Hoverguard 800 Features:

Hovercraft Payload (standard equipment): 1500 lbs (680 kg)
Hull: 22' long x 8' wide (6.7 x 2.44 m)
Hull Color: WHITE
Speed: 35 mph (56 kph) on calm water, 60 mph (96 kph) on smooth ice
Max Wave Handling Capacity: 2 ft (60 cms)
Turning Capability: 180 and 360 degree turns on land, ice and water
 

Standard equipment:

• General Motors 4-cycle, V8 multi-port, fuel injected engine

• 12v electrical system with 90 amp alternator

• Dual 850 ccca batteries with battery master switch giving OFF-1-BOTH-2 positions

• Thrust system: Twin 39" (99 cms) ducted twelve blade fans driven by Goodyear Eagle® Kevlar® Vee-tooth cog belts; air straightener arrays; ten cable-operated air rudders and removable fanguards

• Electric actuator-controlled splitter plates with dash mounted rocker switches allowing variable lift and thrust settings for speed and cushion control on the move. System does NOT allow "stationary hovering" or "hovering in place".

• 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 gelcoat finish.

• Flat non-skid 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.

• Crew protection 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 gauges, coolant temperature gauge, two fuel gauges and voltmeter

• 40 US gal (150 l) capacity fuel tanks

• Four mooring eyes, one bow eye and one rear winching eye

• Twin strobe flashers (red, blue or amber), all-round light on ducts and red/green bow light

• Four 2 ft stainless steel grab rails, two collapsible grapple poles, two ring buoys.

• Two 2,000 gph (7,500 l/hr) bilge pumps