Molokai is home to the world surf ski championships and rightly so – it’s one of the most testing events on the International Ocean Ski calendar. But can it lay claim to being the only open water crossing in the world? The Celtic Crossing is the brainchild of event founder and organiser Glenn Eldridge of Ocean Sports UK – “completing the Molokai in early 2000, seeing the Hawaiians cultural link with the ocean and the heritage of the crossing I thought that there must be something similar I could do here in the UK”.