Hoverguard 800 Features and Options
Hovercraft Payload (standard equipment): 850 lbs (340 kg)
Hull: 16' long x 8' wide (4.88 x 2.44 m)
Choice of Hull Colors: RED/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
- 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
Options:
- Stainless steel dual muffler
- Removable vinyl cockpit enclosure
- Combined siren and public address system
- Heater-defroster
- Heavy-duty lift eyes for raising craft with a hoist
- Night rescue lighting package
- Stationary hover system
- Interior cockpit lighting
- Aluminum decking over basic decking to withstand impact
loads
- All Kevlar® bottom hull
- Non-standard color
- Thunder®
T3 hearing protection
- Mustang® survival suits and vests
- Special options available on request (GPS, radio and
intercom equipment, special seating)
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