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 »
Technical Flat skirt trials 2017 13/07/2019 / 13/03/2021 by Paul Moody | Leave a Comment In 2017, when I was testing the dual bag skirt, I was also trialling what I called flat segments. The “flat” segment was investigating how little tailoring could applied to a segment design and yet it would still do the job. We had been using compound segments for many years. Compound have different materials for […] Read more »
Technical Bag skirt trials 2017 13/07/2019 / 01/03/2021 by Paul Moody | Leave a Comment Design and testing of a hybrid dual bag hovercraft skirt. Bag skirts usually don't fit well on segment skirt hulls. Exploring if it can be fitted and how well will it perform? Read more »
