Foiling UFO Buyer's Guide
Shopping the brokerage market for a Foiling UFO means looking at a ten-foot one-design catamaran built by Fulcrum Speedworks and sold almost entirely within the United States. Unlike a used Moth, every example shares the same patented hull and foil geometry, so the question is less about variant and more about condition and how the original owner treated a boat that was designed from the start to be cartopped, beached, and lent to kids.
Layouts on the Used Market
The UFO comes in a single hull configuration: a solid-decked catamaran about ten and a half feet long with a beam under six feet and a total weight of 110 pounds. There is no cabin, no berth, and no enclosed stowage — the deck is intentionally sparse, carrying only a Cunningham, mainsheet, and tiller, with the mainfoil trunk set just forward of the mast so the foil withdraws between the hulls for landing. A small rig was offered for lighter sailors, and the wand system can be left in a low "no-fly" setting, so some boats will have been sailed more as beach cats than foilers. Buyers should expect the same layout on every boat and judge the example by wear, not by option packages.
Equipment and Common Upgrades
Because the class is one-design, most changes are owner-level rather than factory tiers. The rig is built around an inexpensive sailboard spar with a wishbone boom, and the foil package uses extruded aluminum struts with molded lifting wings. A few owners fit a small rig for junior sailors, but the prevailing story is a boat that collapses to fit a hatchback and rides on a roof rack as delivered. The meaningful buyer considerations are the condition of the carbon-reinforced hulls, the wand linkage, and the foil flaps rather than added electronics or comfort gear, since none of that is part of the design.
What to Inspect
The hull-to-deck joint is a single half-inch flange bonding two molded parts, so check that perimeter bond for any separation or previous repair single half-inch flange. The vinylester-infused foam-and-E-glass shell with minimal carbon is built to be nearly dent-proof, but a used boat may show hard-docking scars at the bow where the surface-sensing wand mounts. Verify the foils withdraw fully above the waterline and that the T-foil daggerboard and rudder wings are free of compression damage. Since the boat was made to be indestructible yet launched off beaches, inspect the flat bottoms for grinding and the aluminum struts for corrosion at the molded foil roots.
Availability and Buyer's Takeaway
The UFO is typically found on the used market in the United States. For a shopper, the short checklist is: confirm the hull-to-deck flange is intact, confirm the foils and wand retract and actuate smoothly, check the flat bottoms for beach wear, and verify the rig spars are unbroken. A clean, complete UFO delivers the same foiling performance as a new one, making condition — not specification — the whole buying decision.
Price & volume trends
Monthly asking-price and listing-volume trends for the Foiling UFO. The line shows the median ask each month; the bars show how many listings appeared.
Monthly breakdown · 1 row
| Month | Listings | Median ask | Δ vs. last mo. |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26 | 1 | $4,500 | — |
Where they're listed
Foiling UFO listings appear across 1 country. United States has the most listings with 1.
Country view
1 listings · 1 country| Country | Median ask | Listings · 12 mo | Active · 90 d | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | $4,500 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |