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Current Record - Rush Randle's 10-mile single-swell tow-in foil ride
World Record Snapshot
- Record Title
- Longest tow-in foil ride distance on a single ocean swell
- Discipline
Downwind Foiling 
Tow-In Foiling- Class
- Open / Distance
- Measured Result
- Distance: 10 miles - (Higher is better)
- Date
- 1995-01-01
- Has Stood For
- 31 years, 141 days as of 2026-05-22
- Location
- Unknown
- Record Holder
- Rush Randle
Record Holder Spotlight
Monster Council Approval
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The Ride, The Proof, The Glory
Tony Klarich's historical account of stand-up foilboard development explains how Laird Hamilton, Rush Randle, and Brett Lickle moved from Air Chair experimentation behind personal watercraft toward purpose-built foilboards for tow-in wave riding. In that account, Klarich writes that Rush Randle later backed up his brand with a claim of a 10-mile ride on a 20-foot ocean swell that lasted for 15 minutes. The article presents the distance as Rush's claim, not as a formally measured or independently sanctioned record, and this event is recorded in the same careful way. It is included because Tow-In Foiling, especially in its early experimental years, generated meaningful achievements that were documented through specialist histories and community memory rather than formal record books. The present entry therefore preserves the claimed 10-mile distance as a fun Foiling Freaks record candidate while leaving the event date and venue blank until a stronger primary source is located.
Rules of the Beast
Qualifying entries must describe a single continuous tow-in foil ride on one ocean swell. The tow is used for the wave-entry phase, and the sustained record portion must be represented as wave-powered travel after the initial tow-in transition. The published source must state a numeric ride distance in miles or kilometers and must connect that distance to a single ride, not to an accumulated session total. GPS tracks, course reconstructions, video timing, and named witness accounts are preferred, but community-level historical claims may be logged when clearly labeled as claims. If the source does not provide a date or venue, those fields remain blank rather than inferred. Later entries may surpass earlier claimed distances only when their source provides a comparable single-ride distance.
How This Got the Nod
Historical secondary account reports Rush Randle's claim. Exact date, venue, and primary ride documentation were not located in this research pass and the date is set to a general timeframe.