FoilNexus LLC

Turning a raw track into a session

A ride arrives either from a watch or as a file. We accept GPX, TCX and FIT, individually or as .gz and .zip archives, and read them into a single session record: trimmed start and end, distance, time on the water, and per-run splits. Speed is taken from the device's Doppler measurement where the recording carries one, and computed from position only as a fallback, because position-derived speed on a foil is noisy enough to invent records that never happened.

Recording on the wrist

Most riders would rather not carry a phone. The eFoilCrew Garmin watch app records the session on the watch itself, then uploads it to the rider's account when the watch next reaches connectivity. Pairing issues a per-device token the rider can revoke at any time; no Garmin account credentials pass through us. Which data screens the watch shows, and in what order, is configured from the web app and delivered to the watch.

Reading the board

An electric hydrofoil board keeps its own logs, covering battery and motor behaviour that no watch can see. We decode those logs over Bluetooth after a ride and merge them into the session the watch or the uploaded file already created, so one ride stays one record. This work is in limited testing with selected riders rather than generally available.

Places and conditions

Riding spots are shared by the people who ride them, with conditions reports attached. Sessions are matched to the spot they happened at and enriched with the weather that was actually present at the time, which is what makes one ride comparable to another months later.

Gear, records and the crew

Riders keep their setups against an equipment catalog, so a board, mast and wing combination can be attributed to the sessions ridden on it. On top of that sit performance statistics, leaderboards, personal records and achievements, and the community layer: profiles, follows, posts, forums and direct messages.

How the pieces fit

One account, one session record. Whether a ride came off a watch, out of a board's own log, or from a file exported by some other device, it lands in the same place and is analysed the same way. That is the whole design: the rider should not have to care which device happened to be recording.