Red Equipment - UK
Red Equipment - UK

Through Hell or High Water: Tashka’s Avon Descent on a paddleboard

Written by Lydia Burdett /

In August 2025, Tashka Goeswell became the first woman to paddle all 124km of the gruelling two-day Avon Descent race on a SUP. From shallow weirs and grade 4 rapids to ti tree maze chaos, she tells us how it went – and how her Red Voyager performed through it all…