Wing foil · Barragem do Arade
Three hours on flat water with an instructor, a support boat and all the kit. You bring the swimsuit; the wind does the rest.
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3 hours · equipment included
Three hours with an instructor on flat water: the wing on its own first, then on the board, then up on the foil when you are ready.
€250
2 × 3 hours · on two days
The second day is where it clicks: you start from what you learned, and spend far more of it on the foil.
€460
€500 booked one by one · you save €40
3 × 3 hours · in one holiday
Enough to leave riding on your own: getting up, holding a line, and turning with the wing.
€660
€750 booked one by one · you save €90
90 minutes of eFoil · then 3 hours of wing
Feel the foil first with the motor doing the work, then take the wing. The hardest part of wing foiling is balance on the foil — on an eFoil you learn it in one session.
€429
€479 booked one by one · you save €50
The Barragem do Arade is a lake in the hills above Silves. No swell and no shore break, so every fall is into calm water and every start is from flat.
A support boat stays on the water for the whole session. When the wind takes you downwind, it brings you back up — no long walks, no long swims.
Never a group. The instructor watches only you, so the advice comes at the moment you need it.
How it catches the wind, how to hold it, how to let it go. Twenty minutes, so the water is not the first time you feel the pull.
Kneeling, then standing, on a big stable board, cruising across the lake with the foil still in the water.
When you hold a line, a little more speed and the board lifts. Short flights first, then longer ones.
We film from the water on GoPro and send the clips on WhatsApp within two days.
A WhatsApp message is quickest — the days that suit you and whether you have done any board sports. We pick the hours by the wind and answer the same day.
