I located some images to a foiling, sailing kayak/trimaran that I thought would be of interest to Matt and all the folks who followed the original thread of last week.

This is a unique boat that has been developed by Kotaro Horiuchi from Japan. I found this small bit posted by the person who performed his translation services... "Mr. Kotaro Horiuchi has worked on hydrofoils over the past 50 years or so. He published two books in Japanese "Locus of a Boat Designer" and "Locus of a Boat Designer 2." The latter has several chapters devoted to hydrofoil designs including "High-speed small sailboat Twin Ducks, Hydrofoil Boat OR51, Hydrofoil Boats OU90 and OU96, Hydrofoil Boat OU32, High Speed Sea Kayak, and others, including human-powered boats with hydrofoils; these chapters go into meticulous details."

I'll put-up the other photos in successive posts.

The boat, itself, looks to be of the CLC variety or at least, it is sporting a very CLC like ama/aka setup. It rides on three foils for lift, is very light and I'd say fomr the images, is only potent enough for one man on board. Still, a fun sort of boat, but you can clearly see the thing I mentioned... the "fiddle factor". A double version would need a bigger, more powerful sail, bigger foils and stronger structural elements to get out of sea-hugger mode.