Does Overboat's silent personal foiler spell the end of Jetskis and pedalos?

I would have put the forward button in the up position and Reverse below.

My grandmom's older sister would love this.

hydrofoils are among my favorite in boating technology. I am glad to see this.

Looks to be about as exciting as an afternoon nap on a hammock!😸

I can see the older crowd getting one of these but the younger ones will want the power and tricks you can do with a PWC. Just a thought. I love foils though!

I love that it makes very little noise!

€20.K I was expecting higher. Amazing! I would like to see it on a choppy day at haulover inlet.🤞🏼😬

600w solar bimini would fit on that and be a treat, some fishing rod holders and an esky on the stern and YBS has a new runabout

I used to love foilers but they have a few drawbacks that limit them. You will hit something at speed one day, and the foil either has to break or fold in some way. Either way you are crashing at speed. Foils need to be really clean, or they fly badly. Above 20 kts there are real issues with cavitation, and ventilation is always an issue in rough water. Again, random crash at high speed. Foils are inherently tricky in engineering sense, so they are expensive to do right. (20K EU!!) I'd go for a ski setup with suspension and swamp-boat type prop for a hoon-craft.

Great complement to electric cats like the Silent yacht. A tender of sorts. The foils should have an option though to raise e.g. like daggeboards to access shallow waters on a rocky beach...

In my opinion I do not think that Overboats are in the market to compete Jetskis because this is for me totally two different things and I think that the target/audience of Overboats might be different as well. Why not competing efoil surfboards but jetskis I am not sure. In any ways, I totally love the Overboats' idea and I can't wait to try it!

no this is not the end for jetskis, not even close

This is one of the first iterations and people are already complaining! Do you remember the first jet skis? One person, noisy, stinky, underpowered. Now 4 stroke craft are great, imagine this after a few more years of development. Just as electric cars are taking over, so will electric short haul water transport.

Thanks for the introduction to this. Love the foil concept although needing a metre of draft for a small inshore boat is a bit of a contradiction in mission requirements. I wonder - has anyone tried packing a jet ski hull full of batteries and an electric motor yet? Going to need considerably more power tho as the drag of the wetted hull surface doesn’t really get reduced like with foils. Lots of interesting ideas to come soon for this market I’m sure.

Interesting video. Upside quiet and calm, really cool. Downside large draft , harder to tow and store, lower speed, less drive time, longer charge time Batteries are key.

I love it! All the benefits of a jet ski while minimizing the disturbance to beachgoers, fishermen, and other small watercraft/hobbies. Plus, more stability and no exhaust. And they will only get faster 😁

The upcoming online videos of idiots crashing these things will be hilarious! Can't wait.

I'll have one and put it on my Canova 142 - when I get it.

Very interesting and always wondered where the hydrofoil technology would go I’m 64 and at age age 9 my dad let me helm a 35 passenger hydrofoil across Biscayne bay from Miami.

Esthetically it needs some refinement but it looks like a lot of fun 😄.