Foiling Week Pensacola Details
Foiling Week Pensacola
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February 24-March 2, 2025!
WHAT IS FOILING WEEK?
Foiling Week Pensacola is a 1-week festival celebrating hydrofoiling* (foiling) watercraft that are fast, fun, and the future of moving on water. The festival, now in its 11th year at Lake Garda in Italy is expanding to Pensacola, and includes:
- foiling sailboat and foiling board races,
- vendors of boats, boards, clothing and nautical gadgets,
- on-water trials where attendees can try a variety of cutting-edge foiling boats, boards, and toys,
- demos of foiling boats, foiling boards, by the all-star athletes that fly them
- a sailing film festival,
- musical entertainment,
- symposia aimed at all aspects of hydrofoiling applications, and
- a focus on sustainability!
- networking for businesses interested in setting up shop in Pensacola!
This festival is all about public participation and is especially designed to give non-sailors an up-close look at the boats, boards and watercraft that leverage hydrofoiling technology. Foiling Week Pensacola is FREE and open to the public, and will deliver entertaining and engaging opportunities to visit Pensacola and enjoy the natural wonder of the Pensacola Bay along with the unique dining and entertainment culture of Pensacola, America’s first sailing city!
Read on to learn about the history and planning of Foiling Week Pensacola!
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** Boarders – Please select lodging options on Pensacola Beach, the Foiling Board Campus
Foiling Week Pensacola Venues - Big Picture
24 February – 2 March
Foiling Week Pensacola is a really big foiling sailboat and foiling board race (19+ classes), embedded in a really big Pensacola-style festival, crushed right into Pensacola Mardi Gras! That is way too much to fit on the Pensacola waterfront, so we have spread the activities, racing, and spectator opportunities across our community to leverage our incredible features. On the other side of Foiling Week Pensacola, our guests will see why Pensacola is their only choice for a beach vacation!
The City: The Pensacola waterfront and downtown is the city-side foiling boat and spectator epicenter.
Pensacola Beach is the foiling board campus headquartered at the Hilton Pensacola Beach, the epicenter of all foiling board races, exhibitions, and trials.
Foiling Week Pensacola - City Venues
24 February – 2 March
Event and Race Operations for Pensacola Bay racing will be based at Pensacola Yacht Club (Watson Sailing Center).
The Race Village will be Community Maritime Park spectators get up-close to the action while enjoying a Pensacola-style festival!
The Foiling Film Festival will be based at Phineas Phogg’s in the Seville Quarter where juried submissions will be screened.
VIP Cruises on the Pensacola City ferries, positioned in the thick of the action with a commentator, food and beverages! Book Here
Race Schedule - City Venues
27 February – 2 March
11 PM – 4 PM Daily
FOILING BOAT CLASSES: MOTH, WASZP, NACRA 15FCS, BIRDYFISH, A CLASS, SKEETA, F101, FLYING PHANTOM, WHISPER, IFLY, UFO
SPECTATOR SPOTS: Community Maritime Park, VIP City Ferries
Foiling Week Pensacola Race Village!
Community Maritime Park in downtown Pensacola is the center of the city-side activity for spectators, exhibitors, the Palafox Market, music, race commentation, sustainability activities, and food + drink! If you haven’t been to Pensacola, you can find the Race Village at: 301 N. Main Street
Foiling Film Festival
The Foiling Film Festival makes its North American debut on Thursday 27 February, on the screens of the history Phinneas Phogg’s in the historic Seville Quarter! This venue is just a short walk from the Race Village at Community Maritime Park taking you across Palafox street and Downtown Pensacola!
Foiling Board Campus & Vendor Exhibitions
24 February- 2 March
Racing Boards will be based at the Pensacola Beach Hilton. Flatwater race courses will be on the Santa Rosa Sound while wave racing will be on the Hilton beachfront in the Gulf of Mexico!
Here is a look at the current surf conditions at the Hilton and at the Pensacola Beach Pier!
Demos of watercraft and foiling toys will occur at Quietwater Beach, on Pensacola Beach!
Race Schedule - Beach Venues
24 February – 2 March
TIME: VARIABLE
BY CLASSES/DISCIPLINE:
IQFOIL, Open Kite: 24 February – 26 February, 10 AM – 2 PM, Santa Rosa Sound
X-15, Open Wing: 26 February – 27 February, 10 AM-Noon, Santa Rosa Sound
FlexFoil*: 26 February – 27 February, Noon-5 PM, Santa Rosa Sound
Foil Surf Race League: 1 March – 2 March, 10 AM-2 PM, Gulf of Mexico/Hilton
*FLEXFOIL: Includes: PUMP, WAKE, eFOIL, DOWNWIND
SPECTATOR SPOTS: RED FISH BLUE FISH, LAGUNAS, FLOUNDERS, HILTON BEACH
*WHAT IS HYDROFOILING?
*Hydrofoils are underwater wings that lift a boat out of the water, which lessens the amount of energy needed to push the boat forward. That means:
- less fuel is used (in the case of motor-power powered craft),
- less electricity is used (in the case of electric propulsion craft), or
- the boat goes much faster (in the case of wind-powered sailboats).
Hydrofoils are making epic contributions beyond sailboat racing and recreational toys and are redefining conservation of energy in commercial marine shipping.
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Foiling Week – How It Looks
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE EVENT:
Foiling Week:
“Foiling Week” is an event dedicated to boats that are equipped with hydrofoils—a technology that allows a vessel’s hull to lift out of the water, reducing drag and allowing for extraordinary speeds. Hydrofoils are used on the American Magic sailboats based at the Port of Pensacola and challenging to win the 37th America’s Cup.
Hydrofoils are wings or blades that are attached to the hull of a boat below the waterline. When the boat reaches a certain speed, the hydrodynamic lift provided by the hydrofoils raises the boat out of the water, instantly decreasing the amount of power required to propel the boat. At that point, the propulsion system pushing the boat can be throttled back, saving energy while keeping the same speed OR, in the case of racing sailboats, sending them into overdrive speeds!
Foiling Week is a festival, celebrating the current and future role of hydrofoil integration into watercraft design. The Foiling Week Pensacola festival will include a series of events highlighting hydrofoiling, including:
- Racing of hydrofoiling sailboats;
- Foiling Forums;
- Consumer trade show;
- Film Festival; and,
- New tech demos!
These events bring together stakeholders in the watercraft community, including designers, builders, sailors, and enthusiasts to share knowledge, experiences, and the latest innovations in foiling.
The race portion of the event features different classes of foiling sailboats, from small dinghies to larger multihulls, and even foiling windsurfers and kitesurfers.
The B2C tradeshow allows consumers to purchase sailing and marine softgoods, art, jewelry, and hardware in a village of vendors from around North and South America!
The forums are presentations by designers, engineers, and sailors addressing scientific, commercial, and practical aspects of hydrofoil implementation in water toys, sailboats, and powered watercraft.
The sailing film festival spotlights juried selections in narrative documentary and fiction categories, all in the 15 minute ‘short’ format. This event will propel Pensacola forward as the North American epicenter of sailing film!
The new tech demo puts the latest foiling watercraft (boats, boards, foiling, electric, and sailing) in the hands of consumers to try! There isn’t anywhere in North America where the public can access this range of exciting new products in the hydrofoiling world!
Non-sailors will have just as much fun, immersed in the energy of this latest technology, shopping for novel nautical gear, taking in music, film and Pensacola’s amazing food scene.
Foiling Week Pensacola 2025 is the first permanent venue for Foiling Week outside of Europe. The organizers believe the coalescence of high-performance sailing interest, American Magic, and the natural sailing assets of the Pensacola Bay create an ideal venue for the North American expansion of Foiling Week. As this event grows, increased industry sponsorship and industry demo fees will be generated. In addition, booth space and associated revenue for B2C and B2B components will increase with each subsequent year.
Foiling Week builds on the momentum of the American Magic base development and training in the Pensacola Bay. The event is a festival format, but with a sailing theme, which will be a new yet contextually relevant festival, in a shoulder month for Pensacola. The event is the only one of this type in North America and will be marketed to both North and South America, following expressions of interest from those markets. The expected direct impact of the one-week event attracting North and South American attendees will be supplemented by secondary visitation resulting from the tourism venue exposure. Both primary and secondary visitation will increase TDT funds and will do so by activating a world-class festival in a shoulder season for Escambia County.
It’s here in the place Mayor Reeves calls “America’s First City”. We alter that slightly – “Pensacola – America’s First Sailing City!”
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Foiling Week – How It Looks
FOILING WEEK PENSACOLA:
Links from Foiling Week
https://youtu.be/gGGeK2oCqP4?si=muoNs0lqI_MLXh7H
https://youtu.be/e6cScB2n2HE?si=a98swXXJOJ_z1Mwc
https://youtu.be/uFN4MBtUXm8?si=-cxPXVSm3zNbO8Od
Pensacola Hype Reel:
https://vimeo.com/883347899/9fee9b91b6?share=copy
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