This electric, propeller-driven hydrofoil with bicycle-style handlebars is the superior way to glide across the waves, if you can afford it.
I'm zipping around—a foot above the waves most of the time—on an electric hydrofoil board made by the Canadian company Hydroflyer. Jerry McArthur, Hydroflyer’s CEO, is on another of his company’s boards behind me. We started out at a peaceful lagoon inside the bay in Sausalito, but I’ve decided to trek over to the bridge—where the current and waves are the strongest—just to see if the Hydroflyer could handle it. Turns out, it very much can. The question is whether I had the aquatic acumen.
McArthur laughs and says his lawyers probably wouldn’t be very happy to hear that he took me out that far in these conditions. OK cool, I'll be sure not to tell them. Floating World Hydrofoils are growing in popularity, particularly among rich dudes. Admittedly, it's difficult to be in a bad mood when your workplace is a tranquil cove in San Francisco Bay with a close-up view of the towering Golden Gate Bridge as the last of the morning fog peels away to let in warm rays of sun.
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