Riding the New Wave

CALLING ALL WOULD-BE SUPERHEROES: FLITEBOARD LETS YOU flY OVER WATER

We all know the surfboard, and the more adventurous among us may have tried kitesurfing or wingfoiling. But what of the Byron Bay-designed Fliteboard eFoil in Australia? The electric-powered hydrofoil has been called the iPhone of Jetboards. “It’s amazing. It feels like you’re flying,” says former Formula I racing driver Nico Rosberg.

The board, on which you can stand or lie down, much like a conventional surfboard, gives a sensation of flying or gliding silently over water, irrespective of the state of the wind or the waves. A smart, streamlined 21st-century reworking of the calm-shattering jet ski, it’s fast, quiet, emissions-free, leaves no wake – and is woke. Retailing at about US$13,000, it’s the perfect high and represents water transport’s wave of the future.

On a single 90-minute charge, the eFoil can reach speeds of up to 28mph (45kph) over an 18-mile (30km) range. It can travel over any body of water more than three feet deep – so oceans, seas, rivers, lakes and bays are all your new playground. Created using digital wind-tunnel technology, and made from carbon fibre, aircraft-grade aluminium and high-quality wood composites, the unibody-powered fuselage glides on the water like a knife through butter. All of which you command with the Flite Controller, a handheld remote that provides real-time performance as you glide.

Naturally, it’s inducing waves of adoration on Instagram. “Flow state, also known coll the zone’, is the a person perform fully immersed focus, full involv in the process,” and Sauzier. “My firs hydrofoiling wa What an incred crazy-fun experi high from it!”

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