If you’ve been even casually observing watersports on LBI for the last decade (or the last five), you’ve seen people riding boards on water. First, they rode them on waves, standing or lying down. Then they were on the bay, riding on the wind with sails; then on the ocean, riding wind into the waves with sails and, later, kites. There were paddles added occasionally. And more recently, you may have seen boards riding waves or wind, lifting up out of the water and riding on a foil.

Well, the latest way to ride on the water is with a wing, or a wingsurfer, a hand-held sail resembling a giant bat’s…