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
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 »
Technical The TP6 skirt – phase 1 13/09/2018 / 15/07/2022 by Paul Moody | 1 Comment on The TP6 skirt – phase 1 The TP6 Peter Venn has been using hovercraft for more than 40 years. From weed control, mining support to extensive fun rides, he’s done most things. His current workhorse was custom built for him. Essentially a widened, lengthened Viper, it has a separate lift engine at the front and a Subaru EA81 driving a large […] Read more »
Technical River adventures 14/07/2017 / 01/03/2021 by Paul Moody | Leave a Comment A video from 2011 when we did a trip up the Shoalhaven River which was in full flow. No camera stabilisation but you can get the feel of unstoppable. Read more » adventure hovercraft riverflood
