When six-time Powerboat World Champion Erik Stark climbs aboard a boat, it’s often to rocket toward a gold medal at around 150 mph (240 km/h). But today we’re all getting a chance to go along for a ...

Born from a desire to make boats go faster, today the hydrofoil is being revived as a cleaner form of water transport by ...

The Candela C8 looks like a regular powerboat. But when it gets up to speed, this futuristic leisure craft emerges from the water for a virtually silent ride. Claire Reilly was a video host, ...

Were you expecting to see an electric BMW hydrofoil boat today? Neither were we, but here it is. Named “The Icon,” this boat is a collaboration between BMW and boat maker TYDE, and it was just ...

Maritime transport firm Vessev has developed a fully electric boat that uses hydrofoil technology to reduce energy consumption by up to 90 per cent. The nine-metre-long VS-9 is designed to transport ...

Electric boat manufacturer Navier is showing off the first flight of its Navier N30 hydrofoil electric boat along with a major unveiling event. Hydrofoils, which function similarly to airplane wings ...

Boats aren't typically supposed to fly. That is to literally float a few centimeters or more off the surface of the water at blistering speeds, but interestingly some do and it isn't a new innovation.

The hydrofoil design is finding favour with electric boat builders (see BMW and Tyde’s recent one-off, The Icon), thanks to the low drag resistance of the foils that lift the craft out of the water at ...

A virtually silent motor, no gas fumes, and no crashing on the waves -- my first ride in Candela's C-8 electric hydrofoil gave me a glimpse at the future of luxury water travel. Claire Reilly was a ...