I was in Bonaire earlier this year. There were never more than 4 windfoilers on the water and almost no rental boards. In my home location in Canada I might be the only windfoiler in the province of Nova Scotia. What is it like where you live?

In Miami, wingfoilers maybe 200+, windfoil freeriders <10, windfoil race <10, but youth programs in the Bay maybe another 50-80 kids, advanced are on windfoil racing. Regular windsurfers on a windy day 20+

A typical 15+ day at my local,
Windfoil 1 to 3
Wingfoil 5 to 10
Parawing 3 to 6
Downwind foil 2 to 3
Kitefoil 2 to 5
Windsurf 2 to 5
Powerfoil 1 to 3
Twin tip kite 1 to 2

In Austin there's about 4-6 windfoilers, but never more than 3 out on a given day. Only one is a IQ foil, all others are freeride.
1-2 wave slappers.
5-6 Wing dingers on a regular basis
3 - 4 kites on a decent day. 2 regular, 2-3 foilers.

John340 said..
A typical 15+ day at my local,
Windfoil 1 to 3
Wingfoil 5 to 10
Parawing 3 to 6
Downwind foil 2 to 3
Kitefoil 2 to 5
Windsurf 2 to 5
Powerfoil 1 to 3
Twin tip kite 1 to 2

And that last one is all it takes ...

I was windsurfing at my local lake in the Netherlands the other day, probably 30 people out. 6 windsurfers, 1 windfoil er and the rest wingfoilers.

That lake used to be only windsurfers... The times are changing....

Just got windfoiling kit so the sole windfoiler is not going to be by himself anymore

Here in the southern Chesapeake Bay there's windfoilers, but I think we're all spread out over a mix of launches on any given sufficiently windy day. At my local spot I'm usually the only one on the water (mix of windfoil race & freeride) but once and a while see wingers or kitesurfers.
I've seen up to maybe 10 windfoilers at once at a popular spot for a race day, along with some wingers and windsurfers, but that was close to a year ago. There is a group of ~4 that have matching Slingshot Phantasm/Wizard freeride setups i've seen around.
Winging does seem to be taking over though.

Over here on the south coast of the UK in Poole on the sea in a decent breeze there will be maybe 3 Windfoilers, a few kites, a few more windsurfers and the most with wing. Same in Poole harbour, mostly wingers

I only know of two, besides myself. West side of Michigan. One guy lives close. The other comes from Indiana.

Here on my local lakes, i never seen more than 5 windfoilers at the same time.
wingers and windsurfers usually outnumber us 2or 3 times our amount.
Kiters . ah who cares.

Here in Southend on sea UK we have sometimes 4-6 windfoilers out at a time in but being out numbered by wingfoilers is on the rise, + a lot windfoilers have gone to the 'dark side'. A bit further east of us is a bit of wingfoil hot spot as the conditions suit the more experienced. I under stand from our local shop the 'barrier's to entry' I.e. are lower than windsurfing and learning wingfoiling particularly people with no experience pick it up very quickly, along with the wind range and problems with storage/ transportation. ( especially transporting abroad). I think if I was starting in the sport I certainly would have gone down that route. We are very tidal here, and there is a place called the Ray that you can sail when the tide is out. It can be very fast to sail on but more importantly it is quite smooth and therefore a good training ground so a lot of guy' n girls make 20 minute plus trudge out to it. There is still a good amount of of 'finners' sail both tide in and on the Ray, and surprising some quite youthful .

And on the same day, 50 miles to the west, there was only one.

Haven't seen a single windfoil here at Kanaha

mr love said..
In Melbourne, Oz, apart from the iQ Foil crew there are about 6 of us windfoiling on freeride gear. Its an awesome place for freeride with a big windswell, pretty hard to use race gear. But we are massively, massively outnumbered by wings, downwinders and parawings are now poping up. Most windfoilers who try winging don't come back ( except for me ) and the majority of windsurfers now just jump straight to wing for their foiling journey. I fear windfoiling is a dying discipline and there will only be a handful of us left in a few years.

I don't know if it will "die" but the mindshare has certainly shifted. I live in an absolutely crappy place for wind or wing and we have at least that many freeride windfoiling - probably because a) we are an older crowd and b) with the light wind, it was apparent early on that windfoiling meant a whole lot more time on the water. The racing thing never really caught on though due to the crappy wind and expense of the gear. Three of us have race style gear but I'm the only one who drives to see how slow I am since the closest windfoil race is about 5 hours away.

The windfoil "industry" made some missteps early on and winging avoided some of it. Probably worth a different thread, though. I think Balz's RAD initiative is a great step.

My home spot is Lake Washington in Seattle. A few years ago I would see maybe 10 windfoilers on a good southerly but now only 2-3. In summer now, I might see 3 windfoilers and a bunch of wingers (15-20?) on a good day.
I do have winging gear and I enjoy it, but I like the feeling of the power of the sail and to load the harness. As long as there are some companies still producing some windfoiling gear, which I think it will be the case for a long time, I'm fine with being the only one doing it in my spot, as long as there are wingers I can chase.

Finally met a windfoiler at Kanaha.Riding a cool quatro custom windfoil board. He was driving Kai Lennys truck