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First Tow Boogie hydrofoil ride - 2020
World First Snapshot
- First Title
- First Tow Boogie hydrofoil ride
- Discipline
Tow Boogie Foiling- Class
- Open / Overall
- Measured Result
- First Tow Boogie hydrofoil ride - (First only)
- Date
- 2020-09-23
- Location
- Unknown
- First Achieved By
- Unknown
- Reference
- ZeroTow About
World First Spotlight
Monster Council Approval
Gnar, along with the foiling community at large, has given this glorious achievement the official Foiling Freaks nod for Tow Boogie Foiling.
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The Monster-Sized Story
The earliest strong public Tow Boogie Foiling trail found in this research centers on a builder identified as Mike from Malibu. ZeroTow's history page credits Mike with the first tow boogie build and separately credits PacificMeister with giving the concept its now familiar name on Foil.zone. A public Electric Tow Boogie video from PacificMeister shows the craft in use, and a matching Foil.zone discussion opened on 2020-09-23 around that video. Later prior-art discussion on Foil.zone also pointed back to that September 2020 post as the point where the concept became visible to the wider forum community. The available sources support a first for publicly documented Tow Boogie hydrofoil riding, while the exact day of the water session itself is not independently stated. For that reason, this event uses the public posting date as the dated milestone.
Rules of the Beast
Qualifying event must show or explicitly document a rider on a hydrofoil board being pulled by an unmanned motorized tow craft using a tow rope and handle, with the tow craft controlled remotely rather than by an onboard human operator. Boat or jet ski tow-ins, eFoils ridden directly by the participant, and trailing a powered board with an onboard rider do not qualify. For this first, a contemporary public video, forum post, or similarly dated source must identify the achievement well enough to distinguish it from ordinary powered board footage. If an earlier dated public example is found, this entry should be reviewed.
How This Got the Nod
Credit is supported by a category-history source plus a contemporary 2020 video and forum trail. Exact ride day may predate the public posting date.
Video Proof From the Vault
Mike from Malibu is credited with the first Tow Boogie build, and the PacificMeister video and matching Foil.zone discussion publicly documented the concept by 2020-09-23.