Don't need a boat for this...

[Kaido]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BUe243lFX_w/?taken-by=liftfoils

$12k pre-order, top speed of 15mph, wireless controller, 1 hour usage, 2.5 hours to recharge. Crazy expensive, but that would be a blast to use on the water!

 

[whm1974]

Buy one and let us know if it is worth it.

 

[Kaido]

Buy one and let us know if it is worth it.

A lot of the electric surfboards are going in the $20k range, so they're really only worth renting for a few hours when you're on vacation.

Unless you have $12k to burn.

And are on the water a lot

 

[RockinZ28]

Looks pretty sweet. Hopefully there's a Chinese knockoff for under a grand soon. Bonus, you'll have quick access to fire suppression.

 

[Darwin333]

Doesn't look like it would work nearly as well on water that wasn't "glass".

 

[SearchMaster]

I wouldn't be surprised at all if my BIL picked one up. He has a lot of disposable income and is into stuff like this. I do wonder if it works well on choppier water because our lake is only serene in early morning and later evening.

 

[vi edit]

I think it should be mandatory that they ship with a silver outfit you have to wear.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I'm kinda intrigued at how that even works. Wonder what the battery life is like, at 12k it better be using some kind of voodoo battery tech that when I get home at the end of the day I can just hook it up to my house and run the whole house off it then feed the rest to the grid.

 

[purbeast0]

Like waverunners, that would get old very quickly. Like mentioned, that would be cool to do on vacation and rent for like 20 minutes or so.

I remember trying paddle boarding and was like 'this is it?' It was so boring after like 5 minutes and there's nowhere to go or anything to see other than the ocean, that I could see from standing in the water.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Yeah it seems like a rather novelty thing, like it would be cool at first, then the novely kind of wears off. If they were like a grand, maybe not THAT hard to justify if you own a cottage or something, but at 12k there's so much more you could do with that money.