Imagine standing on a sandspit that juts into the Pacific like a pointing finger, a warm December wind hitting your face at 25 knots, and a turquoise lagoon stretching out in front of you so flat it looks photoshopped. You pump your wing twice, feel the foil lift the board beneath your feet, and suddenly you’re flying — not surfing, not sailing, not kiting. Something in between all three and better than any of them. That’s what wingfoiling in Punta Chame feels like, and once you’ve done it here, every other spot is going to feel like a consolation prize. This narrow peninsula on Panama’s Pacific coast has been quietly turning into one of the best wingfoil destinations in the Western Hemisphere, and the riders who’ve discovered it aren’t exactly rushing to share the secret. But the wind doesn’t lie, the water doesn’t lie, and neither does the line of smiling foilers gliding home at sunset every single day from November through April. In a […]