Things To Know About The Flite eFoil


With electric foiling being an exciting new way to silently glide over the water without leaving a wake or requiring wind or waves to propel you forward, you may be thinking of giving it a try soon. It is super fun to ride a flite efoil and, with the right board configuration, it is easy to master even for beginners.

The interest in eFoils has been growing rapidly in the recent past and it has become a favorite amongst active water sports enthusiasts as well as adventurous yacht charter guests.

So, which efoil should you consider for your yacht? Fliteboard and Lift have been in a fierce race to bring efoils to the market first. Even though Lift seems to have won that race, but it comes at a great expense.

While Lift has added an electric motor to an existing foiling board, Fliteboard has taken the time to design and build the perfect efoil from the ground up using sophisticated parametric models and digital wind-tunnel technology. Due to this, there are substantial differences between Fliteboard’s America’s Cup lineage and Lift.

Since the early days of commercial efoiling, a lot has been learned and experienced from both Lift and Fliteboard products. Overall, it is better to have a flite efoil for various reasons.

One of the reasons to close flite efoil is rideability. Fliteboards have their propellers in-line with the main hydrofoil wing, something that leads to a balanced and centred thrust to move the rider forward. There is no pitching momentum produced, something that drastically increases the stability of the rider.

Lift added their propeller on an existing hydrofoil mast approximately 1/5th of the mast length above the hydrofoil wing. This  resulted into an unfavourable as well as less predictable momentum build up which can result in the board nose-diving

For more information on the flite efoil, visit our website at https://www.thehydroflyer.com/

 


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