FULL FROTH // Four years in, the Kernow Foil Classic has grown from a grassroots Cornish meetup into a fixture on the foiling calendar. Freddie Oldfield reports from a week of near-perfect conditions at Gwithian. Finn Spencer cleans up, and the prone final is so close the judges have to watch it all again.

THE ENDLESS FOIL // After more than a decade of dreaming about it, Julia Castro finally makes it to Peru with Duotone teammates Nia Suardiaz and Mar de Arce. Chicama’s near-endless lefts keep running long after their legs give out, and one curious sea lion makes it very clear who the real local is around here…

FINNISH LINES // Benjamin May and photographer Henning Nockel spend a week roaming Finland in an RV with local guide, Juha. The forecast is patchy, at best, but ferry wake, midnight sunlight, abundant moose and endless sauna put an otherwise unlikely foil destination firmly on Benjamin’s must-return list.

OUTER BANKS: IT’S HARDER IN ALASKA // Five months pregnant and with a toddler in tow, Sensi Graves sets out to wing among Alaska’s glaciers. Then the videographer pulls a no-show, a drone meets a cliff, and a birthday ends in tears. Finally though, a breeze delivers a session she’ll never forget.

WORLD TRAVEL GUIDE 2027 // Somewhere out there, the wind is perfect, the water’s warm and the swell is firing – and our 2027 World Travel Guide tells you exactly where to look for it! From Mediterranean islands to the Caribbean and Pacific coasts, we’ve rounded up the best foil centers, resorts and charters on the planet.

FOUR YEARS LATER // When Pedro Gomes first shot Ryu Adegawa, he was a ten-year-old foil prodigy from Japan. Four years on and freshly signed to Armstrong, Ryu heads to the Tahitian Foil Festival in the shadow of Teahupo’o, before a run across the notorious “Channel of Bones”.

DIVINE TIMING // Gusts up to 50mph, three merging channels, a passing cargo ship, a pair of tiger sharks and a rusting World War II shipwreck. Paige Alms rallies Henry McNamara, Dylan Primrose and Cash Berzolla for a 30-plus-mile parawing crossing from Maui to Lanai…

COMMON GROUND // When AWSI wraps up in Hood River, Team Starboard sticks around. Zane Schweitzer, Romain Ghio, Xavi Corr, Summer Drake and 10-year-old Jet Ting chase a fickle forecast through just about every discipline going…