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by Mikhail FLORES MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — When big wave surfer Doug Falter lost his board in a wipeout in Hawaii, his best hope was for a local fisherman to pick it up. He never imagined it would be found more than 8,000 kilometers (5,000 miles) away in the southern Philippines. More than two years after watching his pale blue custom-shaped board disappear in the huge swell of Waimea Bay, Falter was alerted via social […]
AGUADILLA, Puerto Rico (Reuters) — A company in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, is preparing to launch an electric motorized surfboard which can rise up above water and reach top speeds of 25 miles per hour. Nick Leason, the co-founder of the company Lift Foils which creates the boards named eFoil, told Reuters he envisages their use to be on inland waterways where there are no waves to surf. The 13.6-kilogram (30 pounds) boards run on batteries […]
