foil windsurfing
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thumb|Windfoiling on Lake Champlain, near Burlington, VT, USA Windfoiling (or foil windsurfing) is a surface water sport that is the hydrofoiling evolution of windsurfing, as well as typical sailing boats and sailing hydrofoils. It uses similar equipment to windsurfing with a normal or slightly evolved rig on a normal or specialist foil board.
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thumb|Windfoiling on Lake Champlain, near Burlington, VT, USA Windfoiling (or foil windsurfing) is a surface water sport that is the hydrofoiling evolution of windsurfing, as well as typical sailing boats and sailing hydrofoils. It uses similar equipment to windsurfing with a normal or slightly evolved rig on a normal or specialist foil board.
== Mechanics == The board has a hydrofoil mounted in the fin box. The hydrofoil lifts the board off the water and enables the rider to achieve improved speeds in light winds due to the reduced drag.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “foil windsurfing” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.