We’ve made all the tools you need to setup a race, promote it, and register all the racers, and keep track of all the racetimes and rank all the racers.
The Verdant Ride eFoil Racing League is everything we at Verdant Ride can do to help popularize eFoil racing around the globe.
- It gives the ability for ANYONE to register a racecourse ANYWHERE, promote the event to interested racers nearby, and invite racers to compete.
- Racers can register to compete in the race.
- A fully functional Race Marshal app that keeps track of every racer and their race times, with a photo-finish feature accurate to 1/60th of a second.
- Auto-ranks all riders per race and generates a leaderboard, along with photos and videos shot from the race that all registered riders can upload content to, turning any race event into a shareable, publicly viewable event.
The Verdant Ride eFoil Racing League is a race format built to run anywhere. Any lake, any bay, any wide stretch of river. You mark a course, you time riders, and the results drop into one global ranking alongside every other course in the league.
The format
- A half-mile racing line, about 2,640 ft, out and back combined.
- Four yellow turn buoys, with buoy 4 always the farthest one out. Two layout options are available, Extended and Compressed, detailed below.
- Two green gate buoys, 8 to 12 ft apart, form the start and finish line.
- Running start. You are already on foil and moving when you hit the gate.
- Three runs per rider. Only your single best time counts, so go all out on every one.
- Times recorded to the tenth of a second.
- You have to stay on foil the whole way.
Extended
Zigzag through gates 1, 2 and 3, then a high-speed straightaway from 3 to 4. From buoy 4, it’s a straight run all the way back to the end gates. Best suited to longer, open bodies of water.
Compressed
Zigzag through gates 1, 2 and 3, then a short turn-around at buoy 4, heading back out through 3, 2 and 1 until crossing the end gates. Fits into smaller bodies of water by trading the high-speed straightaway for a repeat run back through all the buoys.
How a lake in Minnesota ranks against a bay in Portugal
Water is never the same twice. Chop, wind, current, and the shape of the shoreline all change what a fast time means, so raw seconds cannot be compared between venues.
Before racing starts, the Race Marshal runs the course all out. That reference time is measured against the league standard of 60 seconds, and the difference is applied to every rider at that race.
If the reference comes in at 69 seconds, the course rode nine seconds hard, and every rider drops nine seconds for ranking. If it comes in at 55, every rider gains five. Your raw time is always published alongside. The adjusted time is what ranks you against the world.
Why the turns matter
Three intermediate turn buoys create real direction changes instead of a straight drag race. The fourth buoy is the unambiguous end of the outbound leg. Carving those turns cleanly, and setting up early for each one, is what separates riders far more than top speed does.
See it in action
A closer look at what race day feels like, from a diorama-style overview to a full 3D flythrough.