Sensi Graves and Brandon Scheid head to Seward, Alaska, with a fishing boat full of foil gear and their toddler Flint along for the ride. A new Armstrong Foils film follows the family as they look for wind among glaciers and icebergs.
Finding wind at Aialik Glacier
With Sensi five months pregnant and Flint still a toddler, the trip started with a simple question. Could a remote foiling adventure still work for their growing family?
They based themselves in Seward and headed out with friends who run the Alaska Coastal Explorer boat. The weather gave them limited windows, but at Aialik Glacier the cold air flowing down off the ice brought enough wind for more than an hour of wingfoiling. At Bear Glacier, they took a different approach, using the boat’s wake to get up on foil and pumping among the icebergs.
The story behind the footage
The film is worth watching for the setting alone, but the Foil Life interview fills in the bits that are easy to miss on screen. Sensi and Brandon talk about a videographer who never showed, a drone that hit a cliff and how they made the most of the conditions with a shared 55-litre board.
There’s a lovely detail at the end of the interview. Two of Flint’s early words from the trip were iceberg and glacier.