1. Websites of IHS Members (Rev 051102wnw)
2. Photo Gallery
3. Plans - Kits - Models - You Build It (Rev 051102wnw)
4. Small, Fun Hydrofoils That You Can Buy (Rev 051102 wnw)
5. Design and Engineering Sources (Rev 051102 wnw)
6. Educational Info (Rev 010318wnw)
7. Human Powered Hydrofoils (Rev 051102 wnw)
8. History (Rev 051102 wnw)
9. Magazines, Newsletters, Directories, Books, Videos, Lectures (Rev 030807 wnw)
10. Bibliographies and Reference Lists (Rev 051102 wnw)
11. Hydrofoil Ships/Craft and Their Designers (Note: specific notices of used hydrofoil vessels for sale are normally posted on the announcements page). (Rev 051102 wnw)
12. Builders/Brokers (Note: specific notices of used hydrofoil vessels for sale are normally posted on the announcements page). (Rev 030807 wnw)
13. Propulsion and Other Shipboard Machinery - Sales, Parts, Service, etc. (Rev 030331 wnw)
14. Organizations, Societies, Gov't Agencies(Rev 051102 wnw)
15. Legislation, Codes, and Conferences (Rev 051102 wnw)
16. Travel and Hydrofoil Operators (Rev 051102 wnw)
17. Hydrofoil Stabilizers (Rev 051102wnw)
18. Miscellaneous (Rev 051102 wnw)

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Websites of IHS Members

• Mark van Rijzen - Dutch Commercial Hydrofoil Ferry Operation and The Dutch Hydrofoil Pages will try to show you all the hydrofoils we have in the Netherlands including models, but mostly, big real ones as well. (Add 020318wnw)
• Dr. Dale E. Calkins (deceased 7/29/99) Prof. of Mech. Eng., Univ. of Washington., Dale Calkins Design Fund established in his honor (Rev 030330wnw)
• Doug Lord - MicroSAIL High Performance Systems for R/C Sailing - New "F3" Hydrofoil Trimaran
• Mihail Chatziapostolou (Comeract, Ltd) - source of engine parts for Russian hydrofoils like Kometa, also Russian ships of the types "Alexander Green" and "Efpatoria."
• John F. Rodrigues YachtBoutique
• Book by IHS Member Dr. Frans van Walree, "Computational Methods for Hydrofoil Craft in Steady and Unsteady Flow," available at a cost of NLG 100 (approx. US$50), by sending a request to Maritime Research Institute Netherlands, Attn: Ms. R. Jurriens, Librarian; PO Box 28; 6700 AA Wageningen, Netherlands. Tel: +31-317-493417, Fax: +31-317-493245, email: Rjurriens@marin.nl.
• Mac Stevens Sailing Home Page
• Glenn S. Nesbitt (American Hydrofoils)
• Fred Rodolf (Quick Tow Rescue & Salvage), specializing in tow boat services and repairs throughout the Prince William Sound area of Alaska)
• Mark Rice (Maritime Applied Physics Corp.)
• Tom Speer's homepage: Here you'll find information on aerodynamics, landyacht and multihull sailboat design, and Sailing Hydrofoil Design Approaches and Typical Results. (Rev 011107wnw)
• Cliff Sojourner (TRIFOILER) Hobie TRIFOILER photos, videos, advice, technical information, bibliography (Rev 030331wnw)
• Tom Schneider (InterMar) Project consulting, vessel management, compliance services (Rev 011107wnw)
• Malin Dixon R/C model hydrofoil design... fully submerged foils (Del 051101WNW)
• David A. Keiper (DAK Hydrofoils) -- died in 1998
• Ken Cook (Hydrofoils Inc.) 100-knot ferry and oil rig service boat designs
• Harry T. Larsen's Bayliner With Foils (TALARIA III) and (TALARIA IV) Rev 030912wnw)
• Dr. Sam Bradfield (Hydrosail, Inc.)
• Hanno B. Smits, ir. Hydrofoil Sailboats: MONITOR, ICARUS, FLYING DUTCHMAN
• Erling Lunde (Dynamica a/s) Computer assisted dynamic simulations, controls, instrumentation, and optimization for the marine and offshore industries
• Konstantin Matveev IHS member Konstantin Matveev is a widely recognized authority on hydrofoils and their design. His web site, http://www.hydrofoils.org/rh_left.htm, is an excellent source of information on hydrofoils and various other high-performance ship types and technologies.

  He has recently co-authored, with V. Dubrovsky and S. Sutulo, the book Small Waterplane Area Ships. In particular, he wrote a section on hydrofoils that provides simplified engineering methods for calculating lift and drag of low and high aspect ratio foils (including free surface effects), cavitation onset, vortex wash and wake behind a foil, and unsteady effects. More information about this book and ordering information can be found at the Backbone Publishing web-site http://www.backbonepublishing.com/DreamHC/Page1.html.

  (Hydrofoil tutorial, formulas for lift calculations, and awesome photos of Russian Hydrofoils, WIGs and shipwrecked hydrofoils and Technical Paper on hydrofoil maintenance. Konstantin graduated from Caltech with a PhD in Mechanical Engineering. Although most work is not related to ships, he continues to publish papers on advanced marine vehicles and to do a little consulting in that field. (Rev 070518wnw)

• Barney C. Black US Coast Guard Deepwater Project
• Thomas Wuhrmann
• Simon Lewis a life-long motor sport enthusiasts is a native of the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, England formed the company in 1985. He met Wendy, from Nuneaton near Coventry  in 1997 and they were married on June 26th 1999 at Attleborough in Warwickshire. (Rev 030330wnw)
• Joe Tyler and the company is Visionary Software Solutions (Add 010101wnw)
• Bill White IHS Associate Web Site Editor and Head of Searider Inc. dedicated to the advancement of high performance marine vehicles. (Rev 030807wnw)
• Ken Plyler, American Marine Consultants, LLC. email: kfppfk@aol.com; Ph: 704-568-8389; Fax: 704-568-8389 (Add 010505wnw)
• Chris Plaas is from Kiel. For the last six years Chris has been working as a freelance journalist and representative for multi-hull magazines in France, Australia, the UK and the USA. (Rev 020130wnw)
• Richard Akers Ship Motion Associates, 10 Danforth Street, Portland, Maine 04101-4567, USA Manufacturers of POWERSEA, a time-domain simulator for high-speed planing craft. (Add 020819 wnw)
• Dr. Günther Migeotte Art Anderson Associates 202 Pacific Avenue Bremerton, WA 98337-1932 (Add 020819wnw)
• Arthur Hagar III of Northwest hydrofoils (Add 020819wnw)
• John Ilett head of Fasta Craft Carbon Fibre Products Providing quality carbon fibre products especially Foils (with a custom foil any sectional shape or profile) for all types of watercraft and racing yachts. (Add 030331wnw)
• John Meyer President IHS and author of Ships That Fly http://themeyers.org/ShipsThatFly/index.html.  You can check out the Table of Contents, List of Illustrations, and the Introduction from the site. (Add 040727wnw)
• Nic de Waal: Managing director of Teknicraft Design Ltd, a New Zealand registered company based in Auckland, where they supply designs to owners and boatyards worldwide. Teknicraft specialises in the design of medium and high-speed catamarans as well as Foilcats. In applications where speed is of essence, a hydrofoil is fitted to the hull. It consists of an underwater wing profile spanning the tunnel at approximately midships position. www.teknicraft.com (Add 040831wnw)
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Plans - Kits - Models - You Build It

• Le Foilboard by Gérard Delerm, A Hydrofoil Windsurfer with English trxt. email: gerard.delerm@free.fr, website: http://gerard.delerm.free.fr
• MicroSAIL High Performance Systems for R/C Sailing - New 56 inch "F3" Hydrofoil Trimaran plus the new X3 Formula 48 Class hydrofoil trimaran ™! This boat is one of the most unique in the model boat industry since it has a canting keel! (Rev 030818wnw)
• Graham Taylor's R/C model hydrofoils: Experimental Hydrofoil Mk 1 and RAPIER (Plans available from Traplet Pubs) (Rev 011107wnw)
• 750mm Radio-Controlled (Model Sailing) Yacht Association in Australia -- Pending Rules For Hydrofoil-Supported Models (Rev 001209wnw)
• The Pacific Proa --, Source of Construction and Design of Pros (Rev 001209wnw)
• Up-Right Hydrofoil Kits, by Tom Lang (Includes hard-earned advice for adding hydrofoils to motorboats)
• Flying Platform Boat - Make it in two weekends (Popular Science May 1960)
• "How I Fitted Oak Hydrofoils To My 14-Foot Runabout," Popular Science June 1960.
• Plans for building add-on hydrofoils for almost any boat up to 16 feet (Science & Mechanics Feb 1960)
• Small Hydrofoil Sailboat Built For Only $800.00! (Rev 020819wnw)
• Smallest Fully-Submerged R/C Hydrofoil Model (Malin Dixon)
• DAK Hydrofoil Kits For Catamarans (David A. Keiper) -- recently deceased (Rev 010826wnw)
• Latvian Catri Foilers (Sailboats) by Aldis Eglajs
• Victor Models Radio Controlled Sailboats
• MarineLink's Marine Marketplace (Marine Vendors and Commercial Sources) (Add 051101wnw)
• Hydrosail, Inc. - Dr. Sam Bradfield - sailing hydrofoil designers
• Replicas By Tyson (High quality, custom-built marine display ship models) Including PGH-1 Grumman Hydrofoil Gunboat (74'), PGH-2 Boeing Hydrofoil Gunboat (71') (Rev 020318wnw)
• Aurora TUCUMCARI and Other Model Kits (Collector's Items) - See the appropriate section of the Posted Messages and FAQ page.
• The Boatbuilding Community (boat building, design, & repair resource)
• Rajendra's Model Ship Kit Reviews (Add 051101 wnw)
• White Ensign Models kit of the USS Pegasus is the third in this category with a few more planned for future release. (Add 051101wnw)
• Radio Controlled model of the USS Aquila,one of the PHM class hydrofoils used by the US navy,the model is build by R.J.A. Swart. (Add 020531wnw)
• WhizzyWig project comprises a series of prototype model WIG/ekranoplan craft of very similar design (Add 020531wnw)
• Fasta Craft Carbon Fibre Products by John Ilett. Providing quality carbon fibre products especially Foils (with a custom foil any sectional shape or profile) for all types of watercraft and racing yachts. (Add 030331wnw)
• Building Resources for Sailing Hydrofoils and foil components in Western Australia. (Add 051101wnw)

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Small, Fun Hydrofoils That You Can Buy

• TRIAK sailing kayak with hydrofoil option AN ADVANCED HYDROFOIL SYSTEM facilitates sailing in winds of 15 knots or more and supplies more lift from the floats the faster the boat goes. (Rev 030331wnw)
• American Hydrofoils SeaShark High Speed Personal Hydrofoil
• Latvian Catri Foiler Sail Boats by Aldis Eglajs
• MULTICASCOS Ltda. (means Multihulls in spanish and portuguese) is dedicated to the construction of small to medium sized craft, sail and motor powered, including high technology multihulls and hovercrafts especially the CATRI, a vacuum bagged folding trimaran assisted by hydrofoils. A combination of space age materials and state of the art construction methods (Add 051101wnw)
• The RAVE, Hydrofoil Trimaran by WindRider; Dr. Sam Bradfield, Designer (Rev 030331wnw)
  • Sailing Breezes Magazine Review (Rev 001209wnw)
• Hydrosail, Inc. - Dr. Sam Bradfield - sailing hydrofoil designers
• Cliff Sojourner's TRIFOILER Facts and Many Photos
• Hydrofoil Supported Catamarans (HYSUCAT), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hoppe, HydroSpeed, Inc (Rev 001209wnw)
• TRAMPOFOIL® Human Powered Hydrofoil -- Unfortunately, the Trampofoil company in Sweden failed after having sold only about 100 units, and the company website is closed. However, please visit Bob Hodgen's TRAMPOFOIL® Page for good information and photos. (Rev051101wnw)
• The STINGRAY Personal Watersport Vehicle (inactive since Apr 97)
• Hydrofoil Waterski, USHA United States Hydrofoil Association
  • Sky Ski The Sky Ski is a hydrofoil sit-down towable high-performance waterski type product. (Rev 010102wnw)
  • Hydrofoil! Inc. was founded in 1999 by a hydrofoil enthusiast Scott Honkala. to promote growth and development of the sport by offering lessons and clinics as well as sales of all Sky Ski's. (Rev 051101wnw)
  • Tommy's Slalom Shop - Wakeboards and Waterskies
  • More Hydrofoil Waterski Links
• Hydrofoil Windsurfers
  • SFBA Newsletter May 97 - Detailed description of Miller Hydrofoil (Mod 010211wnw)
• Slatts 16: John Slattebo's 16' Foil Stabilized Outrigger Sailing Canoe (Rev 051102wnw)
• Slatts 22, a hydrofoil-stabilized outrigger - a one-way proa by John Slattebo. The foil is very large (45" span) and most effective at 4 to 10 knots of boatspeed (Add 030807 wnw)
• The Raptor a high performance cartoppable sailing outrigger with a manually adjustable hydrofoil for stability by John Slattebo. Raptor is based on the Micronesian proa, a highly-evolved, exceptionally efficient and versatile watercraft whose speed and weatherly performance astonished Western sailors when they first encountered the proa nearly 500 years ago. Hydrovisions has taken this time-tested design and updated it with modern materials that are light and strong and added the unique Dualift Foil Truss™ (Add 051102wnw)
• By Dave Carlson: The Foilcat "Kangalope", a Hobie 18 fitted with surface-piercing foils, has been tested extensively in Florida since late 1997. The Foilcat "Jackalope", built on a Hobie 16, was first in the water at the Miami Boatshow in February 1999 from the heratige of Cheetalope an A-Class wooden Catnip design built by Cal Fuller about 1988 (Mod 051216wnw)
• Spitfire 12m is the latest and most radical product of BDG's Marine division and Windrush yachts. The 12 metre (40 feet) catamaran features twin rigs, sleek hulls and most notably, three hydrofoils which lift the hulls completely clear of the water, allowing Spitfire to accelerate to30+kts.(Rev 020818wnw)
• Northwest Hydrofoils New Start up company with Hydrofoil cabin cruiser. (Add 020819wnw)
• The Hobie TriFoiler is no longer in production as of 2005. It goes 35 MPH or more on it's foils The pilot's seat is in the center cockpit with all the sail and foil adjustments on the control panel in front of you. All it takes is 12 knots of wind for the three self-adjusting hydrofoils to lift off and it's flying! The TriFoiler is a hydrofoil trimaran sailboat that began as a small model back in 1981. Dan Ketterman, and Greg Ketterman, built 5 prototypes in all. (Mod 051102wnw)

   

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 Design & Engineering Sources

• Hydrofoil Basics - Mass. Inst. of Tech. (MIT) version
• Hydrofoil Basics - IHS version
• Hydrofoil Design Tutorials - by Konstantin Matveev Excel Spreadsheet implementation of Konstantin Matveev's Lift Forumula, available on Harry Larsen's website (Rev 030807wnw)
• UIUC Airfoil Coordinates Database - by Michael Selig, Department of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801 (over 1150 airfoils) + updates (Rev 030331wnw)
• "How Does a Hydrofoil Work?" and Photos of Different Types of Cavitation by Spyros A. Kinnas, Univ. of Texas) (rev 010621wnw)
• Hydrofoil Math and Hydrofoil Materials by Jake Free
• AutoWing Software by Dr. Nikolai Kornev -- Automated Numerical Design Calculations For Ekranoplans (Wing-In-Ground Effect Craft), Hydrofoils, and Planing Ships
• Hanley Innovations VisualFoil/ModelFoil Software for Wing and Hydrofoil Design and Analysis Providing Top-Quality Aerodynamics and Airfoil Analysis Software! (Rev 030331wnw)
• The Pacific Proa -- Source of Construction and Design of Pros (Rev 001209wnw)
• Foil Design Freeware (University of Tokyo)
• Tom Speer Sailing Hydrofoil Design Approaches and Typical Results: Provides information on aerodynamics, landyacht and multihull sailboat design, and hydrofoils. E-mail at tspeer@tspeer.com (Rev 010505wnw)
• Tom Speer providing information on Low Reynolds Number Hydrofoils performance curves. (Add 010716wnw)
• Up-Right Hydrofoil Kits, by Tom Lang (Includes hard-earned advice for adding hydrofoils to motorboats)
• Dynamica a/s Commercially Available Automatic Control System for Hydrofoils
• Semaphore - Links For Yacht Designers
• Dingy Foil Construction and Design
• Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) Flap Assisted Control Surfaces (Paper on Design and Optimization of a Hydrofoil With Deformable Trailing Edge Flap Controlled by SMA technology). (Mod 030330wnw)
• SailMaxSB Sailboard Performance Prediction Program
• Aboard Boats and Yachts Market (Rev 030807wnw)
• NACA Technical Note 4168 of Jan 1958; "A Method For Calculation of Hydrodynamic Lift For Submerged and Planing Rectangular Lifting Surfaces" by Wadlin & Christopher (Rev 011217wnw)
• NACA Foil Generator For IBM-Compatible PCs (Freeware by Harold Ginsberg) (Mod 051102wnw)
• Wing-in-SurfaceEffect Craft is an exciting kind of high-speed ship from the Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics
  Faculty of Engineering, Tottori University. The craft flies at 1-3 m above the sea surface. Its performance is characterized as the fact that it can fill up a gap of performances of ships and aircrafts. Its speed is 2-7 times higher than ships. Movies of tests through June 2005 (Mod 051102wnw)
• Control of Flow Separation in weakly conducting liquids by means of electromagnetic forces (Add 010101 wnw)
• XFOIL airfoil design/analysis code: XFOIL is an interactive program for the design and analysis of subsonic isolated airfoils. Curtesy of Prof. Mark Drela MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Add 010107wnw)
• DESIGN SERVICE: In August 2006 I started as an assistant professor at Washington State University. I am establishing an R&D program on high-performance marine vehicles and related fundamental problems in aero-hydrodynamics.. Contact Konstantin Matveev at matveev@hydrofoils.org (Add 070418wnw)
• Yury A. Garanov Naval Architect We are carrying out research in hydrodynamics of boats and we design new hull forms for boats as well as we can to design of boats completely. Yuri was a design engineer at the Alekseev Central Hydrofoil Design Bureau (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia). Address: P.O. Box 434 Nizhny Novgorod 603003 Russia E-mail: garanov@online.ru (Add 010505wnw) (Rev 030331wnw)
• New Wave Systems, Inc. develops and sells software for computer-aided boat & ship design and construction. Our main product, "The Nautilus System", is an integrated set of Windows computer programs for defining, fairing, analyzing, and constructing any type of boat or ship. Now Available! ProSurf 3 - Major New Version of Hull Surface Modeler (Add 010621wnw)
• International Moth Class Association of Western Australia, Building Resources for Foil Sections in Australia (Add 051101wnw)
• Airfoils, Incorporated: Over the past 25 years, founder Dan M. Somers has designed airfoils for a wide range of applications including wind turbines, fans, and aircraft using the Eppler Airfoil Design and Analysis Code. Lots of papers and data within this site, (Add 011130wnw)
• Autowing is commercial software for doing aerodynamic and hydrodynamic design of the WIG Crafts and hydrofoils. (Add 020318wnw)
• How Things Work (Hydrofoils) by Tina Rosado MIT is a simple narrative of Foil physiics. (Add 020318wnw)
• Hydrofoil Design and Optimization for Fast Ships Paper from ASME 1998 Proceedings International Congress and Exhibition (Add 020318wnw)
• Winfoil is a an aeronautical computer aided design tool for designing, analysing and modifying model aircraft and foils It also provides the ability to print the design (wing ribs, fuselage sides, wing and tail plans) Also includes a a web based Airfoil Coordinate Database which will allow users to search for Airfoil coordinates. (Add 030331wnw)
• Airfoil Data from the University of Tennessee including Boeing, Clark, NACA, Gottingen etc. Also Profoil FoilSim a program to estimate the performance of airfoils Last Update: 9/3/02 (Mod 051101wnw)
• E.O.Tuck FAA,FTSE, Emeritus Professor of Applied Mathematics The University of Adelaide, Australia. Forty years of Research Papers on Advanced Hydrodynamics: free surfaces, ship wave resistance and squat, jets and cavities including many advanced huills. (Add051101wnw)
• Lawrence J. DOCTORS School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering The University of New South Wales UNSW SYDNEY  NSW  2052 AUSTRALIA. Also at U of Mich and David taylor Model Basin. Thirty years of research papers on High Speed Ships and Advanced Naval Vehicals Hydrodynamics speaciallising in SES, ACVs, Catamarans, Planing Hulls. (Mod051102wnw)

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 Educational Info

• Best Manufacturing Practices Center of Excellence
• Marine Hydrodynamics Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Rev 001209wnw)
• The Educator's Toolkit for students has a section Water Travel including Hydrofoils (Add 010126wnw)
• Yacht Research HomePage by Fiona Sinclair An informal group of people interested in yacht research and its dissemination including small hydrofoils. (Rev 030331wnw)
• CATAMARANS PLANNING .V. DISPLACEMENT COMPARISON paper from Power of Multihulls Magazine (Add 011217wnw)

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Propulsion and Other Shipboard Machinery

• Mihail Hatziapostolou (Comeract, Ltd) - source of engine parts for Russian hydrofoils like Kometa, also Russian ships of the types "Alexander Green" and "Efpatoria."
• S&S Turbine Services, LTD -- Gas turbine engine sales, overhauls, maintenance, parts, and technical data for GE LM2500, LM1500, and others
• MTU Friedrichshafen
• Two MAN B&W Diesel Ltd, 18VP185 engines each rated at 4000 kWb at 1950 r/min have been specified for the repowering that is to occur to the USN IX 515 (formerly Surface Effect Ship SES 200 into a Hybrid hydrofoil (Rev 030330wnw)

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Human Powered Hydrofoils

• Jake Free's "Free Enterprises" Human Powered Hydrofoil Website builds pedal drive units, boat hulls, hydrofoil drive units and components and any kind of custom composite part! (Rev 020318wnw)
  • Hydrofoil Math boat, propeller & hydrofoil math © Jake Free (Rev 020318wnw
  • Hydrofoil Materials (Props, Struts and Drives)
• TRAMPOFOIL® Human Powered Hydrofoil by Bob Hodgen (Rev 010124wnw)
• DECAVITATOR Human Powered Hydrofoil (under MIT's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program - UROP) with funding from the MIT SeaGrant program to build a human-powered vehicle (HPV) that an armchair athlete could operate. (Rev 011116wnw)
• FLYING FISH, Designers Alec Brooks & Allan Abbott
• Hydroped Hydrofoil, Designer Sid Shutt
• Engineering Cafe Human Powered Hydrofoils and small ACVs (Add 010124wnw)
• Hydrofoil Human Powered Boats (HPBs) Focus on unique and innovative home-built or production manufactured designs involving lightweight and streamlined hulls, pedals, gears, propellers, and even hydrofoils (Rev 011107wnw)
  • Whats New in Hydrofoil Human Powered Boats (Links to new projects and events (Mod 051102wnw)
  • Pictures Hydrofoil Human Powered Boats (HPBs) photo collection by Ron Drynan (REV 011107wnw)
• The SpinFin Drive Unit and other Human Powered Wonders: The SpinFin drive unit is the basic unit that can be mounted beside a hull, or installed in a daggerboard trunk like fashion with standard bike cranks and pedals mounted directly to the unit. (Add 010716wnw)
• Japan Solar and human Powered Boat Association: Race results including Hydrofoils for 1999-2000. (Add 010716wnw)
• "Water Strider" - Students at Midland Secondary School in Midland, Ontario, Canada, have been working on a project which is a little different. They have been designing, building, and testing a 19' human powered hydrofoil craft. (Add 010716wnw)
• Cetan II: Human powered hydrofoil. A project started in 1997 by the Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering program at the University of Illinois. The goal of the project is to build a human powered hydrofoil capable of breaking the world speed record for that type of craft. (Add 020318wnw)
• SCAFO Human Powered Hydrofoil: Scafo entstand als Diplomarbeit für Industrial-Design von Philipp Müller. In Zusammenarbeit mit Claus Abt wurde 1999 der erste Prototyp entworfen und in nur sechswöchiger Bauzeit realisiert. (Add 051101wnw)
• Hydrofoilsurfing (Add 020506wnw)

   

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History

• Mr. Smith's Amazing Sailboats. Author of The 40-Knot Sailboat, Bernard Smith was working for the US Navy at China Lake in the 1950s when he began designing hydrofoil sailboats and making models of them. His first full size craft was built in 1959 after he had moved on to Newport RI. By 1962 he had a well-functioning craft, which was dubbed LITTLE MERRIMAC as sort of a response to Gordon Baker's MONITOR. He also developed the aerohydrofoil Sailboat Proa concept in the 1960's and described in his seminal work The 40-Knot Sailboat. (Rev 051102wnw)
• German Kriegsmarine Encyclopedia by Michael Emmerich On this this site, you will find information about German warships of both world wars, line drawings, model pictures, their history and operatrions
  • Hydrofoil Small Attack Boat Project
  • Submergible Hydrofoil Project
  • Turbojet Hydrofoil Project
  • Transport Hydrofoil VS 8 commissioned 1/3/1943 Tragflügelboot (Hydrofoil) (Rev 030806wnw)
• How to Get US Navy Photos (Add 030807wnw)
• Boeing Hydrofoil History - Jetfoils and PHMs (Rev 030330wnw)
• 200-ton HMCS BRAS d'OR (FHE-400) Exceeding 60 knots During High Speed Trials text and photo (Rev 051102wnw)
• Bras d"OR on land as a museum piece at the Hydro-Québec Park located at the heart of the village of L’Islet, on the shores of the St. Lawrence River Quebec Ca. (Add040226wnw)
• HIGH POINT (PCH-1) Submarine Chaser (Rev 020130wnw)
• HD-4 Hydrodrome Hydrofoil Photo & Text from Fitzgerald Corp.'s CD-ROM, Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor
  • HD-4 Gallery of Captioned Photos, maintained by the A.G.B. Museum (Rev 020318wnw)
• Hydroplane History Website of Leslie Fields (Rev 020819wnw)
  • Hanning-Lee WHITE HAWK - contemporary news articles and fascinating photos from Nov 1952 on Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hanning-Lee's jet-propelled hydrofoil speedboat that went over 100kts.
  • More on WHITE HAWK (Rev 020318wnw)
• H. B. Smits' Speed Sailing Hydrofoil Page (FLYING DUTCHMAN, YELLOW PAGES ENDEAVOR plus MONITOR) The1950's Monitor hydrofoil was ahead of its time. The speed it reached of 30 kn took about 30 years to be topped. The control system of the foils is based on a mechanical computer. Rev 020130wnw)
• Konstantin Matveev (Awesome photos of Russian WIGs and shipwrecked hydrofoils) (Rev 030426wnw)
• Red Funnel - the Original Hi-Speed Fleet - SHEARWATER built by Sea Flight SpA of Sicily in 1969 Also Searwaters 2-6 the lst built in 1982. (Rev 070418wnw)
• The story of the WHITE HAWK jet hydrofoil and the Hanning-Lees who conceived and ran it. by Simon Lewis in The MOTOR SPORT FANATIC - 1952 White Hawk pub 11/25/00 (Rev 030806wnw)
• The Sitdown Hydrofoil was developed through a partnership between Mike Murphy and Bob Woolley. Mike was the initial designer and the pro skier, and Bob's initial role was to run the business and develop the product. These items show a progression of ideas that he and several other men developed through trial and error to assemble the sitdown hydrofoils we ride today. (Add 010101wnw)
• "THE TALE OF THE THREE HYDROFOILS AND OTHER ACTS OF FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT IN ST KITTS AND NEVIS, 1980 - 1999". In "Archives", click on "Commission of Inquiry" for "Sir Louis Blom-Cooper Final Report" for Report of the Commission of Inquiry established 14 July 1999, and submitted to the Governor-General, 3 February 2000 addressing four topics: (1) the disappearance of the hydrofoils in March 1986 and the Credit Agreement of 30 May 1986 entered into in order to finance the sale and purchase of the hydrofoils; (2) the insurance claims arising out of the damage caused by Hurricane Hugo in 1989; (3) the claim to insurance for the fire at the premises of the Democrat newspaper in September 1993; and (4) the loan and credit from the Republic of Taiwan in October 1983. (Mod 010211wnw) (Rev 010717wnw)
• The Air Force at Sea by Guy Ellis Editor, Air Heritage Official Journal of the Friends of the SAAF Museum Cape Town 12 Motor Boat Section was established at Gordon's Bay in December 1939. This was a detachment of the Air Armament Training School at Youngsfield, which up until the outbreak of war had been known as the Cape Air Training School. Its purpose was to operate a 40ft armoured target boat for the SAAF pilots. (Add 030331wnw)
• Mr Smith's Amazing Sailboats Early Work: The 1950s saw Bernard Smith working for the US Navy and stationed at China Lake in California.Early Work His early models quickly worked towards a configuration of three buoyant hydrofoils arranged on a framework with a single-surface sail. (Add 030331wnw)
• Mr. R.L.(Russ) Steffler, founder of Foxx Industries. has a collection on The world of radical marine designs including many hydrofoils. (Add 030806 wnw)
• Ships That Fly, by Meyers, John. About 10 years ago John collected a lot of material about hydrofoils and put it all together in a book called Ships That Fly. It became a story of the modern hydrofoil covering the early days of hydrofoil inventors and experimenters and taking the reader through over 150 pictures and illustrations of hydrofoils leading to those of recent years. He recently had the pages of the book scanned and put in a pdf file and placed on a CD that is being offered for sale.

You will note that Chapter 6, The US Navy Fleet Hydrofoil-PHM, ends with a very optimistic view of PHMs in the current US Navy, and larger hydrofoils in its future. However, this was not to be. Several years following the completion of my book, Ships That Fly, there were events surrounding the US Navy PHM program that are described in an Addendum to Chapter 6. All six PHM ships were decommissioned on July 30, 1993. This was the only time the US Navy has decommissioned an entire class of ships on the same day. This addendum describes some of the events leading to this sad day for the US Navy and the hydrofoil community. Also, documented are the many attempts to save the Ship, the day of the ceremony, attempts to save the ships even after the decommissioning, and finally the subsequent disposal of the ships and their status today.

John also collected a series of over 140 hydrofoil pictures and illustrations, and created a Hydrofoil Slide Show, entitled: A Century of Hydrofoil Development.

All three of these files are on the CD. To find out more, log onto: http://themeyers.org/ShipsThatFly/index.html John Meyer jr8meyer@comcast.net (Add040328wnw)

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Magazines, Newsletters, Directories, Books, Videos, Lectures, etc.

• Classic Fast Ferries On-Line Magazine (Editor: Tim Timoleon) CLASSIC FAST FERRIES is a high-quality, well researched and generously illustrated magazine reviewing the history of commercial high-speed craft such as hydrofoils, hovercraft, catamarans and surface effect ships, mainly of the 1950s, 60s, 70s and 80s. JUL-Dec 01 issue available. (Rev 020130wnw)
• FFI - Fast Ferry International (Magazine, Directories, Database) Fast Ferry Information Ltd is the publishing company of the industry magazine Fast Ferry International. The magazine is the primary source of information for the fast ferry industry worldwide. The magazine was founded in 1961 as 'Hovering Craft and Hydrofoil', and from 1979 it was published as 'High Speed Surface Craft'. (Rev 010721)
• Marine Log (News, Shipbuilding Contracts, Shipyard Directory, etc.)
• Jane's Publications Source for defence, aerospace and transportation information. Widely recognised as the publishers of Jane's Defence Weekly, Jane's Fighting Ships and Jane's All the World's Aircraft
• MarineLink: On-Line Edition of Maritime Reporter and Engineering News
• US Coast Guard Marine Safety Manual in Adobe Acrobat Format
  • Search the Marine Safety Manual On Line
• U.S. Dept. of Transportation Regional Ferry Plan For the San Francisco Bay Area
• National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
• Sea Technology - Magazine For Design, Engineering, and Application of Equipment and Services in the marine Environment
• Databoat International, Vendor of Boating Books and Videos
• American Windsurfer Magazine - Windsurfing magazine dedicated to exposing and magnifying the inspiring sport of windsurfing, to boost it into the next millennium. (Add 001209wnw)
• Mechanics Illustrated, Popular Mechanics, and Popular Science (reasonably priced copies of their articles,they have almost a complete set) Smelly Old Books, Attn: John Muxlow, 22 Somerset St., Dartmouth, NS, Canada B2Y-1Z1, email: jj.muxlow@ns.sympatico.ca (Add 010505wnw)
• Twenty-Third Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics (2001) National Research Council (more titles from NRC) Related Books contains Foil information (Add 020130wnnw)
• The National Academy Press (NAP) online book database was created by the National Academies to publish the reports issued by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council, all operating under a charter granted by the Congress of the United States (Add 020130wnw)
• Speed at Sea on-line is a resource from the UK for information on all aspects of the high speed vessel industry with a journal that focuses entirely on the market for fast ferries, fast patrol craft and other high speed vessels. (Add 020318wnw)
• "Catamaran Sailor" is a NEWSpaper that covers any and all news concerning beach cats of all brands and breeds. We also devote a lot of space to the larger cruiser/racer multihulls in the 22-to-36-foot range. (Rev 030807wnw)
• The Dutch Hydrofoil Page: At this site I will try to show you all the hydrofoils we have in the Netherlands: models, but, big ones as well. (Add 020506wnw)
• Ships That Fly, by Meyers, John. About 10 years ago John collected a lot of material about hydrofoils and put it all together in a book called Ships That Fly. It became a story of the modern hydrofoil covering the early days of hydrofoil inventors and experimenters and taking the reader through over 150 pictures and illustrations of hydrofoils leading to those of recent years. He recently had the pages of the book scanned and put in a pdf file and placed on a CD that is being offered for sale.

You will note that Chapter 6, The US Navy Fleet Hydrofoil-PHM, ends with a very optimistic view of PHMs in the current US Navy, and larger hydrofoils in its future. However, this was not to be. Several years following the completion of my book, Ships That Fly, there were events surrounding the US Navy PHM program that are described in an Addendum to Chapter 6. All six PHM ships were decommissioned on July 30, 1993. This was the only time the US Navy has decommissioned an entire class of ships on the same day. This addendum describes some of the events leading to this sad day for the US Navy and the hydrofoil community. Also, documented are the many attempts to save the Ship, the day of the ceremony, attempts to save the ships even after the decommissioning, and finally the subsequent disposal of the ships and their status today.

John also collected a series of over 140 hydrofoil pictures and illustrations, and created a Hydrofoil Slide Show, entitled: A Century of Hydrofoil Development.

All three of these files are on the CD. To find out more, log onto: http://themeyers.org/ShipsThatFly/index.html

John Meyer jr8meyer@comcast.net (Add040328wnw)

• Author, Bruno De Michelis: "The Russian Aero-Marine"
  The illustrated encyclopedia of Russian flying boats, seaplanes, amphibians, ground-effect craft and ekranoplans (including foreign imports) from the origins (1910) to the year 2000. The Russian Aero-Marine; Russian and Soviet seaplanes, flying boats, amphibians and ground-effect craft (foreign imports included) from the Origins (1910) to the Year 2000. The first such compilation available in English, this book chronicles, year by year and aircraft by aircraft, all Russian and Soviet water-based airplanes and ground-effect machines (ekranoplans) through the last year of the old millenium. Loaded with photos, tables and 2- and 3-view drawings, a treasure for modelers and aviation-history buffs.

This work, which the author, Bruno De Michelis, completed after three years of extensive research, is written in English (a world first on this subject) and is divided in five chapters. It contains the full history of over 210 craft and their designers, with complete specifications, 266 rare photos and 131 three views drawings and illustrations, ranging from early experimental machines and imports to the latest flying boats and ground-effect craft of any size and manufacture. A chronological and alphabetic dual index is included for easy reference.

The book (324 pages) is available on CD (Adobe PDF and MS Word versions on each disc) * and in conventional format (A4 Folio, hard cover Deluxe Edition) at the Authors web site along with considerable on-line photos and history http://www.brunodemichelis.com/. (Add 01218wnw)

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Bibliographies and Lists of References

• Fiona Sinclair's Index of Amateur Yacht Research Society Publications See Chapter 7) Hydrofoils - theory, types, experience for a bibliogrphy of many technical Foil articles (Rev 020230wnw)
• Mac Stevens Sailing Page Books and References
• International Hydrofoil Society
  • Technical Literature, Bibliography
  • Popular Books and Magazines About Hydrofoils
• Wing-in-Ground Effect (WIG) Bibliography THE EKRANOPLAN MAN (Rev 011107wnw)
• Wing-in-Surface Effect (WISE) (Rev 020318wnw) Wing-in-Surface Effect vehicles achieve lift aerodynamically, and rise entirely out of the water while flying in surface-effect. Pictures of prototypes Bibliography (Rev 020318wnw)
• AYRS INDEX: This index covers all past published issues of the Amateur Yacht Research Society by Fiona Sinclair (Add 010101wnw) (Rev 030331wnw)
• Jim Sonnenmeier 10/22/94: Short List of References for Airfoil Aerodynamic Data. The list is by no means exhaustive. It represents a cross-section of the available data mostly for the low Reynolds number airfoil regime.(Add 011130wnw) (Rev 030331wnw)
• `Airfoil Database' would help you choose or design airfoils. This database includes airfoil specification(contour,thickness ratio etc.) and performance (lift,drag and moment) data widely. (Add 011130wnw) Rev 030408wnw)
• Naval ships crew photo album offers pictures provided by those that come here, and the site installs them so they can be shared. With 20,000 ships here (Add 020318)
• DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER 805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060 Basic Information On The Availability Of Photographs Of U.S. Navy Subjects. Online Library (Add 020506wnw)
• One Design Airfoil Analysis by Russ Erb a "specially designed symmetrical airfoil, 16% thick, conical nose and flat sides." compared to a NACA 0016 airfoil from article dated May 1994. (Add 030321wnw)
• The world of radical marine designs, these pages are extensive.including lots of Hydrofoils (Add 030331wnw)

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Hydrofoil Ships/Craft & Their Designers

• Foil Stabilized Sail Craft (FSSC), Inventor: Giles Whittaker
• TARCO Research Bionic Dolphin Website - Variable Attitude Submersible Hydrofoil (VASH) - The concept is that of an underwater flying machine, conceived in 1974 by Thomas A. Rowe. Prototype development began in October of 1988 under the direction of Dennis "Dusty" Kaiser. The prototype, NOLAND WON made it's first flight 07 Sep 92 at Oak Bottom Marina on Whiskeytown Lake in Northern California. (Rev010124wnw)
• Hydrofoils, Inc. - Ultra-high speed ferry and oil rig service boats -- Ken Cook, CEO
• Baranski Hydrofoils - Michael Baranski Hydrofoil Sailboat Designs (Article in Multihull World Magazine) (Rev 030331wnw)
• The BARANSKI HYDROFOILS SYSTEM (Australian Patent) with adjustable angle of incidence will fit to some existing watercrafts sail or power driven built to achieve high stability and efficiency. Latest system called PROFOILER (Rev 030331wnw)
• The Pacific Proa -- Source of Construction and Design of Pros (Rev 001209wnw)
• Fred Rodolf (Quick Tow Rescue & Salvage)
• Futuristic Hydrofoil (Never Built), San Francisco Artist John Berkey (circa mid-1970s)
• The Industrial Design Engineering (IDE) Virtual Design Museum; Luigi Colani Hydrofoil (1973); Side View; Top View
• David Taylor Research Lab's High Speed Sealift Technology FTP
• Maritime Applied Physics Corp. Interesting hydrofoil assisted vessel designs of Hydrofoil-Supported Catamaran & HYSWAS Ferry. (Rev 011217wnw)
• Russian Hydrofoil Facts and Photos - Konstantin Matveev This web-site is dedicated to hydrofoils. It contains data on the most successful hydrofoils, methods of calculations of the foil characteristics, ongoing projects, and information about other advanced hydrodynamic concepts (Rev 020318wnw)
• New Hydrofoil Small Waterplane Area Ship (HYSWAS) (Rev 020130wnw)
• USS PEGASUS (PHM-1) Line Drawing
• Hydrofoil Supported Catamarans (HYSUCAT), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hoppe
• HydroSpeed, Inc. HYSUCAT Sales, Marketing, Design/Feasibility Studies
• Bayliner with Foils TALARIA III, Harry T. Larsen. Also found at Popular Mechanics Nov 1996. (Rev 020531wnw)
• "One Oar in the Water" by Dave Culp
• Sailing Page of Mac Stevens
• Interflight Hydroflier by Stephenson Projects - Back Yard Yacht Club
• International Moth Class Association of Western Australia (IMCA) Sailing Hydrofoil Developments. Includes Moth Class Development including Sailing Hydrofoils. (Rev 011116wnw)
• The Meteoor II is build in 1997 ,and is formerly known as Rheinjet. owned by the German shipping company KD(Köln-Düsseldorfer). And did two years of service on the river Rhine between Cologne and Mainz. The season of 2001 is the first year of service in Holland on the river Lek. Doing two trips aday. (Rev 020318wnw)
• Tom E.Speer paper at 15th Chesapeake Sailing Yacht Symposium The Basiliscus Project The Return of the Cruising hydrofoil Sailboat (Add 011130wnw)
• Performance Testing of the HYSWAS "Streetfighter" by MIDN 1/C Peter Mitalas. an advanced hydrofoil concept with expected application to littoral warfare. (Add 011217wnw)
• Calm Water Testing of the HYSWAS Concept "Streetfighter" by MIDN 1/c Peter Mitalas. The model's hull and foil lift and drag characteristics were determined through a series of tests conducted in the towing tank. (Add 011217wnw)
• Patrick Cudmore's lightweight proa-configured craft SEAFLIER with its cantilevered, articulating wingsall and inverted, elliptical arch, surface-piercing foils offers a glimpse of a sophisticated design with strong but light composite plastics. Patrick Cudmore passed away on 7 October 2001 (Add 011217wnw)
• Mr Smith's Amazing Sailboats, here are craft that share a link to the designs of Bernard Smith (Add 011217wnw)
• Hydrofoil Sailing Dinghy: a 15 year odyssey by John Perry to develop a small Catarmaran Sailing Hydrofoil. (Add 020318wnw)
• Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd has completed (2000) a diesel driven fully submerged hydrofoil catamaran. She is a newly developed passenger ferry with the speed of 40 knots and passenger capacity of 341 and now in commercial service on the Oki Islands route in Shimane Prefecture.Add 020318wnw)
• Neil Pryde Ltd. the world's leading manufacturer of windsurfing sails and rigs, has announced plans to actively invest in the research and development of foil technology, aimed at significantly boosting the performance of boards on water. (Add 030331wnw)

   

   

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Hydrofoil Builders/Brokers

• John F. Rodrigues YachtBoutique
• Glenn S. Nesbitt (American Hydrofoils) Manufacturer of high-speed hydrofoil watercraft (Rev 010320wnw)
• Rodriquez Cantieri Navale or Rodriquez Marine Systems USA From 1956 to today Rodriquez has produced more than 250 hydrofoils used on routes all over the world to carry passengers. (Rev 060726wnw)
• Zelenodolsk Works Shipyard n.a. A.M.Gorky (builders of METEOR Class Hydrofoil Passenger Vessels) (Rev 020428wnw)
• The EIFO, a 25 ft racing hydrofoil trimaran sailboat (Rev 020130wnw)
• HYDROPTÈRE - sailboat built by Eric Tabarly and Alain Thébault (Gabriel Terrasse) Includes their high performance sailing hydrofoils from 1976 to 2001. (Rev 020819wnw)
• Volga Shipyard, Manufacturer of KATRAN / KOLKHIDA hydrofoils; email: volga@pol.ru - Nowadays the shipyard builds sea-going passenger hydrofoils - "Katran" class, sea-going leisure hydrofoil boat "Sokol", amphibious boat on air-cushion ACB-500 , air cavity cargo vessels - "Serna" class, built on the basis of the landing boat, and seven-seat hydrofoil boats "Dolphin-7". Recently two versions of "Serna", four "Katrans" and two "Dolphins" have undergone trials, passed the Register and have been delivered to their clients. (Rev 010101wnw)
• The Hysucat Hydrofoil System licensed by Unistel is a hybrid of a catamaran hull fitted with a hydrofoil system which carries part of the craft's weight at speed resulting in a most economical high speed craft. (Add 010716wnw) (Rev 030331wnw)
• Dr. Boulat Rafikov, Hydrofoil 12-passenger Boat, 32 knots, 10.5 meter length, Mercruiser D4.2 Turbo engine (Warning: interesting site, but if you contact them by email you will be put onto their mailing list for get-rich-quick spam)
• Day-5, Inc. Fishing Flat Boats w/ tunnel-mounted hydrofoils, outboard motor. Can run in less than 8 inches of water with optional transom jack and special propellor
• Hitachi Zosen Corporation
• TRIS 10 Sailing Hydrofoil Trimaran by Magazzu Research Group, Italy
• EGIDA AGENCY, recruitment and marine agency, that was established in 1994 in Odessa, Ukraine and operating as a private enterprise under License N 534 of Ukrainian Ministry of Employment are brokers for used Meteor TYPE class Hydorfoils. (Rev 011107wnw) Rev 030408wnw)
• Hydrofoils Inc's objective is to implement a safe, environmentally friendly ferry system, utilizing long range, lightweight, hydrofoils (Add 010126wnw)
• Techniques Avancées - Twin Rig Sailing Hydrofoil 15 years of high tech Catamaran Hydrofoil development in France (Add 020318wnw)
• Shun Tak-China Travel Ship Management Limited is established from the joint venture between China Travel International Investment Hong Kong Limited (CTII) in July 1999 - The merger of two major shipping business with the largest fleet of high-speed vessels in the Asia Pacific region, including hydrofoils. (Add 020318wnw)
• Supramar AG High Speed Hydrofoil Solutions: Since its foundation in 1952, Supramar has provided a worldwide consultancy service, covering not only its hydrofoil vessels but also other aspects of fast marine transport. Supramar Anti Cavitation Groove. Here is on of its original vessels the MV Crown Islander (rev 030818wnw)
• International Broking Services provide purchase, sales and chartering agents of all types of commercial shipping, specializing in the area of high speed passenger ferries including Hydrofoils. (Add 020506wnw)
• Aks-Invest, Shipbuilders Investment Stock Company, follows traditions of well-known Nizhny Novgorod designing school of shipbuilders. On the credit side of the company are modern vehicle developments patented in the Russian Federation, such as a sea-going hydrofoil cruiser, amphibious hovercraft. Includes "Sokol" Sea-going hydrofoil cruising boat (Add 020819wnw)
• PS30 High Speed Passenger Hydrofoil from China best products: This craft is designed for shuttling service between Hong Kong and Marco or short international sea route high speed passenger service. (Add 030331wnw)

   

   

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Organizations, Societies, Gov't Agencies

• American Bureau of Shipping (ABS)
• Society of Naval Architects & Marine Engineers (SNAME)
• Amateur Yacht Research Society (AYRS)
• Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA) (Rev 001209wnw)
• Det Norske Veritas (Norwegian Society)
• International Maritime Organization (IMO)
• US Dept. of Transportation Maritime Administration (MARAD) (Rev 001209wnw) (Rev 020130wnw)
• US Coast Guard (Rev 030331wnw)
• USA Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) (Rev 001209wnw)
  • Automatic FOIA Request Letter Generator
• US Library of Congress Legislation Research Page
• United States Hovercraft Society (USHS) Ceased operations on 2001. This is a small repositoriy of their Photos. (Rev 030330wnw)
• American Society of Naval Engineers (ASNE)
• National Marine Manufacturers Association (NMMA) (Rev 001209wnw)
• Lloyds Register of Shipping (Rev 020819wnw)
• Transportation Safety Board of Canada (Rev 030331wnw)
• Defense Research Establishment Atlantic (DREA) (Rev 030330wnw)
• Institute of Marine Engineers
• National Advisory Committee For Aeronautics (NACA) (Rev 011217wnw)
  • NACA Report 135 "A theoretical and experimental study of planing surfaces including effects of cross section and plan form" by Charles L. Shuford, Jr. (Add 011112wnw)
• Aeronautics Learning Laboratory for Science Technology and Research (ALLSTAR) with emphacis on Aeronautics procedures and propeller design (Add 010505wnw)
• Hoverclub of America. Constructing, Cruising or Competing source for Hovercraft information. (Add 010505wnw) (Rev 020130wnw)
• Boat Design.Net connects boatbuilders and designers on the web, highlighting innovations in both small and large powerboat design, showcasing great boatbuilding projects by amateurs and professionals, and providing access to resources, materials, and inspirational sites. Good Discussion Forum. (Add 020506wnw)
• The USS Aries Hydrofoil Memorial, Inc., is dedicated to the rehabilitation of the only remaining Patrol Hydrofoil Missile (PHM) Ship with foils. The organization recently received 501(c)(3) status, allowing it to accept tax deductible contributions to the memorial. (Add 030818wnw)

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Legislation, Codes, and Conferences

• 3rd international High-Performance Marine Vehicles conference to be held in Bergen Norway from 14-17 September 2002. Notice from Dr Volker Bertram organizer. (Rev 020130 wnw)
• "TEA-21" Transportation Equity Act For The 21st Century (Surface Transportation Policy Project) (Rev 010716wnw)
• International Maritime Organization (IMO)
  • International Code for Safety of High Speed Craft
• USA Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) (Rev 001209wnw)
  • Automatic FOIA Request Letter Generator
• US Library of Congress Legislation Research Page
• Free, online copy of the Standard Navy Distribution List (SNDL), the US Navy "Address Book"
• Fast Ferry Conference & Exhibition, The annual exhibition for the fast ferry market (Rev 001118wnw)
• Mitsubishi experiences with the fully submerged hydrofoil catamaran, "Rainbow", (Rev 020819wnw)
• US Patents since 1790: Online search site. (Add 010124wnw)
• Canadian patents: Online search site. (Add 010124wnw)
• European Patents (since 1978) Online search site. (Add 010124wnw)
• National Transportation Library is a growing digital library, mandated by TEA-21, and includes TRIS Online (Transportation Research Information Service) which is the largest transportation bibliographic database in the world and covers the transportation literature from 1970 to date. A search for "hydrofoils" returns 853 citations (Add 010505wnw)
• Transportation Research Board Committee of National Research Council Wash DC that focuses on Transportation; this report on Ferries (TRB Committee A1E15) Ferries in the 21st century as well as many other publications. (Rev 020506wnw)
• Buffalo Hydrofest 2001 was on Aug 12, 2001 in Buffalo NY, Where you saw all sorts of unique and innovative Human-Powered Boats (HPBs) competing for excellence in a variety of races and contests. Take a test-drive in some of the production manufactured boats! Sponsored by Human powered Boats Assoc (Rev 011107wnw)
• MACC2002 for information on our 6th Annual MACC conference in July 2003. As stated in the website, "the registration form is not yet completed but will be by Tuesday, 2 Aprl 2003" will provide a forum for open exchange of information and discussion about boat and craft technology issues between Government agencies and the maritime community. (Rev 030426wnw)

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Travel & Hydrofoil Operators

• West Palm Beach FL to Freeport, Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas - SeaJets, Inc. Company appears to be defunct. Here is their history halfway down the website under "Travel to the Bahamas just got faster" from a spring 2000 article. (Rev 020819wnw)
• Lake Ontario Toronto/Niagra Falls/US ports - Seaflight 2000 Transportation Company "at speeds of over 65 Km/H, above the waves on full foil" (Rev 040226wnw)
• Greece: Island Hopping by Hydrofoil by deTraci Regula, Greece for Visitors Guide, (email: gogreece.guide@about.com)
• SAMOS Hydrofoils
• Greece: Ceres Dolphin Ferries in Greece
• Dodecanese Hydrofoil Fleet of six KOMETA-type hydrofoils (Rev 001209wnw)
• Vienna/Bratislava Hydrofoil River Tours: Blue Danube Tours (Rev 001209wnw)
• CRILLON TOURS complete infrastructure of 14 buses, 7 hydrofoils, 2 hotels on Lake Titicaca: (5*) Inca Utama Hotel & SPA in Huatajata and (5*) Hostal Posada de los Incas on the Sun Island, as well as, a modern office with more than 120 professionals and 24 guides in seven languages. Some of their 7 hydrofoils were designed by Helmut Kock, a pioneer Hydrofoil Designer and Builder. (Add 010621wnw)
• Cruises and Lines Corfu-Paxos-Antipaxos-Parga-Lefkada-Kefalonia-Albania Petrakis Lines & Cruises In 1998 the flying dolphins, high speed catamarans arrived to serve our new lines. Phone 0030-661-31649,38690,25155 Fax 0030-661-38787,26555El Venizeleou New Port 491 00 Corfu Greece

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Hydrofoil Stabilizers

• Tiger Shark VG Hydrofoil
• Hydro-Foil Propeller Guard.® (Performance and marine mammal protection) (Add 010107wnw)
• The Sting Ray Junior Hydrofoil is adjustable to fit cavitation plates on boat motors from 1? to 25 HP. (Rev 030331wnw)
• D. T. Higdon dba Dynamics Technology Hawaii; Automatic stabilization systems design and motion simulations for SWATH (Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull) ships, HYSWAS and other unusual marine vehicles (Add 020130wnw)

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Miscellaneous

• WIG Pages
  • The WIG (Wing-in-Ground Effect) Craft Home Page
  • WIG Bibliography (Rev 001209wnw)
  • Center of Ekranoplan Technologies "ALSIN" presents a new model of high-speed boat on the dynamic air cushion (small ekranoplan) Aquaglide.(Rev 020919wnw)
• MK-105 Magnetic Influence Minesweeping System a high speed catamaran hydrofoil platform which is towed behind the MH-53E Sea Dragon helicopter. (Rev 020318wnw)
• High Aspect Ration Twin Hull (HARTH) (Add 010101wnw)
• Ernst Zemann Boatbuilder/-designer Pictures of sailing hydrofoils. (Rev 030807wnw)
• SAILROCKET is a radical new British design to challenge the outright world speed sailing record. The current record of 46.5 knots was set by the Australian boat YELLOW PAGES ENDEAVOUR in 1993. (Add 011107wnw)
• SEACOASTER Air Assisted Catamaran is a true catamaran hull with wave slicing fine entry sidehulls; however, it differs in that there are recesses built into the underside of each sidehull. Foil assisted tests (Add 011217wnw)
• Warp Drive Underwater: By traveling inside drag-cutting gas pockets, new subsea systems can move much faster underwater than their conventional counterparts on the same amount of energy. (Add 020318wnw)
• Deep Angel is set in the year 2041 and follows the adventures of the world's first supercavitating submarine rocket ship, the mighty Angelus. (Add 020318wnw)
• Hoverdril has been formed by the original founding members of Mackace. Originally called Mackley Air Cushion Equipment who were responsible for highly successful commercial Hoverbarges such as the "Yukon Princesses, which were modular Hoverbarges, used by Alyeska Pipeline Services. (Add 020506wnw)
• The Rudiments of Wisdom about Hydrofoils compiled and drwn by Hunkin (Add 030807wnw)
• Graham Taylor's Web Site of WIGs and Hydrofoils including the Caspian Sea Monster and several Models. (Add 020531wnw)
• CAPTAIN'S LOG by Brian Douglas, Folksinger Western Caribbean Passage: Key West, FL, USA to Chetumal, Q. Roo, Mexico June 7, 1999 to August 7 1999 On "FURTHER" Windrider Rave Hydrofoil Trimarran Length: 16' Beam: 17 Draft: variable, 8" to 3 (Add 030331wnw)

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