Surf Foil World Tour packs three major stops into busy stretch

The Surf Foil World Tour spent this stretch showing its hand: this is not one stop built around one specialty, but a circuit trying to cover every corner of the sport. Munich opened the run at an Olympic rowing venue, Cabarete brought the tour into the Caribbean for the first time, and Lake Garda will close the sequence with a wider festival format that mixes racing and industry access.

Munich looked like the stop with the biggest competitive weight. More than 100 riders from around the world were expected at the Olympic Rowing Stadium, also known as Regattaanlage Oberschleißheim, where the June 12-14 event sat inside Munich Water Days. The German debut carried championship points, and the E-Foil and Pump Foil World Championship races were continuing to take shape. A separate event listing said spectator admission was free and open to the public, while another preview pointed to food trucks, an exhibitor village and a festival atmosphere around two days of elite racing. That combination made Munich more than a showcase. It made it a rankings event with volume, variety and real consequence.

Cabarete changes the equation. The June 17-21 stop in the Dominican Republic is the SFT’s Downwind Parawing World Cup, presented by Vela Cabarete in partnership with Cabarete Wing Fest, which calls itself the official host of the event. The tour’s race notice said it was a first for both the Caribbean and the event, which is the kind of marker that matters beyond the podium. Cabarete’s trade winds, warm water and established watersports culture should give the new discipline a cleaner stage than a one-off demo ever could. If Munich is about points, Cabarete is about visibility.

Lake Garda will finish the three-country swing from July 2-5, with Foiling Week Malcesine running June 28-July 5 on the Veneto side of the lake. The SFT says competition there will include downwind foil, pump foil, e-Foil and parawing, with Foiling Week once again serving as the bigger umbrella. Now in its 13th edition, the Malcesine event has grown from its 2014 launch into a global foiling hub with racing, conferences, boat tests, clinics and side events.

Taken together, the run says exactly where the tour wants to go in 2026: more disciplines, more formats and more places where foiling can be judged not just by speed, but by how well each stop moves the sport forward.