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The question in the title is not rhetorical, and it gets answered by what happens when a party full of people who have never foiled meets a lake full of boards.
Two dozen beginners in one day
Rather than handing the boards to guests and hoping, instructors from ZenWatersports were brought in for the day to run lessons, with Beth teaching most of the group. The result was a couple of dozen complete landlubbers riding by the end of the afternoon, which is the single most convincing thing anyone can say about how learnable this sport has become. Watching friends and family get up and glide for the first time is also, frankly, better entertainment than a boat provides.
The guest who came for wakeboarding
The reveal of the episode is a guest who arrived expecting a day behind the boat and discovered the boat was gone. That reaction, surprise followed by curiosity, is the honest test of the decision. An eFoil carries no fuel, makes no wake, needs no driver and no spotter, and it takes up a fraction of the space, and none of that is obvious until you see twenty people using one lake all afternoon.
The one thing you genuinely give up
There is a real trade, and it comes up on camera when someone argues the boat should not have been sold. You cannot take a passenger. A boat carries people who do not want to ride, and an eFoil carries exactly one person who does. If your water time is social in that specific way, that is the cost of the switch, and it is the only part of the argument that holds up.
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