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When at rest in the water, this 17-foot carbon-fiber kayak doesn’t look much different than any other flat-water racing boat. But at roughly 10 mph, its hull rises several inches out of the drink on aluminum foils, reducing drag and revealing what might be the fastest human-powered watercraft in history. The kayak’s Norwegian designers, Einar Rasmussen and Peter Ribe, have already clocked it at speeds just shy of the 21.28mph record set in 1991 by an MIT pedal-powered hydrofoil. The boat will set you back a couple grand, which you can win back drag racing rowing shells at the local reservoir. $2,500; foilkayak.com
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