PMR Series PMR Series Lower Hull 22/10/2026 / 22/10/2026 by Paul Moody | Leave a Comment This is the base for the craft – much like a chassis. Simple to make and where accuracy can make a difference. The lower hull is just the floor panel and the angled lower hull panel. The design uses the advantage of joining sandwich panel cores to minimise waste. The lower hull panel are cut […] Read more »
PMR Series PMR Series main structures 10/10/2026 / 10/10/2026 by Paul Moody | Leave a Comment This is the first in a series describing the parts of the PMR Series craft and how they’re made. The posts will roughly follow the build sequence. This craft is a development from the Turbo craft and the recent PMR1, incorporating the accumulated build experience. The builders want to add their personality and ideas into […] Read more »
PMR Series PMR Series Plans now available 15/04/2026 / 15/04/2026 by Paul Moody | Leave a Comment The first release of the PMR Series plans is now available. This Plan Set 1 covers the hull, duct and skirt. The plans for the other craft elements are currently in preparation. Read more »
Uncategorized Coming soon – new plan set 27/01/2026 / 27/01/2026 by Paul Moody | Leave a Comment For the past few months I’ve been creating plans for a new model of personal hovercraft – The “PMR Series”. Series because it’s not a set of plans for just one model of craft but for four. Four in the sense that it’s the same planform shape offered in four different widths – from 1864mm […] Read more »
Technical Skirt testing 19/03/2025 / 24/03/2025 by Paul Moody | Leave a Comment We’re always trying to improve all aspects of our craft. In this case, it’s more skirt tests. In this first video, I managed to capture the performance of Owen’s Revolution running with a strong tailwind. The lake is quite shallow and, at this section, the wind is beginning to create 300mm waves at around 3m […] Read more »
Technical The TP6 – phase 2 11/07/2022 / 11/07/2022 by Paul Moody | Leave a Comment After the experience of the first phase of the new bag skirt for Peter Venn’s TP6 craft, we had some new design criteria: reduce the spray coming over the bow contain the skirt on the sides to allow loading on to the trailer . The first design showed that it is possible to make a […] Read more »
Technical Hover history – a look at a Turbo 225 Wedge 15/03/2022 / 15/03/2022 by Paul Moody | Leave a Comment . The 225 Wedge was the craft that Owen Ellis and I developed back in 1984. It ias a plan/kit craft based around the Robin EC44 twin cylinder 2 stroke engine that was around at the time. Part of our thinking was that the builder would be best person to maintain a hovercraft – they […] Read more »
Technical Sideways plough-in 16/06/2021 / 16/06/2021 by Paul Moody | Leave a Comment A video and explanation of a sideways plough-in Read more »
Technical The mechanics of segment skirts 24/03/2021 / 03/09/2022 by Paul Moody | Leave a Comment Introduction This article examines the design limits of two attachment point segment skirt systems. By two point I mean that the skirt is only attached to a craft at an outer point and again at an inner point. There are no other intermediate attachments to the hull and the skirt on one side of the […] Read more » hovercraft mechanics skirts
Builders log Trevor B Walk around of craft build 17/11/2020 / 17/03/2021 by Paul Moody | Leave a Comment A short video of a walk around view of craft under construction. Just at the point of finishing the duct and beginning the mechanicals Read more »
