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    The Wizard of Merimbula

    Dec 06, 2019 5 minutes

    Since he was a grommet growing up in Merimbula Australia, Fliteboard founder David Trewern has been obsessed with surf sports. Surf, windsurf, kite, SUP, foil; he’s had a crack at them all, and way back in 2005, the now 47-year-old was the GPS kitesurfing world record speed holder with a 500m average speed of 44.8knots. David even visited Richard Branson at Necker Island in 2015 where he showed off his kitefoiling skills to the bearded entrepreneur. It was around this time that the eFoil idea struck him. “I was at an event with no wind, and a simple idea struck me: ‘What if I could attach a motor to my kitefoil board?’”

    With a background in design and passion for engineering, David realized an opportunity when he saw one, visualizing

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