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Current Record - 15-foot stand-up foil board ridden under jetski tow
World Record Snapshot
- Record Title
- Tallest stand-up foil board ridden while towed
- Discipline
Boat Wake Foiling- Class
- Open / Height
- Measured Result
- Height: 15 feet - (Higher is better)
- Date
- 2023-08-26
- Has Stood For
- 2 years, 269 days as of 2026-05-22
- Location
- Unknown
- Record Holder
- Charlie Cohn
Record Holder Spotlight
Monster Council Approval
Grindle, along with the foiling community at large, has given this glorious achievement the official Foiling Freaks nod for Boat Wake Foiling.
May it inspire better evidence, cleaner runs, bigger claims, and even louder hooting from the crowd.
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The Monster-Sized Story
In 2023, the Sickos published a video and companion Facebook reel built around a deliberately absurd but real foil-height challenge: making and riding what they called the world’s tallest surfboard. In the public video transcript snippets, they contrast the build against a standard foil they describe as roughly two and a half feet tall, then show an intermediate approximately eight-foot version before unveiling a 15-foot “final boss” foil board.
They say that if they could get fully up on the 15-foot setup it would be a world record, and they describe the previous high mark as 12 feet.
This is not the separate sit-down hydrofoil tallest-foil lineage. It is a weird, inventive, publicly documented stand-up tow-foil height challenge that fits the spirit of fun records. The Sickos video/reel preserves the craft, the 15-foot claimed height, the stepped build-up from normal to oversized foil, and the group’s explicit world-record framing. The exact engineering measurement and any outside adjudication were not found in the public sources, so this is best preserved as a community record claim supported by the original public video trail and later media references to the Sickos’ tallest-foil attempt.
Rules of the Beast
Tracks the greatest publicly documented height of a stand-up foil board that is actually ridden while being towed by a motorized tow source such as a boat, jetski or other personal watercraft. This series is separate from sit-down hydrofoil mast-height records. A qualifying entry should identify the build height in feet, show or describe the rider getting up and riding the tall stand-up foil board rather than only displaying or attempting the craft, and preserve the tow context in the source material.
How This Got the Nod
Primary Sickos video/reel trail states the 15-foot build and frames it as a world-record-height attempt; independent surf media later referenced the Sickos’ world’s-tallest-foil-board stunt.
Video Proof From the Vault
The Sickos documented a 15-foot stand-up foil build for a tow-foiling attempt and framed it as a world-record-height challenge. The tow source was a jetski/personal watercraft, making this distinct from a sit-down hydrofoil height record and from a conventional boat-tow record.