The Fin & Foil Festival

19/10/2025

Get ready to fly! 🪁💨

Join our CWA Kitesurfing "Have a Go" Day on the estuary!

Try a trainer kite, meet the community, and get expert guidance.

📅 Sat, 1st Nov 2025
📍 The Estuary

24/09/2025

Start of the season in the south!

Join us for a fantastic afternoon on the water from 2:00 PM on Sunday, October 5th, as we celebrate Harbour Day at the Lyttelton Naval Point Ramp.

Everyone’s welcome – including kiters! We’ll have a support boat on the water and some fun races and events (weather permitting).

Then, head over to the Naval Point Yacht Club for our Annual General Meeting at 5:30 PM.

The bar opens at 5:00 PM, and we’ve got something special lined up:

🍻 First drink is FREE for financial members
🌭 Sausage sizzle with your drinks

Then it’s down to business….

27/07/2023

Oh, HEY THERE!
It’s us, the Fin & Foil Festival team, just checking in 👋

It’s been a good few months since we saw y’all and we started to get nostalgic for the 2023 event so… we wanted to see how many of you are keen for a repeat of the F&FF in summer 2024??

It takes a lot of effort to get this event off the ground so we want to make sure we have a good team prepared to help us with event organising, on the day operations and, of course, a bunch of you interested in participating!!

Tentative dates are the 2-6th Feb 2024 at Lyttelton Harbour

Drop us a comment below if you’re in and we can start the ball rolling 🤙🏼

13/06/2023

Canterbury Windsports Association 2022/2023 Prize Giving and Social Night:

- Sunday 18th June, from 5PM
- Mt Pleasant Yacht Club Hall
- Dinner provided for Club Members
- BYO Drinks

If you have a trophy from last season, please return this to Groundswell ASAP

19/02/2023

🏆🥇🥈🥉🏅
Congratulations to all entrants into the 2023 event, we are still reeling from such an awesome weekend! Special congrats go to Olly Maidment, the winner of the first ever event title for the Fin &Foil Festival!

Apologies for the delays in publishing the results!

08/02/2023

Photos from Sunday @ The Fin & Foil Festival!

With less than ideal wind conditions, Race Officer Greg planned an all-in upwind mission to Sandy Beach! Foils, Fins & Wings!

06/02/2023

And with that, the first ever Fin & Foil Festival come to a close. 👏Congratulations to all of our winners, it was a testing weekend out there. Thank you to all of our sponsors, volunteers and those who travelled to attend.
Bring on 2024 👀