# Expedition foiling **URL:** \ **Category:** Downwind Foil\ **Created:** [December 4, 2024, 7:41pm UTC](https://forum.progressionproject.com/t/expedition-foiling/7846 "2024-12-04T19:41:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Matt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@Matt](https://forum.progressionproject.com/u/Matt)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2024, 7:41pm UTC](https://forum.progressionproject.com/t/expedition-foiling/7846/1 "2024-12-04T19:41:33Z")
One of the ridiculous ideas now showing signs > [@No such thing as a ridiculous idea](https://forum.progressionproject.com/t/no-such-thing-as-a-ridiculous-idea/6605/50): > > Listening to everyone wax on about voyaging, I wondered what it would take to actually voyage with a foil. This [guy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1_7znAeS6M) doing 15k mile [arctic expeditions](https://www.yachtingworld.com/features/15000-miles-around-europes-far-north-in-a-windsurfer-camping-under-a-sail-a-fascinating-tale-145415) on a windsurfer made a downwind send in the Med summer seem like a walk in the park. 800km self supported downwinder across Greece to Turkey anyone? What would it take to be self supported? +10kg of deck weight with some gear still viable to foil? Harder angle Easy angle Andrew Readhead talks about his thoughts for multi-day self supported expedition style foiling (mostly towards the end) [![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/progressionproject/original/2X/5/54253f14e5c1b82540ba16c02e216d3fb04ae489.jpeg "Andrew Readhead: Solo 200km+ Downwind Foil, a Casual Car Chat | Ep.23") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym8JEz2nfqo) Seems inevitable. Reminds me of a combo of bikepacking and expidition paragliding. I’d like to do this somewhere warm like Greece or Caribbean ---
**Author:** ![sailandfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@sailandfish](https://forum.progressionproject.com/u/sailandfish)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2024, 10:07pm UTC](https://forum.progressionproject.com/t/expedition-foiling/7846/2 "2024-12-05T22:07:23Z")
Sounds awesome…I had dreams …then I tried a wing up deflate down. Deflated and ended up with a waterlogged wing and torn bag. Extra weight sloshing around on my back prevented a paddle up…cured of those dreams. F that S\*\*\*. This is for those of superhuman athletic abilities, who can get by on 1 foil in all conditions… whose balls don’t chafe…whom also don’t need food or hydration…and have infinite resistance to hypothermia. I will watch from the couch and dream. ---
**Author:** ![Matt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@Matt](https://forum.progressionproject.com/u/Matt)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2026, 2:43pm UTC](https://forum.progressionproject.com/t/expedition-foiling/7846/3 "2026-08-20T14:43:18Z")
Funny how this now with 3 piece paddle and 2 parawings a few 80 mile days makes this seem entirely plausible for a pro. Edo mentioned he’d like to do something like this, fishing and waterfalls etc in Hawaii. > [@No such thing as a ridiculous idea](https://forum.progressionproject.com/t/no-such-thing-as-a-ridiculous-idea/6605/50): > > 800km self supported downwinder across Greece to Turkey anyone? What would it take to be self supported? +10kg of deck weight with some gear still viable to foil? > > Harder angle > > ![CleanShot 2024-09-30 at 17.41.29@2x](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/progressionproject/original/2X/9/9a738ba55ca03ae9863737abd24a7c1327fe7acc.jpeg) two maps passenger ferries (terrifyingly fast) ![CleanShot 2026-08-20 at 15.51.16](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/progressionproject/original/2X/3/3d10f3f68e3d46d89242426a8e76c0a657b52000.jpeg) cargo ships (probably more predictable) ![CleanShot 2026-08-20 at 15.51.32](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/progressionproject/original/2X/8/8f9727e53ad0d979a39fd6f244a7baa7cbab44bd.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Velocicraptor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Velocicraptor](https://forum.progressionproject.com/u/Velocicraptor)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2026, 2:59pm UTC](https://forum.progressionproject.com/t/expedition-foiling/7846/4 "2026-08-20T14:59:32Z")
There is a guy winging the Greek Island chain right now. Pretty sure he’s doing it self supported, but I could be wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Matt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@Matt](https://forum.progressionproject.com/u/Matt)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2026, 3:07pm UTC](https://forum.progressionproject.com/t/expedition-foiling/7846/5 "2026-08-20T15:07:01Z")
please share a link! ---
**Author:** ![Velocicraptor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Velocicraptor](https://forum.progressionproject.com/u/Velocicraptor)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2026, 3:11pm UTC](https://forum.progressionproject.com/t/expedition-foiling/7846/6 "2026-08-20T15:11:45Z")
Found it. 210 Nm, 16 legs, self-supported. Sounds epic! That said, I think he started on Aug 9 and thus far the map only shows one leg completed. Ive been to some of these places and they are gorgeous and the wind can be insane. The distances are pretty manageable. _Starting from Asimakis Beach on the Attica coast, we’ll ride the summer meltemi south-east through the heart of the Cyclades — Kea, Kithnos, Serifos, Sifnos, Antiparos, Paros, Naxos and the Small Cyclades — then out across the long, lonely crossings past Amorgos and tiny Levitha into the Dodecanese: Kalymnos, Kos, Nisyros, Tilos and Halki, before the final run in to Rhodes._ _Sixteen open-water legs, beach to beach — and a fully unsupported expedition. No shore crew, no following boat: just the two of us, travelling with only what we can carry on our backs. Wings, foils, boards and dry bags come along for every crossing. Where a landing beach and the next launch beach are on opposite sides of an island, we cross overland (taxi drivers of the Aegean, we have your numbers)._ > **[Athens → Rhodes · A Wingfoil Odyssey](https://athens-rhodes-wingfoil.netlify.app/)** > > Tim and Toby wingfoil 400 km from Athens to Rhodes across the Cyclades and Dodecanese — follow the route and live tracker. ---
**Author:** ![Matt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@Matt](https://forum.progressionproject.com/u/Matt)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2026, 3:23pm UTC](https://forum.progressionproject.com/t/expedition-foiling/7846/7 "2026-08-20T15:23:44Z")
Ah cool. Thank you! Yes likewise I feel like it’s pretty ideal place to do it, I can imagine some pretty unpredictable winds on the wrong side of islands, but on the whole pretty good place to try it. I can’t imagine a wing is the right approach given what you can do with 2x parawing. Also I wondered given it’s mostly a port tack on a wing how much fun it would be if you were a goofy foot who couldn’t ride switch 😂 [https://www.instagram.com/p/Dbz3AAco\_0k/](https://www.instagram.com/p/Dbz3AAco_0k/) wind strong from Monday