LIND board standing in calm water at sunset
Water / Future of Water / 003

Surf where others can't.

LIND didn't set out to make another water toy. It set out to preserve the feeling of surfing — and take it somewhere waves don't exist.

Black-and-white scene of a rider with a LIND board looking out over flat water

Future of Water / 003 — Prototype feature

Most surfing begins with a wave. LIND begins with the absence of one.

Born from the idea that surfing shouldn't be limited by geography, LIND pairs traditional surfboard craftsmanship with an electric drivetrain built to let riders surf wherever there is water — not only where the ocean cooperates.

We came across it while looking at how the water world is quietly being rebuilt.
This is why it stopped us.

The Idea

What if you didn't need a wave?

Surfing has always been an agreement between a person and a coastline. Swell, tide, season, luck. Everything else in the sport is negotiation.

Take the wave out of the equation and what remains is the part people actually chase: speed held under the feet, a rail engaged, a line drawn across open water.  That feeling turns out to be portable.

Rider carving a LIND electric surfboard across calm open water
Origin

Built between two worlds.

LIND describes its creative identity simply: California × Sweden. Surf culture on one side, Scandinavian design and engineering discipline on the other.

It's an unusual pairing, and you can see both halves in the object — the looseness of a shaped board, the restraint of a product that hides its complexity.

California × Sweden

LIND board finished with a Swedish-flag inspired design
LIND boards and equipment displayed as design objects
Shaped by Shapers

First, it had to feel like a surfboard.

Shaper sanding a LIND board by hand in the workshop

The emphasis sits where you'd hope: outline, foil, rail, fin, finish. Craft first, hardware second — because a powered board that doesn't behave like a surfboard is simply a different sport.

Rails decide how forgiving a turn feels. Volume decides confidence. Surface finish decides how the board releases. None of that is solved by horsepower.

Detail of a custom LIND board surface, stringer and finish
Craft first. Then power.

Future of Water / 003

The Technology

Then they put 27 horsepower in it.

LIND board laid out with its battery, jet drivetrain and charger

Long-Range Battery

Ride time
Up to 45 min

LIND Jet

Electric jet
20 kW / 27 hp
Speed
Up to ~40 mph

Fast Charger

Charge
~1 hour

Current complete board price

Complete board
$26,950

Canvas configurations

6'3"

Shortboard

6'9"

Midlength

Why It Caught Our Attention

The world has a lot more flat water than waves.

Rider low on a LIND board driving through a turn on open water

LIND is interesting to us not because it's electric, and not because it's fast. It's interesting because it changes where the experience can happen.

Lakes. Calm coastal water. Yacht destinations. Resorts. Mornings with no swell at all. Places where traditional surfing simply isn't possible.

Creating an extraordinary water experience in an unexpected place is exactly the kind of idea WakeLuxz exists to discover.

  • Lakes
  • Calm coastal water
  • Yacht destinations
  • Resorts
  • Anywhere flat
Art + Custom

When the board becomes the canvas.

Pair of LIND custom art boards with bold painted designs

Because the board begins as a shaped object, its surface can be treated as one. Alongside the standard finishes, LIND explores custom and artistic work — boards made to be looked at as much as ridden.

Not every board is a one-off. But the door is open, and that is a distinctly different posture from a mass-produced water toy.

Up to 45 min

Ride time

20 kW / 27 hp

Electric jet

Up to ~40 mph

Speed

~1 hour

Charge

$26,950

Current complete board price

LIND rider crossing calm water beneath the Golden Gate Bridge
Future of Water / 003

Surf where others can't.

Maybe the future of surfing isn't about finding the next wave. Maybe it's about realizing you no longer need one.

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