Hey, mokesmax I love your thought process. I'm now pretty proficient at Wingfoiling and want to start sup foiling. My paddle technique is good but the waves I'm going to be surfing are fat and slow, fine when on foil but not when trying to paddle for it. The board I've ordered has an fcs box near the front to aid paddling in a straight line. I reckon 1 of those boost fins will slot in there and happy days!! Nice idea let me know how you go with the scuba jet. When does your Fin arrive, I see they are not sending new orders until june/July..

Good thinking on the boost fin in the front box, I've seen Kalama boards with a front fin, looks promising. I'm not sure when they will ship, trying not to have expectations anymore on that lest I get disappointed. As far as trimming the fin I would think it's best to
keep It as is since their work right now is getting it all sealed up and the antenna working which is in the fin area (sounds like a tricky proposition).

efoiling is fun, I have done it once. Different than the rush of the wave though, can't beat that

Good point about a big Fin up front on touch downs, a small fcs Fin is different to the big boost job!
They did have an option for a stick on adapter/box which you could install in front of the foil box.

I took the setup out on the water today and it was interesting.

The mount definitely held the scuba jet on the board just fine. I had a thin leash from the jet to the mast in case it fell off.

As far as speed goes, it feels like when you start out motoring on an efoil and the board is on the water, but before you gas it up to get flying. I didn't have a speed meter, maybe should try setting the the Apple Watch to do that.

I had the 2400 wing, 300 tail and the 2 shim as well as mounting it almost all the way forward. This setup meant that the board would certainly fly with a small breaking wave, but I didn't have enough of those today to try it a lot. As far as flying without a breaking wave I can't say for sure - maybe some downwinders could explain what conditions are needed with the board to get flying from swells (i don't have any experience with that). I assume that this would be extra speed to normal paddling so getting flying would be based on skill and the swell?

One issue i had was the jet tended to slip in the sup mount that came with it. There is a little spring pin holding it in place on the track and I can only guess the slight play in the track and the movement of the board caused it to pull free. This meant that when it slipped it disconnected the Bluetooth extender which stopped the motor.

Probably if I can anchor the spring clip with something it would help.

As far as self rescue while winging - it definitely has that covered. You could lay or stand on the board and just "jet" upwind if needed. The weight of the jet while winging as well as terrible crashes when the tube touches the water on accident are still unknown factors. I will have to play with it some more and see how flying does (maybe with a boat to see how it handles in the air)

One interesting thought is that it makes you want more power - which means just buy an efoil to skip all this, but then you are limited on what sports you do with the setup.

That's a cool idea. One trick would be the Bluetooth connection - I would have to test the range with the watch to see if it would connect being whatever distance back.

I also wonder how to keep it in the water properly... maybe the existing towboogie setups have some examples

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looks like you guys are onto something.

Hdip said..
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looks like you guys are onto something.

Yeah, this looks really good. The Scubajet seems like overkill for what I'd want it for. Really for a momentary boost of energy to help you get the critical pointspeed required to get up on the foil Then once on the foil I don't want to know it's there. So I'm thinking it doesn't a big battery or even a big motor. RC electric motors apparently pump out, as a general rule of thumb, 3w per gram, so base motor weight of 100g for a 300w motor. Of course there are lots of add on bits, but if the whole unit were to weight in around 1 kg or t most 1.5kg mounted, you're hardly going to notice it.