FTC 2026 – PROGRAMME

Foiling is the fastest-growing segment in boating, but growth without rules has a ceiling. This session opens with the data: market size, segments and growth curves across e-foils, foiling dinghies and powered foilers.

It then turns to what the numbers demand next. The Foiling Organization presents its work with certification bodies and insurers towards the first dedicated framework for foiling craft, and asks the question defining the market’s next phase: who insures the flight, and on what basis?
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America’s Cup programmes have built the deepest foiling know-how on the planet, and in North America that know-how is leaving the race course. Leading US and Canadian builders are putting foils under working boats: electric commuters, water taxis, patrol and naval support craft.

The panel explores what racing R&D is worth in a commercial business case, where the capital is flowing, including growing government and defense interest, and what it takes to industrialise a technology born to win regattas.
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Hydrofoil technology has spent two decades being perfected at the extreme end of the sport. Now it is arriving where the market is: the superyacht fleet. This panel follows the transfer chain from raceboat engineering to owner experience, tracing how foiling chase boats, tenders and toys are reshaping life aboard through electric propulsion with real range and wake-free, near-silent operation around the mothership.

Designers, builders and operators come together to discuss what genuinely translates from racing to leisure, what owners are already asking for, and the questions the industry must now answer around certification, classification and insurance of foiling craft. Expect a candid look at where the technology is heading next, and what it will take to get there safely.
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