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                        High quality hovercraft with personalized customer service

Features and Options

Hovercraft Payload (standard equipment): 850 lbs.
Hull: 16' long x 8' wide (4.88 x 2.44 m)
Choice of Hull Colors: RED/WHITE/YELLOW/BLUE
Speed: 35 mph (56 kph) on calm water, 60 mph (96 kph) on smooth ice
Wave Handling Capacity: 2 Ft. (60 cms)
Turning Capability: 180 and 360 degree turns

Standard Equipment:

  • General Motors 4-cycle, V8 performance engine developing 250 HP at sea level
  • 12v electrical system with 50 amp alternator
  • Dual 875 cold cranking amp batteries with battery master switch giving OFF-1-BOTH-2 positions.
  • Thrust system comprising: twin 39" (99 cms) belt driven, ducted fans with air straightener arrays; ten cable-operated air rudders and removable fanguards.
  • Hydraulically controlled splitter plates with handle bar mounted electric push button switches allowing variable lift and thrust settings for speed and cushion control on the move.
  • Integrated lift and thrust air system with Hypalon® coated skirts, rear mounted drag flap, six hardened aluminum replaceable skid rails.
  • Fiberglass bottom hull made of hand lay-up woven roving plus sealed polyurethane foam liner with high freeboard sides.
  • Woven roving fiberglass inner hull with glossy gel coat finish.
  • Flat cockpit floor 5' x 10' (1.52 m x 3.05 m) overall with 18" (45 cms) high cockpit sides.
  • Two triangular vinyl cushion seats mounted one on each side of centerline cushion crew seat and stowage module.

 

  • Winter windshield comprising rigid fiberglass gel coat structure with large curved windshield, two side windows with short roof plus windshield wiper and washer system.
  • Fast-reaction handle bar steering, twist grip throttle
  • Hinged access instrument panel with tachometer, hourmeter, engine oil pressure gauge, fuel gauges and coolant temperature gauge, voltmeter.
  • 40 US gallon (150 l) capacity fuel tanks
  • Four mooring eyes, one bow eye, and one rear winching eye.
  • Twin fiberglass tail fin style wave and splash guards.
  • Twin strobe flashers (red, blue or amber) with all-around light on ducts, red/green bow light.
  • Operating lights on crew protection windshield
  • Two 5' (1.5 m) grab rails
  • 200,000 Candlepower spotlight
  • Two 2,000 gph bilge pumps

Options:

Winterizations and various seating arrangements, GPS, intercom, survival suits and equipment, and more.