BTW we have similar manned hovercraft now. I’ve seen them from Panhandle beaches on maneuvers up and down the shore.
“TW we have similar manned hovercraft now. I’ve seen them from Panhandle beaches on maneuvers up and down the shore.”
And they are absolutely useless let alone efficient on ten foot seas. The conditions would have to be absolutely calm and flat all the time for it to do what they claim it will do. A Tug Boat will out run it on ten foot seas. The nose of that is going to be diving into waves.
Maybe in a perfect world with perpetual perfectly calm seas. Other than that it will be a slug and never perform as they claim.
I paced/raced a Gef along the old Hathaway Bridge on my big Yamaha MC when I saw it start out from the Navy base and turned along the bridge route. I was just coming to the bridge at that point and had read in the newspaper that they ere capable of 70 mph. There was no traffic except me so I cranked the throttle as the GEF picked up speed. The GEF was accelerating also and I matched it for a short period then it started pulling away. When I hit 100 mph it was still pulling away and I had to shut down as I as at other the end of the bridge and the Gef was turning hard right as it was running out of water .