Wing Foil Traveling

I used closed cell foam sold for building insulation. Super light and good for impacts. And quite cheap in 10m rolls about 4mm thick. Double wrapped the foil parts and also wrapped the board.

I've never had an issue with the foil components - but I've had plenty of board dings in transit. I have sandwiched foils between the board and wings in the past and that works ok (make sure to have something between them and the boards).
The tricks that I have dialed in after a lot of travel:

1) Flexi Hex. It's pretty cheap, it's light, and it really protects the board. Highly advise using this. I can usually get a round trip out of it, but it gets trashed (recycled) after that.


2) I'm now packing my foils and wings separately from my board. I used to pack it all together but the bag gets super heavy and large and I find that the handlers are less careful with it when it's huge. The weight also carries more inertia if it gets dropped. Keeping things separately packed is safer.


3) try to minimize your board size and quiver size. It just makes things so much easier. 1 board, 1 mast, 2 foils, 2 wings. I used to travel with a whole shop packed into my bag and it was a nightmare. Just because you have room (or weight) to spare, doesn't mean you need to use it.

this is indeed very funny

I also have the Pro Limit wingfoil session bag. It's probably impossible to keep a complete wingfoil setup in this bag within 'economy' weight limits (20-22Kg most airlines) so you may have to pay an overweight charge. It's been cheaper to fly business on shorter flights (like FRA- Canaries) as you get two free 32Kg bags. Nobody charges extra for a piece of "sports equipment" anymore, just weight.

Whatever type of padding you use for the foils, a very useful thing to keep it all together is a roll of thin plastic wrap (for food storage). Wrap wrap wrap around everything, it's cheap and keeps your padding in place. Pack your foils on your deck pad with your wetsuit in between. Wrap the board and everything with the stretchy plastic wrap.

It's an environmental disaster but the whole sport is. Figure the contents of that bag represents at least a barrel of oil, we won't talk about the flight

From North Carolina to Oahu to Melbourne (Torquay to Jervis Bay driving) to Sydney to Oahu to North Carolina. No board dings. Quick pack/unpack (no cumbersome taping). Bottom pad doubles as a hotel room/air bnb exercise/stretch mat. No stock bag protects a board well enough for airline travel imho. That added high density semi-rigid foam perimeter band made all the difference. I glued canvas fabric on the outside of that foam band so it would maintain its shape in the bag while traveling. Looks crude but works great. Wheeless Mystic bag (light!) so I bungee on a quick fold wheel cart to move it around and stuff the cart in another smaller bag at the checkin counter. Under 50 pounds.

Doin it all over again come Dec (minus the Oahu stopover) with a Foil drive+ added to baggage list,....unless I can find a 2nd used board to just store at my daughters place in Melbourne

I travel alot with my wingfoil gear. Prolite surfboard bag, just throw it all in and do some padding with clothing etc. You need foil gears with covers though, I have Unifoil and they come with all padded covers so it's prime.