Foiling Magazine

Air NAZARÉ

TOM COURT

s Glyn and I have worked and spent time with each other in the past, it was always our sharing of wild ideas that brought us together. One such wild idea (cooked up as we were demoing the new Fliteboard electric hydrofoils in the UK at Southampton boat show) was to take them to Glyn’s home spot at Nazaré in Portugal and ride the world’s biggest waves. Like all ideas, this relied on a lot of outside chances for it to come together, but after emails, calls and a lot of enthusiasm, the wheels started turning to line up the conditions and pull the trigger on the plan. Seasons aligned, deliveries arrived, Covid restrictions

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