eFoil racing is starting to look like a real sport. The Foil Surf Race League has a standard 5-buoy layout: two start buoys, a left turn, a right turn, and a top mark. Simple to describe, annoying to set up — especially if you're alone on the water and trying to pace out 150-yard legs by eye.
The latest Endless Waves update bakes the whole flow into the app. Lay the course out on your phone, sync it to your Apple Watch, then let the watch walk you to each buoy location and tell you when to drop it. Once the buoys are set, start a race and your session is recorded with the course as the reference.
How it works
1. Plan it on the map
Drop an anchor point, rotate the course to face the wind or the run you want, and the five buoys snap into the official FSRL layout — 150 yards on a side, fixed geometry, no guesswork.
2. Sync to the watch
One tap pushes the course to your Apple Watch. From here on you don't need your phone in your hand — the watch holds the layout.
3. Set the buoys
Switch the watch into Set Mode. It picks the next buoy, points you in the direction you need to go, and counts down the distance as you approach. When you're on top of the target, drop the buoy and tap to confirm. Repeat until all five are in.
4. Race
Start a session and rip the course. Endless Waves records the run on your watch and uploads it — lap times, top speed, the whole path through the buoys — ready to compare against your previous runs and the rest of the community.
Why we built it
The first time I tried to set up an FSRL course by myself, it took 25 minutes of guessing distances, walking buoys back and re-dropping them, and squinting at a phone in waterproof case. I burned half my session and the geometry was still off.
The watch is the perfect place for the “walk to here, drop it” part. It knows where you are, it can talk to you with haptics, and it's already on your wrist when you're riding the eFoil out. The phone is the perfect place for the planning part — you want the big map to pick the anchor and the heading.
So we put each step where it belongs. Plan on phone. Set on watch. Race anywhere.
This is a beta
The eFoil Race Course feature ships behind a BETA tag in-app. The FSRL layout is locked at 150-yard legs because that's the standard, but other course shapes and custom geometries are on the roadmap. If you race, hit me up — the more feedback I get from people running actual sessions, the faster the rough edges go away.
Kevin Dickinson is the founder of Endless Waves, a foil surfing session tracker for Apple Watch and iPhone. Available on the App Store.
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