2024 and can reflect on some positive moments that helped make this year special.

It’s been an epic year for Team Dryrobe®, with some huge wins and exciting accomplishments. They share their 2024 highlights and what they’re hoping to experience in the New Year.

Here’s to celebrating the best bits and discovering new goals, passions, and motivations - we hope 2025 is a good one!

Bárbara Hernández Huerta

It was a very intense but wonderful year, starting with our Antarctica documentary, being World Champion in Estonia in icy waters, and, above all, finishing our very difficult Seven of Seven Seas, which was a 10-year process! 2024 showed me the importance of determination but also of enjoying the process and not neglecting family life, love, and friendship.

I look forward to 2025. Icy waters are coming, the return to Patagonia and my beloved glaciers and Antarctica, international marathons, and above all, not losing the essence of Ice Mermaid, which seeks to protect the oceans by connecting and motivating others to pursue their dreams.

Camilla Kemp

I had the most successful year of my career so far. I became the first female German surfer to qualify for the Olympics Paris 2024 and finished my year off with another consecutive German title.

Cal Major

Spent a month on St Kilda volunteering with the National Trust for Scotland (who I am very proud to be an ambassador for), catching and sampling great skua and puffins to ascertain their response to the devastating avian flu viruses. It's a really incredible place - the islands at the end of the world - and James and I made a series of 5 short films about our time there, documenting our work with the amazing seabirds and the phenomenal NTS team.

More info and links to all 5 short films can be found here.

Hiked the Hebridean Way with our Seaful team, raising money for the charity. We hiked almost the full length of the Outer Hebrides, camping along the way and taking ferries between the islands, until we got to Harris, where, in a surprise turn of event,s we met someone who lent us kayaks and journeyed with us by sea for the last 2 days of paddling into Stornoway in the most beautiful sunny conditions. We paddled past porpoises and seals with eagles soaring overhead and camped on a deserted island overnight. An incredible experience that contrasted greatly with the previous week of torrential rain and storms, which definitely added to the character of the challenge! Dryrobe® very kindly provided us with much-needed ponchos and hats, and we raised over £1000 for Seaful.

Seaful has had some wonderful successes this year, with the expansion of our Ukraine SUP club in North Devon, supported by the Dryrobe® Warmth Project. I have been slowly expanding our Vitamin Sea Project in the Scottish Highlands where I live, running snorkeling sessions with local children and even one of our MSPs.

I think the biggest thing that's come out of 2024 for me has been a combination of the simplest things. I've found so much joy in connecting to the place and the community I live in, having moved up to the Highlands a year ago. It's an indescribably special place, and the people, wildlife, and nature have been totally revolutionary to my feeling of connection and community, to feeling grounded and grateful and dedicated to helping other people and protecting the place we love and live in. It's brought a deep realisation of how important the seemingly small things are in the big picture, and I'm really excited to explore that more.

Jack Hutchens

My First Professional Win: Winning Challenge Vieux Boucau was a moment I’ll always cherish. It’s a reflection of the support I’ve had along the way.

Breaking into the Top 100: Reaching #64 in the world rankings was a proud moment, and it motivates me to keep improving.

Supporting Paralympic Gold: Being part of Dave Ellis’s journey to a gold medal at the Paralympics was an honour.

Thank you so much to you and all the Dryrobe® team for being and believing in me from the beginning! I Look forward to the next!

Taz Knight

2024 was a crazy year for me. In 2023 Chloe and I bought a boat that needed a lot of work, but were determined to set sail in the summer of 2024 for a round-the-world mission.

March ended my last winter in Ireland for the foreseeable future—it was a great winter, so leaving was tough. However, I had no time to dwell, as I was straight into getting the boat (Alicia) ready for us to sail.

The next seven months were crazy. First, we got married, which was amazing, and then we spent crazy long days refitting Alicia. By mid-October, and only a few months behind schedule, we set off from North Devon. Two months in now, we have made it out of the harsh North Atlantic winter into the sunny trade winds of the Canary Islands. Overall, it was a year full of hard work and success.

In 2025, I hope to have a lot more time to relax! My main goal is for us to make both the Atlantic and Pacific crossings by May. While this is no easy feat, I’m hoping the goal of getting the swell season in French Polynesia and Tahiti will drive us onward. After that, I’ve no goals other than to enjoy our mission and maybe find some perfect untouched waves.

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Published on December 31, 2024