We frequently hear how “foiling is the future”. We don’t dispute that foiling is a remarkable development, and continues to find application further into the sport, but is it the future? Will we soon see flying boats of all forms be the norm?

The Foiling Week, an event launched in 2014 to gather the foiling community, produced a video that seeks to inspire and promote foiling as the future. Here is the transcript:
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Sailing conveys many values. Adventure. Performance. Innovation. But now only one word described sailing innovation and defines the future. That word is foiling.

Like smartphones, digital cameras and ultralight thin notebooks, foiling is the biggest innovation of the last 50 years. It will bring sailing to the next level.

But foiling technology doesn’t belong just to the big R&D budgets of America’s Cup teams. Progress is in great part due to entrepreneurs, inventors, doers. We call them thinkers and tinkerers.

We are the largest and most credible global community for the promotion and development for foiling and sailing. This is the sweet spot of that commitment. Skills and a bit eccentric madness play the most important role in the innovation process in the sailing experience.

We champion sailors, doers, inventors, and designers, supporting them to make their next idea a reality. Because experience is everything.
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For sure, foiling is certain to be part of the future of sailing. But how far will it go?