Does Overboat's silent personal foiler spell the end of Jetskis and pedalos?

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Published 2022-05-04
Toby Hodges gets a spin on a new personal electric watercraft. No emissions, noise or wake. Will this finally dethrone the jetski?! It certainly has lots of potential for the rental, hospitality and event markets

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All Comments (21)
  • @Paul-ou1rx
    I would have put the forward button in the up position and Reverse below.
  • @broheme8922
    My grandmom's older sister would love this.
  • @jonchester9033
    Looks to be about as exciting as an afternoon nap on a hammock!😸
  • @neilreid2298
    I can see the older crowd getting one of these but the younger ones will want the power and tricks you can do with a PWC. Just a thought. I love foils though!
  • @realpaddy5270
    Enjoyed that! Thank you Toby. I hope that you will do a full review from the boat show.
  • @buffalosoldier7360
    This is one of the first iterations and people are already complaining! Do you remember the first jet skis? One person, noisy, stinky, underpowered. Now 4 stroke craft are great, imagine this after a few more years of development. Just as electric cars are taking over, so will electric short haul water transport.
  • @o0bananaman0o
    600w solar bimini would fit on that and be a treat, some fishing rod holders and an esky on the stern and YBS has a new runabout
  • @tangomechanic
    Great complement to electric cats like the Silent yacht. A tender of sorts. The foils should have an option though to raise e.g. like daggeboards to access shallow waters on a rocky beach...
  • @motfc8
    €20.K I was expecting higher. Amazing! I would like to see it on a choppy day at haulover inlet.🤞🏼😬
  • @gimmytube1
    no this is not the end for jetskis, not even close
  • @btlmail1969
    Interesting video. Upside quiet and calm, really cool. Downside large draft , harder to tow and store, lower speed, less drive time, longer charge time Batteries are key.
  • @marinajarniat
    In my opinion I do not think that Overboats are in the market to compete Jetskis because this is for me totally two different things and I think that the target/audience of Overboats might be different as well. Why not competing efoil surfboards but jetskis I am not sure. In any ways, I totally love the Overboats' idea and I can't wait to try it!
  • @OzAndyify
    I used to love foilers but they have a few drawbacks that limit them. You will hit something at speed one day, and the foil either has to break or fold in some way. Either way you are crashing at speed. Foils need to be really clean, or they fly badly. Above 20 kts there are real issues with cavitation, and ventilation is always an issue in rough water. Again, random crash at high speed. Foils are inherently tricky in engineering sense, so they are expensive to do right. (20K EU!!) I'd go for a ski setup with suspension and swamp-boat type prop for a hoon-craft.