FOILS CONTINUE COMEBACK WHERE ARE YOU IN CYBERSPACE ?! RIDE CON TROL TECHNOL OGY AD VANCES STEADILY IHS re lies on elec tronic com mu ni- From an Arti cle by Paul Hynds in “Speed at Sea”, Jan u ary 1999 cation with the member ship to improv e timeli ness and re duce mail ing costs. If ari time Dy nam ics Inc. (MDI) is a famil iar name in the com - you are a member with email, let us know Mmer cial high speed craft in dus try, but the com pany has been your email ad dress! Thank you. de vel op ing and sup ply ing ride control sys tems since 1980. Throughout this pe riod MDI equip ment has been fitted to just about 1999 DUES ARE DUE ev ery type of fast ferry to en hance levels of passen ger com fort in a seawa y. Differ ent systems have been devel oped to suit the markedl y IHS Member ship is still only differ ent forms of high speed ferry tech nol ogy encom pass ing cat a- US$20 per calen dar year (US$2.50 for marans, mono hulls, sur face effect ships and SWATH ves sels. students). Your re newal or new mem ber- In 1996 MDI was ac quired by UK-based Vosper Thornycroft, which ship is critical. Please remit 1999 dues as had already worked closely with the US com pany on fast ferry ride soon as pos si ble. We re gret that high bank control sys tems for several years, pro vid ing hydrau lic equip ment and fees make it imprac ti cal for IHS to ac cept payment by credit card or a check drawn fin stabi lis ers while MDI sup plied elec tronic ride control lers, T-foil on a non-US bank, or by other than US sta bi lis ers, and ac tive stern flaps. funds. Overseas members with no easy MDI has installed more than 140 ride control systems to a wide va ri- way to send US funds, are ad vised to send ety of com mer cial ves sels oper at ing through out the world. Each sys - money order to IHS or US Dollars cash. tem is uniquely config ured as a specific ap pli ca tion to the partic u la r vesse l , tak ing into ac count its design and the prevail ing sea con di- IN SIDE THIS ISSU E tions of the in - - Wel come New Mem bers, p. 2 tended or most likely oper a tiona l - De liv eries and Or ders, p. 6 profile. The most - K55 Ret ro fitted with Foils, p. 7 re cent ride contro l sys tem in stal la tions - Small Ships for U.S. Navy?, p. 8 in clude Incat’s first 96m wave- piercer - Teknicraft Uses Foils, p. 10 (Hull 050), TRICO - In Memoriam - Tom Ray, p. 11 Forward T-Foil on Austal 48m Ferry Ma rine’s SWATH crewboat Stillwater - Call For Pa pers for 30th, p. 12 See Motion Control, Page 3 - Let ters to the Edi to r, p 13 WEL COME NEW MEM BERS

PRESIDENT’S COLUMN Robert W. Hol land, Jr. joined the staff of Mari time Ap plied Phys ics t is an ap pro pri ate time to pro vide Panel on Advanced Marine Ve hi cles, Corp. in Annapolis, MD in 1993. He all members with an update on the is pur su ing the scanning and elec - has worked on a vari ety of pro jects I“State of the IHS”. I am pleased to tronic re lease of about 500 re ports includ ing QUEST, a HYSWAS re port that the State of the IHS is and techni cal papers on high per for- demon stra tor craft built for the U.S. sound. Due to the hard work and mance marine ve hi cles. This will be Navy. Rob pro vides the exper tis e many hours of de voted ef fort by Bar - ac com plished with the co op er a tion for the com pa nies’ CAD ca pa bil ity. of and through the Naval Surfac e ney Black, our Web Master, and Dan iel C. Leggett ob tained a War fare Cen ter, Carderock Di vi sion many of the Board Mem bers, we are BSME from Clark son Uni ver sity in in Mary land, out side of Wash ing ton, see ing prog ress on several fronts. 1989. He sub se quently earned a D.C. One, which is of great impor tance to Mas ters de gree in ME from Johns us, is our member ship. The IHS con - All of you had an oppor tu nity to com - Hopkins Uni ver sity. He re cently tinues to reach out to the hydro foi l ment on a pro posal to hold a Cel e bra- joined Mar i time Ap plied Phys ics world via the “Net”; we are pull ing in tion and Meet ing to com mem o rate Corp. in Annapolis, MD where he is members from all over the globe. the 30th An ni ver sary of the IHS in in volved in struc tural and me chan i- From this and other newslet ters you the Year 2000. Some of you re - cal sys tems design . sponded, and al though the respons e can see, under the “Welcome New Jona than E. Morley is cur rently was not overwhelm ing, the Board of Members” column, that the ad di tion studying at Plymouth Uni ver sity, Di rec tors has decided to pursue this of new members is hold ing at a very Plym outh, Eng land for a BEng Ma - event. Board Member Jerry Gore high level. These new members rep - rine Sys tems Technol ogy. He has eval u ated and summa rized the ques - re sent a wide va ri ety of in ter ests in be come increas ingly in ter ested in tion naires. In part, he rec om mended the hy dro foil arena, and this is good hy dro foil design and is cur rently re - a one-day af ter noon and eve ning for the Soci ety . search ing ideas for his dis ser ta tion. meeting. As a re sult we have is sued a At present Jon a than is inter ested in I would like to bring you up to date on “Call for Papers” which can be found model ing hy dro foil dy nam ics; sev eral initia tives. For sometime we on page 12 of this Newslet ter. I have prov ing the valid ity of such com - have been pursu ing the pos si bil ity of also sent out this “Call” by e-mail to para tive methods. This is likely to produc ing a Hy dro foil Video. Sev - all members who have pro vided us in volve ex per i men tal test ing on a eral attempts with a number of or ga- with an e-mail address . niza tions have failed, but we are scaled craft, and attempts to char ac- persis tently and stub bornly seek ing a Again we were sad dened to hear of ter ize scal ing ef fects. the death of two more members of solu tion. The latest is a prom is ing Andrew Padgett is a stu dent at the hy dro foil commu nity: Bill con tact through the Dis cov ery Chan - Ashville Col lege, Harrogate, North Schultz and Tom Ray. Both of them nel. We will keep you posted re gard- York shire, England. He is takin g were deeply involved for many years ing any progress along this line. Advanced Level Design and Tech - in the hy dro foil program at Boe ing. Secondly, a long-term ef fort is to pro - nology, and he has chosen a desig n Sumi Arima and Bill Ellsworth were duce a Hy dro foil Tech nol ogy text - project to make a device which will kind enough to pro vide some back - book. Our latest ap proach is a increase the size of the wake of a ground on these two fine and highly co op er a tive ef fort with the Uni ver- speedboat when wake- board ing be - re spected hydrofoilers. (See pages 11 sity of Mich i gan Dept of Naval Ar - hind it. This allows one to do more and 12.) chitec ture and Marine En gi neering. tricks. He hopes to get some in for- While on the sub ject of “pub li ca- John R. Meyer ma tion on this sub ject with the help tions”, Ken Spaulding, along with Pres i dent of fel low hydrofoilers. repre sen ta tives of the U.S. Hov er- craft Soci ety and the SNAME SD-5 Continued on Page 6 Page 2 IHS Spring 1999 Mo tion Control dence to mini mise cav i ta tion. The stan dard devi a tion of pitch and roll by (Continued From Page 1) mounting in ter face between the 70 per cent. T-foil assem bly and the hull structur e River , the 45m Derecktor-built cata- can in cor po rate a pro tec tive featur e High speed monohull ves sels requir e maran Patri cia Oliva II , the 100m that enables the T-foil to break away a differ ent method ol ogy to contro l Fincantieri-built mono hulls Super- if sub jected to ab nor mal load ing or trim, list, steer ing and co or di nated SeaCat III and SuperSeaCat IV, and impact . turn ing, pitch, roll and yaw and au to- CFI’s 120m Pacificat 1000-series matic heading. In 1993 MDI in tro- cat a ma ran in Can ada. In a typ i cal con tem po rary fast ferry duced a ride con trol sys tem fit ted with a full MDI ride con trol sys - specif i cally de signed for mono hulls. For cat a ma ran appli ca tions an MDI tem the instal la tion would comprise : This sys tem combines the steerin g ride con trol sys tem will typ i cally trim tab and T-foil assem blies; hy - func tion and the damp ing of hull ac - consist of hy drau li cally op er ated in - draulic pack; motion sensor sys tem celer a tions to pro vide enhanced lev - verted T-foils fitted to the bow of package; T-foil ac tu a tor assem bly ; els of pas sen ger com fort dur ing high each hull and usually, but not always , T-foil servo as sem bly; trim tab ac tu a- speed op er a tions in both calm and oper ated in conjunc tion with trim tor as sem bly; trim tab servo as sem- rough wa ter con di tions. This is tabs mounted on each tran som. Orig i- bly; local con trol service junc tions; achieved through the inte grated con - nal ride con trol systems for cat a ma- electron ics con trol unit; systems con - trol of the vessel’s rud ders, or al ter na- rans re lied only on the stern trim tabs, trol and dis play panels and hy drau lics tive steer ing mecha nism, and activ e but the ad vent of the inverted T-foil ‘start’ and stop’ alarm panel. stern-mounted flaps in response to made consid er able ad vances in mea - vessel hull mo tions and helm com - sur able motion re duc tion. mands. For large cat a ma rans the T-foil itsel f Typi cal of this MDI ride control ap - is con structed us ing high strength pli ca tion are the sys tems fitted to the steel ma te rial and is de signed for con - Aus tra lian-built WaveMaster In ter- tin ued op er a tions at high speeds un - na tional monohull high speed pas sen- der both symmet ric and asym met ric ger ferries such as the 40m slamming con di tions. All sur faces SuperFlyte. Dur ing op er a tions in 1m that bear on thrust bearings are to 2m bow seas the sys tem has con sis- plasma-arc-coated with stain less ma - tently demon strated a 60 per cent re - terial, MDI says. The con fig u ra tion duc tion in roll motions and a 30 per of the foil can pro vide both inci denc e cent re duc tion in pitch. and flap con trol, or flap control only, to create posi tive or nega tive lift as re - MDI first installed a bow-mounted Sur face effect ships re quire a com - quired to coun ter the vessel’s hull in verted T-foil ride control sys tem on pletely differ ent method of ride con - mo tion. This re duces the ac cel er a- a large cat a ma ran in co op er a tion with trol based on vent ing pressur ised air tions caused by vessel pitch, heave UK-based oper a tor Condor. With a from within the sealed air cushio n and roll which are instru men tal in three-hour open-sea West ern Chan - chamber. Passen ger craft of the type caus ing passen ger dis com fort and nel route link ing main land UK to the built by Ulstein In ter na tional in Nor - sea sick ness. The con trol la ble sur - Chan nel Is lands, pas sen ger comfor t way between 1984 and 1992 pre dom- faces are au to mat i cally posi tioned by was, and contin ues to be, a key pri or- i nately employ a three-vent sys tem an elec tronic control ler that feeds on ity for Condor. The ride con trol sys - sup ported by boost air into the stern in put from mo tion re cord ing sen sors. tem com prises a full in stal la tion of seal. The fleet of Kvaerner Mandal- Custom soft ware installed in the con - ac tive inverted T-foils forward on built mine coun ter-measures surfac e trol ler calcu lates the angle on the foils each hull and ac tive trim tabs aft, and ef fect ships deliv ered to the Royal due to hull motion and foil ro ta tion. made dramatic im prove ments to Norwe gian Navy also use this sys tem Con dor 10’s ride qual ity. Eval u a tion The sys tem also contin u ally and au to- dur ing tests with wave heights in ex - mat i cally limits the angles of in ci- cess of 2m re corded a re duc tion in the Con tinued on Next Page IHS Spring 1999 Page 3 Mo tion Control While stern-mounted trim tabs are a point of max i mum damp en ing effec t (Continued From Page 3) proven method for control ling pitch depend ing on the par tic u lar vessel . and roll motions and will con tinue to but al lied to the addi tional ben e fit of a be used, a prob lem arises with the in - For the FlyingCat 40 pas sen ger cat a- lift pressure control device . creasing size of new gener a tion high ma rans the foil sur face area is equal to 2m 2 under each hull. The sys tem was SWATH ves sels with twin fully sub - speed fer ries. As the ves sels becom e larger, so does the need for increas in g first fitted to the 38.8m Advance d merged cy lin dri cal or sim i lar form Slen der Cat a ma ran Victo ria Clip per, hulls gener ally use an activ e the re ac tive sur face area of the trim tabs to con trol the rel e vant mo tions. oper ated by Clipper Navi ga tion of fin-based ride control sys tem sim i lar Seat tle, where as sess ment of the sys - to that found on monohull high speed This of course has an ad verse weight impli ca tion . tem re vealed a re duc tion in bow ac - fer ries. This can also be inte grated to celer a tions of 36 per cent in wave op er ate in conjunc tion with a vessel’ s In seek ing a solu tion to this prob lem heights of 2m, and up to 46 per cent in steer ing sys tem and au to pi lot. MDI in sti gated an inten sive researc h wave heights up to 1m. An other ben e- and de vel op ment programme that led fit was that the oper a tor was able to As speeds and pay load demands from to the de vel op ment of a compos it e con tinue us ing the auto pi lot in fol - oper a tors con tinue to in crease so trim tab op tion. This de vel op ment in - low ing seas for the first time with the there is an added im pe tus to re duce cluded exten sive stress inves ti ga tio n Motion Dampening Sys tem en gaged. the weight of fittings and machin er y using fi nite ele ment analy sis which The sys tem can be retro fit ted to ear - com po nents on board fast fer ries. has resulted in a prelim i nary pre dic- lier Kvaerner Fjellstrand de liv er ies Ride control is no excep tion to this tion of a weight sav ing amount ing to and more than 40 shipsets have been trend and MDI has been en gaged on 70 per cent over an equiva lent steel supplied worldwide . an exten sive process of product as - ma te rial trim tab. A sys tem of in ter- cep tors that will per form the same The recently announced US$42 mil - sess ment with the specific aim of re - lion order for a 114m Aquastrada sta - ducing the weight of its in stalled func tion as trim tabs but with less drag pen alty is also un der eval u a tion. bi lised high speed monohull car ferry compo nents. As a re sult of this study placed by Canary Islands op er a tor several weight-saving features are to MDI has devel oped a healthy marke t Armas Group has focused at ten tion be incor po rated into the com pany’s posi tion in sup ply ing ride contro l on the vessel’s inte grated ride contro l ride con trol sys tems dur ing the tech nol ogy to ship build ers. Other and steer ing sys tem (Speed at Sea, course of the next year. yards have opted to de velop their own August 1998). Developed by Rod- in-house ride con trol tech nol ogy, and riquez Engi neering, the techni cal arm Planned for re lease in the sum mer of no ta ble in this cate gory are Austal of the Italian shipyard, the sys tem is 1999 is MDI’s first com mer cial com - Ships in Austra lia, Kvaerner Fjell- des ig nated the navi ga tion and puter-based ride con trol sys tem in - strand in Norway, and Rodriquez seaworthiness manage ment sys tem corpo rat ing an em bed ded Microsoft Cantieri Navali in Ital y. The Kvaerner (NSMS). Win dows oper at ing system. This new Fjellstrand solu tion is known as the Motion Dampening System, de vel- Unlike pre vi ous monohull ride con - sys tem will offer touch-screen op er a- trol systems the Rodriquez solu tio n tion, improved di ag nos tic ca pa bil i- oped first for the company’s fast pas - senger cat a ma rans built in Nor way utilises two fully sub merged foils ties, easy inte gra tion with alarm and mounted on struts, supple mented by mon i tor ing sys tems, and redun dan t and Sin ga pore. More recently the sys - tem has been ap plied to the larger two pairs of stabi lis ing fins. At the back-up con trols. The sys tem will be bow a single in verted T-foil of 6.7m 2 inter con nected via fi bre-optic cables . FlyingCat and JumboCat cat a ma ran car fer ries. sur face area is fit ted. Two struts aft MDI’s own esti mates reveal that sup port a 9.24m 2 foil, the design of switch ing from con ven tional cop - The sys tem com prises com puter- which is based on the company’s long per-based cables to the new fi - controlled ac tive trim tabs aft and in - ex pe ri ence of hy dro foil de vel op- bre-optics will gen er ate a weight verted T-foils forward to coun ter hull ment. sav ing in the order of 40 per cent. mo tion. The forward loca tion of the T-foil mount ing is de ter mined by the Con tinued on Next Page

Page 4 IHS Spring 1999 As well as pro vid ing the ride contro l shortcom ings, and that over all they lowered at the tran som to pro vide func tion these foils will also gener at e were not op ti mum for use in its craft. more lift with less re sis tance than an up to 300 tonnes of posi tive lift to re - equiv a lent flap. duce hull re sis tance and improve op - Devel op ment of the Ocean Lev el ler erat ing perfor mance. In addi tion to sys tem was under taken in co op er a- The in ter cep tor concept was proved these con trol surfaces trim tabs are tion with Curtin Uni ver sity in West - by fitting fixed plates on the stern also fitted on the transom, all of ern Austra lia and paral leled the flaps of the 79m cat a ma ran hull No. which is de signed to al low con tin ued yard’s on go ing de vel op ment of Semi- 37 (Catlink III) dur ing trials in 1995. op er a tions in wave heights up to 5m. SWATH hullforms. Austal’s researc h Sub se quently several fixed plates As part of the inte grated ride contro l indi cated that an ac tive motion con - were used on 40m ves sels. The first and navi ga tion package the ver ti cal trol sys tem could reduce ship mo tions fully ac tive sys tem was fitted to the struts that support the foils in cor po- by as much as 50 per cent in even the 35m cat a ma ran Marine View which rate rudder flaps. Rodriquez says that best de signed hull. was sold to Ja pan in June 1997. this ar range ment will pro vide a more For cat a ma rans the worst condi tio n The inter cep tor has sub se quently ef fi cient control over steer ing re - for seakeeping is a head sea and hull been used as standard on all Austal’s quirements and pre vent the commo n resis tance in creases sig nif i cantly in ships fitted with ride control sys tems. problem of an oscil lat ing course com - such a case. Ac cord ing to Austal, in - To date some 14 in ter cep tor sys tems mon on ves sels fitted with waterjet creased re sis tance due to hull mo tions are in service on seven ves sels. deflec tors . is es sen tially a large ‘bank’ of lost en - ergy which can be tapped us ing a ride In addi tion to install ing Ocean Lev el- Yard predic tions are for less than 2 ler systems to its own newbuildings, per cent oc cur rence of sea sick ness con trol sys tem. Such sys tems do in - crease re sis tance - but noth ing like Austal has also retro fit ted the sys tem within 2 hours at 38 knots oper at in g to ves sels built at other yards and is into head seas with wave heights up to the en ergy loss caused by exces siv e hull mo tions. The over all effect of the quoting for the sup ply of its sys tems 3m, and up to 5 per cent oc cur rence of to several newbuildings. sea sick ness in any other con di tions. sys tem is there fore to reduce re sis- All the stabi lis ing systems of the tance, thereby either increas ing speed ******** 114m Aquastrada will be con trolled or reduc ing fuel consump tion and en - from a bridge-mounted console by gine main te nance due to lower power As a re sult of recent com mu ni ca tions means of moni tors and comman d re quire ments. Not least, Austal adds, with repre sen ta tives of MDI, IHS has it ensures greater pas sen ger com fort. been in formed that they cur rently of - panel. The moni tors will dis play both 2 visu ally and dig i tally the ship mo - fer 2, 4, 8, 11.5, and 13.5 m T-foils. A typ i cal sys tem com prises motio n They are fabri cated in alumi num , tions (roll an gle, pitch angle and ver - sen sors cou pled to a computer con - tical and transverse ac cel er a tions) as plain steel, and specialty steels de - trol ler, which in turn commands un - pend ing on the ap pli ca tion. Severa l well as the an gles of in ci dence of the derwa ter foil sections, flaps or control surfaces. The sys tem is also of the foils are of fered in standard and inter cep tors to move the ship in such a high-speed vari ants to best trade-off able to receive the rel e vant data from way as to counter wave-induced mo - the onboard motion sensors and con - lift, drag, and cav i ta tion incep tion . tions. Austal has devel oped a range of All of MDI’s T-foils have activ e trol sur face mon i tors, so as to analys e con trol surfaces to pro vide the op ti- it in the fre quency do main and com - flaps. The larger foils will also pivot mum so lu tions for specific vesse l to op ti mize angle of at tack. MDI is pare it with the standard comfor t types and route appli ca tions. Austal’s curves, Rodriquez En gi neering says. currently work ing on super- port fo lio in cludes flaps, var i ous high-speed vari ants for oper a tion in Austal Ships de vel oped its Ocean T-foil and fin arrange ments as well as the 60 knot speed re gion. Level ler ride control sys tem in 1992 its newly de vel oped in ter cep tor con - after eval u at ing ex ist ing ride contro l cept. systems on the mar ket. At that time (As a point of refer ence, the largest , The ac tive in ter cep tor is Austal’s lat - 13.5m 2 foil is ap prox i mately the same Austal con sid ered ex ist ing com mer- est de vel op ment. Es sen tially it is a cially available sys tems to have size as the for ward foil on the PHM ver ti cal plate which can be raised and hy dro foils). Edi to r

IHS Spring 1999 Page 5 1998 DE LIV ERIES AND As always, a fast ferry is re garded as a WELCOME TO NEW MEMBERS ORDER S vessel, deliv ered to or ordered by a (Continued From Page 2) (Extracted from Fast Ferries In ter- commer cial company, capa ble of car - national, Janu ary-February, 1999) ry ing at least 50 passen gers, or an Theo dore Spillers is from Breaux equiv a lent amount of pas sen gers plus Ridge, Lou i si ana. eliv eries and orders placed dur - cargo, and hav ing a min i mum servic e ing 1998 were not as bad as speed of 25 knots. Chris Tietjen is from Guilford, CT Dmany within the fast ferry in - and his in ter est is in sail ing hy dro- dus try seem to believe. The figure s foils where seakeeping vice all-out com pare rea son ably well with the 67 Deliv eries Or ders Total speed is the primary goal. deliv er ies and 69 outstand ing order s Cat a ma rans 34 37 71 at the end of 1997. Foil assiste d Jeanne E. Waldner - A naval ar - cat a ma rans 2 - 2 chitect gradu ate of Web Insti tute in As usual, some of the ves sels listed Hover craf t --- 1993, Jeanne recently joined the de - last year as outstand ing orders for de - Hy dro foils 6 - 6 sign staff of Mari time Ap plied liv ery dur ing 1998 re main with the Hy dro foil Physics Corp. in Annapolis, MD. yards or have failed to ma te ri al ize cat a ma rans - 1 1 Pre vi ously she was employed by due to lapsed contracts or financ in g Monohull s 15 19 34 Glosten As so ci ates in Seat tle , diffi cul ties. Un less they have been Surf Eff Ships --- Designers and Planners in sold to an other op er a tor, those that SWATHs - 1 1 Arlington, VA, and J.J. McMullen have been built are re garded as stock Wavepiercing in New York. She also holds a MS vessels and are not counted. This year cat a ma rans 6 1 7 degree in Ocean Tech nol ogy and there are four. One of which, a 43m Total s 63 59 122 Com merce from Web. cat a ma ran ordered by Phillip s Cruises & Tours from Fal con Ma rine, Passen ger ferrie s Wil liam N. White recently re tired will defi nitely not be ap pear ing as the 50-99 seats 5 1 6 having served as the Dep uty Di rec- yard closed at the begin ning of last 100- 149 seats 2 7 9 tor of the Naval Sea Sys tems Com - year. One of the other ves sels, 150-199 seats 10 3 13 mand’s (NAVSEA’s) Corpo rat e Marinteknik Ship builders 32m 200-249 seats 8 1 9 R&D Divi sion which oversee s Superfast cat a ma ran Auto Jet, has 250-299 seats 2 2 4 NAVSEA’s in volve ment in many been completed and is cur rently for 300-349 seats 8 4 12 R&D programs. He has over 37 sale. 350-399 seats 5 11 16 years of Naval Archi tec ture, Nava l Ship yard, Naval Labs and Navy Hy dro foils built for stock re main 400-449 seats - 1 1 Headquar ters expe ri ence in all avail able at yards around the for mer 450 + seats 7 8 15 Total s 47 38 85 phases of ship research, de vel op- So viet Un ion and the ap pear ance in ment, con struc tion, oper a tion and 1998 of five of these on ser vices in over haul. His pri mary areas of in ter- Eu rope and North America ex plains Pas sen ger/Ve hi cle ferrie s 10-49 cars 2 1 3 est have always been Advanced Na - the mi nor boom in hy dro foil de liv er- val Vehi cles such as hy dro foils, ies dur ing the year. 50-99 cars 4 6 10 100- 149 cars --- sur face effect ships, air cush ion ve - 150-199 cars 2 5 7 hi cles, and SWATH. In the early One of the more in ter est ing resal e 200-249 cars 5 4 9 70’s, Bill created the orig i nal Ad - con tracts also involved hy dro foils. A 250-299 cars 1 3 4 vanced Ve hi cle computer sim u la- pair of Boe ing Marine Sys tems Jet - 300-349 cars --- tions for the PHMs, AALC JEFF foil 929-115s op er ated by RTM/ 350-399 cars --- A&B, and SES 100 A&B R&D pro - Oostende Lines between 1981 and 400-449 cars --- grams. He has published papers on 1997 have been sold to a Ger man 450-499 cars 2 2 4 the design of Advanced Naval Ve hi- com pany for a pro posed service to Total s 16 21 37 cles and is a member of IHS, USHS, Den mark. SNAME, ASNE and the In ter na- tional Marine Transit Asso ci a tion . Page 6 IHS Spring 1999 HY DRO FOIL SYS TEM is lo cated around 50km from Cape and com prises a 16m-span main foil RETRO FIT TO RAISE K55’S Town. The uni ver sity owns var i ous with a chord length of around 2m, and TOP SPEED inter na tional pat ents on the sys tem, an aft foil spanning the 9m betwee n (From Speed at Sea, Jan u ary 1999) which are admin is tered by its the hulls which acts as a coun ter bal- wholly-owned tech nol ogy company , ance and ensures that the vessel al - fixed hy dro foil sys tem to be fit - Unistel Technol ogies (Pty) Ltd. The ways runs at the correct trim. The Ated to Buquebus’s 70.4m K55 HYSUCAT hy dro foil sys tem is sup- foils are fabri cated from high tensil e car/pas sen ger cat a ma ran Juan plied and marketed inter na tion ally by steel, and their com bined weight is in Patricio will raise its present top Hydrospeed. the region of 12-14 tonnes. speed of around 48 knots to close to 55 knots, ac cord ing to the system’ s Pro fes sor Hoppe has spent over 15 The HYSUCAT sys tem is most suited designer. After the comple tion of a years de vel op ing the shape and the to cat a ma rans with a speci fied min i- series of tank tests at the Insti tute for po si tion ing of the hy dro foil sys tem mum speed for their size range, which Thermo dy nam ics & Me chanics at the and dur ing this period around 200 in the case of ves sels over 50m long is Univer sity of Stellenbosch in South sys tems have been installed. The 38 knots or more. Sys tems for larger Africa, Cape Town-based Hydro - larg est so far is on the 36m com pos ite cat a ma rans and fer ries are de vel oped speed has been contracted to sup ply a -con struc tion cat a ma ran yacht Chief and per fected by model tests both HYSUCAT hy dro foil sys tem for Flying Sun, de signed by Nigel Gee & with and with out scaled foils. Juan Patricio, de liv ered by Incat As so ci ates and built by T-Craft in Aus tra lia in 1995, which op er ates South Africa in 1992. A recent ref er- Ben e fits of fitting the sys tem cited by across the River Plate be tween Bue - ence is Prout Cata ma rans’ 20m-long the designer in clude an increased top nos Ai res and Monte vi deo . 44-knot Pan ther 64 leisure pow er- speed of between 20-40 per cent with boat ( Speed at Sea, June 1998). exist ing en gines, or instal la tion of Incat and Advanced Multihull De - smaller en gines to achieve the same signs joined forces to design and A HYSUCAT sys tem normally con - top speed; improved seakeeping in build the K55, and AMD will su per- sists of one main wing-shaped hy dro- rough seas be cause of the damp en ing vise the in stal la tion of the foils in foil fixed be tween the keels of a ef fect of the sub merged foils; faster South America expected to be around cat a ma ran, close to the centre of grav - accel er a tion; reduced wake height at the middle of this year - with Det ity of the ves sel, and two stern hy dro- speed; better response when turnin g Norske Veritas. The foils them selves foils mounted in the tunnel near the at speed - most cat a ma rans f itted with are be ing fabri cated in Cape Town by tran som under the water line. As the the sys tem bank at speed more like a Hydrospeed’s lo cal sub con trac tor cat a ma ran in creases speed the hy dro- mono hull; and low main te nance be - Dowson & Dobson. foil sys tem produces forces which cause there are no mov ing parts. partially lift the boat out of the wa ter The Hy dro foil Sup ported Cat a ma ran and thereby reduce the wetted area of ******** (HYSUCAT) hy dro foil sys tem can the hull. increase the top speed of fast cat a ma- Disclaimer ran fer ries by be tween 15 to 40 per IHS chooses arti cles and cent de pend ing on the size of the ves - The sys tem was orig i nally designe d pho tos for poten tial inter est to IHS sel and the speed range, ac cord ing to on asym met ri cal cat a ma ran hull de - members, but does not endors e its de signer, and Juan Patricio’s in - signs but has sub se quently been prod ucts or nec es sar ily agree with stalled power of 21,600 kW would adapted to work on the major ity of the authors’ opin ions or claims. need to be increased by more than 50 sym met ri cal cat a ma ran hull shapes. per cent to reach 55 knots with out the For some large pas sen ger and car fer - In ter ested in hydro foil his tory, foil sys tem fitted . ries with sym met ri cal hulls the sys - pi o neers, photo graphs? Visit tem be comes a tandem foil sys tem the history and photo gal lery The HYSUCAT hydro foil sys tem with two main foils. was devel oped by naval ar chi tect pages of the IHS website. Karl-Gunter Hoppe in South Africa at The lat ter type of HYSUCAT sys tem http://www.erols.com/foiler . the Uni ver sity of Stellenbosch, which has been spec i fied for Juan Patricio,

IHS Spring 1999 Page 7 FU TURE NAVY MAY HAVE “Cebrowski will con duct bat tle ex - ers, amphib i ous ships, cruisers, de - SMALL, TOUGH SHIPS TO per i ments on the concept from a num - stroyers, ballis tic and attack sub- SUPPORT MARINES ber of differ ent perspec tives to see marines, as well as com mand and re - (From Defense Daily, Feb ru ary 25, whether we should crank this into our plenish ment ships, and tenders . 1999 - By Vago Muradian) fu ture planning,” the senior offi cia l told Defense Daily. “Cebrowski’s our That will mean a far greater strain on he Navy in the future could have idea man; this is ex actly what we pay the over all force which will be 24 Ta fleet of small, stealthy him to do. But this is way, way out ships smaller than it is to day. 2,000-ton ships packed with a there.” po tent array of strike weap onry that The trouble is that the service is would be de voted to oper at ing close The concept needs to be stud ied barely build ing ships fast enough to to enemy coasts and support in g closely given the Navy expects that ensure that there are enough ships to Marines ashore, a se nior offi cial said the bulk of its future bat tles will be consti tute the future 300-ship fleet. yester da y. fought not on the high seas, but in the Pilling said that the 248 ships of the coastal wa ters of the world. But in - ADM. Donald Pilling, the vice chief fu ture 300-ship fleet would be com - dus try ex ec u tives ex pressed skep ti- posed of: 12 oper a tional car ri ers; 36 of naval oper a tions, disclosed the cism that the vessel was needed, concept—which he termed as the na - amphib i ous ships in 12 Amphib i ou s adding that the de vel op ment of an en - Ready Groups; 14 bal lis tic missil e val equiva lent of a “street-fighter”— tirely new class of ships could dis tract yes ter day dur ing an Ameri can Ship - sub ma rines, down from 18 to day funding, and polit i cal at ten tion, from with congres sio nal approval; 50 nu - building Asso ci a tion semi nar in ongo ing major ef forts, par tic u larly Wash ing ton, D.C. clear attack sub ma rines down from the DD-21 future de stroyer. 60 to day; four com mand ships, one The Navy last year launched a com - for each fleet; and 16 mine coun ter- The idea of such a small, fast, peti tion between two teams for the measures ships. The remain ing 52 heavily-armed ship that would be de - DD-21 that would re place ex ist ing ves sels would be support ships, he voted to in-shore, or lit to ral, op er a- de stroy ers. Two teams are vying for said. tions was broached last week by Vice the ef fort, one led by Bath Iron Works Adm. Ar thur Cebrowski, the com - Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), the rank - [GD] and Lockheed Martin [LMT] ing minor ity member of the House man dant of the Naval War College . and the other led by Ingalls Ship - Cebrowski raised the idea with Appro pri a tions Commit tee’s defens e building and Raytheon [RTNA/ sub com mit tee, told De fense Daily Pilling and other se nior Navy lead ers RTNB]. dur ing a high-level meeting, sources that to ensure prospects for the said. Pilling indi cated, how ever, that the 300-ship fleet, the service must be new class of ships, if ever built, could given enough fund ing to purchase at Pilling added that the de vel op ment of com pose a portion of the bare- min i- least nine ships each year. such a small, modu lar warship would mum of 300 ships that will con sti tute “I think we’re at 325 or so now, and have not only strong ex port poten tia l the to tal number of the Navy’s futur e but also could serve the needs of the it’s go ing to go down to 300,” Murtha force of combat and combat suppor t said. “We have to sus tain a buildin g U.S. Coast Guard which is in the early ships. In fact, Pilling stressed that stages of a com pre hen sive effort to rate that will keep us at 300 if we are “300 [ships] is the abso lute mini mu m going to sus tain our tempo of op er a- mod ern ize its cutters, aircraft and we can live with” to support pro jected com mand and control systems . tions. The key is to either slow down missions . the op er a tions or build the number of Pilling added that the Navy’s ships you need.” This year, the Navy One se nior Navy of fi cial yes ter day 300-ship force does not in clude such will build six ships, al though the ser - explained that the concept is in its em - sup port ves sels as hospi tal ships or vice’s pro posed FY ‘01 budget in - bry onic stages and that no fund ing the USS Consti tu tion frigate that is cludes enough fund ing for eight has been iden ti fied for even de vel op- moored in Boston. The 300-ship to tal ships. ment of the program . would be com posed of air craft car ri- Con tinued on Next Page Page 8 IHS Spring 1999 SMALL SHIPS Ceres will con trib ute 22 Kometa hy - PASSEN GER-ON LY FAST (Continued From Previ ous Page) dro foils, four Kolkhida hy dro foils, FERRY three Rodriquez RHS 160F hy dro- (From MarineNews, Jan u ary 25, foils, a Kvaerner Fjellstrand Flying 1999) The yearly to tal would rise to nine Cat 40m cat a ma ran and an Austal esides the vehi cle-carrying fast ships an nu ally by FY ‘05. “We’re 48m cat a ma ran to the fleet. Minoan fer ries, BC Ferries has been start ing to get there to sus tain the Lines Highspeed Ferries’ con tri bu- Bstudying the autho ri za tion of a fleet, but what we need is more like tion will be its single Royal Schelde sepa rate pas sen ger-only fast-ferry 10 or 12" a year, Murtha said. Pilling CAT 70HL cat a ma ran and a con ven- ser vice that would op er ate betwee n in his ad dress in di cated he would pre - tional ferry. down town Vancou ver and Swartz fer a rate of about 10 ships per year. Minoan Lines, the Greek ferry op er a- Bay on Vancou ver Is land. Murtha added that to sus tain the de - tor that is the parent com pany of A joint venture put to gether by Hong fense budget in crease called for by Minoan Lines Highspeed Ferries, has Kong’s Far East Hy dro foil Co. Ltd. the Clinton ad min is tra tion, defens e acquired a 70% hold ing in Minoan and Seat tle’s Clipper Navi ga tion has spending caps must be lifted to allo w Flying Dolphins. How ever, Ceres, pro posed oper at ing two 240- pas sen- a spend ing rise of as much as $5 bil- which is a sub sid iary of Ceres Hel - ger Boe ing 929 Jetfoils on this route, lion in FY ‘01. lenic Shipping, will manage the op er- a tion of the ves sels. but the BC govern ment has since Rep. Gene Taylor (D-Miss.), who backed away from putt ing the servic e repre sents Ingalls’ dis trict, told the Re ferring to its future oper a tion, the into oper a tion this year because of the audi ence that the sal va tion of the U.S. new com pany says, “Minoan Flying ferry corpo ra tion’s cur rent fi nan cial shipbuild ing in dus try will be found in Dolphins enjoys sig nif i cant com pet i- posi tion . a polit i cal so lu tion, not in any tive ad van tages since it oper ates with short-term budget rem e dies. Taylo r the most user friendly computer res - Never the less, Darrell Bryan, man - added that the blame for the in dus- er va tion and tick et ing system, offer s ager of Seat tle-based Clipper Nav i ga- try’s erosion over the past de cades the largest net work by call ing at 62 tion, says ridership on the pro posed lies squarely with poli ti cians, in dus- ports with 100,000 depar tures per high speed route could go as high as try ex ec u tives, and even workers , year, and has the largest passen ge r 600,000 per year. Bryan said Clippe r who have failed to lobby law mak ers vol ume in the Greek do mes tic mar ket currently car ries about 400,000 pas - and tax pay ers as effec tively as other (1998: 2,350,000). sen gers a year be tween Se at tle and groups to ensure their sur vival. “The company’s target is to enhanc e Vancou ver Is land us ing its fleet of ******** and contin u ously improve its ser - fast, pas sen ger-only cat a ma rans and vices; to further ex pand its curren t a single auto/pas sen ger ferry. CERES AND MINOAN MERGE network (Cyclades Is lands, Saro- FAST FERRY OP ER A TIONS nikos Gulf, Northern Sporades) to Two previ ous high-speed services be - (From Fast Ferry Inter na tional new desti na tions, in clud ing the tween Vancou ver and Victo ria have Decem ber 1998) Ionian Islands; and grad u ally up grade failed, one in 1986 us ing Boe ing Jet - foils and one in 1992/93 usin g eres Hy dro foil Joint Venture and and renew the ex ist ing fleet with new ton nage.” Kvaerner Fjellstrand-supplied cat a- CMinoan Lines Highspeed marans. Bryan said the key to the suc - Ferries have announced that Minoan Flying Dol phins has also cess of the pro posed Jetfoil servic e they are to merge their fast ferry op er- confirmed that it intends to ap ply for a would be putt ing the ves sels in at ations in Greece. The new com pany is listing on the Athens Stock Ex change Swartz Bay rather than Vic to ria as the to be known as Minoan Flying Dol - in late 1999. The ap pli ca tion is to be lat ter’s ap proach is open to heavy phins and will adopt C&M as its sup ported by the Na tional Bank of seas dur ing the winter months while trade mark. In vested cap i tal, it re - Greece, Eurobank, the Al pha Credit Swartz Bay is pro tected year-around. ports, will be well over US$100 mil- Bank and Citibank. lion. The to tal in cludes 33 ves sels, in fra struc ture and work ing capi tal . ********** ********* IHS Spring 1999 Page 9 TEKNICRAFT CATA MA RA N water from the hull sur face and break proxi mately midship po si tion and DE LIVERED IN NEW up solid wa ter into spray. two can ti le ver type trim foils near the ZEA LAND stem. These reduce the power needed (From Fast Ferry Inter na tional , Ac cord ing to Nic de Waal, “The hull to main tain high speeds and also con - Janu ary 1999) is par tic u larly soft rid ing in choppy tribute to ride qual ity. wa ter, mainly due to the ver ti cal in - New Zea land op er a tor, Dol phin side shape of the sponsons which re - Teknicraft re ports that the sys tem is ADiscov eries, has taken deliv er y duces the plan ing area, thereby fixed and needs no main te nance apart of a 17.7m foil as sisted cat a ma- re duc ing the ver ti cal accel er a tio n from oc ca sional clean ing when the ran for oper a tion on dolphin and forces. However, a fur ther im por tant hulls are scrubbed. The foils are fab ri- whale watch ing ex cur sions in New fea ture in enhanc ing pas sen ger com - cated in alu mi num and, as they are Zea land’s Bay of Is lands. The vessel , fort, is the action of the longi tu di na l fixed above the keels of the spon sons, Dis cov ery IV, was de signed by Nic de chines on the in side of the tun nel they are no more vul ner a ble to dam - Waal of Teknicraft Design and built walls. age than the hulls. by Q-West of New Zea land. Con - struction started in July 1998 and the “As solid green wa ter is bro ken up The wake charac ter is tics of the ves sel boat was launched in No vem ber. into spray whilst be ing de flected were con sid ered to be very im por tant from the hull, it mixes with air as it is running on a reg u lar service in Teknicraft re ports that the struc tural stream ing down the open ing betwee n a nature reserve area. The low wake de sign of Discov ery IV was carrie d the sponsons. This mixture of spray achieved is due to a combi na tion of out in ac cor dance with Lloyd’s Reg - and air creates a high den sity me dium the re duced wave mak ing re sis tance is ter’s Spe cial Craft Rules for alu mi- inside the tun nel, which causes a of the long, slender sponsons and the num ves sels and meets the standard s damp en ing effect each time the hull action of the hydro foil system, which of the Mar i time Safety Asso ci a tion of moves through a trough of a wave. re duces the draught and, therefore , New Zealand. Con struc tion was in - de pend ently sur veyed and approve d on com mis sion ing. The hull form is a semi-planing type cat a ma ran employ ing a combi na tio n of sym met ri cal and asym met ri cal sponson shapes which, says Nic de Waal, com bine the at trib utes of both shapes in one hull. He points out that the sym met ri cal bow section ensure s di rec tional stabil ity in short swell con di tions and fol low ing seas while the asym met ri cal midships and aft TEKNICRAFT 18m foil assisted cat a ma ran Discov ery IV on sec tions ensure soft ness of ride and pre-delivery tri als in New Zea land reduced wetted area to en hance com - “Since the ver ti cal accel er a tion s fort and econ omy. the amount of wa ter dis placed by the caused by wave ac tion on this type of un der wa ter sec tions of the hulls. hull is lower than most other types of Wake re port edly re mains virtu all y The hull has a high tunnel ceil ing with craft, the vessel can main tain high con stant over the 20-40 knot speed a large open ing be tween the spon sons speeds in rel a tively rough condi tion s range, with a mean sig nif i cant height which al lows free move ment of wind with out com pro mis ing on the com - of less than 200 mm. and waves, and elim i nates any slam - fort of its pas sen gers." ming on the wet deck. Hori zon ta l The main deck sa loon, fitted out with Discov ery IV is fitted with a hy dro- seat ing for 74 pas sen gers in addi tio n steps on the in side of the tunnel walls foil support sys tem con sist ing of a act as chines, both to deflect green main foil spanning the tunnel at ap - Con tinued on Page 11

Page 10 IHS Spring 1999 TEKNICRAFT a service speed of 28 knots when the River, Derecktor Ship yard’s Patri ci a (Continued From Previ ous Page) en gines are running at a 70% Olivia , IT Fincantieri’s SuperSeaCat MCR/1,950 rpm rating. Fuel con - III and. IV, and Cat a ma ran Ferries In - to a kiosk, has large windows along sumption at 70% MCR is 174 ter na tional’s Pacificat . These in stal- the sides and across the front to give litres/hour or 6.2 litres/nau ti cal mile, la tions in crease the num ber of ves sels pas sen gers max i mum vis i bil ity. The giv ing a cruis ing range of 300 nau ti- commis sioned with a Mar i time Dy - raised helm area is also open, al low- cal miles. nam ics ride con trol sys tem to more ing pas sen gers to see through the up - than 140. per windows as well. ********* WEIGHT SAVING FEATURE S ********* Ad di tionally, an exter nal upper deck, FOR RIDE CON TROL SYSTE M IN MEMORIAM foredeck and aft deck pro vide un ob- (From MarineNews. Jan u ary 25, C. THOMAS RAY structed views of marine life. Fa cil- 1999 ) ities on board in clude eight ca noes e are deeply saddened to learn ith faster speeds and lighter stowed on the upper deck that can be that Tom Ray, a long time hulls, ship build ers and own ers W de ployed over swim plat forms, en - W member of the ex clu sive band require lightweight equip - abling pas sen gers to row amongst the of hy dro foil pi o neers, died at his ment. Mar i time Dy nam ics will be in - dolphins when con di tions al low. home on Mercer Is land out side Se at- cor po rat ing weigh sav ing feature s tle, WA, on 28 De cem ber 1998. Teknicraft 18m Foil As sisted Cat a- into its ride control systems. The first ma ran Dis cov ery IV Charac ter is tics : mea sure has been to design the ride Dur ing WWII, Tom served in the con trol hy drau lics sys tem to oper at e Length over all 17.70m Navy’s Bu reau of Ships as of fi- other onboard equip ment. Mar i time Length wa ter line 15.40m cer-in-charge of design and per for- Dy nam ics offers hydrau lic packs, Beam moulded 6.40m mance of sea plane patrol bombers . which, in ad di tion to the ride contro l Draught 0.76m He later worked for 20 years with the sys tem, op er ate the propul sio n Displ. at Full load 26.5 tonnes Glenn L. Martin Co. as Chief Pro ject waterjet steering, and revers ing sys - Fuel Ca pac ity 2,100 litres En gi neer for numer ous sea plane pro - tem. Dur ing dock ing ma neu vers, the Pas sen gers 74 grams in clud ing Seamaster. In the power packs can op er ate car ramps, Crew 2 early 1960s, Martin decided to get cap stans and anchor winches. Maxi mum Speed 38 kts into hy dro foil de vel op ment and bid on the Navy’s PCH-1 pro gram. How- Serv. Speed, Full Ld 32 kts This sum mer, Mar i time Dynam ic s ever, Boe ing won the contract and Fuel Con sump tion will in stall its first com mer cial Tom de cided to go with them in 1962. -At 38 knots 258 litres/hr computerbased ride con trol sys tem He worked for the Boe ing Com pany -At 28 knots 174 litres/hr with an em bed ded Microsoft Win - for the next 20 years and be came the Range at 28 knots 300 nmi dows op er at ing sys tem. The new sys - Man ager of Advanced Ships & Tech - Main Engines 2 x Cat er pil lar 3406E tem will of fer touch screen oper a tion , nolog y. He was a char ter member of 515 kW at 2,200 rpm im proved di ag nos tic capa bil i ties , the Navy’s R&D team and pro vided Waterjets 2 x Hamil ton 362 easy inte gra tion with alarm and mon - in valu able sup port to the Da vid Tay - i tor ing sys tems and redun dan t Teknicraft re ports that speeds of over lor Re search Center Hy dro foil Spe - backup con trols. Sys tem in ter con- 40 knots were achieved dur ing light - cials Trials Unit based in the Puget nec tion will be via fiberoptic cable . ship sea tri als. The ves sel, which is Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Prelim i nary es ti mates show the pow ered by twin Cat er pil lar 3406E Wash ing ton. He was a key membe r switch from con ven tional copper ca - diesels and Hamil ton 362 waterjets, of the team involved in de vel op ment ble to fiberoptic cable will re sult in. a is expected to main tain 35 knots with and trials of the hy dro foils High Point 40 percent weight savings . a full fuel load and 30% passen ge r (PCH-1); the 320-ton Plainview load. The com pany’s recent ride contro l (AGEH-1), at the time the largest in System instal la tions in clude Incat’s the world; the HTS high speed test Maxi mum full load speed is 32 knots, Hull 050, Trico Ma rine’s Stillwater al though Discov ery IV is de signed for Con tinued on Page 12 IHS Spring 1999 Page 11 IN TER NA TIONAL HYDRO FOIL SOCI ET Y WILLIAM (BILL) R. SCHULTZ 30th AN NI VER SARY MEETING orn May 21, 1917 in Marble , ANNOUNCE MENT AND CALL FOR PA PERS BMin ne sota, Bill passed away Jan u ary 29, 1999. He moved to he In ter na tional Hy dro foil Soci ety will hold its 30th Anni ver sar y Se at tle as a child and was a res i dent meet ing in May 2000 in the Wash ing ton, DC area. The event will con - of Renton since 1967. He was pre - Tsist of an af ter noon techni cal session compris ing 3 to 4 techni cal pa - ceded in death by his wife Fran ces pers, followed by a so cial hour, din ner, and a Speaker or a Panel Dis cus sion Faye Schultz. Bill was a re tired on future com mer cial and mili tary appli ca tions of hy dro foil and hy dro- mili tary vet eran and had served foil-hybrid ma rine ve hi cles. Techni cal papers related to hy dro foil and hy - both In the, U.S. Navy and Army. drofoil-hybrid marine ve hi cles are so lic ited in, but not lim ited to, the He re tired from Boe ing where he fol low ing areas : was Program Man ager of the JET - - En gi neering and Ap pli ca tions FOIL pro gram, and princi pally its - Market Anal y ses with Cost and Intermodal Is sues High lighted ap pli ca tion to the In do ne sian hy - - User Ex pe ri ences, Lessons Learned, and Future Perspec tives dro foil pro ject. Please submit an Abstract, of 250 words or less, to the In ter na tional Hy dro- foil So ci ety, P.O. Box 51, Cabin John, MD 20818, USA, (or by e-mail to: [email protected]) not later than 1 July 1999. Au thors will be no ti fied of ac - NEW BENEFIT ceptance of their pa per by 1 Septem ber 1999. Draft pa pers, in hard copy, IHS pro vides a free link from will be re quired by 1 Febru ary 2000. This will pro vide ade quate time for re - the IHS website to members’ per - view, sugges tions, and modi fi ca tions by the au thor prior to submittal of the sonal and/or corpo rate site. To re - fi nal copy for re pro duc tion and dissem i na tion at the meet ing. quest your link, contact Bar ney C. Black, IHS Home Page Edi tor at The IHS 30th An ni ver sary Meet ing will be held in conjunc tion with a joint [email protected] . meeting of the IHS, the U.S. Hover craft Soci ety (USHS) and the So ci ety of Naval Ar chi tects and Marine Engi neers (SNAME) SD-5 Panel. IHS wel - comes your par tic i pa tion in this event. Ques tions re gard ing techni cal pa - IHS OFFICERS 1998 - 1999 pers may be ad dressed to members of the Techni cal Papers Com mit tee: Mark Bebar, and Jim King, Frank Peter son who may be con tacted via the John Meyer President IHS e-mail ad dress: [email protected] Mark Bebar Vice President Please note: Au thors prepar ing an ab stract should bear in mind that the George Jenkins Treasurer IHS does not endorse indi vid ual or Com pany prod ucts. Ken Spaulding Secretary

TOM RAY (Continued From Previ ous Page) IHS BOARD OF DIRECTORS craft; and the wa ter-jet propelle d Lit - 1996-1999 1997-2000 1998-2001 tle Squirt, a fore run ner of Boe ing’s Patrol Hy dro foil mis sile ship PHM. Jerry Gore Mark R. Bebar Stephen Duich

Tom retired in 1982, and de voted his Jim King William Hockberger John R. Meyer atten tion to Kitty and the build ing of beauti ful handmade fur ni ture. He Mark Rice George Jenkins Frank Peterson will be sorely missed and we expres s our deepest sym pa thy to Kitty and his Ken Spaulding Ralph Patterson, Jr Peter Squicciarini two sons for their loss. Page 12 IHS Spring 1999 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Wake Proble m how to de rive the wave energy equa tion, on the phone with you to help: Avondal e E = 1961H 2T2? In words, Energy (in In dus tries, Inc.; 5100 River Rd.; Avon - I suppose the wave damage from joules per linear meter of wave) equals dale, LA 70094; http://www.avon - the MV CHI NOOK of the Washing to n 1961 times wave height (in meters ) dale.com; Phone: 504-436-2121; Fax: State Ferries is prob a bly not news. It is a squared times wave pe riod (in sec onds) 504-436-5304; Litton Ingalls, P.O. Box 34 knot boat and much su pe rior to the squared. I can’t find it in my fluid and 149, Pascagoula, MS USA 39568-0149; pre vi ous fast ferries, but puts out a very wave me chan ics books, and I need to un - Physi cal ad dress: 1000 Access Road, long wave length/high ve loc ity wave that derstand the whole field of wave energ y Pascagoula, MS USA 39567; re ally tears up the shale bed rock, bulk - better. Have you a ref er ence or a short http://www.ingalls.com; Tele phone: heads, sea life, and a few boats and boat primer pa per you could pro vide? 228-935-1122; Fax: 228-935-1126 houses, too. It is turning into quite a don - Karl Duff Bar ney C. Black ny brook because now that the ferry run is [email protected] [email protected] down to 30 min utes for pedes tri ans, it is a polit i cal issue, and the Washing ton State Who Designs Hy dro foils? Stu dent Needs Advic e Ferry Sys tem had ad vised us that they We are seek ing a company / designer to will keep up the cur rent speed until we provide design / plans for a 20/25 mete r I am a stu dent of Enschede Uni - take them to court. We are now only days hydro foil… hull, deck, su per struc ture, versity in the Neth er lands, and I am cur - away from that. The ul ti mate fix, as rently doing a market research for Chief Naval Ar chi tect (!) Stan Stumbo of and propul sion system. Do you have any recom men da tions ? hydro foils on (sail ing)-cat a ma rans and the WSF ac knowl edges, is to place a sup - trima rans. In my search for hy dro foils on ple men tal foil span on Chinook and its Mike Scott [email protected] the market I only found the Hobie forthcom ing sister ferry. I have given TRIFOILER and the Windrider RAVE . them Den nis Clark as a point of contact at En gine In stal la tion De sign Can any body tell me how many peopl e David Tay lor Research Center or what - sail these crafts in the USA (and world - ever it is called now-a-days [it is called wide)? Are there other man u fac tur ers, Naval Surface War fare Cente r, I am a stu dent at the Univer sity of New Orleans work ing on my se nior de - be cause I find two mod els in a whole Carderock Divi sion - Ed.] . If any of you world to be very few! From a Duth cat a- want to volun teer to help Stan and the sign project. I am in ter ested in know ing more in for ma tion about the LM6000 Gas maran-importer I heard that most cat a- WSF out of a box, you should con tact maran-sailors are not too keen on the him at (206) 464-7496. It might also be Tur bine. We are try ing to build a fast sealift with the di men sions of: L=950 ft, cockpit-style Trifoiler and Windrider be - news to some that I’ve become even cause they don’t have to “work so hard.” more polit i cally ac tive and am now D=65, T= 27, B=110, V= 36 knots. I chose the LM6000 to be my en gine but I Could this be the reason why so few hy - chairman of my county’s Repub li ca n dro foils are on the market? Surely, the Party. Please prepare a hydro foil for a have to go from this to siz ing the intak e and the outtake sys tem for the en gine and higher speeds will make up for a lot! fast get-a-way! For back ground, MV Browsing through the IHS-pages I stum - CHI NOOK is a cat a ma ran... about 350 all the aux il ia ries for the ship. I looked all over to see or to have a look at a ship with bled on the add-on-hydrofoil kits like the tons, and it moves right along, too. At 34 DAK- Hy dro foils. I asked my self knots, it’s the fast est Rich Passage has the LM6000 in it but there was no luck. GE Ma rine was not that help ful. Please whether maybe man u fac tur ers of cat a- seen since the glory days of hy dro foils. ma rans of fer add-ons themselves, for the I’ll look up the specs, propul sion horse - provide me with the in for ma tion needed to design my ma chin ery. types of cata ma rans they sell. Can some - power, etc. and send some of that along body help me with an answer to this later when I find it. It is an off-shoot of Hamad A. [email protected] ques tion? I know some people are mak - the VIC TO RIA CLIPPER II class, which ing great ef forts to con struct hydro foil s suc ceeded in re duc ing wake con sid er- Response.. . Since you are in New Orleans , them selves (Of course for some peopl e ably, but of course all that horsepowe r con struct ing hy dro foils may be as much has to go some where, and we’re ex pe ri- how about contact ing the public re la tions de part ments at Avon dale Ship build ing fun as sailing them) but I can imagin e encing some real high-period, that many more people just want to click low-wavelength waves that are creat in g and also Ingalls Ship build ing (in damage. Say! Does any one there know Pascagoula MS) to see if they can get one of their engi neers to spend a few minute s Con tinued on Next Page IHS Spring 1999 Page 13 LETTERS TO THE ED I TOR Need Help With Projec t keep you informed. His E-Mail address : (Continued From Previ ous Page) [email protected] . I need pic tures and drawings of Phil Schlund wa ter, wind, and human powered hy dro- [email protected] them onto their cat a ma rans and sail foils as I have to improve on exist ing de - [There is a short ar ti cle about the away. Would there be many people who signs and then make a model. Is it Catri 26 Tri ma ran on page 48 of are in ter ested in this? Now for a more pos si ble to make a functional model be - Multihulls Mag a zine Mar/April 1998 tech ni cal note: Going through some pat - cause I am already a model aircraft en - edition. The address given is Aldis ents I saw some in ter est ing hy dro foils, thusi ast and am very in ter ested in Eglajs; Maskavas 291/5-26; Riga mostly they are sur face-piercing or oth - hy dro foils. I would like to know about LV-1063, Lat via; Tel/fax : +371 erwise sur face-bound (floater to con trol how a hydro foil works and how the den - 7258427. –ed.] pitch of hydro foil). Just a few pat ents had sity of the water af fects the size of the manual pitch-control; for ex am ple pat ent foils. I would like to concen trate on Response.. . US 4,027,614 by Jones Clyde. I can smaller de signs of hy dro foils as my main In Winter 1997-98 I did a pro ject imagine that with manual pitch, drag can in ter est is to use hy dro foils for rec re ation for a Dutch company called PJPC be lower because for lower speeds you purposes. I have already found the draw - Multihulls. They wanted to build the can choose the pitch to be zero (low ings on the Decavitator and have found Catri 26 for the Euro pean market to sell drag). When a suf fi ciently high speed has them very in ter est ing. for about US$50,000. There were com - been achieved the pitch can be altere d Mark Manley in Zimba bw e plete plans for making the (east ern Eu ro- man u ally, trigger ing the lift-working of [email protected] pean) ship suitable (more com fort able) the hydro foil. Much better than sur - [Suggest you explore the IHS for the rest of Eu rope, which was part of face-bound hy dro foils which have more website thoroughly... there is quite a bit my study (I was asked to de sign a me - trou ble com ing to speed before the hy - of in for ma tion there. Specifically, try the chani cal device to lift the two swords). dro foils work as they are meant to work! photo gal lery for pictures, espe cially the Unfor tu nately the Dutch com pany Are there some drawbacks to the use of model section. Also, try the links page to stopped their activ i ties due to health these man u ally-controlled hy dro foils so other sites for mod els, for hydro foils you prob lems of the owner, so I am at the mo - that not every body is us ing this sys tem! can build yourself, and for hydro foil tu - ment looking for other tri-builders who Please help me out with any in for ma tion! tori als. Also, IHS has a tuto rial on ba - could use my design. If you want to know Piet Kamma sics. Multihull Mag a zine and the more, contact me. [email protected] l Ama teur Yacht Racing Soci ety publis h Maarten de Jong techni cal arti cles on hydro foil design , [email protected] Sailing Hydro foil De sign Data and back is sues are avail able. IHS has a link to them. Also, the IHS site has lists of 2nd Response.. . FYI, Here’s a new link for your pop u lar and tech ni cal refer ences, books, We are work ing out two types of “Websites of IHS Members” sec tion of journal and mag a zine arti cles about hy - Catri Foilers — trailerable cabin boat the HIS Home Page: drofoils. Finally, look through the posted range (22’ 26’ 30’) and offshore cruis ing http://home1.gte.net/tspeer. I’ve put up mes sages sec tion to find people with sim - & rac ing range (35’ 39’ 45’). After very some in for ma tion on hydro foil sec tions ilar in ter ests as well as answers to fre - success ful pro to type tests in the Neth er- that might be of inter est . quently (and not-so-frequently) asked lands there are two shipyards in Latvi a Tom Speer ques tions. –Ed.] started with 22’ and 26’ and one in San [email protected] Francisco start ing with 26’. The first Lat vian Catri Sailing Hydro foi l boats will be deliv ered this Summer. The Plans For BRAS d’OR 30’ will be started in March for de liv ery Do you know where I can get a set of I received some fur ther in for ma- be gin ning 2000. There are some home - plans of the BRAS d’OR ?. I would like to tion from Aldis Eglais in Lat via build ers in Austra lia and else where. build a model of her. Growing up in Nova (Lettland), the designer of the Catri 26R Contact me for a copy of our pre sen ta tion Scotia, I got to see her in action. Quite a MicroFoiler. At the mo ment I’m still in and de scrip tion of Catri 22, 26R, 30 as sight! the plan ning phase of my project but I in - well as the draft price list. Ron Schofield tend to build the boat this summer here in Aldis Eglajs, Catri Ma rine [email protected] Swit zer land. Aldis is of fer ing the plans [email protected] http://users.andara.com/~rschofi e for a very good price (US$ 1,300), and I’m very close to order ing them. I’m wait ing now for his study plans. I will Con tinued on Next Page Page 14 IHS Spring 1999 LETTERS TO THE ED I TOR Hydro foil Les sons Learned that has given the Ameri can built hy dro- (Continued From Previ ous Page) foils a “bad rap.” PLAINVIEW and I don’t know if there has been any HIGH POINT are clas sic exam ples. I dis cus sion lately on the sim plic ity of us - have often wondered if anybody ever sat Ex per i menter on Foil Sec tions ing hy dro foils on the same routes that the down and figured out how much it cost smaller com mu ter cata ma rans are run - per foilborne hour for the life of these As a new IHS’er, I recently pur - ning on. These routes are mainly lakes, vessels. Only a govern ment could af ford chased Dave Keiper’s notes and 3” foil & bays and sounds. There are very few it. The PEG A SUS class PHM was an- strut stock. After reading his notes, how - open-ocean routes. Hy dro foils are more other boon dog gle that cost the taxpayer a ever, I feel I need to get started in this fas - expen sive to build due to the complex it y fortune to build, op er ate, and main tain. ci nat ing world of hy dro foils at a lit tle of the things, some thing that the naval ar - They were truly ves sels without a mis - more ba sic level, and tackle my 1982 chitects and engi neers have built into the sion. If some of that money could have Nacra 5.2 hydro foil project a lit tle sys tems. [By con trast], the ba sic off shore been channeled into the private secto r later...af ter I suc cess fully build a more alumi num crewboat is a reli able, light - with an ob jec tive of building a hydro foi l ba sic hydro foil project (I’m a mar ket ing weight, fast, and dura ble machine. No passen ger boat that would make money type, not an engi neer)! I wish to con struct one has ever set a usable life on the in stead of spend ing money, we would a stable towed hydro foil platform, uti liz- things. There are 30+ years old boats out have covered the world with USA-built ing 4 ea. 6” sur face-piercing foils in a there run ning ev ery day. It is a ves sel that hydro foils today. I hope you un der stand split-tandem con fig u ra tion. I’m guess ing has evolved to carry out its mission. As where I am coming from. Hydro foil s that each foil would be an gled out 55 deg. far as I know, there are no hy dro foils op - were my life for over ten years. I hate to from the ver ti cal strut. I would like to erat ing in US waters. I be lieve in sub - see them die because of the bad rep u ta- carry a loaded ves sel weight of 800-900 merged hy dro foils with au to matic tion and the high cost of building one. lbs., at speeds up to est. 45 mph. What con trol systems. Retract able foils have Some body will one day sit back and take foil sec tion would be best suited for this al ways been a joke. Mainly because the a long look at where we have been and ap pli ca tion, and who can I purchase 6” ves sels with retract able foils were built the knowledge that has been gained and foil and strut stock from? I recall readin g to go anyplace. If a ferry vessel’s route come up with a vi a ble, econom i cal de - that Alcoa of fered foils, but don’t know nor mally has a max i mum of 2’-3’ chop, sign. I hope so. I would hate to see ev ery- what to ask for! Do you have any sup pli- there is no need for a 6’ gap between the thing that we have done in the past go ers you could recom mend that make such keel and the water surface. If the wate r down the tube. foil stock? Any sugges tions / rec om men- depth is suffi cient over the entire ferry Ken Plyler dations for this towed con trap tion? route there is no reason for retract abl e [email protected] Brian Ballou [email protected] foils. The price of the boat can be re - duced signif i cantly. Short distance ferry First Re sponse... Re sponse... routes don’t call for a Boe ing 737 in te rior I must re ply in defense of HIGH I attended the Dusseldorf Boat in the cabin. Commer cial quality would POINT and PLAINVIEW . When HIGH show and re mem ber having seen sym - do just fine. Get rid of the car pet ing and POINT was designed, there was lim ited met ri cal foils of a very high surface qual - plush seating. Concen trate on main tain- knowledge of hy dro foils. It was orig i- ity, weldable and with two in ter nal struts ability, speed and ma neu ver abil ity. Too nally built as an active patrol craft, but for stiff en ing. Chord length was about much high class, ex pen sive, un proven the Navy soon re al ized that it should be 6-8”, thick ness was about 1 inch, wall ma chin ery has been installed in the past in a pro to type cate gory. With the origi na l thickness was some 1/6 inch. Comes in in tent, many sys tems were designed light lengths of 6 m (20’) If this is of any in ter- weight yet meet ing the mil i tary spec i fi- Letters To the Edi tor al lows cations. In ad di tion, since the concep t est to you, please let me know with de - hydrofoilers to ask for or pro vide in for- tails, such as required section, to tal was new, Ameri can Bureau of Shipping mation, to ex change ideas, and to in form (ABS) and the US Coast Guard had in - length and max length for shipping. I al - the reader ship of in ter est ing de vel op- ready discussed the matter with the man - puts on safety con sid er ations, etc. I re call ments. More corre spon dence is pub - con sid er able com mu ni ca tions with the ufac turer, so send ing you an of fer lished in the Posted Messages and shouldn’t take very long. My of fer for the dif fer ent groups which even included the Frequently Asked Ques tions (FAQ) sani tary fea tures of the galley. As for the 3” chord length NACA 16-008 and section of the IHS internet web site at Clark-Y re main valid. foils, struts, and foilborne propul sion , http://www.erols.com/foiler. All are in - tests in the tow tank pro vided data which Claus-Chris Plaass vited to par tic i pate. Opin ions ex pressed [email protected] was not corre lated to any ac tual data. The are those of the authors, not of IHS. Con tinued on Next Page IHS Spring 1999 Page 15 LETTERS TO THE ED I TOR ships. Mean while, with the ex pe ri ence, and tri als. Our Type Commander was to (Continued From Previ ou s the reg u la tory agen cies have changed be Commander, Am phib i ous Force Pa - their re quire ments. I’m sure the alu mi- cific. Our home port was to be San engi neers used con ser va tism and thus num crew boats you talk of have ben e fit- Diego. We never made it. I left the boat had de signs that later proved more than ted from the HIGH POINT and sitting on the barge under the Ham mer- ade quate. Mean while, with lim ited op er- PLAINVIEW tri als. head Crane with gear boxes locked up. It a tions (you should recall all the time sit - Sumi Arima had not run in months. Phase One was “in ting at the pier during your duty on the [email protected] m the mill,” and HYSTU was on the verge ship), many oper a tional problems were of being formed. I went away prob a bly in de tected, and rede signed and rebuilt to More About Les sons Learned dis gust and returned as the Chief En gi- pro vide in many cases a safe oper a tion . neer on TUCUMCARI 18 months later. Other things learned were when the foils I spent 3 ½ years on HIGH TUCUMCARI was the ship that I had and pods were strain gauged to de ter- POINT . Most of my time was watch ing dreamed HIGH POINT was go ing to be. mine load paths, re vised fairings to try to from the sidelines while vari ous en gi- It was the ves sel that proved that there reduce ero sions, although the foilborne neers, the Su per vi sor of Ship build ing was life af ter HIGH POINT. transmis sion system was bathed in sea (SUPSHIP), Puget Sound Naval Ship- TUCUMCARI never be longed to water fre quently, it turned out that the yard (PSNSY), Boeing, and many more HYSTU. TUCUMCARI un for tu nately gears were very reli able. Mod I changed people than I care to think about turned died do ing what it was designed to do. It the seal system which helped. Towar d the boat into a lifetime project. I was the “died with it’s boots on,” so to speak. It the end, no gear box prob lems were noted Chief Engi neer when we sprang the first never ended up intact at a DOD Sur plus for a pe riod of about 3 years. As for the gearbox salt water leak off Neah Bay and Sale. I wish I could be more pos i tive PLAINVIEW , the in creased size require d mo tored home hullborne. I was also the when talking about HIGH POINT and another set of design so lu tions that guy that turned the pro pel lers by hand PLAINVIEW . Sorry. One good thing pushed into unknown terri tory. The hy - until the bearings fi nally froze while about the devel op ment of the HIGH draulic sys tem required a couple thou - wait ing for some one to make a deci sio n POINT was the extruded alumi num pan - sand horsepower for the oper a tion of the to tear it down or not. I also watched as els that made up the hull plating. Un for- foils. Indus trial hydrau lic pumps did not the powers-that-be installed the new tu nately, no one is us ing the panel that I have the contin u ous rat ing which proved spade rudder be low the forward foil us - know of. to be a neme ses and subse quent re de sign. ing 1/4-20 bolts that failed the first time Ken Plyler Again, many areas of research and de vel- we tried it foilborne. The new spade rud - [email protected] op ment in im prov ing HIGH POINT and der was installed because the trail ing Response.. . PLAINVIEW and now used in other na - edge rud der did not work due to se vere val ships. In defense of the Jetfoil, I know venti la tion of the forward strut. I If you read my orig i nal com ments, that Boeing spent con sid er able time get - watched as the stellite clad ding for the af - I recog nized your partic i pa tion in the ting ABS and Coast Guard to accept al - ter foil and struts was hand formed by a grow ing pains of HIGH POINT . You terna tives in meet ing their re quire ments. blacksmith us ing an an vil, a rose bud have pre cisely backed up my origi na l Some of the items that looks like frills in torch and a hammer. The clad ding was com ments. If it were not for all the en gi- actu ally is based on ABS or Coast Guard installed us ing 1/4-20 ny lon screws. This neer ing so lu tions of the var i ous prob - re quire ments. For exam ple, the seats was an en gi neered fix to elim i nate the se - lems on HIGH POINT , the oper a tiona l need to be strong enough to with stand the vere ero sion of the HY-80 steel caused aspects of hy dro foils would still be g forces in crash landing. The cheap est by the pro pel ler tip vor ti ces. I was floun der ing. In some cases, the so lu tions was to use aircraft qual i fied seats. Coast onboard dur ing the testing of this in stal- were cost constrained and were not ap - Guard orig i nally wanted a three man Pi - la tion. I was also un der the boat, in proached in the man ner that an engi nee r lot House crew, which Boeing suc cess- drydock, dur ing the in spec tion to de ter- would re ally like to do. The tri als on fully got Coast Guard to agree to two. For mine why the cladding fell off. I was HIGH POINT pro vided proven de sign op er a tions in other countries, Boeing had onboard when we tested the new stain - concepts which were in cor po rated in the to certify that their require ments were less steel, five bladed pro pel lers with pa - design of an op er a tional hydro foil such also met. In sum mary, I hope I have per thin blades. I was also under the boat, as the TUCUMCARI and PHM series . changed your views on the earlier hy dro- in drydock, to find out why they folded This shows that the things learned from foils. The data col lected has pro vided up like rose buds after only a few min utes HIGH POINT did bene fit the de sign of both engi neer ing and op er a tional in for- of foilborne time. I could go on and on hydro foil ships. How well I re mem ber mation which are consid ered in new de - but will not. I was assigned to HIGH HIGH POINT being assigned to Am - signs of all craft, not just the hydro foi l POINT dur ing con struc tion, out fit ting phib i ous Force Pa cific. When Admi ra l

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James came to see the con struc tion of HIGH POINT , Lt Billerbeck ques tioned the Ad mi ral of var i ous aspects of Navy re quire ments. The re ply from the Ad mi- ral was “Son, if I were you, I would throw away the book and do what you think needs to be done.” As I orig i nally stated, HIGH POINT was re as signed since it be - came appar ent to the Navy that this new concept required work to make it re li- able. I know that a new class of de stroy- ers has been put in the same cate gory to resolve engi neer ing and oper a tiona l prob lems. The Navy has been build ing destroy ers for years, yet finds that a new class requires engi neer ing evalu a tions to make it op er a tion ally fea si ble. For a new concept such as a hydro foil ship, I feel that we did very well. I do not feel that you should compare the Ford Model T with the Ford Thun der bird other than they are both au to mo biles. Sumi Arima [email protected]

IHS Spring 1999 Page 17 WHERE ARE YOU IN WESTAMARIN FOILCAT CYBERSPACE?! FLIES AGAIN IHS re lies on elec tronic com mu ni- The fol low ing No tice, dated April 20, 1999, was re ceived from cation with the mem ber ship to im prove Mi chael Schmicker time li ness and reduce mail ing costs. If you are a mem ber with email, let us know your email ad dress! Thank you. NAVATEK RE LAUNCHES WESTAMARAN FOILCAT WILL MARKET TECH NOL OGY IN U.S.A. 1999 DUES ARE DUE

avatek Ships, Ltd. of Ho no lulu Ha waii re cently re launched the IHS Mem ber ship is still only 45-knot, 149 pas sen ger ves sel Westamaran Foilcat 2900, orig i- US$20 per cal en dar year (US$2.50 for Nnally devel oped by a Nor we gian com pany special iz ing in stu dents). Your re newal or new mem ber- high-speed hy dro foils, and will of fer the de sign for con struc tion in ship is critical. Please re mit 1999 dues as the United States. soon as pos si ble. We re gret that high bank fees make it im prac ti cal for IHS to ac cept “It’s an out stand ing de sign. It can main tain 45-knots speed in 6-foot pay ment by credit card or a check drawn seas and still de liver a very comfort able ride for pas sen gers,” says on a non-US bank, or by other than US Navatek pres i dent Ste ven C.H. Loui. The Westamaran Foilcat 2900 funds. Over seas mem bers with no easy ves sel has been reflagged Ameri can for use in Hawaii as part of a way to send US funds, are ad vised to send commu ter ferry dem on stra tion spon sored by the State of Hawaii money or der to IHS or US Dol lars cash. (Con tinued on Page 4) IN SIDE THIS IS SUE - Rob ert J. Johnston ------p. 2 - HYSUCAT ------p. 4 - Wel come New Mem bers ----- p. 6 - JET FOIL ------p. 7 - Leopoldo Rodriquez ------p. 8 - ALBATROSS I ------p.10 - Call For Pa pers for 30th ---- p. 12

Westamarin Foilcat 2900 Cour tesy Navatek Ships - Let ters to the Ed i tor ------p. 13 IN MEMORIAM - CAPT. ROB ERT J. JOHNSTON, USNR (RET) PRESIDENT’S COLUMN by Bill Ellsworth he past several months have be lieve that all IHS mem bers will Black to post this on the IHS Home seen the loss of several mem - agree that this is sue of the News- Page. I rec om mend that all of you log T I bers of that se lect, al beit small, letter be ded i cated to Rob ert on and read this very touch ing trib ute group of Hy dro foil Pi o neers. We are Johnston. I sent an an nounce ment to to a fa ther from a son. deeply sad dened to re port the loss of all members having e-mail within an other of the mem bers of this spe- hours of hearing of his untimely If not men tioned here or else where, it should be noted that Bob played a ma- cial group of hydrofoilers. On 16 death. For those who did not re ceive April, Bob Johnston died of can cer it, I said: “It is with great sad ness that jor role in the IHS as its Newslet ter Ed i tor for many years. During that at his home in Daytona Beach, Fla., I send you word that I re ceived from just nine days be fore his 81st birth- Da vid Johnston this week end. Rob- time the News let ter grew and be came, in it self, an his tor i cal doc u ment on the day. He is sur vived by his dear wife, ert (Bob) Johnston passed away on Mar cia, his son, Da vid Johnston of Friday morn ing, April 16, af ter a sub ject of hy dro foils. For this, we are all very grate ful. Wash ing ton, DC, two step-children, long bout with skin can cer. To say Cynthia Redick, also of Wash ing- that we will miss Bob is an un der- Along a dif fer ent vein, you may re - ton, DC, Alicia Stickel of Toronto, state ment. He was a close per sonal mem ber that I men tion an ef fort on the Can ada, and seven grand chil dren. friend to many of us, a highly re - part of the IHS to pro mote the gen er a- His first wife Dixie died in 1976. spected col league for those who had tion of a Hydro foil Video. Although Another son of his first marriage, the op por tu nity to work with him, this has been slow in com ing, I re - Rob ert J. Johnston, Jr., died in and one for which there is no re - cently had a meet ing with the Pro duc- 1996. place ment. tion Man ager at the Discov ery Bob was born in Sheboygan, Mich i- For those in the IHS who did not Chan nel to dis cuss the con tent of such a video. Also I showed and left with gan. He grad u ated with an en gi neer- know Bob, he was a ma jor player in ing de gree from Purdue Uni ver sity the hy dro foil world which made him her several hydro foil vid eos that I have col lected over the years. A good and re ceived Mas ters Degrees in well known and re spected world - Na val Ar chi tec ture and Ma rine En- wide. Working closely with our col- impres sion was made and I was en - cour aged to sub mit a pro posal. gi neering from Mas sa chu setts In sti- leagues in Eng land, he led the tute of Tech nol ogy. tran si tion of the So ci ety in its trans- I ask all of you to keep in mind that the fer to the US in the 1980s. He served Board has de cided to pro ceed with a He be gan a ca reer in the US Navy in as Pres i dent and pro vided lead er ship cel e bra tion of the 30th an ni ver sary of World War II and was assigned to of the So ci ety for many years and re- the founding of the IHS. An an - Navy yards in Boston and New ceived a spe cial IHS Award. He had nouncement and Call for Papers was York. Af ter the war, he was trans - the unique ca pa bil ity of spin ning a in the Spring News let ter. Your par tic i- ferred to the Navy’s Bu reau of Ships yarn about his hy dro foil re lated ex- pa tion is needed to make this a suc - in Washing ton, DC as an EDO pe ri ences-mixing hu mor and tech ni- cessful event. We expect to receive Commander. In 1952, he moved to cal de tails in just the right amounts. ab stracts of pa pers soon at which time the Of fice of Na val Re search as Hy- For those who have n’t logged onto the Pa pers Com mit tee will en cour age drofoil Program Offi cer where he the IHS Home Page re cently, Bob’s au thors to pro ceed with first drafts. We contin ued to be deeply in volved in Award Cita tion and his sto ries are will keep you posted on prog ress and the Navy’s Hydro foil Re search & there for pos ter ity.” de tailed plans as they de velop. De vel op ment Pro grams . Jean Buhler was thought ful enough In 1953, the Navy’s fo cus shifted to to send us a copy of the Eu logy by John R. Meyer, Pres i dent the ap pli ca tion of hy dro foils to Bob’s son Da vid. I’ve asked Bar ney Con tinued on Page 3

Page 2 IHS Summer 1999 Rob ert J. Johnston tract from Is rael to de sign and build moral in teg rity. He also was an ex- (Con tinued From Page 2) SHIMRIT, a 100-ton hy dro foil gun- cep tion ally skilled man ager with a boat sim i lar to FLAG STAFF. gen tle but firm touch who com - land ing craft. This was moti vated manded the re spect and af fec tion of In the early 70s, Bill Ellsworth, head all who worked for and with him. by funds be com ing avail able to de- of the Sys tems Devel op ment De - sign and build a num ber of new He will be sorely missed by his partment in the Na val Ship Re - LCVPs. many friends and asso ci ates and search & De vel op ment Center, will always be remem bered as a In 1954, Bob left the Navy and asked Bob Johnston to con sider be- never-failing sup porter of the IHS. joined Mi ami Ship build ing Corp. in com ing the Tech ni cal Man ager of Florida. They designed and built the Hy dro foil De vel op ment Pro ject We ex tend to Bob’s wife Mar cia and HALOBATES (LCVP(H)), which Of fice (Code 115) at Carderock, the members of their family our was com pleted in 1957. Also, dur - MD. Bob agreed to make the change deep est sym pa thy and pray that they ing this period, the Army became and reported aboard on 9 April will be com forted in their loss. in ter ested in the po ten tial of foils to 1973. In this ca pac ity, he con tin ued in crease the speed of their am phib i- to be a ma jor force in hydro foil CONVER SA TION WITH BOB ous DUKW. Mi ami Ship, working R&D for the next nine years. He JOHNSTON with AVCO Lycoming, was given a man aged the Navy’s hy dro foil tech- by Neil Lien contract in 1957 to dem on strate a nol ogy de vel op ment pro gram. This “FLYING” DUKW. included oper a tions of the Hy dro- n March 6, 1999 my wife, foil Spe cial Trials Unit at the Puget OJoann, and I had the privi lege In 1960, Boeing won the com pe ti- Sound Na val Ship yard, con duct ing of visit ing with Bob Johnston tion for the Hydro foil Pa trol Craft tri als of the ex per i men tal hy dro foil and his wife Mar cia and enjoyed PCH-1. As a re sult, the Mi ami Ship ships HIGH POINT and with them a din ner at the coun try Board of Direc tors de cided the PLAINVIEW. This laid the foun da- club. The visit was about his ca reer com pany should not re main in the tion for the de sign and pro cure ment and the times spent together at hy dro foil busi ness. In view of this of six Pa trol Hy dro foil Mis sile ships Baker Man u fac turing Co. on the deci sion, Bob Johnston, who had (PHMs) which the Navy acquired var i ous hydro foil contracts. Bob be come Pres i dent of Mi ami Ship, from Boe ing. was very ben e fi cial in promot ing decided to resign and join hy dro foils and we owe a great deal Grumman as head of Ma rine Op er a- Bob re tired from fed eral ser vice on to him for it. tions. Dur ing this pe riod, Grumman 1 July 1982 and formed a small laid the keel for the hydro foil R&D firm called Ad vanced Ma rine We talked about the MONI TOR hy - DENISON un der contract with the Sys tems Asso ci ates (AMSA). He drofoil sailboat and the in ter est of Mari time Admin is tra tion. In 1961, and his as so ci ates car ried out an im- many whom wanted to know more they were given a contract by the portant task for the Ur ban Mass about it. We also dis cussed HIGH Navy to do the guid ance design of Trans por ta tion Agency of the De - POCKETS and how it helped dem- the 320-ton hydro foil ship, partment of Trans por ta tion. In Au - onstrate the ad van tages of hy dro- PLAINVIEW (AGEH-1), the gust 1984 they com pleted a foils to so many whose first world’s larg est at that time. 6-volume world-wide Study of indoc tri na tion to hy dro foils was High Speed Waterborne Trans por - with a ride. HIGH TAIL, HIGH DENISON was launched in June ta tion Sys tems. LANDER, and the LVH pro pos als, 1962 and a month later achieved a the var i ous hy dro foil con fig u ra tions speed of 72 knots on a trial run. This brief re view of Bob’s many tested at Patuxent Na val Air Test Later in 1968, Grumman com pleted con tri bu tions to the de vel op ment of Sta tion and the twisted foil pro posal a Navy con tract for the design and hy dro foil ships and other wa ter- were all sub jects cov ered in our con struc tion of the hydro foil gun - borne craft is am ple sup port for his short en joy able visit. boat FLAG STAFF (PGH-1) de liv- hav ing been rec og nized as a true hy- ered to the Navy on 14 Septem ber. drofoil pio neer. He demon strated Some time later they re ceived a con- the high est level of pro fes sional and Con tinued on Page 5 IHS Sum mer 1999 Page 3 FOILCAT Among its 13 sub sid iar ies are Royal Ad di tionally a pa per en ti tled: “Hy dro- (Con tinued From Page 1) Ha wai ian Cruises, which owns and foil Cata ma ran De vel op ments in oper ates the SWATH tour boats South Af rica” by Dr Hoppe was re - Dept. of Trans por ta tion. It will also Navatek I and Navatek II, and Ho - cently presented at the HIPER ‘99 serve as a dem on stra tion craft, pro - nolulu Ship yard Inc., Ha waii’s Confer ence in South Africa in April viding test rides for cus tom ers in ter- largest com mer cial ship repair 1999. The ab stract from the pa per is ested in eval u at ing the de sign. com pany. pro vided be low. A hy dro foil-assisted cata ma ran, the Fur ther in for ma tion: Mi chael Abstract Westamaran Foilcat 2900 combines Schmicker,(808) 531-7001 Ext. 18 the best prop er ties of a slen der hull Hydro foil assis tance on a cata ma ran cata ma ran with the speed ca pa bil ity Davies Pa cific Cen ter model was tried twenty years ago and of hydro foil craft fit ted with fully 841 Bishop Street #1880 an unex pected re sis tance im prove- submerged foils. The ves sel orig i- Ho no lulu Ha waii 96813 ment of 40% ini ti ated the cre ation of a nally en tered com mer cial service in Tele phone 808 531-7001 re search pro ject to in ves ti gate the ef - 1992 be tween Swe den and Den mark Fax 808 523-7668 fect. To day the re search pro ject is still and sub se quently ran in com mer cial ac tive in spite of de signs and model ******** ser vice in Indo ne sia. In 1997, tests result ing in the con struc tion of Navatek acquired the ves sel and HYSUCAT over 160 Hysucats. The o ret i cal ef forts rights to the design and con struc tion to de ter mine the hy dro dy nam ics of the tech nol ogy from the orig i nal builder, n the Spring 1999 IHS News let- Hysucat prin ci ple re sulted in a nu mer- Westamarin A/S of Mandal Nor way. Iter, an ar ti cle en ti tled “Ride Con- i cal model for de sign anal y sis of plan- trol Technol ogy Advances ing type Hysucats which al lows “ We are now add ing fur ther im prove- Steadily” re ferred to a foil as sisted fur ther de sign op ti mi za tion. ments of our own to the ex ist ing de- ve hi cle con cept know as Hy dro foil sign, incor po rat ing knowl edge Sup ported Cata ma ran (HYSU- gained from our ongo ing ad vanced CAT). Space did not al low for a pic- hull de sign re search and de vel op ment ture or il lus tra tion of the concept. pro gram for the U.S. Navy and the How ever, a pic ture did ap pear in the Dept. of Defense,” Loui says. Na val In sti tute Pro ceed ings of date Navatek ex pects to even tu ally li cense in an arti cle by Dr. K-G.W. Hoppe both the orig i nal and the improved in con nec tion with an ar ti cle by J.R. de sign to U.S. ship build ers. Navatek Meyer, enti tled: “Hy brids - Vari a- teamed with Lockheed-Martin to de - tions On A Theme”. The pic ture is sign and build the 105-foot, 30 knot re pro duced here. Typ i cal HYSUCAT Ar range ment fast SWATH ves sel SLICE for the The mile stones in the Hysucat De vel- U.S. Office of Na val Re search. It is op ment are men tioned and the three cur rently re search ing and de vel op ing most recent appli ca tions explained. a se ries of ad vanced hull de signs, in- The small est Hysucat, a 6 5m clud ing lift ing bod ies, for which it has Semi-Rigid In flat able Hysucat, a 12m U.S. pat ents, patents pending or pat - Fast Pa trol Boat by Sting ray Ma rine, ent ap pli ca tions. Cape Town and the Panther 64 Navatek Ships, Ltd. par ent com pany Hysucat by Prout Cat a ma rans, UK are Pa cific Ma rine, founded in 1944, is a de scribed and the Per for mance eval u- diver si fied, privately-held cor po ra- a tion is given in some detail. The re - tion with an nual sales of $54 mil lion quest for hy dro foil as sis tance on large and op er a tions in ship build ing and ship re pair, spe cialty con tract ing, tour Con tinued on Next Page boats, and envi ron men tal services. Page 4 IHS Sum mer 1999 HYSUCAT WASHING TON STATE FERRIES NOOK, is an Ad vanced Multi- hull (Con tinued From Pre vi ous Page) ISSUES FAST FERRY FLEET RFP De sign AMD 385 built in Wash ing- ton by Dakota Creek Indus tries. A ferry cat a ma rans and the de sire for sister ves sel to the 44m cata ma ran, higher speeds in the Ferry In dus try (From Fast Ferry In ter na tional, SNOHOMISH, is cur rently nearing have lead to an exten sion of the March 1999) com ple tion at the same yard. Hysucat re search pro ject to in clude semi-displacement cata ma rans. A ash ing ton State Ferries has is- [Ed i tor’s Note: See Let ters To Ed i- number of model test se ries have Wsued a request for pro pos als tor sec tion of this NL by K Duff and been com pleted al ready with dif fer- (RFP) for the con struc tion of W. Buckley on this sub ject.] as many as six fast fer ries. The ini tial ent type hulls and vari ous foil sys - ********* tems which are dif fer ent from the con tract will be for one ves sel plus orig i nal Hysucat foil sys tem and the two op tions for up to five more. Con ver sa tion with Bob Johnston most im por tant learn ing and ba sic re- De liv ery will be within 14 months of (Con tinued From Page 3) sults are dis cussed. con fir ma tion of or der and “WSF in- tends to ex er cise the op tion [for three Specifically talked about was how Consid er able improve ment due to vessels] within 60 days follow ing we were test ing HIGH POCKETS foil assis tance at the higher Froude suc cess ful deliv ery and accep tance on an en dur ance run, which had num bers are pos si ble, but at lower of the first ferry.” never been done before, between Mi ami Ship build ing and Fort Laud- Froude numbers most hull-foil sys - The op er a tor has spec i fied a design er dale. tems tested so far showed slightly in- using proven technol ogy that has a creased resis tance. The slower water line length of up to 38.5m, As noon ap proached we de cided to ferries, which oper ate at the lower beam of 13.8m to 14.2m, min i mum stop over at a res tau rant called Freud num bers, can hardly be im - ser vice speed of 34 knots at full load Baker’s Haulover. Inter est ingly, in proved and only in creased power for displace ment and 85% mcr engine this ob vi ously rather up scale res tau- higher speeds brings the foil ad van- power, in te rior seating for a min i- rant, they al lowed us to take off our tage. A new foil sys tem for im prove- mum of 350 pas sen gers and stow age wet rough weather gear by our ta ble ments at the lower Froude numbers ar eas for 30-40 bi cy cles. to en joy a deep sea tur tle steak. Also is being devel oped at pres ent and we talked about some of the ex per i- Wake wash charac ter is tics must in - model tests have al ready shown good ments and testing per formed on clude a max i mum 28 centi metre re sults. A 72m car ferry de signed by HIGH POCKETS while oper at ing height from crest to trough at a dis - AMD Austra lia is being retrofit ted out of Mi ami Ship build ing and tance of 300 metres from the ves sel with such a foil sys tem which has to Patuxent Na val Air Test Sta tion. when oper at ing at all speeds above de liver the fi nal prove of the suit abil- Also dis cussed was how he con - 30 knots in a wa ter depth of at least ity of foil assis tance for these large vinced the Navy to fund the hy dro- 22 metres. craft. Some power ra tios are given to foil fabri ca tion for the MONI TOR al low phys i cal per for mance com par- to learn more about the proce dures i sons of hydro foil assisted Semi- Ad di tionally, the wake wash en ergy must be equal to or less than 2,450 of man u fac tur ing. The Navy sub se- Dis place ment Cat a ma rans with to - quently required their name on the day’s craft. The indi ca tion is given Joules/metre of wave front of the larg est wave in the wave train and boat even though the en tire design that most ef fi cient fer ries at higher and con struc tion, other than the hy- speeds can be improved by opti - wave power of 15,400 watts for the larg est wave in the wave train. dro foils, was funded by Baker Man- mized hull-foil design. u fac turing Co. Prof. Dr-Ing K-G. W. Hoppe, Pr-Ing, The for mal RFP pack age was is sued SAIMENA, Di vi sion of Ma rine En- in the mid dle of Febru ary and re - Bob passed away shortly af ter our gi neering, De pt of Me chan i cal En gi- sponses must be submit ted by April visit. He was a spe cial per son and a neering, Univer sity of Stellenbosch, 8. The new est fast ferry in tro duced pi o neer who the hydro foil com mu- Re pub lic of South Af rica. by WSF, just un der a year ago, CHI - nity owes a great deal of re spect.

IHS Sum mer 1999 Page 5 WEL COME NEW MEM BERS Jeffrey C. Menoher - Jeffrey is from Stanislav Pav lov - Dur ing his en tire Norwalk, Connect i cut. He in di cated pro fes sional ca reer, Stanislav was in- that he has an in ter est in boats and in volved and will be in volved in de sign Grant Calverley - Grant is from Fri- par tic u lar, hy dro foils, because of and de vel op ment of hydro foil craft. day Har bor, Washing ton State. His their speed and ef fi ciency over wa ter. He wrote that therefore he is quite inter ests in hy dro foils started when keen to be a mem ber of IHS. He is Di- he had a ride on a 1970 Rus sian Volga rec tor of MTD Marine Technol ogy out of Roche Har bor on San Juan Is- Robert O. Miller - Bob men tioned Devel op ment Ltd., Branch Office in land. One ride and he was hooked. that when the NY World’s Fair Saint Pe ters burg, Rus sia. More in for- Grant has currently started a pro ject opened in 1964, the “AL BA TROSS” mation is seen in the Let ters To The to con vert his 14’ run about into a hy- was joined by her sis ter ships on runs Ed i tor sec tion of this NL. dro foil. He is con sid er ing us ing a sub- be tween the Bat tery and the Flushing merged foil de sign us ing air con trols Bay Ma rina. In the mid ‘80s, while Serge Pelentsov-Serge is Vice- Pres- (ven ti la tion) for alti tude con trol. He look ing for some thing that would be i dent of Akula Cruise Lines Ltd., would greatly appre ci ate any in for- suit able for a floating houseboat, Van cou ver, British Co lum bia, Can - ma tion on the sub ject. Rob ert responded to an ad that read ada. His in ter est in hy dro foils started “36’ alu mi num hull”. In a coal yard in when working in Rus sia in 1994. Chris to pher Ed gar - Christo pher Northport, N.Y., he found two hy dro- Hav ing seen a Raketa ves sel fly ing by just com pleted his stud ies in Mar i- foils, both stripped and van dal ized, on the river Yartish, he took a ride, time sub jects at Liver pool John one of which turned out to be the and was very im pressed. In the early Moore Uni ver sity, UK. He plans to do “ALBA TROSS”, America’s first seven ties he lived in Austra lia and a a disser ta tion on sail-powered com mer cial hy dro foil. He of fered her big thrill was to see a hy dro foil ves sel multi-hulls. to a num ber of mu se ums, in clud ing oper at ing in Syd ney. Serge’s com - Neil C. Lien - Neil be gan work ing on the Smithso nian and the Mari ner’s pany re cently purchased Russian hy dro foils in De cem ber, 1949 when Mu seum. Ap par ently, these in sti tu- built hydro foil (Voskhod/Sun rise) to he joined Baker Man u fac turing Co. in tions did n’t share his opinion of the oper ate as a tour-ferry boat in Saint Ev ans ville, Wis con sin, USA to work his toric na ture of such a ves sel so she Lawrence sea-way sys tem around for J. Gordon Baker. He con ducted cur rently sits in his son’s drive way in Mon treal. Centereach, N.Y. welding exper i ments on hydro foil Philip Schlund - Philip is from Zu - fab ri ca tion in Baker’s lab. In ter- rich, Switzer land . His pri mary in ter- spersed with several hydro foil sail - Mi chael C. Y. Niu - Michael is the est in hydro foils is ap pli ca tion to boat projects, in clud ing MON I TOR, pres i dent of AD Air frame Con sulting multihull sail ing boats. He in tends to he par tic i pated in High Pockets, High Company and is a me tal lic and com - build a hy dro foil as sisted tri ma ran or Tail. High Lander, LVH pro pos als in pos ite airframe consul tant. He was a cat a ma ran. He be lieves that car bon fi- ad di tion to twisted foil and other hy - Senior Re search and De vel op ment bers are the ul ti mate ma te rial to build dro foil concepts. Neil joined the sci- Engi neer, Lockheed Aero nau ti cal hy dro foils and is look ing for the right entific staff at the Phys i cal Sciences Sys tems Co. He was lead engi neer de signer who can help him fur ther in Lab at the Univer sity of Wiscon sin responsible for the L1011 wide body his endeav ors for sailing fast and Gradu ate School. When Mr. Baker de riv a tive aircraft wing and em pen- safely. be came ill, Neil was asked to take a nage stress anal y sis. Dur ing 1966 and one year leave of ab sence to help run 1968, he served as stress en gi neer for Thomas Young - Tom be came in ter- Baker Man u fac turing. Upon Baker’s the B727 and B747 at The Boeing ested in hy dro foils in Jan u ary of this death in 1975, Neil became the vice Com pany. He has been an honor ary year at the Hous ton Boat Show when pres i dent, di rec tor of re search, de sign ad viser in struc tures and air plane de- he was in tro duced to the Windrider and de vel op ment until retire ment on sign to the Aero In dus try De vel op- Rave. He bought one on the spot, Dec. 1, 1990. To day, he con tin ues to ment Cen ter (AIDC), China (Tai wan) trad ing in his 1964, 24 ft. Bahama Is- do engi neer ing con sult ing work and since 1973. He is a Con sulting pro fes- lander. Tom will be build ing the foils en joys re tire ment at his home in Ev- sor in Beijing Uni ver sity of Aero nau- designed by Dave Keiper and of fer - ans ville, Wis con sin. tics and As tro nau tics. ing them for sale. Page 6 IHS Sum mer 1999 JET FOIL AC CI DENT Delivered to Belgian op er a tor RTM Jer sey, 3 hours for Torquay- Guern - (From the Internet) in 1981 as Princesse Clementine, the sey, 2 hours 30 minutes for fully sub merged hy dro foil was op er- Torquay-Alderney and 1 hour 45 ated from Ostend to Do ver, and later min utes for Alder ney-Cherbourg. ore than 110 pas sen gers and Ramsgate, until it was with drawn Mfive crew members were in - early in 1997. Hav ing been laid up for Guern sey was briefly in cluded in last jured when a Jet foil hit an un- 18 months, it was purchased, along summer’s timeta ble but this is “the der wa ter ob ject near Tai O Sat ur day, with sis ter ves sel Prin cess Steph a nie, first time that Chan nel Hoppers will 2 May 1998. by Adler Bliz zard for a planned route have regu larly served that is land”. off the north coast of Ger many. Ex plaining the back ground, the com- The ac ci dent oc curred about one mile pany says, “A construc tive meeting off Tai O (near Hong Kong) at 12:25 Be tween May and Oc to ber last year was held with the Guern sey Trans port PM when the Jet foil “Flores” was on Channel Hoppers leased Fjellstrand Board on March 9. Chan nel Hop pers its way to Macao. There were eight 38.8m cat a ma ran Varangerfjord from hopes that Guern sey will now fea ture crew mem bers and 236 pas sen gers on Finnmark Fylkesrederi to Rutesels- more prom i nently in future op er a- board. Several fire services and po - kap for a ser vice be tween Portsmouth tions. lice launches and Ma rine De part ment and the Chan nel Is lands of Alder ney vessels were dispatched to the scene and Jer sey. “Since the Jer sey Transport Au thor- im me di ately af ter the report was re - ity and Guern sey Transport Board ceived. All the ca su al ties were taken Ac cord ing to Chan nel Hop pers, “The obliged Con dor to become sig na to- to hos pi tals for treat ment. Jet foil is con fig ured for 255 pas sen- ries to a bind ing Ser vice Level Agree- gers and will com plete the Southamp- ment, Chan nel Hoppers has always The Po lice has made ar range ment for ton to Jer sey sec tor di rect in 3 hours indi cated its will ing ness to vol un- the other pas sen gers to re turn to town. 45 min utes, and Jer sey to St. Malo tarily en ter into a sim i lar agree ment The dam aged Jet foil will be towed will take just one hour. Southampton with the States of Jer sey and ul ti- back to a dock yard in Cheung Sha to Alder ney non-stop will be mately, it is hoped, with the States of Wan. achieved in 2 hours 30 min utes. Guern sey. This Ser vice Level Agree- ment is, in ef fect, a state ment of pol- Pas sen gers were urged to of fer in for- “Agree ment has been reached with mation on ves sel col li sion. A report icy out lin ing guar an tees of min i mum Asso ci ated British Ports to use the ser vice lev els that we shall ex tend at said that a to tal of 117 pas sen gers and former Stena termi nal in Southamp- five crew men on board were in jured. all times to our pas sen gers in times of ton Docks. This will vastly improve op er a tional prob lems.” The Di rec tor of Ma rine has or dered a the con di tions in which is land bound pre lim i nary in quiry into the in ci dent, pas sen gers are han dled. We have also and a sur veyor of the de part ment has ap plied for per mis sion from HM Cus- Disclaimer been ap pointed to take charge of the toms to open a duty free shop in the inquiry. ter mi nal. IHS chooses arti cles and pho tos for po ten tial in ter est to IHS BOE ING JETFOIL RE TURNS TO Chan nel Hop pers is also plan ning to mem bers, but does not endorse ENG LISH CHANNEL trans fer Varangerfjord to a new Eng - prod ucts or nec es sar ily agree with lish port this summer. From May 21, the au thors’ opin ions or claims. From Fast Ferry Inter na tional April the cat a ma ran is to be op er ated from 1999) Torquay on a daily return service to ersey based op er a tor Chan nel the Chan nel Is lands. The des ti na tion In ter ested in hydro foil history, pio neers, photo graphs? Visit Hop pers is to in tro duce Boeing will be Jer sey on Mon days, Wednes- JJet foil 929-115 Adler Bliz zard on a days and Sat ur days; Guern sey on the his tory and photo gallery pages of the IHS website. new route across the Eng lish Chan nel Tues days and Thurs days; and Alder- be tween Southampton, Alder ney, ney and Cher bourg on Fri days and http://www.erols.com/foiler. Jer sey and St. Malo. First ser vices are Sun days. Scheduled jour ney times sched uled for April 28. are 3 hours 30 minutes for Torquay-

IHS Sum mer 1999 Page 7 IN MEM ORY OF LEOPOLDO then small Rodriquez shipyard, he tional op er a tors to switch from tra di- RODRIQUEZ started his ed u ca tion as ship’s mas ter. tional means of trans por ta tion to the ad vanced one. By Diego Mazzeo & Dino Di Blasi The year 1954 was a start ing point for The yard was known for its edge tech- everal months ago we had been the small outfit at Messina, as Carlo nology making use of X-ray, strain asked by Bob Johnston to write a Rodriquez started dis cus sion with gauge tech nique, plasma cut ting, nu- Sfew lines on Leopoldo Rodriquez Supramar on a license agree ment to mer i cal con trol machines, all of who passed away not so long ago. build the PT20 pas sen gers hy dro foil, which were fa mil iar at Rodriquez This is always a diffi cult task and in which was still on the draw ing board. ship yard. this in stance it is much more dif fi cult as the writ ers of these lines are two of The first ves sel built at Messina, the Dur ing his man age ment, co op er a tion his high est ad mirer and clos est Freccia del Sole or Sun Ar row left its started with a num ber of pres ti gious friends. It could be said that we are nest during 1956 and Leopoldo was in ter na tional com pa nies. just to name not the most suit able ones to re mem- among the design and why not the a few, Ham il ton Stan dard, a di vi sion ber to all of you Leopoldo, as many con struc tion team of it. At that time of United Tech nol ogy, SMA, Flor - oth ers who had the venture to cross the Yard was not more than a small ence with whom a novel fam ily of hy- his path could have done it in a better workshop with lim ited tools and al - dro foils were de signed, the Towing way. most un lim ited man power. It aly was Tank in Rome, the In sti tute for Na val just try ing to for get the de struc tion of Au to ma tion of Genoa Univer sity, Writ ing on Leopoldo is as writing the Sec ond World War and op por tu- CETENA, the Ital ian Cen ter for Na- about the history the high-speed de - nity to work was very scarce. val research, The In sti tute of Sound vel op ment at sea. As a mat ter of fact and Vi bra tion at Co pen ha gen. Rodriquez and the Rodriquez Ship - Not because he was the owner’s yard has al ways been closely re lated nephew but only because Leopoldo At a time when in di vid u al ity was the to hy dro foils and thus on the fast est was a very deter mined per son, he norm, he was so clever to re al ize that ves sel ply ing the seas up to the point climbed all the way into the yard or - only a finely tuned team was the win- that Rodriquez and their products ga ni za tion from as sis tant to the Man- ning so lu tion, so that he set up a very were syn on y mous of achieve ment ager to Tech ni cal Man ager in charge fine team, able to com pete with soon and eco nomic speed. for the con struc tion of the two very to be fierce in ter na tional com pe ti tion. first hy dro foils. His death leaves a sense of emp ti ness that is reaching not only those, who Dur ing 1957 he was given the post of In spite of this co op er a tive mood, he were close to him, but also the en tire Gen eral Man ager of the yard. Un der al ways wanted to stay ahead of all the hydrofoiler com mu nity. We, be liever his man age ment the yard man power oth ers and to achieve this task he used of the power and never end ing va lid- went from the orig i nal 85 to over 350, to work al ways long hours. At night, ity of the hydro foil, should grim his but more impor tantly the quality of his of fice win dows were lit, and lit er- de par ture. man power improved to a level that ally moun tains of files were cov er ing was un com mon for that time and for his working desk. Next morn ing, as Leopoldo has been for many years, the geo graph ical area where the Yard his team reached their yard’s of fices, the glo ri ous ones, Man aging Di rec tor was lo cated. they surely would find on their desk of the Rodriquez Shipyard lo cated in the rel e vant file with the ter ri fy ing re- Messina, It aly. He took this re spon si- He was a trav eler at a time when trav- quest “please tell me’ He made sure bil ity shortly af ter grad u ated from the el ing was not as easy as now a days. He not to sign a sin gle or der or telex (yes, Genoa Uni ver sity as Na val Ar chi tect was al ways on the move to open new’ it was still the telex era) un less he was in the year 1952. Having always markets and to spread all over the fully con vinced and sure that it was thought that one day he would have world the idea of high speed at sea. It fair for all con cerned. On the other been in volved into the family busi - was not an easy task, as Rodriquez hand, he never escaped from taking ness, as his un cle was the owner of the was pi o neer ing this field and it was al ways a chal lenge to con vince tra di- Con tinued on Next Page Page 8 IHS Sum mer 1999 LEOPOLDO duc tion went to the larger PT50. Leopoldo was ac tive not only in the (Con tinued From Pre vi ous Page) When the mar riage between pure ship yard in dus try. He was, for a Rodriquez and Supramar went sour, rel e vant lapse of time, man ager at a on the respon si bil ity for all actions Rodriquez promptly put on the mar- Ho tel re sort owned by Carlo. He and de ci sions regard ing the Com - ket a modi fied version of their the man aged to con tract North Eu ro pean pany’s activ ity. Nothing was too RHS se ries well out of the license tour oper a tors, who char tered flights com pli cated for him; even when mat- brack ets. to Catania and then toured tourist to Messina and to the Eolian Islands, ters were com pletely out of his ed u ca- It was the time when dis cus sions with tion and studies-, he lis tened to the from were his an ces tors had come. Hamil ton Stan dard were de vel op ing ex pla na tions given by his advi sors. and the acro nym RHS stood for The ho tel was the homeport and it We are sure that he was only able to Rodriquez-Hamilton-Standard, later was even sport ing a pri vate moor ing grasp the head lines of it, but he then changed to Rodriquez—High-Speed. point, aimed at em bark ing tour ists to had the ca pa bil ity to ex plain the mat- the Is lands. Cin ema fes ti vals and im- ter to oth ers so clearly, as if he had portant events were held at the pre - per fectly mas tered the mat ter. Leopoldo was the father of the mises that was very flour ish ing. RHS110 se ries and more im por tantly Un der his bril liant man age ment, the RHS200, a ves sel too ad vanced He was founder of the In ter na tional some time against the will of his un cle for the time, plus the highly suc cess- Hydro foil So ci ety, at the time of the Carlo, the Yard par tic i pated to shows ful se ries of RHS160, then mod i fied Count ess Juanita Kalerghi, Com - and con fer ences were he al ways gave into the RHS 160/F and now mander M. Thorn ton and Leopoldo’s ample space to his col leagues, as he FOILMASTER se ries. All those hy- close friend Pe ter Dorey. Fel low of used to called his em ploy ees. dro foils were sporting an Electronic the Royal In sti tu tion of Na val Ar chi- Tough but incred i bly gen tle and full Seakeeping Aug men ta tion sys tem tects, mem ber of the So ci ety of Na val of hu man ity. He made sure that night that was adopted at a later stage by al- Ar chi tects and Na val En gi neers, workers (Some time the yard was most all the other fast ferry build ers. mem ber of ATENA he con trib uted to all of them with a num ber of ar ti cles working round the clock) had good An other ahead of time pro ject, vigor - food and he even drove him self and pa pers. ously sup ported by Leopoldo, was the downtown to fetch cof fee and cig a- ALIMAIUNO, devel oped by He had been Pres i dent of APRO (As- rettes to pam per his work ers. Rodriquez in the 70’s, a fore run ner of so ci a tion of Or gan Re cip i ent), very Leopoldo’s ma ni a cal working habits both the hy brid ad vanced na val ve hi- ac tive in this highly hu man i tar ian as- have been very costly to him but more cles, suc ces sively in ves ti gated in the so ci a tion to whom he do nated money, to his fam ily. He was sel dom at home. US and the cur rent day foil sup ported time and ef forts. Traveling in It aly and abroad, when in cat a ma rans; the pro ject did not go be- yond the design stage only because A Rotarian since 1960, he served Ro- Messina, he spent most of his time at tary Club of Messina as Pres i dent his of fice; he was unable to spare the mar ket was not yet pre pared to ac- cept that kind of nov elty. during 1973-1974. He re ceived the enough time for his chil dren and his Paul Har ris Fel low ship for his ef forts wife. In an era when all Navies were in towards the Rotarian cul ture. Alda, his wife, was never com plain- search for a fast eco nom i cal and re li- Leopoldo served the Ro tary un til his ing even when with out any no tice he able na val unit, Leopoldo came with depar ture as Commis sion Pres i dent jumped at home with some guest for a the idea of the MAFIUS class of hy - and he guided his commis sion as a late dinner. His home was always drofoil (Mis sile Armed First Ital ian leader. open to clients and friends who en - Unsink able Ship). Lacking support from the Ital ian Navy, at that time al- We can only cry his de par ture, the fast joyed his very Si cil ian sense of warm ferry world has to cry his de par ture hos pi tal ity. ready commit ted with the Sparviero class, this brilliant idea was shortly but his fig ure will always re main in It is worth re mind ing all of us of the aborted but a huge fallout ben e fit our mind as a pio neer of the Fast Yard’s achieve ment during his man - came to the Yard. Ferry mar ket. ag ing life. From the small PT20, pro- IHS Sum mer 1999 Page 9 RUSSIAN HYDROFOILS BOOK ON HYDRO FOIL HYDRO - tech no log i cal op ti mism that per - DY NAMICS PUBLISHED vaded so ci ety in those hal cyon days. (By Stanislav P. Pav lov, Di rec tor of These trends found a sin gle fo cus and MTD Ma rine Tech nol ogy De vel op- ne of our mem bers, Dr. Frans outlet in a great event of the de cade ment Ltd., Branch Of fice in Saint Ovan Walree, has re cently com - that, for tu nately, was ide ally suited Pe ters burg, Rus sia) pleted a book as a thesis on the for the in tro duc tion of the USA’s first subject of the o ret i cal hydro foil hy - com mer cial hy dro foil: the New York he or ga ni za tion, MTD-SP was dro dy nam ics in par tial ful fill ment of World’s Fair. es tab lished in 1995 by its par ent his doc tor ate de gree from the Tech ni- Tcompany, MTD Marine Tech - cal Uni ver sity of Delft. The book is nology Devel op ment Ltd., which is en ti tled “Com pu ta tional Methods for lo cated in the UK. The com pany was Hydro foil Craft in Steady and Un - formed to pro vide sci en tific and en gi- steady Flow”. It will be available to neer ing ser vices for pre lim i nary stud- the pub lic at a cost of NLG 100 ies, con cep tual design, model tests, (approx. US$ 50), and can be ob - de sign and de vel op ment of ad vanced tained by send ing a re quest to: Mar i- high speed craft of dif fer ent types time Re search In sti tute Neth er lands, such as hy dro foils, mono hulls, cat a- Attn: Ms. R. Jurriens, Li brar ian., P.O. ma rans, foil-assisted cat a ma rans and Box 28, 6700 AA Wageningen, Neth- mono hulls, SWATH and erlands; semi-SWATH ves sels, multihull ves- sels, etc. Tel: +31-317-493417; Fax: +31-317-493245; AL BA TROSS I Flying by UN MTD-SP had es tab lished a rel a tively E-mail: [email protected]> large (12 per sons) and tal ented en gi- The mar ket for com mer cial hy dro- neer ing organi sa tion, where the best [Ed Note: When this book was re - foils in the USA was seen as com mu- special ists were col lected from dif - ceived, I sent a mes sage to Dr. van ter ser vice. It was noted at the time fer ent design offices and R&D cen - Walree stat ing: “I was very much im- that 23 of the USA’s 25 larg est cit ies tres in Saint-Petersburg. Since 1995, pressed with the qual ity of your work were on or near nav i ga ble wa ter ways they have established quite an in ter- and beau ti ful pre sen ta tion of the ma- that were mostly under-utilized and est ing list of new de vel op ments, in - te rial. It is in deed a very scholarly could carry hydro foil traf fic with clud ing so-called Foil & In ter cep tor work, and you should be very none of the huge out lay re quired to in- Con cep tion, which has re cently been proud.”] crease the ca pac ity of highways and pat ented in all ma jor coun tries, commu ter rail roads. All that was THE AL BA TROSS I AND THE needed to unite the technol ogy with including the USA. The pro to type COMMER CIAL HY DRO FOIL ERA ves sel, built based on such con cep- IN AMER ICA this mar ket was the con struc tion of a tion and known as Marinteknikís fleet of hy dro foils. One firm that was By Paul Miller Superfast Cat, has been success fully ready to accept the chal lenge was a sub sid iary of C.I.T., Wil son Ship yard tested in 1998 in Singa pore. Foil & he concept of the surface skim - Inc. of Del a ware, and its en try was the Inter cep tor Con cep tion was proven ming hy dro foil had spent most of hydro foil AL BA TROSS I and her sis - of being ex tremely ef fi cient in terms Tthe 20th Cen tury as a de signer’s ters. of speed and power (weight-to-drag dream or an inven tor’s toy. By the ra tio is about 12 at vol u met ric Froude early 1960s, it appeared that the hy - AL BA TROSS I was designed by the num ber 4), while seakeeping per for- drofoil was an idea whose time had noted hydro foil de signer Helmut mances in terms of ac cel er a tions come. It was more than just the de vel- Koch (an IHS mem ber - Ed), who were several times better, than those op ment of light-weight hull ma te ri als moved to the USA from his na tive typ i cal for con ven tional craft. and power plants that made the early Chile in 1955. The orig i nal con struc- 1960s bode so well. It was also the eco nomic prosper ity and so cial and Con tinued on Page 12 ******* Page 10 IHS Sum mer 1999 fu ture of the speed sailboat is af ter nism (feath ers) at the wrong end! All THE SAILORS PAGE the hy dro foil. pat ents, is sued in this field in the last CATRI FOILERS - years, have to do with mov ing hy dro- TRAILERABLE, HY DRO FOIL - What is the prob lem? foil sta bi li za tion mech a nisms, where- STA BI LIZED TRI MA RANS A greater speed of a sail boat can only as the Catri Foiler so lu tion sim ply at- ta ches the “feath ers” at the end of the by Aldis Eglajs be achieved by en sur ing a higher level of stabil ity, which cannot be ar row, thus mak ing all kinds of reg u- [IHS has re ceived several in qui ries guar an teed by tra di tional types of lating mecha nisms irrel e vant. Tests about the CATRI hy dro foil sail boats, boats. Multihulls of fer a solu tion to have been carried out to con trol the which range in size from 22 to 30 ft this prob lem. work ing and in ter ac tion of sails, hy- length and can be built as a kit if de- dro foil and wind, and an op ti mal so- sired. Ac cord ingly, we pres ent with - The prob lem of a hydro foil sailboat lu tion has been found. stabil ity is even more compli cated. out rec om men da tion or en dorse ment [The full story on Catri Foilers can the con cept and de sign de scrip tion of Up un til now tech ni cal so lu tions have been found only for still wa ter and be found on the IHS Home page. We these ves sels in their designer’s own rec om mend that you log on. - Ed] words. For fur ther in for ma tion, con- uniform wind con di tions. Un der tact the au thor di rectly: CATRI, attn: these con di tions the speed of a hy dro- ******** Aldis Eglajs; Box 120, Riga, LV 1063, foil sail boat ex ceeds 40 kt (74 km/h). LAT VIA; TEL./FAX + 371 7258427; Still, to this mo ment no appro pri ate HY DRO FOIL TRI MA RAN E-mail: [email protected] - Ed i tor] hydro foil sailboat has been de vel- SAILBOAT oped for open sea and real weather THE CON CEPT OF CATRI con di tions. Catri Foilers of fer the first FOILERS fea si ble so lu tion to this prob lem. The EIFO is a 25 ft rac ing hy dro foil atri Foilers are not meant only Why Lat via? trima ran. The boat was designed by for hydro foil en thu si asts. The Walter Schurtenberger, and the hy - Cuse of this re cently pat ented hy- The French have been more ac tive dro foils were de signed by Prof. Sam drofoil sys tem opens a new level of than oth ers in the field of sail- hy dro- Bradfield. Mr. Schurtenberger, the high-speed sail ing to any con tem po- foil re search. Very expen sive hy dro- presi dent and founder of Multihull rary am a teur sailor. It is ap pli ca ble to foil pro jects take place regu larly in Tech nol ogies in Key West FL, has ac- a wide range of ves sels, from small France. cumu lated over 18 years of ex pe ri- day-sailers and mi cro-cruisers to ence in the field of design and On the other hand, de spite years of con struc tion of Hi-Tech com pos ite 60-feet off shore racing machines in iso la tion from the in ter na tional com- all weather con di tions. boat struc tures. His com pany has mu nity, Lat via has made use of a been suc cess fully building cat a ma- number of stim u lat ing fac tors,— Why hy dro foils? rans and tri ma rans since 1993. EIFO namely, the results of Russian re- is entirely con structed out of car bon Even though a sail-boat does not eas- search in the field of hy dro foil ap pli- fi ber and is ca pa ble of speeds up to 30 ily as so ci ate with speed re cords, the ca tion. A group of tal ented stu dents in knots. modern wing-like sails are very ef - Riga started yachting-research as a fective at high speed. The hydro foil hobby, but under stood soon enough, Prin ci ple charac ter is tics are: LOA - can also be very effec tive at high that their only hope to com pete with 25’; BOA - 24’; Displ. - 500 kg.; Sail - speed. As compared to the popu lar the outer world was at tempt ing to 45 sq. m. The pro to type is currently glid ing prin ci ple (glider), it al lows to break the speed re cords. for sale. See the EIFO web page: reduce wa ter re sis tance by three http://multihulltechnologies.com/eifo.htm The Lat vian so lu tion times. or send an email to [email protected] for more in for ma tion. A com bi na tion of sails and hy dro foil If we com pare a hy dro foil with an ar- is there fore very ef fec tive - both sci- row, it is re mark able that up till now entists and design ers agree that the at tempts have been made to sta bi lize ******** it by at tach ing the reg u lat ing mech a- IHS Summer 1999 Page 11 IN TER NA TIONAL HYDRO FOIL SO CI ETY ALBATROSS (Con tinued From Page 10) 30th ANNI VER SARY MEETING tion and test ing was done in 1961-62 AN NOUNCE MENT AND CALL FOR PA PERS by Hy dro-Capital, Inc., of Newport he In ter na tional Hydro foil Soci ety will hold its 30th Anni ver sary Beach CA and in volved 180,000 meet ing in May 2000 in the Wash ing ton, DC area. The event will con- man-hours of work. The Cali for nia Tsist of an af ter noon tech ni cal ses sion com pris ing 3 to 4 tech ni cal pa- tests were very success ful, and pers, fol lowed by a so cial hour, din ner, and a Speaker or a Panel Dis cus sion foilborne speeds up to 40 mph were on future com mer cial and mili tary appli ca tions of hydro foil and hy dro- achieved with a full load of 24 peo ple. foil-hybrid ma rine ve hi cles. Tech ni cal pa pers re lated to hy dro foil and hy- On the basis of these tests, AL BA- drofoil-hybrid marine vehi cles are so lic ited in, but not lim ited to, the TROSS I re ceived United States fol low ing ar eas: Coast Guard cer tif i ca tion to carry pas sen gers commer cially, the first - En gi neering and Ap pli ca tions U.S. hydro foil to do so. - Mar ket Anal y ses with Cost and Intermodal Is sues High lighted [The rest of the story is posted on the - User Ex pe ri ences, Les sons Learned, and Fu ture Per spec tives Home Page. We rec om mend that you Please sub mit an Ab stract, of 250 words or less, to the In ter na tional Hy dro- tune in. - Ed] foil So ci ety, P.O. Box 51, Cabin John, MD 20818, USA, (or by e-mail to: [email protected]) not later than 1 August 1999. Au thors will be no ti fied of ac cep tance of their pa per by 1 Sep tem ber 1999. Draft pa pers, in hard copy, will be re quired by 1 Feb ru ary 2000. This will pro vide ad e quate time for re- view, sug ges tions, and mod i fi ca tions by the au thor prior to submittal of the fi nal copy for re pro duc tion and dis sem i na tion at the meet ing. The IHS 30th An ni ver sary Meet ing will be held in con junc tion with a joint meet ing of the IHS, the U.S. Hov er craft So ci ety (USHS) and the So ci ety of Na val Ar chi tects and Ma rine En gi neers (SNAME) SD-5 Panel. IHS wel- AL BA TROSS I To day comes your par tic i pa tion in this event. Ques tions re gard ing tech ni cal pa- pers may be ad dressed to members of the Techni cal Papers Com mit tee: Mark Bebar, Jim King, and Frank Pe ter son who may be con tacted via the IHS e-mail ad dress: [email protected] Please note: Au thors pre par ing an ab stract should bear in mind that the NEW BENEFIT IHS does not en dorse in di vid ual or Com pany prod ucts. IHS pro vides a free link from the IHS website to mem bers’ per - sonal and/or cor po rate site. To re - IHS BOARD OF DIRECTORS quest your link, contact Barney C. Black, IHS Home Page Edi tor at 1997-2000 1998-2001 1999-2002 [email protected]. Mark R. Bebar Stephen Duich Jerry Gore IHS OFFICERS 1999 - 2000 William Hockberger John R. Meyer James H. King John Meyer President George Jenkins Frank Peterson Mike Perschbacher Mark Bebar Vice President Ralph Patterson, Jr Peter Squicciarini Kenneth Spaulding George Jenkins Treasurer Ken Spaulding Secretary

Page 12 IHS Summer 1999 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR WASH CHAR AC TER IS TICS gal chal lenge. How many po ten tial A sec ond bit of info is that Gabor re spond ers to the WSF RFP have Re ferring to the ar ti cle from Fast Karafiath at the Cen ter (301-227- been so ad vised? I think you should Ferry Inter na tional re Washing ton 7005) is the person to talk to about in clude these thoughts in the IHS State Ferries RFP, this is good in for- ship wakes. He is ac quainted with the news let ter, don’t you? Karl Duff ma tion to pub lish, but it will mis lead wake prob lems of the M/V Chi nook many if you do not also ad vise that the and in di cates that with a set of lines he crite ria being ap plied are ex tremely could in ves ti gate the ben e fit of bow ques tion able from several stand - MORE ON WASH and stern mod i fi ca tions which might points: CHARAC TER IS TICS lead to wake and con cur rent drag re- duc tions. He has not heard from Stan (1) It deals only with an “aver age” Wil liam H. Buckley wrote: Stumbo. wave, constructed with arithme tic Dear Karl, sums of a se ries of in di vid ual wave Re gards, Bill Buckley mea sure ments, (cen tered upon the John Meyer cop ied to me your e-mail RUS SIAN HY DRO FOILS waves with great est wave height). mes sages re gard ing wave en ergy and Hence, the “wave” upon which en - related mat ters and suggested I re - MTD-SP was es tab lished in 1995 by ergy cal cu la tions are made is an ar ti fi- spond to your in quiry if I had the info its par ent com pany, MTD Marine cial wave that has exten sive you wanted. Re gard ing wave en ergy, Technol ogy Devel op ment Ltd., arith me tic “can cel la tion” of much of Vol. I of the Army Corp of En gi neers which is lo cated in the UK. The com- the en ergy actu ally in volved ahead “Shore Pro tec tion Man ual” (p. 2-27) pany was formed to pro vide sci en tific and be hind the wave of high est wave gives the follow ing to tal (P+ K) en - and en gi neer ing ser vices for pre lim i- height. ergy equa tion: nary studies, con cep tual design, model tests, de sign and de vel op ment (2) In the high speed wake world, the E = (rho)g(H squared) di vided by 8; of ad vanced high speed craft of dif - waves ahead of the high est wave where H = trough to crest wave height fer ent types such as hy dro foils, height have much lon ger pe ri ods and mono hulls, cata ma rans, foil-assisted The en ergy flux for waves of uni form hence, corre spond ingly higher wave cat a ma rans and mono hulls, SWATH height = ½ EC where C is the phase en ergy to com pen sate for lower wave and semi-SWATH ves sels, multihull ve loc ity of the waves, which is given height. (The Chi nook’s ap pear to all ves sels, etc. I was grad u ated from Le- by C = gT/2(pi) with T = the wave pe- have about the same wave en ergy all ningrad Ship build ing In sti tute (State riod. the way out to waves of only four or Ma rine Univer sity now) in 1975 as five inches of wave height, mov ing at na val ar chi tect and re search en gi neer very high speed!) A bit of infor ma tion regard ing wake in hydro dy nam ics and me chan ics. (3) There is no deal ing at all with the prob lems of high speed fer ries is con- Since then I have worked in a big na- true de struc tive dam age cause by the tained in a Dan ish Mar i time Au thor- val de sign of fice in Saint-Petersburg, entire wave train, be cause the whole ity re port Chap ter 1 of which has been as a re search en gi neer, senior en gi- wave sys tem is not an a lyzed. translated into Eng lish and can be neer, head of pro pul sion de part ment. down loaded at the fol low ing web ad- From 1975 to 1991, we have de vel- (4) There is a tre men dous law suit go- dress: sname.org/com mit- oped several inter est ing projects, in - ing on between property own ers tees/tech_ops/044/highspeed.html. You clud ing the big gest (more than 400 t) whose beaches, bulkheads, marine can track the SNAME high speed fer- and fast est in the world so far (more life, etc. are being de stroyed by the ries ini tia tive which leads to this re - than 60 kn.) hy dro foil craft with fully Chi nook. Hence, it ap pears Wash ing- port at the follow ing address: submerged au to mat i cally con trolled ton State Ferries could be fur ther li a- www.sname.org/com mit tees/tech foils. In MTD-SP we had es tab lished ble for proceed ing with follow-on ops/044/home.html. Inci dentally, Stan a rel a tively large (12 per sons) and tal- boat procure ment using cri te ria Stumbo is a Cor re sponding Mem ber known to be in ad e quate and un der le- of the 044 Panel. Con tinued on Next Page IHS Sum mer 1999 Page 13 LET TERS TO THE ED I TOR the LM2500. I know that this ship scanned cop ies to you....if you want (Con tinued From Pre vi ous Page) can be bought very cheap! I be lieve it them. I have about a dozen boxes of would take less work to make her sea- ma te rial that I brought home over the worthy enough to ferry than what it years, and have been mean ing to see ented en gi neer ing or gani sa tion, took us on Pega sus. It would be a what I had ac cu mu lated. I saw Den nis where best spe cial ists were col lected shame to see this fine ship scrapped! (Clark) a year or so ago at a marine from dif fer ent design offices and work boat show in New York. He R&D cen tres in Saint-Petersburg. Eliot James was there drumming up business for Since 1995, we’ve got quite an in ter- HYDROSAIL the model basin. Times have cer - est ing list of new de vel op ments, in - tainly changed. I see Jack Murphy in clud ing so-called Foil & In ter cep tor Sam Bradfield re ported that the 16.5 town from time to time. He and his Con cep tion, which has re cently been foot RAVE of fered by HydroSail, Inc. wife moved east af ter he re tired. Last pat ented in all ma jor coun tries, inc. is in pro duc tion now. Their 25 footer time I talked to him he was re cov er ing the USA. The pro to type ves sel, built (EIFO) has been sold (Nether lands) nicely from a heart at tack. He also based on such con cep tion and known and will be rac ing in Eu rope this com- said Larry Bauer was do ing the same as Marinteknikís Superfast Cat, has ing sea son. HydroSail is doing pre - recov ery. Hear from Ed Hermanns been suc cess fully tested in 1998 in limi nary design work on a 60 footer oc ca sion ally and always get a nice Singa pore. Foil & Inter cep tor Con - now. note from Ray Wright at Christ mas cep tion was proven of being ex- time. Same with Frank Otto, who is tremely effi cient in terms of speed BOB JOHNSTON MEMORIES the big man (in more ways than size) and power (weight-to-drag ratio is Bob was a spe cial person and even at Edo these days. Nice to hear he is about 12 at volu met ric Froude num - though I worked for him only for 2 ½ do ing well. Best re gards, Char lie ber 4), while seakeeping per for- years, he had a pro found effect and Pieroth. mances in terms of ac cel er a tions in flu ence on my life and later ca reer. were sev eral times better, than those FOIL DE SIGN GUID ANCE As far as I can tell, mostly posi tive NEEDED typ i cal for con ven tional craft. and construc tive things happened Stanislav P. Pav lov - Di rec tor of from any in ter ac tions with Bob. I still I am writing to ask for as sis tance in MTD Ma rine Tech nol ogy De vel op- remem ber quite clearly the day that locat ing spe cific design infor ma tion ment Ltd., Branch Of fice in Bob asked me to help him or ga nize on un der wa ter foils. I am do ing a con- Saint-Petersburg, Rus sia (MTD-SP) what was then the IHS-NAA (a sub - cept de sign of a twin keeled sail boat sid iary of the Lon don group). Bob ex- for which I would like to find lift and HIGH POINT plained that he’d like for me to get the drag coef fi cients for a symmet ri cal group incor po rated and then to get cross section foil. I am a retired I was on the west coast last month tax-exempt, char i ta ble status from Livermoore en gi neer mod er ately ca- where I met up with Will Knuth who the IRS. When I told Bob I’d never pable in stress and vi bra tion but weak is at this time tend ing High Point un til done any thing like that be fore, he just in hydro dy nam ics. I am, e.g., ig no- a buyer can be found. I was able to get leaned back in his chair and did his rant as to how the shape of such sym- aboard and take an exten sive tour. cus tom ary lit tle “chuckle/gur gle” and metri cal foils are charac ter ized, i.e., She is in very restor able con di tion. informed me that it (my in ex pe ri- by tabu lar val ues, by equa tion, or The layout is very usable as a ence) did n’t bother him.....and be fore even per haps by a NACA air foil iden- live-aboard and with very lit tle work long, it was done...and IHS-NAA ti fi ca tion num ber. Of par tic u lar in ter- the main deck could accom mo date was a New York not-for-profit cor po- est is the effect of aspect ratio, i.e., large windows and seating for sight ra tion with 501(c)(3) sta tus. how the lift and drag pa ram e ters of a see ing. The hullborne pro pul sion in- sin gle keel com pare to the ones for a clud ing en gine and outdrive is in tact Wil liam C. Stolgitis dou ble keel of half the chord and pro- and with one De troit turn ing a prop I por tion ally re duced cross sec tion but GRUMMAN REM I NISCES would guess very af ford able to op er- of the same span or draft. That is, of ate. the only thing that ap pears miss- I en joy the News let ter. One of these dou ble keel of the same wet ted area as ing for foilborne oper a tion are the days I will have to go through my col- turbines and I un der stand that these lec tion of hy dro foil pic tures and send Con tinued on Next Page can be found rea son ably com pared to Page 14 IHS Sum mer 1999 Let ters To The Editor A SMALL, FUN, CHEAP AN OTHER HY DRO FOIL (Con tinued From Pre vi ous Page HYDRO FOIL SAILBOARD DE SIGN PROBLEM a con ven tional sin gle one. Re gard ing I ‘m the “webmaster” of a lit tle site : the lift and drag coef fi cients, I have “PK hydroptere de loisirs” (with alta I’m working in the design of a as sumed that for the proba ble small vista, key word: hydroptere) I have windsurf board with the hydro foil an gle of attack of a keel, the lift to designed and built a lit tle hydro foil con cept. Do you have some in for ma- drag ra tio re mains rel a tively con stant boat for only $800! This is not a boat tion re gard ing this idea? — for small changes in the an gle. Here for speed re cord but for “the plea - Juan Carlos Santilli again how ever, un like to an gle of at- sure” ! — Frédéric Monsonnec ([email protected]) ([email protected]) tack assump tion, my igno rance is Re sponse... large. In think ing about the prob lem I have won dered if per haps rel e vant in- There is an on-line maga zine arti cle forma tion on the design pa ram e ters HY DRO FOIL SAILBOARD that describes the Miller hydro foil of the foils used for lift ing high speed DE SIGN PROB LEM wind surfer in de tail... this de scrip- power or sail ing craft out of the wa ter tion will give you plenty of ideas for might ap ply. Per haps the such un der- I’m a student in my first year in the your pro ject. Please note that Miller’s wa ter hor i zon tal foils are un sym met- Ecole Nationale Supérieure des design is pat ented and may not be ri cal as might also be the case for the Mines de Paris, And I’m just be gin- cop ied for profit! — Bar ney C. Black self lev el ing vee-type. But maybe ning to work on a pro ject : I’d like to ([email protected]) their pa ram e ters are suf fi ciently close try to make a windsurf board with hy- to those of sym met ri cal ones that this dro foils. I know this is not very orig i- RUS SIAN VES SELS FOR SALE might be a good place for me to start. nal, and I have seen the links to “ Miller hydro foil,” but I don’t know We have for sale two Rus sian hy dro- In the off chance that there might be a foils type KOLKHIDA, 140 pas sen- text book in print on foil de sign, I how to con tact him. More over, I don’t know which solu tion I am going to gers, 1985, 1989 year, engine MTU, would be happy to pur chase it if you Rus sian Regis ter of ship ping Class know of such. Pub lished pa pers, or chose ( num ber and type of foils). I’d like to have some ad vice on this is sue. doc u ments (A2) 4 years, ex cel lent perhaps Mas ter or Doc tors the ses condi tion (just af ter re pair), lo ca tion might also be avail able. Or even I already have some con tact with Hugues de Turckeim, a French shaper Black Sea, US$ 520 000/each. — G. Internet items of your Asso ci a tion. Kasyanenko([email protected]) Or, as is likely, some thing that I am who is working on the TECH- un aware of. Thank you in ad vance for NIQUES AVANCÉES, the cat a ma- THE RACE what ever help you can pro vide with- ran of Ensta, also a French out being too much of a demand on en gi neer ing school. — Yannig- We are currently design ing three 9’ your time of pa tience. If the math e- François le Roux, PARIS. hor i zon tal foils for my 60’ long and mat ics of my pipe dream are en cour- ([email protected]) 59’ wide 15.000# tri ma ran with 3,000 ag ing, I would be happy to share the sq. ft. of sail. (ex Ker Kadelac) They idea with you. If at even greater odds are be ing de signed to swing aft and up there might come to be a pro to type, in case of col li sion. Would ap pre ci ate info from any one expe ri enced with I’d in vite you for a sail some where in Let ters To the Edi tor allows this type of ap pli ca tion. Also, in ter- the San Fran cisco Bay area if it were hydrofoilers to ask for or pro vide in for- view ing am bi tious stu dents will ing to not for the fact that I am semi- in va- ma tion, to ex change ideas, and to in form lided with rheuma toid ar thri tis and the reader ship of in ter est ing de vel op- get their hands dirty. — Pe ter Murray oc cupy my spare mo ments now with ments. More cor re spon dence is pub - tel.1.561.708.7008; fax..219.2270; think ing about sail ing rather than ac- lished in the Posted Mes sages and (therace2000@ hotmail.com) Fre quently Asked Ques tions (FAQ) tually doing it. — Jerry B. Cain JET FOIL POSTERS ([email protected]) sec tion of the IHS Internet web site at http://www.erols.com/foiler. All are in - I am in need of any Boeing Jet foil vited to par tic i pate. Opin ions ex pressed posters or pictures for our com pany are those of the au thors, not of IHS. Con tinued on Next Page IHS Sum mer 1999 Page 15 Let ters To The Editor wake to per form tricks, using it as a ally you get larger wakes. But then so (Con tinued From Pre vi ous Page ramp. For the pro ject that I am mak- much is in volved es pe cially since you ing in my Design and Technol ogy ap par ently want to place this wake at course at Ashville Col lege, I have de- a distance from the boat for the of fice. Where can I find any? (We are cided to make a de vice which will at- wakeboard. I don’t know what type of inter ested in the Far East’s Hy dro- tach to the back of a speed boat which hull your boat has, but I am not sure foils.) Please ad vise. — Kelly An der- will in crease the size of the wake to that adding a foil section to pull the ([email protected]) son al low me to per form more tricks due hull down will do much to ward your RUS SIAN HY DRO FOIL FOR to the in creased size of the ramp. At goals. I feel that add ing weight on the SALE the mo ment I am think ing about us ing stern would ac com plish the same a hydro foil with the blade angled thing. Before we go any fur ther, lets Volga 275 Russian Hydro foil down wards to pull the back of the look at other con sid er ations. Are you Aquaflite — Pre vi ously in Spain, this boat down into the wa ter which will go ing to accept the increased drag ves sel is now lo cated on the Hamble in crease the size of the wake be cause which re lates to re quir ing more speed at Ancasta Ma rine Port, Hamble. Se- of the greater displace ment of the to plane the boat? This will also de - ri ously for sale please con tact the boat. I am hop ing to be able to use the crease the top speed. Does your en - owner c/o [email protected]. water to make the size of the wake gine have the ad di tional horsepower Guide price - in re gion of £20000. bigger in stead of just increas ing the to over come the in creased load? Are water dis placed by the boat to make you will ing to play with the pro pel ler RACING BOAT DE SIGN the wake big ger. I am hoping to be i.e. di am e ter and pitch to ob tain op ti- SOURCE able to find a way to chan nel the wa ter mal per for mance? Han dling char ac- Does any one know where you can get that would be wasted, make the wake ter is tics would also change, most de signs for jet boats (sport/racing of the boat big ger. For ex am ple, likely con trib ut ing to wan der ing con- versions - not fishing/com mer cial)? smaller wakes are gener ated by a dition. Many I/O boats exhibit this Please email me. — Mathew Davies speed boat dur ing speeds of around 18 char ac ter is tic before coming up on ([email protected] mph and I want to be able to get rid of plane due to the heavy weight of the eserve.co.uk) these smaller wakes, using them to en gine at the stern. Boat design ers make the main wake big ger. I am try- take all of these fac tors into con sid er- Re sponse... ing to find a di a gram show ing where ation when de sign ing boats, es pe- each com po nent of the boat wake co- cially when they try to re duce the The follow ing groups run both pro - mes from in or der that I might be able wake for wa ter ski ing, which is op po- pel ler boats and JET (im pel ler) boats to de velop a way of us ing the smaller site of what you would like to do. I in var i ous classes. The prop boats are wakes in a dif fer ent way. — Andy don’t think you will find an easy fix. quicker but both achieve speeds in Padgett ([email protected]) It could be that a new hull form would ex cess of 200 mph regu larly. Con - give you the most gain. — Sumi tacts (Hope the phone numbers are Re sponse... Arima ([email protected]) cur rent.): Liq uid Quar ter Mile mag a- zine (909) 989-1169; IHBA In ter na- Andy, I am not a hydrodynamicist nor 2nd Re sponse.... tional Hot Boat Assoc. (714) a boat de signer so I may not use the 634-4422; ADBA Ameri can Drag proper terms in my re ply to you. My Andy, Have you seen the April 1999 Boat Assoc. (216) 543-9647; NJBA back ground is in the con struc tion and is sue of Trailer Boats? on page 64, National Jet Boat Assoc. (714) eval u a tion of hy dro foil ships and sys- they re port on a test of a Cor rect Craft 993-2664; South ern Drag Boat tems for the US Navy’s re search cen- Pro Air Nautique, which is a mod i fied Assoc. (817) 662-0774 — Ken Cook ter. The prob lem you pres ent is not Nautique to in duce wake for (kencook@hydro foil.com) nec es sar ily a hydro foil related so lu- wakeboarders. They also men tioned tion. Mainly, a wake is a prod uct of a in stall ing a blad der to carry wa ter for STU DENT NEEDS AD VICE ON pres sure wave caused by the hull or in bal last to enhance the wake. Check - WAKE CHAR AC TER IS TICS case of the hy dro foils, the foils car ry- ing the mag a zine, sub scrip tion/back ing the weight of the ship. My un der- is sues man ager can be con tacted at I wakeboard a lot (like snow board ing standing is that the more harder the “[email protected]”. — Sumi Arima but be ing towed by a boat) and use the chine and flat ter the bottom, gen er- ([email protected])

Page 16 IHS Sum mer 1998 EXTRA FOR THE ELECTRONIC EDITION LET TERS TO THE EDITOR Recently I at tended the Dusseldorf Boat show - known as the World’s (Con tinued From Pre vi ous Page) Plans For BRAS d’OR... larg est. I re mem ber hav ing seen sym- De ter mining Foil Size and Pro file Do you know where I can get a set of metri cal foils of a very high surface Hi, I am a mem ber of the IHS and am plans of the BRAS d’OR?. I would qual ity, weldable and with two in ter- in ter ested in build ing a small, fast hy- like to build a model of her. Growing nal struts for stiff en ing. Chord length drofoil sail boat. My question is: up in Nova Sco tia, I got to see her in was about 6-8", thick ness was about 1 What is the av er age load ing per SQ. ac tion. Quite a sight. — Ron inch, wall thickness was some 1/6 foot (or in.) for a hydro foil ex pected Schofield ([email protected]). inch. Comes in lengths of 6 m (20’) If to go about 25kts? Is there a quick for- Website: users.andara.com/~rschofie this is of any in ter est to you, please let mula for deter min ing the size of the me know with de tails, such as re - hy dro foil based on the weight of the quired sec tion, to tal length and max craft and speed? Jim Wolbert Ex per i menter Needs Ad vice on length for ship ping. I already dis- ([email protected]) Foil Sec tions... cussed the mat ter with the man u fac- turer, so sending you an of fer Re sponse.... As a new IHS’er, I re cently pur chased should n’t take very long. My of fer for Dave Keiper’s notes and 3" foil & the 3" chord length NACA 16-008 I am afraid there is no quick and sim- strut stock. Af ter read ing his notes, and Clark-y re main valid. — ple for mula to set tle ques tions of hy- how ever, I feel I need to get started in Claus-Chris Plaass dro foil size and con fig u ra tion. There this fas ci nat ing world of hy dro foils at ([email protected]) is a great book with many de sign ex- a lit tle more ba sic level, and tackle Hy dro foils For Sale... amples called the Aero-Hy dro dy- my 1982 Nacra 5.2 hy dro foil pro ject namics of Sailing. You can proba bly a lit tle later... af ter I success fully find ex ist ing boats in the same class We have for sale two Rus sian hy dro- build a more ba sic hydro foil pro ject foils type KOLKHIDA, 140 pas sen- as yours in the book and it will gives (I’m a mar ket ing type, not an en gi- you the good and bad as pects of the gers, 1985, 1989 year, engine MTU, neer)! I wish to con struct a sta ble Rus sian Regis ter of ship ping Class ex ist ing de signs. Hope this helps. — towed hy dro foil plat form, uti liz ing 4 Marc Schafer ([email protected]) doc u ments (A2) 4 years, exellent ea. 6" surface piercing foils in a conditon (just af ter re pair), lo ca tion Who De signs Hy dro foils? split-tandem con fig u ra tion. I’m Black Sea, US$ 520 000/each. -- G. guess ing that each foil would be an - Kasyanenko ([email protected]) We are seek ing a com pany / de signer gled out 55 deg. from the verti cal to pro vide de sign / plans for a 20/25 strut. I would like to carry a loaded Mtr Hydro foil, Hull / Deck / Su per- ves sel weight of 800-900 lbs., at struc ture / Pro pul sion sys tem. Do you speeds up to est. 45 mph. What foil have any rec om men da tions? — Mike section would be best suited for this Scott ap pli ca tion, and who can I purchase ([email protected]) 6" foil and strut stock from? I re call read ing that Alcoa offered foils, but don’t know what to ask for ! Do you Sailing Hy dro foil De sign Data... have any sup pli ers you could rec om- mend that make such foil stock? Any sug ges tions / recom men da tions for FYI, Here’s a new link for your this towed con trap tion? — Brian “Websites of IHS Mem bers” sec tion. Ballou I’ve put up some infor ma tion on hy - dro foil sec tions that might be of in ter- est. — Tom Speer ([email protected]) Re sponse...

IHS Spring 1998 Page 17 The NEWSLETTER International Hydrofoil Society P. O. Box 51, Cabin John MD 20818 USA

Editor: John R. Meyer AUTUMN 1999 PHM-5 SURVIVES WHERE ARE YOU IN By John Monk CYBERSPACE?!

eep within the heartland of the United States, is the Grand River, Email communication improves Dtributary of the Missouri River. Just about one mile up stream timeliness and reduces mailing costs. from that great river, the Grand flows past the small hamlet of Please keep us updated with your current Brunswick Missouri, which by water is approximately 2,630 miles your email address! from the Naval Base at Little Creek Virginia. The distinguishing feature of the Grand River and the little town of ’99 DUES ARE PAST DUE Brunswick, over all other rivers and places in the plains states, is that they have become the home of the last remaining ship of the US IHS Membership is still only Navy’s Hydrofoil Squadron (COMPHMRON TWO). Here the USS US$20 per calendar year (US$2.50 for ARIES (Ret) or better know to some, as the PHM-5 will be restored to students), and a few of our valued mem- bers have not yet renewed for 1999. Your it’s original condition by Eliot James, B.J. (Bill John) Meinhardt, and renewal or new membership is critical. his brother B.J. (Bobby Joe) Meinhardt. Please remit 1999 dues as soon as possi- Eliot, BJ, and BJ ran the PHM-5 all the way from the East Coast to ble. Overseas members with no easy way Brunswick on its hullborne propulsion system. It took them 49 days to send US funds, are advised to send and 14,000 gallons of diesel fuel to make the trip. money order to IHS or US Dollars cash. The ship was “slop painted” in salvage gray and has a few dents in the hull from rough handling at the salvage pier, but all in all, it’s in pretty INSIDE THIS ISSUE (Continued on Page 3) - Dale E. Calkins p. 2 - Rodriquez Foilmaster p. 4 - Welcome New Members p. 6 - TEA -21 p. 7 - Dutch Fast Ferries p. 8 - SEAJETS p. 10 - Hales Trophy p. 11 - Letters to the Editor p.13

Former U.S. Navy Hydrofoil PHM-5 Photo By John Monk IN MEMORIAM - DALE PRESIDENT’S COLUMN CALKINS Submitted by Sumi Arima gain I regret to report on the un- each year; therefore the Discovery ale Eugene Calkins, a resident Atimely passing of another of Channel is very selective among the Dof Bellevue (Washington) for our long-time hydrofoilers, thousands of proposals received. 20 years, died June 29th, 1999, Dale Calkins. Sumi Arima has been in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He was 61 alert to news of our west coast mem- Although the Board decided several years of age. bers and sent me Dale’s obituary months ago to proceed with a 30th An- from a Seattle newspaper (see col- niversary Celebration of the founding Dale was born in Detroit, Michigan umn three on this page). of the IHS with a special meeting, the of June 5th, 1938, to Eugene and Board of Directors voted to cancel Longena Calkins. He graduated For some time Barney Black and I plans for next May. Instead, an eve- from the University of Detroit in have discussed the need to have an ning dinner meeting in combination 1961 with his first degree, a BS in editor for the Newsletter who would with the U.S. Hovercraft Society and Aeronautical Engineering. After handle the news related to Hydrofoil the SNAME SD-5 Panel will be graduation he packed up his con- Sailors. The Society is attracting planned for June 2000. It has been vertible and headed west to Seattle more and more members who have a suggested that it would be particularly to work for Boeing. Eventually Dale strong interest in this aspect of hy- appropriate to have a hydrofoil related ended up in California, where he drofoil technology. We need to keep paper or address the “State of the Art spent the next several years earning them up to date on what is going on in Hydrofoils in the Year2000” at such his MS in Aerospace Engineering world wide in this interesting area. I a meeting. The Papers Committee had from San Diego State and his Doc- am pleased to announce that Dr. Sam received three candidate papers for the torate in Naval Architecture from Bradfield, President of HydroSail Celebration. It has been proposed that the University of California, Berke- Inc., has consented to take on this the authors be invited to summarize ley. task. Although we do not have a their material which will be featured in “Sailor’s Page” in this issue, Sam future IHS Newsletters. He took his first education job as a has assured me that he will have visiting professor in 1978 in Rio de some interesting news for the Winter During the last year, one of our mem- Janeiro. He spent the last 20 years of 1999 Newsletter issue. bers, Stephen Chorney, has been busy his life teaching at the University of putting together a complete listing of Washington, where he made an in- You may remember I mentioned in all IHS members. This may be thought delible mark with his work in Com- previous Newsletters that the IHS of as a simple task, however, the re- puter-Aided Design Engineering has made an effort to promote the quirements were to include e-mail, and Knowledge Based Engineering. production of a Hydrofoil Video. telephone and FAX numbers, and He developed an advanced vehicle Following a meeting with the Pro- other membership related data in addi- concept called Hydrofoil Catama- duction Manager at the Discovery tion to addresses. We are pleased to ran (HYCAT)and published several Channel in Bethesda, MD, a pro- announce that, after several trial lists, papers on the subject. posal was prepared and submitted in a file has been generated and has re- July. Just recently we received a let- cently been sent out electronically to Sumi Arima remembers that his ini- ter from the Discovery Channel in- all IHS members with e-mail. For tial contact with Dale was when the forming the IHS that although our those who do not have email, a copy Navy towed his Variable Depth So- proposal was appreciated, and had can be obtained by request. Please nar with HIGH POINT, while he received the full attention of their write a note to me at the IHS ad- worked for Naval Ocean Systems development group, but it was re- dress. Command, San Diego. They contin- jected. It was explained that they ued to cross paths over the years. have a limited number of new pro- grams that can be commissioned John R. Meyer, President Page 2 IHS Autumn 1999 PHM-5 SURVIVES As for Public Relations, they are al- swered simply by using his (Continued From Page 1) ready getting some outside interest two-year response: “I don’t know”. in their project; namely, from an They want to maintain control of the good shape. The mast is gone, as are ABC Television affiliate, channel ship and hope that they can find the weapons and their control sys- 17 in Columbia, MO. ways and means to operate it as a tems. But all the wiring still re- “non-profit” company capable of When these three young men began mains, but must be removed. The supporting itself. this project they had no idea what a HYCATS and Navigation consoles hydrofoil was. They just saw the ad- So there you have it! The one of remain but are gutted. However, the vertisement for it in the government three remaining U.S. Navy Hydro- very costly radar height sensors are salvage catalog and so they made a foils in existence (together with in place and intact. The galley, bid for it. Within weeks they were HIGH POINT and FLAGSTAFF), along with the head are in splendid the proud owners of a hydrofoil. Af- and three young men with a dream. condition. The foilborne pump is ter going back east to claim their I believe that all of us in the IHS operational and only waiting for a new toy, they found that it did not have an interest in making this gas turbine engine to bring it back to have foils, so they traded their PHM dream come true. They need a lot of life. A new 60hz ships power source for the only remaining one with help, possibly from Boeing, the US is being sought and new air condi- foils, PHM-5. Navy and maybe the Navy League. tioning needs to be developed. Therefore, it would be great if some There are miles of wire to be pulled Eliot James owns and operates Cus- of us in the IHS could find the time and other lesser systems to be found tom Composites, which manufac- and energy to provide the leads and and installed. tures composite material tools and contacts that may be useful in get- parts, mostly for the heavy truck in- The main missing equipments are ting the necessary ship equipment, dustry. BJ and BJ’s company is sim- the automatic control system (ACS) funds and ideas to put this very fast ply called “BJ” and deals with the and the main foilborne propulsion lady back into operation. purchase of large surplus equip- gas turbine (LM2500). Both will be ment. They purchase them for 20¢ Eliot S. James can be contacted by expensive to come by. However, on the dollar and then rent and sell e-mail ([email protected]) or with all of the advances in comput- them. The bigger the equipment the phone at (660) 261-4500. His com- ers and the global positioning sys- better. pany is located in Cliffton Hill, tems it will be possible to design and MO, and the PHM-5 is docked at develop an ACS and navigation sys- BJ (both of them) and Eliot are Brunswick, MO, just northeast of tem that will fit totally in the bridge. 50/50 partners in rebuilding the Kansas City, Missouri. PHM. They have not formed an of- ficial corporation or partnership yet, ______With the weapons and their control as they are not sure which way to go. Added Note by Eliot James: “I have systems removed, they will have the Eliot has used “The Pegasus Project also confirmed that there are other ability to take advantage of the dedicated to the restoration and PHMs still floating and that the weight loss and distribution to en- preservation of the ex-navy hydro- scrapping company has been closed hance the performance and speed, foil ARIES PHM-5" in some corre- down. They had PHM-1 nearly while having lots of space for a spondence to date but nothing is gone and started on PHM-6 when practical and possibly, a profitable chiseled in stone. we left Charleston so I am not sure payload. of the rest but all other ships had When approached by Mr. Widman their foils cut off by the Naval Inac- of channel 17, Eliot was asked two At this time the most needed item is tive Shipyard in Norfolk so I guess questions. What is it? And what are the technical documentation Ship we have the last PHM to retain her you going to do with it? The first Systems Operation and Mainte- foils.” was easy to answer (now that they nance Manual (SSOMM) which is have become hydrofoil experts). currently in the hands of the US ************* The second one, however, was an- Navy. IHS Autumn 1999 Page 3 A TRIBUTE TO BOB JOHNSTON USTICA LINES INTRODUCES SECOND The vessel combines features of the RODRIQUEZ FOILMASTER first two. Ustica Lines has opted for a similar 240 passenger capacity as By IHS Member, Don Wight (From Fast Ferry International, Siremar’s Tiziano with the more pow- May 1999) erful propulsion package of its first had the Privilege of first meeting Foilmaster, Eduardo M, which is fitted IBob and his wife, Marcia, some 23 he latest Rodriquez Foilmaster out for 224 passengers. years ago when I joined his Hydro- Tto be delivered to Ustica Lines, foil Development Project Office as Adriana M, may be an histori- Both of Ustica Lines’ vessels have a the first Canadian Navy Exchange cal vessel. It is likely to be the last pair of MTU 16V 396 TE74L diesels Officer at DTNSRDC (David Taylor hydrofoil built at the company’s rated at 2,000 kW at 2,000 rpm in Naval Ship Research and Develop- yard in Messina, marking the end of place of the two MTU 16V 396 TE74 ment Center). From the beginning, an era that has seen 151 launched units rated at 1,550 kW at 2,000 rpm Bob, along with the rest of the office since 1956. installed in Tiziano. The result is an in- staff, made me and my wife, Pat, feel crease in full load service speed of right at home. I can readily say that I The total comprises 48 PT.20s, 29 some 5 knots. look back on working at the Center as PT.50s, 10 RHS 70s, five RHS the most enjoyable two years in my 110s, 13 RHS 140s, six RHS 150s, Ustica Lines six RHS 150Fs, eight RHS 160s, 20 military and civilian careers. There is The Foilmaster is Ustica Lines’ fifth RHS 160Fs, two RHS 200s, a single no doubt that this feeling is a direct re- hydrofoil and its introduction will al- MEC I and three Foilmasters. Apart sult of the professionalism and cor- low peak frequencies on its from two PT.20s which were fitted diality throughout the Hydrofoil Trapani-Egadi islands service to be in- out as naval patrol craft, all the hy- Office spurred by Bob’s leadership. creased from 8 to 14 round trips a day. drofoils have been ferries and more The route is the only one of the four than 50% are still operational. Pat and I have kept in touch with Bob and Marcia over the years, attending several Hydrofoil Society Confer- ences and Bob and I have “teed it up” a few times! We last saw Bob in Feb- ruary when we visited him and Mar- cia in their Daytona Beach home. Characteristically, Bob was in the best of spirits, and we spent the day reminiscing about advanced ships, good times and, of course, golf matches! I have recently spoken to the two Canadian Naval Officers who followed me to Carderock - Bob Rodriquez Foilmaster Eduardo M operated by the company to have two Starchuk and Don Hussey - and they vessels allocated to it and to be oper- ask that I express their appreciation The first of the three Foilmasters ated throughout the year. The other for Bob’s humanity and guidance was built for Siremar. Adriana M, three are limited to June 1 -September during their postings to the Center. the second to be delivered to Ustica 30. The three of us have often spoken of Lines, entered service last month the good times and career enhance- off the northwest tip of Sicily, link- Ustica Lines was established in 1993 ment we all experienced at ing the Egadi islands of Favignana, and the following year introduced a DTNSRDC. I will Profoundly miss Marettimo and Levanzo with Rodriquez RHS 160, Fast Blu, leased Bob’s continued optimism, cheerful- Trapani. ness, wisdom and love of life. 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Page 4 IHS Autumn 1999 USTICA FOILMASTER scheduled for July 13. Shun Tak will added their own ferry interests to (Continued From Previous Page) own 71 % of the joint venture, CTII form Shun Tak-China Travel will own 29%. Shipping Investments. Dr. Stanley from Aliscafi Snav, on two very long Ho has been appointed chairman, routes pioneered by Snav itself. Based in Trapani, the vessel com- pleted round trips to Favignana, Ustica and Naples; and to Pantelleria and Kelibia, Tunisia, on alternate days. In 1995, the operation was repeated and the company purchased a Rodriquez RHS 140, Spargi, from another Italian operator after being awarded a license from the Sicilian Regional Council to run a route southwest of Sicily linking the is- lands of Lampedusa and Linosa off A change of colours awaits Far the coast of Tunisia. Zhu Yuening is deputy chairman and East Hydrofoil’s fleet of Boeing Pansy Ho is chief executive officer. The next year, the Egadi islands route Jetfoils was added and Ustica Lines acquired Commenting on the merger, Dr. Ho TurboJET’s fleet will comprise 18 three more hydrofoils. RHS 160s said, “Shun Tak has been in the pas- Boeing Jetfoils and two Kvaerner Linosa and Calarossa were pur- senger shipping business for nearly Fjellstrand FoilCats previously oper- chased from another operator while 40 years while CTII has vast experi- ated by Far East Hydrofoil Company Foilmaster Eduardo M was the first ence in the travel and transportation plus eight FBM TriCat 45m catama- newbuilding ordered by the com- business. I truly believe that the com- rans and four Kvaerner Fjellstrand pany. bined strengths and experience from Flying Cat 40m catamarans operated both companies will help Shin Between June 15 and September 15, by CTS-Parkview Ferry Services un- Tak-China Travel Shipping Invest- Eduardo M will also be operated be- til the end of last year. ments to build a better business with tween Trapani and Pantelleria with a The Hong Kong Parkview Group’s expansion into new ferry routes and journey time of 2 hours 30 minutes, desire to divest itself of its local fast ferry related services.” 10 minutes faster than that of RHS ferry interests resulted in its partner, 160 Calarossa. CTII, and Shun Tak agreeing in De- TurboJET will initially operate on HONG KONG-MACAU OPERATORS cember “to join forces in acquiring the Hong Kong-Macau route, where MERGE SERVICES 100% of CTS-Parkview Holdings it will have a virtual monopoly, plus and ultimately merging forces with Hong Kong-Guangzhou, Hong (From Fast Ferry International, the shipping operation of Shun Tak to July-August 1999) Kong-Shenzhen and a local route form a new joint venture for opera- from Central to Tuen Mun, Sha Lo hun Tak Holdings and China tion and development of ferry ser- Wan and Tai O. According to the op- STravel International Investment vices in the Hong Kong waters of the erator, “Currently, Far East Jetfoils HK have finalized plans to PRC." and TurboCats together carry close merge their Hong Kong based fast Shun Tak and CTII initially acquired to 10 million passengers annually. ferry fleets into a new company, Parkview’s 50% holding in After the merger TurboJET will have Shun Tak-China Travel Shipping In- CTS-Parkview Ferry Services for a fleet of 32 vessels capable of carry- vestments. First services, which are HK$330 million and have since ing well over 20 million passengers.” to be marketed as TurboJET, were IHS Autumn 1999 Page 5 WELCOME NEW MEMBERS employed for the past 27 years. With Glenn S. Nesbitt - Glen’s back- annual sales in excess of $1.5 billion ground is in mechanical engineering, and more than 55,000 employees, business development and manage- Robert Dewar - Robert has always ABM provides janitorial, parking, se- ment, mathematics, and computer tried to follow hydrofoil technology curity and other facility services to science. He has been a journeyman after purchasing a copy of “JANE’S thousands of commercial, industrial pipefitter, journeyman welder/fabri- SURFACE SKIMMERS” in the mid and institutional facilities in hundreds cator, an owner/operator of a small 70s, and often read “MULTIHULL” of cities nationwide. The ABM Fam- business for 12 years. He has an AA and equivalent, magazines. He wrote ily of Services includes American degree in mathematics from Fullerton to David Keiper back then and is still Building Maintenance, Ampco Sys- College, and is currently working on interested in his WILLIWAW. He tem Parking and American Commer- a degree in computer science from the purchased a copy of his book HY- cial Security. Martinn and his wife University of California at Santa DROFOIL VOYAGER and his video Connie reside in Los Angeles. His Barbara. Glen is the promoter of of the WILLIWAW. He reported that private e-mail address is American Hydrofoil with two part- “the boat is doing about 15+ knots in [email protected]. ners. He holds a patent pending on a whitecaps, the ride looks very new hydrofoil design, and expects to smooth, but the cameraman unfortu- Richard T. Miller - Richard reported begin marketing several hydrofoil nately is bouncing around in the “that looking back, he had been most vessels in the next 12 to 24 months, chase boat like a jumping bean”. happy as student of, and frequently as which he expects will attain top a particle in, fluid motion”. He sailed speeds between 75 mph and 130 mph. Georges Kokkinos - Georges is from since his early teens, mostly in small Greece and has an interest in acquir- racing dinghies. During the past nine Frederick Rodolf - Frederick is with ing a kit to add foils to a small run years, he designed and piloted hydro- a boats and salvage company in about. He would be interested in ob- foil sailboards. None of this paid, Whitter, Alaska. They are expanding taining information about such kits however, and so he worked, at first as into the high speed taxi market and and has been referred to Tom Lang. an academic mathematician special- are looking for bids from qualified Martinn H. Mandles - In 1967 at age izing in topology and then changing persons or company’s to retrofit an 27, Lieutenant Martinn H. (for Hy- over into fluid dynamics and turbu- existing boat with hydrofoils. They drofoil?) Mandles became the first lence, and more recently as a pro- will add a page to our website officer-in-charge of the U.S. Navy’s grammer and computer modeler in (www.quicktow.com) with more in- first fleet-operational hydrofoil, the problems related to vision and per- formation on request for bids on Boeing-built Tucumcari (PGH-2). ception. For a wonderful time he was adapting hydrofoils. But Martinn’s hydrofoil days go back a violinmaker, but that never put much food on the table. long before Tucumcari. During a John F. Rodrigues - John is Presi- 21-month sabbatical between his ju- dent of Yacht Boutique in Boca nior and senior years as a Stanford en- Peter Murray - Peter, a hydrofoil Raton, Florida, specializing in the gineer, he was employed by Boeing sailor, is from Stuart, Florida. He is a sale of Megayachts to the clientele as a co-pilot (alongside George Ad- close associate of fellow Hydrofoil who can afford them. He has realized ams, Bruce Bryant and Vern Salis- Sailor, and IHS member, Sam that these yachts have advanced con- bury) of Boeing’s Little Squirt Bradfield. Peter has raced many sail- siderably in their jazzy interiors and hydrofoil, HTS hydroplane, and boats without hydrofoils, but is more elaborate appointments, even in the FRESH-1 hydrofoil. Martinn is also recently an enthusiast of those with pilot house, but everything under the an ex-aviator, Vietnam veteran, and a foils, having a 33 ft, 1,000 lb. boat ca- deck is the same as it was decades recent graduate of Russia’s Cosmo- pable of 35 knots, and now a 60 footer ago. He therefore sees an opportunity naut Basic Training Course at Star capable of 40 knots. He has plans to to advance the below- decks features City near Moscow. Today, at age 58, enter the “Round the World” race by introducing foils to the Megayacht Martinn serves as Chairman of the starting on New Year’s Eve 2001 with World. He is anxious to pursue this Board of ABM Industries, Inc. a hydrofoil sailboat. We all wish him idea. His company’s website is: (NYSE:ABM), where he has been lots of luck. www.Yachtboutique.com Page 6 IHS Autumn 1999 TEA-21 NHS set asides for Alaska ($50 mil- at the Battery and on Staten Island in lion), New Jersey ($25 million), and St. George; $32 million towards the Washington state ($25 million) over construction of as many as three new Federal Funding Available Until five years starting in Fiscal Year ‘99. auto/passenger ferries to replace the 2003 Will Help States Remedy Grants can provide for up to 80% of aging Kennedy Class ferries cur- Transportation Ills the construction costs. The program rently operated by New York City on (by John Snyder, Senior editor, Ma- was begun in 1991 under the the Staten Island to Manhattan route; rine Log, June 1999) Intermodal Surface Transportation $16.3 million for the construction of a Efficiency Act (ISTEA). From 1991 ferry terminal in Midtown on the ome teas are known for their re- to 1997, some $95 million was West Side of Manhattan; another $70 Sstorative powers. While it may awarded for the construction of pub- million is reserved through the Fed- not go well with scones, TEA-21 licly owned and operated ferryboats eral Transit Authority for ferryboat is certainly one of those. Not really a and ferry terminals under the ferry systems in Alaska and Hawaii; and brisk cup of brew, TEA-21 stands for grant program. various sums and unspecified the Transportation Equity Act for the amounts are earmarked for additional 21st Century. Passed in 1998, it Thanks to the efforts of the Passenger projects. makes available some $200 billion to Vessel Association (PVA), the ferry states to do everything from create grant program was not only extended More Demand Than Dollars new bike paths to pave new stretches under TEA-21, but also made more flexible. Qualified applicants now in- Despite the windfall of funding in of highway to slap a new coat of paint TEA-21, there still appears to be on aging bridges. And to get cars and clude publicly owned or operated fer- ries or majority publicly owned. more demand than dollars. Case in commuters off of those congested point is the response to the Federal city roads and bridges, TEA-21 pro- “PVAasked Congress to make the eli- Highway Administration’s solicita- vides plenty of funding for ferries. gibility criteria more flexible, be- tion for proposals for Fiscal Years cause the old language precluded 1998 and 1999. private operators from taking advan- “TEA-21 probably has more ferry With only $39 million allocated un- funding than any other legislation, tage of the grant program,”said Welch. “Yet in many cases, private der the ferryboat discretionary pro- state or federal, that preceded it,” said gram, the Federal Highway Edmund B. Welch, legislative direc- ferry operators are as much a part of the regional transportation network Administration (FHWA) was only tor of the Passenger Vessel Associa- able to select 29 out of 86 candidate tion (PVA).“A reasonable estimate is as their publicly owned counter- parts.” projects worth some $153 million. that the law will pump somewhere Applications for Fiscal Year 2000 between $450 to $500 million into Under TEA-21, pointed out Welch ‘ Continued on Next Page ferry systems over the next six years.” private operators now have the op- portunity to enter into a working re- Speaking at MARINE LOG’s Ferries lationship with a city, state, or Disclaimer ‘98 last November, Welch explained regional transportation authority and IHS chooses articles and TEA-21 contains $220 million in become eligible to apply for grant photos for potential interest to IHS funding over a six year period for the funds. members, but does not endorse construction of ferries and ferry ter- products or necessarily agree with the authors’ opinions or claims. minals under the Ferry Grant pro- More For Ferries gram. This funding is broken into two portions; one is discretionary or the Besides the ferry grant program, Interested in hydrofoil history, competitive portion; the other is the TEA-21 contains special allocations, pioneers, photographs? Visit set-aside portion for marine highway for several ferry projects. These pro- the history and photo gallery systems that are part of the National jects include: $60 million for the con- pages of the IHS website. Highway System (NHS). Of the $220 struction of new ferry terminals for http://www.erols.com/foiler. million, $100 million is allotted under the Staten Island ferry in Manhattan IHS Autumn 1999 Page 7 TEA-21 ing three in Amsterdam, two in erlands are train, bus, tram and under- Dordrecht and one in Vlissingen. ground, which all have capacity (Continued From Previous Page) More than a dozen fast ferries are cur- problems in peak time. To improve ferry grants must be submitted to the rently based in the country with at the competitiveness of public trans- FHWA by July 1, 1999 through a least three more due to arrive before port in relation to the car, the Dutch state transportation department. the end of the year. The catalyst is the government also wants to examine Dutch government. the possibilities of alternative forms.” Although the government currently Just a few of the things in the pipeline The reason was spelled out by Dick spends approximately three billion include: the implementation of a Zoutendijk of Traffic Test in a paper guilders each year subsidizing public high-speed ferry service or “marine presented at the 12th Fast Ferry Inter- transport, it was unable to contribute highway” that will link waterfront national Conference in 1996: “The any funds to ferries until recently be- towns from Portland to Bar Harbor, use of private automobiles in the cause the Dutch ‘Wet Personen- Maine, a distance of 72 nautical Netherlands is growing dramatically, vervoer’’ legislation applied only to miles; a new Hollis to Ketichikan, from 68 billion kilometers in 1986 to trains, buses and trams. There had to Alaska, ferry, replacing an existing 84 billion kilometers in 1994. This be a change in the law before there one; and a new high-speed trans- growth causes major problems: envi- could be a change in policy. Puget Sound ferry as part of an over- ronmental pollution, traffic accidents all 20-year plan by the Washington and, especially in the western part of The first company to take advantage State Department of Transportation. the Netherlands, congestion. of the Dutch government’s largesse

COMMUTER ROUTES APPEAR IN THE NETHERLANDS

(From Fast Ferry International, May 1999) or a country so closely associated Fwith water, the Netherlands has been a late entrant on the fast ferry scene. Indeed, until three years ago, there were just two vessels in regular service in the entire country and one of those was operated on sea- with grants for start-up costs and op- sonal tourist excursions - and one of Fast Flying Ferries has been oper- erating subsidies was Fast Flying those was operated on seasonal tour- ating Voschod hydrofoils since last Ferries. In 1995 it purchased a Gorki ist excursions. May Meteor hydrofoil in Latvia that had However, the introduction of four hy- “To restrict these negative effects, the been delivered three years earlier and drofoils by Fast Flying Ferries and a Dutch government has formulated a had hardly ever been operated. recent order for two NQEA River policy to reduce car use involving Runner 200 catamarans by High measures like road pricing, promot- Speed Ferries, plus four medium ing car sharing and traffic demand Refitted with 128 seats and renamed speed River Runner 150s by associate management, raising fuel tax, etc. Prins Willem Alexander, the vessel company Waterbus, are strong indi- entered service for two months dur- “One of the measures that has con- cators that the situation is changing. ing the summer of 1996 on tourist ex- tributed to a decline in car use is the cursions between the Flevo area of There are currently more than half a provision of alternatives such as good the Netherlands and Amsterdam. dozen projects for commuter ferries public transport. The most important underway in the Netherlands, includ- forms of public transport in the Neth- Continued on Next Page Page 8 IHS Autmn 1999 DUTCH OPERATORS Marie, Prins Johan Friso and As some structural parts have proved Kusnirov are scheduled to make a to- difficult to obtain, Fast Flying Ferries (Continued From Previous Page) tal of 20 round trips a day on Mon- decided to purchase a fourth Voschod day-Friday at a 30 minute frequency as a source of spares. This was due to Two round trips a day were operated during 0630-1000 and 1530-1930 arrive in the Netherlands towards the from Kampen, Urk, Hoorn and and a 60 minute frequency during the end of 1998 but was first ice bound Lelystad to the Dutch capital, a route middle of the day. and has now been trapped in the of approximately 35 nautical miles. Ukraine by blockages in the River Scheduled trip time, however, was 2 Apart from approximately 4 minutes Danube resulting from the war in the hours 35 minutes because the Meteor of running at reduced speed in Am- Balkans. had to pass through two canal locks. sterdam, the vessels are foilborne vir- tually from berth to berth. The LET THE FORECASTER BEWARE Nor was that the only operational dif- Meteor was first used as back up but ficulty. Peter Venema the technical the popularity of some services is manager of Fast Flying Ferries, says such that its higher capacity is now (From Fast Ferry International that a series of problems were experi- needed for these. April 1999) enced with the two M-401A diesels in the vessel. Undaunted, the company Only 14 people work at Fast Flying (This is from the section of the mag- returned to the route for 10 weeks the Ferries. Each Voschod is crewed by azine entitled “30 Years Ago”. Al- next summer. two captains, who alternate between though it has nothing to do with the helm and the passenger saloons, hydrofoils, we thought it may be of By then, a project to introduce a com- except during periods of poor visibil- interest and amusing to our readers. muter service between Velsen, near ity when both remain in the wheel- Ed.) IJmuiden, and Amsterdam was well house. Crews work throughout the advanced. Fast Flying Ferries pur- day on two or three days each week. pril 1969 was a month of signifi- chased two Morye Voschod hydro- Acant leadership changes around foils in Kiev, Ukraine, and delivered Peter Venema reports that traffic av- the world. In Czechoslovakia, them under their own power to the eraged 775 passengers per day last Alexander Dubcek was replaced as Netherlands at the end of 1997. A year, or approximately three times the head of the Czechoslovakian Com- third from the same source followed number the company had estimated munist Party by Gustav Husak. In last year. would be needed to break even finan- France, Charles de Gaulle resigned cially after taking subsidies into ac- after losing a constitutional referen- The 71 seat hydrofoils, which were count. dum, throwing the country into tur- launched during 1979-1983, were moil. In China, Lin Piao was voted completely rebuilt before entering On particularly popular days, up to Chairman Elect to follow Mao service. According to Peter Venema, 1,200 passengers are now being car- Tse-Tung on his retirement. the only original items remaining are ried and traffic is about to increase as the hulls and part of the shafting. Ma- the government has agreed to subsi- The second Concorde made its first jor changes included the installation dize services on weekends. flight early that month. It was, so the French and British aerospace indus- of MAN 2842 LE402 diesels rated at Service availability of the Voschods 1,100 hp at 2,300 rpm, Furuno navi- tries hoped, the beginning of a new is in the region of 80%. Peter Venema age of supersonic air travel and a lu- gation systems and refurbished pas- reports that the high operating speed senger saloons. crative market for the far sighted who of the engines has taken its toll and had backed the idea to the tune of The service between Velsen and Am- debris in the water is a problem. To Pounds 360 million. The marketing sterdam was introduced last May on a date, two major impacts have caused men were certainly gung-ho about the three year trial basis, after which the foil damage. The only weather prob- prospects, with forecasts putting total government may issue a request for lem encountered is poor visibility, sales by the middle of the 1980s at tenders from companies interested in when speed is reduced from 33-35 over 400 aircraft worth in the region operating the route. Voschods Anne knots to about 20-21 knots. of Pounds 4,000 million. IHS Autumn 1999 Page 9 SEAJETS PALM BEACH fins plus trim tabs, T-foils plus trim payload of 10,000-tons to complete -BAHAMAS ROUTE DEBUTS tabs, T-foils plus fins and trim tabs, the journey from Philadelphia to and electronic systems with either an- Cherbourg in less than four days, (From THE HERALD (Miami), July alogue or digital instrumentation. while attaining speeds of up to 40 6,1999) knots. According to Rodriquez Marine Sys- eaJets, a Palm Beach firm, is tem, “There are many different fins bringing two Boeing JetFoils to KAMEWA DEVELOPING LARGE S available, from 0.45 sq.m to 3.5 sq.m. WATERJET FOR FASTSHIP the Port of Palm Beach that will The smaller fins are made of fibre- travel regularly to Grand Bahama Is- glass, the larger ones of steel. For the (From Fast Ferry International, land. Refurbished this year, the Jet- whole range, a NACA 0015 profile is March 1999) Foils accommodate 250 passengers used, with high aspect ratio value and travel over the surface of the aimed at improving lift per unit of amewa has signed an agreement ocean. They will arrive in South area.” Kwith FastShip to develop the Florida this week, with service begin- largest waterjet ever designed. ning in early August. Twenty units are destined for four FASTSHIP COMES TO AGREE- ships that FastShip is planning to in- SeaJets will travel between the Ports MENT WITH ROLLS ROYCE troduce on a trans-Atlantic service of- of Palm Beach and Grand Bahama Is- fering a seven day door to door (From MarineLink 2 Sept 1999) land in 99 minutes. The ships will delivery between the United States leave from Palm Beach at 8:30 a.m. astShip has reached an under- and Europe for ‘high value time sen- and 4 p.m. seven days a week. An standing with Rolls Royce Plc for sitive goods’. The basic design of the adult round-trip ticket is $99, with ar- F the supply of gas turbine engines vessels has recently been verified by rival and departure taxes of $25. that will power the company’s revo- Det Norske Veritas. lutionary high speed Trans-Atlantic Currently, there are 44 JetFoils in ser- According to Kamewa, “The core of fleet, providing the approximate vice throughout Europe and Asia. the FastShip system is a fleet of pat- power equivalent to two 747 jet en- The JetFoils have not operated in the ented high speed ships representing a gines. The deal, worth $1 billion, rep- United States since 1982. SeaJets is quantum leap in hull design and pro- resents the largest-ever single order headed by George Bradley, a former pulsion systems. The design synergy for Rolls Royce for marine engines. Rockefeller executive, and Sven enables the ships to run at speeds of Paulsen, whose father founded Adler The agreement requires Rolls Royce 36-40 knots and maintain those Ships in 1949. to construct 25 marine Trent gas tur- speeds in rough seas. bines - five in each of FastShip’s ini- Contributed by Jean Buhler “With an inlet diameter of 3.25m, the tial four vessels, and five spares. waterjets will be twice the size and RODRIQUEZ MARINE SYSTEM Additionally, Rolls Royce will pro- power output of the largest units cur- vide a 20-year support package rently in operation, and will provide (From Fast Ferry International, throughout the life of each engine, as 50 MW of propulsive power per unit. May 1999) well as establish a maintenance facil- Each waterjet will be driven by ity in the Philadelphia region for the new subsidiary of Rodriquez aero-derivative, marinized jet en- contract’s management purposes. AEngineering, Rodriquez Marine gines.” System, has recently been es- The Rolls Royce Trent engines, tablished to produce stabilizing sys- which derivate from the company’s The Swedish manufacturer has also tems for both its associates and Trent aero-engine and the most pow- revealed, “Kamewa is reviewing the external customers. erful gas turbine propulsion unit possibility of constructing and as- available, will drive Kamewa The company is targeting fast ferry sembling part of the waterjet systems waterjets, delivering 335,000-hp. and mega yacht builders with a range in the Philadelphia/ Pennsylvania re- The propulsion package will allow of Seaworthiness Management Sys- the 860 ft. (262 m) vessels, carrying a tem combinations comprising fins, Continued on Page 12 Page 10 IHS Autumn 1999 the Straits of Gibraltar in a time of 3 he also gave a fascinating insight into HALES TROPHY PRESENTED TO days 4 hours 32 minutes. However, as the record attempt by United States. CAT-LINK no representative of Buquebus was Because the hull was based on a US present at the ceremony, the Trophy Navy aircraft carrier the government (From Fast Ferry International was passed directly from Sea Con- was reluctant to see the maximum April 1999) tainers to Scandlines. speed capability of the ship publicly fter eight years in the possession disclosed. Between 1952 and 1990, the record of Sea Containers, the Hales A for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic Consequently, the company was in- Trophy for the Blue Riband of had been held by United States, structed to restrict the output of the the Atlantic, to give it its full title, was which completed its maiden commer- engines. Had it not done so, it was es- officially handed over to Scandlines cial voyage at an average speed of timated that the liner would have in a ceremony held in London on 35.59 knots. Recording the history of been capable of 42 knots. If it had av- March 25. the Hales Trophy itself during those eraged that speed, as Mr. Sherwood The owners of Incat 74m Hoverspeed years, the trustees note, “In 1952 it observed, the Trophy would still be in Great Britain took the prize in June was presented to United States Lines New York. 1990 when the wavepiercing catama- and was displayed in the company’ s GAS TURBINES ORDERED FOR ran made a 2,741 nautical mile cross- New York offices, and eventually ALN CORSAIRE 13000 ing of the Atlantic from Nantucket transferred to the American Merchant Light Buoy to Bishop Rock in 3 days Marine Museum, Long Island, soon (From Fast Ferry International 7 hours 54 minutes at an average after the great ship was retired in April 1999) speed of 36.966 knots. 1969. E Marine Engines has con- Last July, Cat-Link V, an Incat 91m “The Trophy remained there until Gfirmed that it is to supply a pair wavepiercer operated by Cat-Link, 1990. With generous assistance from of LM 2500+ 25 MW gas tur- which was then jointly owned by Mr. James Sherwood, chairman of bines to MTU. They are to be in- Scandlines and Incat, completed a Sea Containers, the Trophy was re- stalled in the Alstom Leroux Naval crossing between the same two points covered from the Museum and Corsaire 13000 monohull scheduled in 2 days 20 hours 9 minutes. brought back to London. Since then it to be delivered next April to Societe has been on display in the company’s Nationale Corse M6diterran6e. According to the trustees of the Hales offices, following cleaning and reno- Trophy, “Cat-Link V achieved an av- vation for the first time since 1935.” The engine manufacturer reports, erage speed of around 41.284 knots “This marks the first selection of the over a distance yet to be settled. Con- Mr. Sherwood was more forthcoming 2500+ for commercial fast ferry ser- firmation is deferred pending agree- in his speech at the ceremony. Having vice, and the first commercial marine ment on the distance covered during indicated that there were several rep- operator in France to use GE an emergency search and rescue di- resentatives of Sea Containers pres- aeroderivative gas turbines. The version [lasting 2 hours 10 minutes] ent to witness the handing over of the 2500+ is slated for use in another south of the Grand Banks to seek a Trophy, he contrasted this with the commercial marine arrangement light aircraft which had ditched in the behaviour of the American Merchant aboard cruise ships being built for sea.” Museum, who initially refused to part Royal Caribbean and Celebrity with it. Having been informed that Cruises. Only a month before, Incat 91m there was a legal requirement to re- Catalonia, owned by Buquebus Los turn it to the trustees within 90 days, For the Corsaire 13000 application, Cipreses, had beaten the average the Museum dispatched it to a repre- each 2500+ will be used in a com- speed of Hoverspeed Great Britain sentative in New York on the nineti- bined diesel and gas turbine arrange- by achieving 38.841 knots when it eth day on the back seat of a taxi. ment with two MTU 20V 1163 covered the 2,972.5 nautical miles TB73L engines. Total power output from Nantucket Light Buoy to Tarifa Telling the audience that he had at one will be 63,000 kilowatts (84,500 HP). Point Lighthouse at the entrance to time worked at United States Lines, ********** IHS Autumn 1999 Page 11 UPDATE ON WHITE HAWK KAMEWA (Continued From Page 10) By Leslie Field gion, where FastShip has its main of- I maintain a large website in Vancouver, BC devoted to unlimited hydro- fice.” planes and other high-speed watercraft http://www.lesliefield.com. A few months ago I ran across a picture of the White Hawk in the New York Times Commenting on the agreement, the November 4, 1952 and I have been intrigued about the boat and Frank and chairman and chief executive officer Stella Hanning-Lee ever since. I have put together a web page: The of FastShip, Einar Pederson, said, Hanning-Lees and White Hawk with several articles and provide great support for this unprec- photos from the British press, a piece by Kevin Desmond and a link to your edented venture in ocean transporta- own Bob Johnston’s personal reminiscence of his experiences with the cou- tion. ple. (You can also navigate to this page by starting at the home page, choose “frames version” — What’s New — New or Revised Pages). After Frank “Kamewa waterjet technology will and Stella Hanning-Lee arrived in the U.S. in 1953 with the intention of be key in helping realize FastShip’s testing White Hawk “on Lake Mead or perhaps a lake in Florida” they dis- vision of revolutionizing ocean cargo appear from sight. Does anyone know anything at all about what became of to provide customers with delivery Frank, Stella or the White Hawk? Any information at all would be most ap- speed and reliability which is compa- preciated. Vancouver, BC, CANADA; e-mail: rable to airfreight, at a cost closer to conventional shipping rates.” HydroplaneHistory FastShip reports that analysis has shown that “a substantial market” ex- ists for the proposed service, which would attract cargo from both ships and aircraft. Following the introduc- tion of the trans-Atlantic fleet, the company anticipates the construction over the next 5-10 years of a further 12 vessels for operation on routes across the Pacific and within Asia.

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Sweet Sorrow the wake to allow me to perform more tricks to Buy a Passenger Hydrofoil or Ferry.” — due to the increased size of the ramp. Barney C. Black, [email protected]) [Aug 12 1999] It is with pleasure that I ac- knowledge receipt of the Summer Newsletter At the moment I am thinking about using a Response... [30 Aug 99] We have designed a for which I thank your goodselves. hydrofoil with the blade angled downwards 149-passenger foil-supported catamaran. Reflecting upon the fact that only the past is to pull the back of the boat down into the wa- The vessel has not yet been built. The speed is real, my mind recalls those special occasions ter which will increase the size of the wake 45 knots (83 kilometers per hour) in a 2- me- that were so memorable and enjoyable. because of the greater displacement of the ter sea. If this is of interest, we can provide I recall the satisfaction that Mark (Thorton) boat. additional information. — Mark Rice enjoyed upon being congratulated by the UK ([email protected]) Minister for his IHS efforts during the time I am hoping to be able to use the water to spent on our stand at the Rhys Centre in. Hol- make the size of the wake bigger instead of HIGH POINT Questions... land. Incidentally, that is where I met Mr. just increasing the water displaced by the [21 Aug 99] How is the HP steered when Hamilton-Walker’s son our New Zealand boat to make the wake bigger. I am hoping hullborne? I realize that the screw needs hy- member. Just as a matter of interest I pio- to be able to find a way to channel the wa- draulics to be let down into the water. Does neered that concept for a couple of years but ter that would be wasted, make the wake of the steering come as a function of the foils? the “Seacats” won the day. the boat bigger. For example, smaller wakes are generated by a speedboat during Do the foils need to be let down for this? — The passing of dear Leopoldo (Rodriquez), speeds of around 18 mph and I want to be William Knuth ([email protected]) together with. so many other stalwarts in- able to get rid of these smaller wakes, using Response... [17 Aug 99] There is an emer- vokes that nostalgia of such “Sweet Sorrow”. them to make the main wake bigger. gency method of lowering the outdrive but at Rest In Peace” dear- friend. Now I know why the present time, I cannot tell you exactly I did not hear from you this Christmas after so If you could ask your members if they could how. There is a book that I believe was given many years..... help with this I would be very grateful. I am to Ronald on configuring various emergency Please allow me to say thank you for all the trying to find a diagram showing where each conditions. This book use to occupy the work you put in. As secretary for a few years component of the boat wake comes from in bookshelf on the port rear of CIC. The hy- and Chairman for one week, I know what is order that I might be able to develop a way of draulic actuator that lowers the outdrive has a involved. I was with Mark 10 minutes before using the smaller wakes in a different way. brake built into it, and cannot be seen. The he died and a promise was made that some- Andrew Padgett, Ashville College, Green brake needs pressure to release. A manual pin how IHS would survive. Thanks to the wis- Lane, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG2 9JP, was installed after the brake failed and put a dom of Countess Juanita (Kilerghi), Uncle UK hole into the hull. The outdrive rotates 360 Sam came to the rescue. degrees when the unit is down. It needs to go In all sincerity, Yours faithfully, Bill Witt; 6 Wanted: Hydrofoil... 180 degrees to reverse. The propeller is a Glen Court., Riverside Road, Staines, puller and the outdrive does not have bear- Middlesex TW18 2 LG, U.K. [30 Aug 99] We are looking to buy a passen- ger hydrofoil, capacity 100 to 150 tourists, to ings suitable for thrust in the opposite direc- Wakeboarding... run in Lake Naser, south of Egypt, distance tion. The emergency steering is on the port 270 km. We need it high speed. — GESCO side of the outdrive housing in the engine [25th Feb 99] As a newly joined student ([email protected]) room transom. It is configured for a 3/4 drive member of the society I was wondering if you socket. I don’t remember the ratio but it takes could ask a question in the next newsletter for Response... [30 Aug 99] There are links to many turns to move it a few degrees. We have me. I wakeboard a lot (like snowboarding but some designers and manufacturers of hydro- used an air drive instead of the provided being towed by a boat) and use the wake to foils on our links page at crank. At this same location, a gear train with perform tricks, using it as a ramp. http://www.erols.com/foiler/linksout.com. a hydraulic motor that sits vertical when ex- We also have several messages with good tended is the normal method of steering. It is For the project that I am making in my De- cost and source information, as well as offer- syncho controlled with the helm in the pilot- sign and Technology course I have decided to ings of used hydrofoils for sale, right here in house. The indicator in the pilothouse, right make a device which will attach to the back our FAQ page... read the new messages sec- of a speedboat which will increase the size of tion, then jump to the section entitled “Where Continued on Next Page IHS Autumn 1999 Page 13 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR plication since there is not much swirl in the Project Seascape, A Floating Mediterra- (Continued From Previous Page) wake of a relatively large diameter low speed nean City... propeller. Whatever gains may exist could be side of helmsman, shows the outdrive posi- offset by mechanical losses in the CR drive. [9 Aug 99] I am working on a large-scale pro- tion. The power is fed from the 400 hz power — Mark Rice ([email protected]) ject: Seascape, a floating city for the Mediter- supply. The hydraulic pumps were on the two ranean Sea. We anticipate that hotel and ship service diesels. Both of the original die- Hydrofoil Surfboards... condominium guests would be ferried to and sels were removed. The hydraulic system from Seascape, as it moves about under sail [17 Aug 99] Do you know if anyone has used Skydrol as its hydraulic fluid. This is an power, by both seaplanes and hydrofoil craft. worked on hydrofoil surfboards? For waves? aircraft, non inflammable, and highly toxic We’re hoping at this preliminary stage to in- I’m looking for info, as I surf, and spend way fluid and should be handled with care. I origi- terest designers, manufacturers, and vision- too much time on crazy ideas, so I don’t want nally suggested to Ronald that he consider re- aries to point us in the right direction as to to duplicate someone else’s work. — Doug placing the helm with a lever control system size, speed, carrying capacity, and latest tech- ([email protected]) like on the tugs and adapting a commercial nology. We also welcome comments and crit- marine hydraulic system motor to the Attack of the Killer Logs... icisms of the project Seascape as a whole. — outdrive. The hullborne drive can propel the David Grassi ([email protected]) ship with either the struts up or down. For Curious About TRIFOILER... least resistance, the flaps should be in zero [14 Aug 99] (The email to which this is a re- position (straight back). The hydraulics for ply is unposted at the author’s request - Edi- [8 Aug 99] I am very interested in the the foils and strut steering came from a sepa- tor) Drift and logs depending on the size of Hobie-Ketterman TRIFOILER. I would like rate system, and is not tied in with the the hydrofoil can certainly be a problem. In to know if there is an off-the-shelf “J” style outdrive and strut retraction hydraulics. the case of the Jetfoil, having been on the pro- foil as used on the Trifoiler or are there plans —Sumi Arima ([email protected]) gram at Boeing, I am not aware of a single available to construct them? The style of foil case when a Jetfoil was made used in this craft is portrayed in some artist’s Propulsion System For Solar Powered non-operational due to hitting a log. I was on renditions as a 90 degree foil, yet in some Propulsion... a Jetfoil flying into Vancouver’s inner harbor photos it appears to be at about 45 degrees. when a deadhead was hit by the starboard aft [19 Aug 99] I’m a Mechanical Engineering Multihull Jan/Feb 94 and Popular Mechanics strut pod. Although the pod fairing was dam- student at the College of New Jersey and I’m June 96 are examples. Would you know if aged, the boat continued on to Seattle without helping design and hopefully build a solar there is a racing version and a regular ver- repairs; in fact the damage was not even real- electric boat. My personal design is of the sion? There are so many foil designs as with ized until its arrival in Seattle. With the ex- propulsion system. I’m looking into counter aircraft wings. Could you direct me to this ception of jet pump powered craft, high rotating propellors in a sleeve (a sort of jet specific foil for this specific craft, or is this a speed craft of any type are put out of service propulsion system) but I’m not sure if this trade secret and thus the high ($1 Million) when they hit something too large. Hydro- system would greatly increase efficiency at cost of development and six year trial and er- foils experience such damage as do other such low speeds. We (as a team) are at the pri- ror period? If this particular part is patented craft. However with hydrofoils the damage is mary stages of our design and would greatly does this mean that it cannot be copied or just more often not to the propulsive apendages, appreciate any advice, brochures, technical that it cannot be copied for the intent of resale i.e. propeller. The struts usually encounter documents, etc. That may help us in our pro- or profit? My interest is only for personal use. the drift or log first. The struts and foils of a ject. — Oliver Cueff ([email protected]) — Rob Dewar ([email protected]) hydrofoil are typically much stronger than a Response... [23 Aug 99] The least expensive propeller and its shafting. (In smaller fast and most available CR propellers are avail- boats this gear is usually not protected by a Response... [8 Aug 99] Technical informa- able from VolvoPenta on their outdrive units. keel.) In any case you’re right: lakes e.g. tion, including copy of the patent application, These are relatively simple designs that Lake Washington, don’t have much drift and is posted on Cliff Sojourner’s website at might be adapted for your application. You they do, for small boats, due to boat traffic, www.employees.org/~cls/trifoiler. Unfortu- will need to look at the mechanical losses in have large waves. You might try answering nately there is not much in the way of such systems as they are designed for much your own question and I’m curious, why off-the-shelf foil extrusions available for higher powers than you will have in a solar haven’t you bought a hydrofoil? Youranswer hobbyists to experiment with. — Barney C. application. You may not see a big gain in may be the reason that so few have bought Black ([email protected]) propulsive coefficient in this low power ap- them historically. — Harry Larsen Continued on Next Page ([email protected]) Page 14 IHS Autumn 1999 Letters To The Editor hydrofoil assisted catamarans are quite large conditions like a quartering wave, the flaps (Continued From Previous Page and the foils are designed to carry 150t under were working against each other. The auto- dynamic load conditions so I need a system matic control system algorithms were New Hydrofoil Ships... that is quite robust, and will not require much changed to provide an aileron control. maintenance. ([email protected]) (edi- FLAGSTAFF and her sister ships and [8 Aug 99] No details are given, but in the lat- tor’s note: Congratulations to Gunther for PLAINVIEW used incidence controlled est Maritime Reporter there is a list of ships winning the FAST’99 competition for the foils. The actuators were located in or above on order, and two hydrofoils are included. best student paper). the struts with a control rod down to the foil. One is to have a gross tonnage of 344 and is Again, the design made sure that the attach- being built by the Russian yard S. Response... [8 Aug 99] Originally on the ment point was always forward of the hinge Ordzhonikidze Works, to be delivered this HIGH POINT, the hydraulic actuators for the point and the cp was aft of the hinge point of year. The other will be 200 gross tons and is flaps were located in the propulsion pods at the foil, to avoid rod bending. I do not know being built by a yard called Seaspeed (with the strut and foil interface. The actuator any of the details of construction nor the which I’m not familiar), also for delivery this moved a crank attached to the fixed pivot causes and effects on the USS HAYES, year. Does anyone have more info on these shaft for the flaps. This would be a possible which is a catamaran hull with a foil across vessels? — Bill Hockberger system for a catamaran if the foils are span- the two hulls. Original trials detected that the ([email protected]) ning across the two hulls. On the HIGH ship porpoised under most conditions. The POINT, the strut/foil retraction was to lift the USS PLAINVIEW Final Resting Place... problem was studied about 20 or more years assembly straight up. Access to the pod was ago by the Navy, and some solution was [8 Aug 99] I went on vacation near the mouth by drydocking. Thus, during modification, achieved. Someone might be able to en- of the Columbia River (Washington side), the actuators were relocated to within the lighten us as to the cause and cure. — Sumi and I ran into the remains of the USS strut, with actuator pushing an extension rod Arima ([email protected]) PLAINVIEW. It appears that someone is cut- to a bell crank and then to the flap. The origi- ting it up for salvage and I was wondering if nal concept in design was to design the forces Response... [8 Aug 99] Mr. Arima, Thank someone has more info on this hydrofoil. — so that the rod was always in tension to avoid you for that information. This is exactly the Ed Bynon ([email protected]) bending forces and excessive bearing wear. I type of information I am looking for concepts know that forces on the strut measured by and what kind of problems I can expect. The Response... [8 Aug 99] Can you give me strain gages proved that the loads downward idea of placing the hydraulic actuators in the more details on the PLAINVIEW’s present were as great as the lifting loads. I do not hull with torque rods to the flaps is good, I am condition? Your inspection might have given know how this affected the flap loads. Maybe going to look into that further. I was thinking you the indication that a salvage operation is Bill Buckley can elaborate in this area. As for along the lines of some mechanism down the taking place, whereas it might just be the way the follow on ships using the flap system, the vertical strut, but this is more complicated. it is stored. The foils and struts are removed, modified HIGH POINT system provided the We usually use an incidence control system with only the foils sitting on the rear deck. flap actuation system. Not knowing your on the foils to vary the lift. The foils are con- Some openings were made to remove major configuration, I shall provide one area of cau- nected to the hull via a bearing, and a hydrau- machinery. The hull has what looks like cut- tion. Originally on the HIGH POINT, the out- lic actuator is positioned at the end of the outs where the struts pivoted. If you have any board foil section flaps controlled the roll. vertical strut, giving a nice lever arm. In this particular questions, feel free to ask. — Sumi The center section controlled lift. In certain application it is not possible, so a flap system Arima ([email protected]) is required. The system is only for lift control and not for ride control at this stage, so a sin- Flap Design... Letters To the Editor allows hydrofoilers to ask for or provide infor- gle flap on each side will suffice. Concerning [8 Aug 99] I am looking for methods or ex- mation, to exchange ideas, and to inform the USS HAYES, the porpoising on these amples of how to design a flap system with the readership of interesting develop- type of vessels is a combination of various the mechanism for adjusting the flap angle ments. More correspondence is pub- parameters: foil configuration and positions, being part of the vertical center strut of the lished in the Posted Messages and foil loading, LCG, and the shape of the hull foil. The application would be for hydrofoil Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) also influences things quite a bit. We have en- assisted catamarans. I am basically looking section of the IHS internet web site at countered similar problems in our model http://www.erols.com/foiler. All are in- for conceptual ideas at present so that I have a tests, but by adjusting foil positions and an- vited to participate. Opinions expressed good idea of what has been done before. The gles of attack we have always managed to are those of the authors, not of IHS. Continued on Next Page IHS Autumn 1999 Page 15 Letters To The Editor in “ Theory of Wing Sections” by Abbott and the water. In a submerged hydrofoil foil, we (Continued From Previous Page Von Doenhoff, Section 8.8. I believe this old considered a broach when the foil was in aer- but classic book is still published in paper- ated water where loss of lift occurs. — Sumi back form by Dover Publications, Inc. The Arima ([email protected]) solve the problem for the desired speed cyclic loads are an other matter because they range. It is often a trade off between stability are a function of autopilot design, foil and Response...[8 Aug 99] This is the system of some kind (porpoising, directional stabil- flap configuration, and the characteristics of used on QUEST’s Motion Controller as de- ity etc.) and resistance. The best resistance the rough water environments involved. If signed by Danny Jordan at MAPC who is the improvements with foils are usually located your vessel is small enough to employ solid expert. It worked very well. — John Meyer right at the stability limits of the vessel. So foils and flaps in a material which has rela- ([email protected]) some trade off has to be made. Increased re- tively good fatigue properties (such as used Hydrofoil Efficiency...[7 Aug 99] As a part sistance for increased stability. — Guther in marine propellers) you may only need to of my engineering degree I am conducting a Migeotte give special attention to the bearings and rod study into “greener” transportation. Do you end fittings if used. — Bill Buckley Response... [8 Aug 99] First of all, flap actu- have any information to support any claims ([email protected]) ation (i.e. fatigue) loads were a significant that hydrofoil boats could be more efficient consideration in the design of flap actuation Height Sensors For Automatic Control than a boat without hydrofoils? The type of systems for Navy hydrofoil ships. This was System...[8 Aug 99] Have you heard about information I would be interested would be not fully realized in the beginning and as a re- using pressure transducers as means of mea- power loadings and travelling speeds for the sult several failures occurred in service. In suring flight height / foil depth? Wave spray 2 types of boat with the same load so that a di- hindsight there were two factors which lead problems would be eliminated, and the cost rect efficiency comparison can be made. It to fatigue problems. The first was the gener- of even the most sensitive transducer would seems that most boats with hydrofoils are ally poor high-cycle fatigue properties of the be a fraction of a radar setup or even the sonic built for performance and not efficiency. I am high strength materials involved. The second system. As I understand, there is an increase wondering whether with the underside of the one, which was the real villain, was the large in atmospheric pressure that provides lift at boat lifted out of the water it may be that drag number of load cycles introduced at individ- low altitude to an airfoil known as ground ef- could be reduced to use less fuel. — Martin ual flap actuators by an autopilot which re- fect when the airfoil is within close proximity Crotty ([email protected]) sponded concurrently to a large number of to the ground. Since air and water are both Response... [7 Aug 99] Sorry, but there is no sensors, i.e. height, pitch angle, roll angle, fluid wouldn’t this also apply to a hydrofoil free lunch. Best ship efficiency is a huge several accelerometers, etc. This was espe- and if so, given the increase in density of wa- length-to-beam ratio... slo-o-o-w, make that cially true during rough water operation. ter wouldn’t the effective distance, or height, VERY SLOW ship (e.g. supertanker). Al- There were several unanticipated linkage be greater if not enough to effect lift perhaps though hull drag on a foilborne ship is low, failures during foilborne operation which got enough to effect a transducer sensitive foil drag (induced, friction, flow, wave, etc., everyone’s attention. Of a less critical nature enough to gauge the few psi difference be- is high). — Nat Kobitz ([email protected]) were worn out control bearings that were a tween high flight and broaching? (is broach- maintenance headache especially those on ing the correct term for coming out of the Student Project - Foil Calculations... the AGEH-1. These particular bearings were water or just a good way to cook chicken?) — [31 Jul 99] I am a senior at New Jersey Insti- very large and highly loaded because of the Eliot James ([email protected]) foil incidence control system involved. A tute of Technology. I am trying to find equa- wear problem occurred over time on other Response... [8 Aug 99] Various methods of tions for calculating the most efficient hydrofoil ships at the interface between the sensing height have been tried, mostly as re- hydrofoil for my senior project, specifically fixed and rotating elements of the spherical search projects at Boeing. Pressure transduc- for lifting forces and wave coefficients. Do bearings employed. This was solved by using ers have been tried, as well as leading edge you know of any book or publication that has helicopter type bearings which had a ceramic sensors. In all cases, it was determined that these formulas? — Scott Spinoso coating at the interface (i.e. “Kamatic bear- the reliability of data was lacking. Of course, ([email protected]) ings”). With respect to the magnitude of over the years, improvements have been steady and cyclic loads to be considered in made on sensors and may warrent another designing a flap actuation system, I have only study. A sensor reading the foil depth by mea- general suggestions to offer. The steady loads suring up to the water surface was also tried. ************ can be estimated (up to the point at which The problem is when the ship broaches. A cavitation occurs) by the methodology given broach in boat terms is when the hull is out of Page 16 IHS Autumn 1999 EXTRA FOR THE ELECTRONIC EDITION

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Speed: 31,7-32knots; Main engine: M - 400 HYDROFOIL COLLECTIBLES ON (Continued From Previous Page) PS: 2 x 930/ 1100; Passengers: 123 Person; THE WORLD WIDE WEB built: 1987 - 1990; Ukrainian Register of Where to Buy a Used Hydrofoil Ferry or Shipping Class documents (O) 4 years, good Tour Boat... condition; Discontinued regular service in 1994. Price range: 70000$ - 90000$ FOB [25 Jun 99] Could you forward any informa- Black Sea. Serious Inquiries only, please. If tion concerning the hydrofoil FLOT 1, which you know a good broker company please is posted for sale on IHS webpage [in the help us to contact him. We will assist you to Photo Gallery]. I am interested in the price, transport the commodity to port of destina- the nature of the damage (estimated cost of tion. — Mrs. Raisa Steinigk; RUHA GmbH; The Photo Gallery section of the IHS repair), and all other relevant information on Erfurt/ Germany; Fax: 49361- 2261183 website features a new page devoted this vessel if it is still available. — Kashawn ([email protected]) to hydrofoil collectibles... stamps, Saunders ([email protected]) first day covers, picture post cards, Response... [25 Jun 99] The photo in the hy- and squadron patches. Members are drofoil gallery is of a Voshkodthat was being invited not only to visit this page, but sold by Henry Butcher, the auctioneers at to scan their own hoard of collect- http://www.henrybutcher.com. It was de- ibles and send them in for possible in- scribed as built in Russia in 1983, located in clusion on the page. If you have Albania. It had suffered considerable damage detailed info or a personal story about to the starboard side above the waterline. It any of the items depicted, let us hear had been run recently, and was flast oilborne about it so we can share it with other at some time in 1998. Dimensions: 27.6 X hydrofoilers! 6.2m; Capacity: 70 Passengers; Engine: Sin- gle 1100hp Diesel Engine; Max Speed 35 From the Computer Software History Files: The unique PHM (Patrol Hy- Mph. I no longer see it on their site, so per- drofoil Missile) Pegasus Craft Simulation Game (see below), designed by haps it has been sold. However, it does not Lucasfilm Games, for the Apple and Commodore 64/128 computers. The hurt to contact them. As for additional cover reads: “The Patrol Hydrofoil Misslecraft is the Warship of the jet age. So sources of info: There are currently two agile, enemy radar mistakes it for a low-flying helicopter. So fast, the enemy points of contact for hydrofoils for sale in the only has minutes to react. Announcements section of the IHS web So deadly, there is no sec- page. IHS has at least one link to a broker ond chance!” This game who has sold hydrofoils, as well as a couple came with a two-sided 5 of links to manufacturers on the links page. 1/4" floppy disk, water There is quite a bit of correspondence and vessel identification cards, good information on where to buy a hydrofoil and instructions. This new or used in the posted messages section of game features eight our site. Included is info describing types and real-life missions in “to- costs. — Barney C. Black day’s danger zones” like ([email protected]) the Persian Gulf, Eastern Response... [28 Jun 99] We have the peasure Mediterranean, and the to offer you together or alone 6 (six) passen- Gulf of Sidra. You are in ger hydrofoil ships of the METEOR type, full control of search heli- currently located in the Ukraine. Length: copters and convoy ships. 31.7 - 34,6 m; breadth: 6.80 to 9,5 m; depth: 6,25 m; draught at berth, 1.60 - 2,35 m;

IHS Autumn 1999 Page17 The NEWSLETTER International Hydrofoil Society P. O. Box 51, Cabin John MD 20818 USA

Editor: John R. Meyer WINTER 1999 - 2000

MCM-X ASSESSMENT LOOKING AT NEW HULL FORMS WHERE ARE YOU IN From Naval Systems Update, September 15, 1999 CYBERSPACE?!

he Mine Warfare Ship program office (PMS-303) and OPNAVN852 IHS relies on electronic communi- Texpect by late October to complete requirements definition and con- cation with the membership to improve cept development work in a mission-area assessment for a next gen- timeliness and reduce mailing costs. So, eration mine-countermeasures ship (MCM-X). John Galloway, manager please... let us know your email address of MCM ship programs for PMS-303 and CDR Steve Lehr, mine warfare and keep us informed of any changes! requirements action officer for N852, are leading the effort. The assess- ment aims at fleshing out operational concepts and ship alternatives 2000 DUES ARE DUE based on input from fleet operators for a new MCM ship for the 2015 time frame. IHS Membership is still only The effort, which started last June, is supported by the Naval Surface US$20 per calendar year (US$2.50 for Warfare Center (NSWC) Dahlgren Division’s Coastal Systems Station, students). Your renewal or new member- NSWCCarderock, and Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA)03D. ship is critical. Please remit 2000 dues as soon as possible. We regret that high bank Galloway says that the effort is looking at a wide range of alternatives for fees make it impractical for IHS to accept hull form, size, payload, speed, and applicable MCM technologies. The payment by credit card or a check drawn study team is evaluating conventional hull shapes, as well as planing on a non-US bank, or by other than US hulls, Hydrofoil Small Waterplane-Area Ship (HYSWAS),and other hull funds. Overseas members with no easy forms. Beyond October, the assessment team will examine specific ship way to send US funds, are advised to send concepts in terms of projected costs that could meet the mission require- money order to IHS or US Dollars cash. ments defined by the fleet. INSIDE THIS ISSUE In-water testing will be carried out late this - Welcome New Members ...... p. 2 month at Annapolis, - Foilcat Service ...... p. 5 Maryland of a 12-ton HYSWAS demonstra- - JET FOILS in U.S...... p. 5 tor, QUEST. Designed - Helmut Kock Award ...... p. 6 and built by the Mari- time Applied Physics - Hales Trophy ...... p. 7 Corporation (MAPC) under a US Navy small - Paper Abstracts ...... p. 8 QUEST Underway During Trials 1995 business innovative - Sailor’s Page ...... p. 10 See MCM-X HULLFORMS, Page 3 - Letters to the Editor ...... p 13 PRESIDENT’S COLUMN WELCOME NEW MEMBERS David Carlson - After 25 years of racing cats, David began to sail a y the time this issue of the IHS all members, these have been repro- Hobie Trifoiler, raced against the BNewsletter is printed and put on duced on pages 8 and 9 of this issue. Bradfield NF2 and other creations, the website, it will be after the sailed a Bradfield HydroSail 16 kit Holidays, but, belatedly, I want to Thanks to Malin Dixon, you can log boat at the Florida Institute of Tech- take this opportunity to wish all mem- onto the IHS website and view the nology. He then happened upon bers a prosperous and rewarding New “Collectibles” page. We encourage Dave Keiper’s Hydrofoiling Year, and hope that the Holiday Sea- all members with patches, stamps, webpages. This led to Dave Keiper son was a happy event for all of you. etc. to send in scans or photos. visiting his home in Florida in late 1997, and many fun but frustrating I am pleased to announce that Dr. In the Autumn Newsletter, I men- tioned that the IHS has made an ef- days with the DAK foil boat. After- Sam Bradfield, President of ward, Keiper asked him to do his HydroSail Inc., has reconstituted a fort to promote the production of a Hydrofoil Video. Although we have engineering and development work. “Sailor’s Page” (see page 10) in this This is covered in his article in the issue. We are grateful to have Sam as been turned down by the Discovery Channel in Bethesda, MD, a proposal Multihulls Magazine article (Sum- part of the team and look forward to mer 1999), “Foiling with One of the his contributions. was prepared and submitted recently to the History Channel. This is still Giants.” David has been carrying Most of you have received the IHS being evaluated. on this work ever since zipping over Membership List by e-mail. For the top of Florida waters under sail. those who have not, or lost it in the I regret to report that one of our fel- low hydrofoilers, John Altoonian, Joddy Chapman - Joddy is a Y2K crisis, please contact me at: Broadcast Engineer with the BBC, [email protected] or send a note in recently passed away. He was owner of Flagstaff, which he had purchased and also a part time research student the mail to the IHS address: Box 51, at Exeter University working on a Cabin John, MD 20818, USA. about 10 years ago. We had many conversations about the craft and his sail shape and performance mea- Many of you may know that Admiral expectations for it. We are all sorry surement project. His particular in- Elmo Zumwalt, Jr. (USN, Ret) died that these never came about. See terests are in instrumentation and of cancer on January 2, 2000. He was page 12 for a notice about Flagstaff . videogrammetry. He sent some pic- an Honorary Life Member of the IHS, tures of his 6 meter hydrofoil cata- and gave the keynote speech at the I am pleased to announce that 1999 maran Ceres which he and his father 25th Anniversary meeting in June has been a banner year for new mem- (George Chapman) designed and 1995. There will be more information bers coming into the Society. Of the built. [See Sailor’s Page.] It is a about him in the next NL. 33 new members, 11 are from coun- larger version of their 4.9m Calli- tries outside the U.S. Thanks go to ope which has been described in As mentioned previously, the Board Barney Black, our Web Master, who AYRS publications and magazines of Directors found it necessary to through this medium made the Soci- such as Multihulls and Multihull In- cancel the 30th Anniversary meeting ety a more accessible organization. ternational and at the Australian that was planned in 2000. This deci- Also, Secretary Ken Spaulding, Sailing Science Conference in sion was made based on projected through his personal letters to pro- Hobart, January 1999. The aim low participation by our membership spective hydrofoil enthusiasts, en- with Ceres was to see if a fly- living outside the Washington, DC couraged them to join. Our total ing-capable catamaran can be com- metropolitan area. However, as a re- membership at the end of December petitive in racing against displace- sult of the “Call for Papers,” the tech- 1999 stands at 232 with 70 from ment cats of similar size. nical papers committee received countries outside the U.S. three abstracts. For the information of John R. Meyer , President Continued on Page 4

Page 2 IHS Winter 1999-2000 MCM-X HULLFORMS looking at are: a large mother ship Mark Rice, president of the company, (Continued From Page1) that could launch and control a num- says that the MISO, which would be ber of small autonomous MCM vehi- capable of 42 knots, conceivably research (SBIR) contract. The cles; a medium-size vessel that could could meet an evolving requirement QUEST also is set for additional deploy somewhat larger autonomous for a high-speed ship that would serve demonstrations off Little Creek, Va., craft, and smaller craft that could be with a battle group and provide most in October. [Ed Note: QUEST com- operated from surface combatants, if not all the MCM services now car- pleted demonstration trials in the aircraft carriers, or other battle-group ried out by the MCMs and MHCs. He Annapolis area and then transited to ships. “The concept is wide open.” says that the MISO would be a Little Creek where additional demon- deep-draft vessel not optimized for He says that it’s too soon to know stration runs were made. On Dec 11 shallow water and won’t provide the whether the effort will propose a ship while undergoing rough water trials, speed of a pure hydrofoil. The vessel to replace all or some of the Navy’s engine problems required QUEST to would not be efficient for transport of current 26-ship fleet of Avenger-class go hullborne back to port. The vessel heavy cargo on its main deck. (MCM- 1) and Osprey class has been returned to MAPC in (MHC-51) mine hunters, but that by Annapolis awaiting instructions from Galloway says that the MISO design 2015 it will be time to start phasing the Navy.] The original HYSWASde- effort supports the Navy’s shift (NSU them out of service. sign was developed in the 1970s by Jan. 15, 1999) to greater emphasis on the use of organic battle-group MCM NSWC Carderock as part of an effort The assessment is set to be completed capabilities, made possible by the in- to examine ways of achieving greater in September 2000. OPNAV’s Expe- troduction of remote systems and speed, range, and endurance for hy- ditionary Warfare division (N85), sensors that can be operated from bat- drofoil-based craft. which sponsors the work, then will tle group ships. The MCMs and decide whether to draft a mission The HYSWAS is an “innovative con- MHCs, which aren’t fast enough to need statement that could lead to the cept,” Galloway says, but adds that at travel with battle groups, would in the start of a formal acquisition program. new doctrine be assigned primarily to the clearing of minefields away from MAPC 850-ton HYSWAS MISO concept battle-group operations. The shift to organic battle-group MCM, he says, would exploit new fleet capabilities, such as the remote mine-hunting sys- tem being built by Lockheed Martin Ocean Radar & Sensor Sensors as well as new helicopterborne detec- tion and clearing systems, including the airborne laser mine-detection sys- tem (ALMDS) developed by Kaman this point “it’s not a given that it’s the MAPC, under a separate phase 2 Aerospace. best technical solution for a SBIR contract expects to complete by Rice says that the HYSWAS MISO next-generation MCM.” December a design for a 140-foot- design effort demonstrates the appli- long 850-ton HYSWAS vessel, re- MAPC also is developing a modeling cation of commercial ship-systems ferred to as a mine-interdiction ship tool that Galloway says will be used technologies for a fast MCM ship. organic (MISO). The ship would be in the MCM-X assessment to support Galloway adds that a HYSWAS-type powered by a single LM2500 gas tur- top-level analyses of hull forms and vessel, for example, would permit bine engine, and be fitted with a main technologies that could be considered battle groups to employ a “lilypad” reduction gear, a dynamic control for a 2,000 to 3,000 ton MCM vessel. concept for MCM, wherein the system, and a conventional propeller. HYSWASvessel would operate at the Galloway says that among the MCM-X concepts the study team is Continued on Next Page

IHS Winter 1999-2000 Page 3 MCM-X HULLFORMS WELCOME NEW MEMBERS 1994 he stopped working for that (Continued From Page 3) (Continued From Page 2) company and started working for a passenger company in Holland, edge of a minefield and serve as a Dr. Ing. Jorgen Heinig -Jorgen was which made daily trips on the lakes temporary support platform for car- born in 1940 in Dresden, Germany. between Amsterdam and Rotter- rier based MCM helicopters. He studied at the Technical Univer- dam, mostly nearby Leiden. The sity in Cottbus, Germany, and later reason that he is a member of IHS is at the Technical University in Leip- that I would like to learn more about zig, Germany where he studied hydrofoils, in Holland as well as Hydromechanics. He later served as other places in the world where they Project manager in Gas and Mining are used. He would like to exchange Trust of Schwarze Pump near experiences with other people who Cottbus, then as Chief of building are working with hydrofoils all science section in the Technical In- around the world with the same in- Scale Model of MISO (Courtesy of stitute in Cottbus. In 1989 he ob- terest. MAPC) tained a doctorate in construction studies. From 1990 he served in the John F. Rodrigues - We wrote only The Navy has no current plans to Engineers Office for the design of a short sketch about John in the Au- build a class of MISO-type ships. steel and concrete construction and tumn NL. Here is more complete in- MAPC expects to market the design geological investigations, then the formation. John is President of the to commercial fast passenger ferry Office for Hard-and Software De- Boca Raton, Florida based, Yacht operators and hopes that the Navy velopments, and currently, the Of- Boutique, who speaks six languages will fund construction of an initial fice for Development of Powerjets and graduated as an international at- demonstrator. The company expects and high speed ships. torney, and has more than ten years to offer the design for certain ferry experience in the marine field as a routes, for example, northern Europe, Michael Preis - Michael is a student business consultant. In the past few Maine to Nova Scotia, and among the at the George Washington Univer- years he has been more deeply in- Hawaiian Islands. sity working toward a PhD in volved in the yacht industry and is Marketing. He is interested in add- currently pioneering a project to ______ing foils to a 40 to 50 foot boat. He build custom Megayachts based on wants to utilize foil dynamic lift to advanced hull designs, such as sur- partially lift the boat out of the water face and fully submerged hydro- Permission to print this article was obtained and thereby reduce its drag. foils, canted strut SWATH, SLICE, from NAVAL SYSTEMS UPDATE. It is pub- FOILCAT, Air Cavity Craft and lished 22 times annually (two issues per Mark van Rijzen - Mark is from HYSWAS. The project involves the month except in August). Mailing address: Holland, “the country beneath the participation of seven renowned in- P.O. Box 167, Occoquan VA 22125. Tele- Sea”. He is therefore interested in ternational Yacht Designers who phone; (703) 490-1151, far: (703) 491-6903; transport on the water. But his inter- will be producing exclusive Yacht E-mail: [email protected] Annual sub- est is specifically in Hydrofoils be- Designs to be marketed under the scription rate: $310 in the U.S. and Canada, cause in July 1998 he became a prestigious name of BUGATTI $295 e-mail. Discounted rates available for captain on board of a Voskhod Hy- Yachts. The Designs are going to be multiple subscriptions. Edward J Walsh, Edi- drofoil, which has a regular service presented in a series of international tor. Copyright Announcement: NAVAL SYS- between Amsterdam and Umuiden. private events, called the Quatre TEMS UPDATE is copyrighted material. Before he started his career with that Saisons Rendez-Vous (“Four Sea- Reproduction by xerography, facsimile, elec- company, he was a sailor in 1990 on sons”) to take place in St. Moritz, tronic retransmission, or any other means is a liquid gas carrier on the Rhine, and Maui, Monaco and Palm Beach. prohibited. Reprint arrangements are avail- several other rivers and channels For more information log onto: able. Copyright 1999, NAVAL SYSTEMS throughout Europe. He was pro- http://www.YachtBoutique.com UPDATE. moted in 1993 and became a sailor/engine operator. In April

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November 23, 1999; by Eric Schiff (From Fast Ferry International, Sep- (From Fast Ferry International, Sep- ONOLULU — The Foilcat has tember 1999) tember 1999) Hcompleted her first month of eutz has received an order from newly established United States service for the Hawaii State De- DBeijing Enterprises Develop- Acompany, Seajets, has intro- partment of Transportation Express ment Corporation for four TBD duced a pair of Boeing Marine Commuter Ferry Demonstration Pro- 616 V16 diesels, rated at 936 kW at Systems Jetfoil 929-115 hydrofoils ject. Over 10,000 commuters have 2,165 rpm, that are to be installed in on a route between West Palm Beach, ridden the Foilcat, now called the two Meteor 2000 hydrofoils due to be Florida, and Freeport, Bahamas. Wiki Wiki Ferry. Feedback from rid- delivered later this year by Zavod in ers has been extremely positive and Gorikovo in Zelenodoljsk, Russia. Initially, one vessel is timetabled to many regular commuters are settling operate two return crossings a day on into a routine that includes relaxing The German manufacturer delivered Thursday -Monday, leaving Florida and enjoying the scenery on the way four identical engines to the same at 0900 and 1630 and the Bahamas at to work. The route the vessel runs on yard last year for another two Meteor 1110 and 1840. Scheduled crossing connects Kalaeloa Barbers Point Har- 2000s that entered service with the time is 99 minutes, the return fare is bor on the west side of Oahu with Ho- Chongqing Shipping Company in the $99 plus $25 departure taxes. nolulu Harbor disembarking com- People’s Republic of China at the be- The Jetfoils, Seajet Kara and Seajet muters at the financial district in ginning of 1999. The maximum Kristen, were originally sold to Bel- downtown Honolulu. It is a 23-mile speed of the vessels is 40 knots. gium company RTM in 1981 and leg that the vessel covers at 34 knots were operated across the English in 40 minutes. Just over two years ago, a Meteor owned by a Dutch company was Channel until 1997. The following The Foilcat is a hydrofoil-assisted re-engined with Deutz TBD 616 V 12 year they were sold to Adler Blizzard catamaran capable of 45-knot service units. Rated at 830 kW, these give the for a projected service in northern speeds in calm conditions. The vessel hydrofoil a service speed of 32 knots, Germany that failed to materialize. operates in Hawaii in sea state 3 or which is similar to the original speci- One of the vessels was expected to re- greater conditions five days per week. fication with a pair of M-401 engines. turn to the English Channel this year, Foilcat is currently USCG certified to Channel Hoppers announced that it carry 136 passengers as a Hydrofoil was to be leased for service between Supported Craft ( HSC). She is the Built in the early 1970s, the Meteor Southampton, the Channel Islands only HSC certified vessel in the U. S. was acquired by Jan Verkerk Ship and St. Malo, but the contract with There are other HSC classed vessels Charters and introduced in June 1998 Adler Blizzard was not confirmed. in the US, but Foilcat is the only on a summer service on the River Lek USCG HSC certified vessel. between Wijk Bij Duurstede and Rot- terdam. As the Florida-Bahamas route is in- ternational, Jones Act restrictions do The Foilcat will be available for sale not apply - but they would if it was a at the completion of the demonstra- domestic service, even though the tion project. The success of the vessel Jetfoils were built in the USA, they in the current demonstration indicates were ordered by an overseas cus- the potential for this and similar ves- tomer and became ‘foreign bottoms’ sels serving in high-speed commuter as soon as they were exported. markets. Contact Eric Schiff, Vice Meteor hydrofoil has been operated President, Navatek Ships, Ltd. 808 in the Netherlands by Jan Verkerk [Note: Fellow hydrofoiler, Ken Ply- 531-7001 ext. 25 for further informa- Ship Charters during the past two ler, sent a note recently saying: “I am tion. summers. Continued on Next Page

IHS Winter 1999-2000 Page 5 SEAJET HELMUT KOCK RECEIVES IHS In 1951 Mr. Kock met a German im- (Continued From Previous Page) AWARD migrant who had worked at the Schertel-Sachsenberg yard in at the Ft. Lauderdale International Dessau-Rosslau and, as a prisoner of Boat Show. Seajet, the new Jetfoils war, in the hydrofoil research pro- service is getting ready to startup on 6 n November 1999, Helmut Kock gram in Leningrad. Mr. Kock, with November. The route is West Palm Iwas presented with an IHS award his German associate, began experi- Beach to Freeport Grand Bahama. “for superior achievement in sig- ments with hydrofoil models and, in CAPT. Chris Rose, one of the old Ha- nificantly advancing the develop- 1955, moved to Florida where they waii Seaflite Captains, has the job of ment, application and support of developed a 16 foot outboard hydro- Crew training and temporary Opera- hydrofoil technology for national and foil. After his German partner re- tions Manager. Seajet has a booth at international maritime interests.” turned to Germany Mr. Kock moved the show.” Along with a plaque containing these to California where he designed and built foils for a sightseeing boat. ********* words, a framed citation was pre- pared which read as follows: The success of the sightseeing craft PHMs FOR SALE The International Hydrofoil Society resulted in a contract for the 35 foot hereby honors Helmut Kock for his “Albatross.” A New York firm ac- quired design rights for the Albatross (It is the policy of IHS not to adver- many contributions and innovations and constructed 20 production craft, tise, but we got wind of the follow- in the field of hydrofoils. 14 of which were used for passenger ing advertisement, and thought Over a forty year period, beginning in service between New York City and you’d like to know.) the 1950s, Helmut Kock has been a the 1964 Worlds Fair in Flushing. UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY: OF- leader in the design, construction, op- Boats from the 20-craft production FERING 4 - EX- U.S. NAVY HY- eration and modification of commer- run eventually operated in Washing- DROFOIL PATROL VESSEL cial passenger hydrofoils in the ton, DC, Alaska, Miami, the Virgin (PHM) ALUMINUM HULLS FOR United States and in South America. Islands, Lebanon and Bolivia. Mr. SALE With often marginal financial back- Kock trained a Bolivian crew on Lake ing, Mr. Kock developed and con- Titicaca for operation and mainte- ength 132’ x 28 ‘ beam; design structed a series of practical and nance. Three more Albatrosses were Ldisplacement 237 Lt; fully affordable hydrofoils for commercial subsequently purchased for the Bo- loaded with 7’6" draft. Ad- passenger operations. These craft livian operation. Mr. Kock was later vanced design by Boeing features were commercially viable in their day contracted for the construction of a high speed and maneuverability with and some are still in operation. In larger 50 foot, 40 passenger, craft. long cruising range. Built for all- terms of numbers of operating pas- Materials for the ”Bolivia Arrow" weather, high sea state operation. senger hydrofoils in the United were brought together in Pennsylva- Max. speed 22 kts with 800 hp diesels States, and in South America, Mr. nia and shipped to Bolivia for assem- (not incl.) and excess of 70 kts with Kock’s craft represent a truly excep- bly. This craft entered service in LM 2500 GE turbine (not incl). Ves- tional level of commercial hydrofoil 1977. sels have been demilitarized. Origi- operation. nal hydrofoils are available. Informa- In 1981 Mr. Kock redesigned the tion package available. Helmut Kock was born in Chile foils on the three hydrofoils operating where boyhood experience building at Sea World in San Diego. In 1984 an Priced to sell @ $250,000 each. Call and using small craft inspired a life- Albatross was stretched by six feet. E. Crews; 352-787-0608 or send long devotion to boatbuilding. After Also in 1984 Mr. Kock repowered email: [email protected] four years working and studying in two “Albatrosses” in Miami for ser- Germany he returned to Chile where vice in Paraguay. [Ed Note: The speeds advertised he developed a lumbering operation may be an exaggeration.] in a remote area which required con- struction of a tug and lumber barges. Continued on Next Page Page 6 IHS Winter 1999-2000 HELMUT KOCK AWARD MARCIA JOHNSTON BECOMES According to the trustees of the Hales HONORARY LIFE MEMBER Trophy, “Cat-Link V achieved an av- (Continued From Previous Page) erage speed of around 41.284 knots over a distance yet to be settled. Con- The International Hydrofoil Society t a recent Board of Directors firmation is deferred pending agree- takes great pleasure in presenting this Ameeting it was decided to pay ment on the distance covered during award to Helmut Kock who has de- special tribute to Marcia an emergency search and rescue di- voted the better part of his life to Johnston by making her an Honorary version [lasting 2 hours 10 minutes] proving, through many applications Life Member of the Society. As the south of the Grand Banks to seek a and innovations, that hydrofoils are a wife of Robert Johnston, who had light aircraft which had ditched in the practical and economical solution for served the IHS in so many ways prior sea.” high speed passenger service. to his death this past year, she had stood by him and supported him Only a month before, Incat 91m [Barney Black had later found some wholeheartedly in connection with Catalonia, owned by Buquebus Los additional information which may be his contributions to the Society. A Cipreses, had beaten the average of interest: The following paragraph Membership Certificate was for- speed of Hoverspeed Great Britain was found in Jane’s “Surface Skim- warded to Marcia along with a letter by achieving 38.841 knots when it mers” of 1984: Helmut Kock, de- expressing our gratitude. covered the 2,972.5 nautical miles signer of the Honald Albatross from Nantucket Light Buoy to Tarifa hydrofoil, which operated New ******** Point Lighthouse at the entrance to York’s first commercial hydrofoil the Straits of Gibraltar in a time of 3 service, and former chief engineer of HALES TROPHY PRESENTED TO CAT-LINK days 4 hours 32 minutes. However, International Hydrolines, Inc., has as no representative of Buquebus designed and built a 47 ft. hydrofoil (From Fast Ferry International was present at the ceremony, the Tro- ferry for Crillon Tours of La Paz April 1999) phy was passed directly from Sea Bolivia. The craft, the Bolivia Arrow Containers to Scandlines. was built during 1976 at Huatajata, on fter eight years in the posses- the shore of Lake Titicaca (12,000 ft) Asion of Sea Containers, the Between 1952 and 1990, the record and entered service in Feb. 1977. All Hales Trophy for the Blue Ri- for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic materials, equipment, engines, tools, band of the Atlantic was officially had been held by United States, and machinery were imported form handed over to Scandlines in a cere- which completed its maiden com- the USA. The entire craft is of welded mony held in London on March 25, mercial voyage at an average speed aluminum and was built by Helmut 1999. Kock with the aid of a few Bolivian Continued on Page 9 Indians, who, in order to undertake The owners of Incat 74m Hoverspeed Great Britain took the the work, were taught how to use Disclaimer modern hand and electric tools and prize in June 1990 when the automatic welding techniques.”] wavepiercing catamaran made a IHS chooses articles and 2,741 nautical mile crossing of the photos for potential interest to IHS Atlantic from Nantucket Light Buoy members, but does not endorse to Bishop Rock in 3 days 7 hours 54 products or necessarily agree with minutes at an average speed of the authors’ opinions or claims. 36.966 knots. Last July, Cat-Link V, an Incat 91m Interested in hydrofoil history, wavepiercer operated by Cat-Link, pioneers, photographs? Visit which was then jointly owned by the history and photo gallery Scandlines and Incat, completed a pages of the IHS website. Two of crossing between the same two http://www.erols.com/foiler. Helmut points in 2 days 20 hours 9 minutes. Kock’s Many Hydrofoils

IHS Winter 1999-2000 Page 7 PAPER ABSTRACTS Mostly common hydrofoil deforma- correction effective. The technology tions, namely deviations of mounted of bending will be briefly described, attack angles and cross-section pro- and the formula for the necessary he following abstracts were sub- files, can be treated by the original value of bending will be given in a Tmitted to the technical papers method developed by the authors. convenient form. committee in connection with This method has become widespread the planning of the 30th Anniversary in Russia and Mediterranean coun- The effect of foil ‘singing’, some- Meeting. tries. times appearing on hydrofoils, can be the reason for loud tonal sounds. In Maintenance of Hydrofoil Systems Profile characteristics, curvature of order to fulfill noise level require- by Konstantin I. Matveev (Graduate the mean line and profile thickness, ments, the method patented by the au- Student, California Institute of Tech- determine the attack angle corre- thors is applied. Physical aspects of nology Student Member of Interna- sponding to zero lift and the correc- this phenomenon are given in the re- tional Hydrofoil Society; Mail code tion to this angle due to water free port. 301-46, Caltech, Pasadena, CA surface. Hydrofoil lift coefficient is: 91125 E-mail address is: Sail-Powered Inverted T-foil Ap- matveev@ca1techxdu) and Ivan Cy = d Cy/da (a ycm + a o - Da o) (1) plications by W. S. Bradfield Ivanovich Matveev (Chief Designer, The condition of the conservation of Successful HydroSail, Inc. applica- Emeritus Central Hydrofoil Design the initial lift coefficient for the de- tions of inverted flapped T-foils to Bureau, High-Speed Ships Bureau formed cross-section can be pre- sailboats ranging in size from radio Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia) sented in the following way: controlled model trimarans at sailing waterline (SWL) = 6 ft to a crewed 25 d(a d(a - Da ) = 0 (2) The peculiarities of technological ycm) + o o foot coastal racing trimaran are dis- servicing of hydrofoil crafts are From the geometrical consideration, cussed. Twenty five years of experi- caused by their specific structure, the expression for the second item in mentation with sail powered ladder such as light-weighted alloy hulls, (2) can be found. Taking into account foil and surface piercing dihedral foil powerful engines, hydrofoils, propel- the influence of water free surface we systems led to the final acceptance of lers with complex geometry, inclined get the final value for the deformation the inherently unstable inverted T shaft lines, etc. This report considers of the zero lift attack angle. The ob- configuration for sailboat applica- questions related to the foils installed tained expressions and measurement tions. Performance simulator soft- on Russian hydrofoils (such as process are discussed in the report. ware developed during this period Katran/Kolhida and Olympia). provided loading information for Measurements are carried out in sev- structural design hullborne and in eral cross-sections of each foil in the flight as well as delineating the proba- During operations, hydrofoil systems system. The condition of the conser- ble boundaries of the flight window can be subjected to impacts with sea vation of the lift coefficient requires of the sail powered vehicles. Devel- beds and floating objects, vibrations the sum (2) for each cross-section to opment of a simple mechanical Flight from shaft line and propellers (when be equal to zero. For the local charac- Control System was key to the suc- they are not in good working order). ter of the distribution of these devia- cess of the T-fail system for small Foil-strut and strut-hull connections tions, it is not possible to compensate boats. The result was the 16 ½ ft also sustain sharp wave loads in them by remounting a foil. In such RAVE: a successful low cost produc- rough seas. These factors lead to for- cases we recommend applying the tion line roto-molded trimaran. mations of dents, bends, cracks, geometric profile correction by con- breakage, or changes in the geometry trolled bending of the foil aft edge. Feasibility studies of boats larger than of the hydrofoils. We shall discuss the Besides the change of the mean line the 25 ft coastal racer (up to SWL = 60 technological specifications of foils, curvature, the increment of the ft) indicate practical payoff advan- allowed geometrical deviations, or- mounted attack angle also takes tages for lifting foil equipped ocean der of inspections, the repair process. place. Obtained increments have the same sign, which makes the bending Continued on Next Page

Page 8 IHS Winter 1999-2000 PAPER ABSTRACTS mary configurations and perfor- HALES TROPHY mance were described in the article (Continued From Previous Page) presented in 1998 by the author. The (Continued From Page 7) advantages in fuel efficiency and per- going sail boats. However, suitably formance are obvious. Compared to a of 35.59 knots. Recording the history sophisticated Flight Control System catamaran with the same payload, for of the Hales Trophy itself during (FCS) for both hullborne and foil- a 50-m. ship at the speed of 45 knot, a those years, the trustees note, “In borne modes of performance will be 40 % improvement in fuel efficiency 1952 it was presented to United required. Design modifications of the can be predicated by calculation. In States Lines and was displayed in the present FCS to facilitate the jump in Norway, a 4-m. model is being tank company’s New York offices, and boat size (and including comfort con- tested. The result is very encourag- eventually transferred to the Ameri- trol and powering) are discussed. ing. This presentation will further can Merchant Marine Museum, make discussion on the safety issues, Performance, Reliability and Cost Long Island, soon after the great ship methods of minimizing fabrication, Effectiveness of Foil-Assisted was retired in 1969. and operational costs of the hull and Monohull High-Speed Craft by foil systems. “The Trophy remained there until Chung Chen Shaw, HYSWAS Inter- 1990. With generous assistance from national Enterprises; 7318 Fairchild Hull and Foil Systems, and Safety - Mr. James Sherwood, chairman of Drive, Alexandria, VA 22306; Tel: The most cost-effective way of utiliz- Sea Containers, the Trophy was re- (703) 765-3304, Fax: (703) 765-7732 ing present technology is to fly just covered from the Museum and Email: [email protected] above the water at the desired speeds, brought back to London. Since then it using an appropriate hull and foil sys- Background - It is well known the has been on display in the company’s tem. The foil/strut systems will be dual hull property of catamarans min- offices.” used as a device of directional stabi- imizes crucial wave resistance to im- lizer and motion damper, in addi- Mr. Sherwood was more forthcom- prove fuel efficiency at high speeds. tional to a mass lifter. ing in his speech at the ceremony. Hydrofoil crafts produce better per- Having indicated that there were sev- formance but have high fabrication The performance, reliability and eral representatives of Sea Con- and operational costs. In recent de- cost-effectiveness of systems for tainers present to witness the handing cades, the hybrid of foil-assisted- cat- speeds from 30 to 70 knots, and over of the Trophy, he contrasted this amaran has shown 30% improve- weights up to 1000 tons will be dis- with the behaviour of the American ments in speed or fuel consumption. cussed. The applications to the foiled Merchant Museum, who initially re- warship/ferry will be addressed. The author believes the performance fused to part with it. Having been in- and costs can be further improved by The comfort and safety concerns in formed that there was a legal using hydrofoil and monohull combi- the waves and speeds will be dis- requirement to return it to the trustees nation. At high speeds, present single cussed. Also the floating log/debris within 90 days, the Museum dis- hull crafts have the advantage over issues will be considered. A retract- patched it to a representative in New dual hull crafts from lower able foil system for the speeds of 50 York on the ninetieth day on the back speed-length ratio, the combination knots or above, which when hit, can seat of a taxi. of wave-making resistance and wet- retract quickly and sustain little Telling the audience that he had at ted-area resistance. In addition, sin- damage will be disclosed. A forward one time worked at United States gle hull craft have lower fabrication pitching control system, which also Lines, he also gave a fascinating in- cost and reduced weight. diminishes the log/debris problems, sight into the record attempt by will be disclosed. At the speed of 50 Brief Description - Different from a United States. Because the hull was knots and above, the aerodynamics conventional monohull, the hull form based on a US Navy aircraft carrier, will be considered in the systems de- design of present technology is taking the government was reluctant to see sign. Drawings will be provided, and account a trimming angle of the hull the details will be discussed in the at flying, in addition to hydrodynamic paper. Continued on Page 12 consideration. The principles, pri-

IHS Winter 1999-2000 Page 9 SAILORS PAGE

SAILING HYDROFOIL NEWS Ketterman Trifoiler. For more infor- constant lead changes caused by the mation on these two vehicles, see fast acceleration of the boats, made a ntroduction - I‘m Sam Bradfield (http//www.hydrosail.com) or great show for those who came out to Iand John Meyer and Barney Black (http//www.hobiecat.com). watch. The race committee suggested have asked me if I would try to edit that next year they would try to ar- a “Sailing Page” for the IHS Newslet- RAVE Nationals - Although RAVE range more spectator boats so more ter. Over the past 35 years as an engi- was designed as a recreational vehi- people could enjoy the show close up. neering professor I’ve supervised a cle rather than as a racing boat, own- It was an exciting event and we ex- number of sailing hydrofoil student ers have decreed it a race boat and it pect the numbers to double next year! design projects, several of which is being raced in class (which satis- For more details see ...Mike McGarry were fairly successful. In the process fies us designers very well). Follow- email [email protected] I naturally became fairly familiar ing is a Mike McGarry account of with what’s been going on world The United States First Ever Final Results: wide with sailing hydrofoil develop- National Championships For a Fleet Rave w/ Reacher ments. I hope that this experience of Hydrofoil Sailboats. 1st Mike McGarry (NC) qualifies me for the job of collecting 2nd Ira Heller (MA) news of current hydrofoil sailing ac- Ft. Walton Beach, FL (Oct. 31, 3rd Keith Zwart (NC) tivities and presenting them to you 1999) - Thirteen WindRider Rave readers. I intend to rely heavily on hydrofoils joined a fleet of the origi- Rave (main & jib only class) news inputs from hydrofoil sailors nal WindRider 16’ trimarans for a weekend of around-the-buoys racing 1st Jeff Lynn (TX) currently engaged in this remaining 2nd Ueli Walchli (FL) frontier activity in sailing. at the WindRider National Champi- onships. The Raves sailed in the 3rd Tom Young (TX) Here at Florida Tech since 1987, with Unites States first ever national For class information e-mail my associates Tom Haman and Mike championships for a fleet of hydro- [email protected] McGarry and assorted students, foil sailboats. “These Raves are re- ally exciting boats to watch race!”, said Randy Smyth who had come out to see the new boats sail. Close finishes, and high sailing speeds and outstanding ma- neuverability made for great fun on the water. we’ve produced what we see as a pro- Competitors all agreed that Ft. Clipping along at 25 mph totype practical sailing hydrofoil. We Walton Beach was a great place to were lucky enough to be able to get it race and decided to meet here again Speedweek ‘99 - The annual chal- into production a year ago last Au- next year. Spectators (some of lenge to sail over 500m as fast as pos- gust. The manufacturer has named whom were professional sailors who sible was hosted by the Weymouth it...RAVE. And its acceptance to date came to see the Raves) couldn’t say (UK) Sailing Centre between 2nd and convinces us that we’re finally on the enough about how exciting the 8th October 1999. Organized by Rob- right track. The only other production Raves were to watch. The excite- Continued on Next Page sailing hydrofoil that I know of is the ment of boats that fly, combined with

Page 10 IHS Winter 1999-2000 SAILING HYDROFOIL NEWS knots true wind) on the penultimate in this country to get backing for a day when the next low pressure sys- Hydroptere scale flying hydrofoil ef- (Continued From Previous Page) tem rolled in. fort...but, so far, no news of financial support. We get frequent enquiries ert Downhill, the event attracted a di- Of interest to this author was the per- for racer/cruiser foil systems infor- verse range of boats which, as well as formance of these craft in the light mation. The interest is there. We’ll the sailboards, enjoyed good weather winds midweek. Traditionally the try to get this paragraph more up to conditions to make it one of the best Achilles heel of sailing hydrofoils, date for future issues. by Tom Haman Speedweeks in recent years. For hy- both Rave and Trifoiler faired poorly, ([email protected](Tom)) drofoil enthusiasts the event offered allowing the Cart 15 to take fast- the prospect of a contest between est-boat-of the-day prize two days John Lindley’s 22ft Hobie Trifoiler, running, probably sailing with foils Foiling With The Best Chris Heil’s 16ft Windrider Rave and retracted. The Dart’s best speed of the Robert Dates Dart 15 equipped with week was 15.7 knots (~16 knots true Keiper foils. wind). Full details are at A summary of an article by Dave www.speedsailing.com. by E.J.C. Carlson Chapman (joddy.chap- [email protected]) One of our newer IHS members is Some Big Boat News The (so far Dave Carlson, the author of an article as I know) largest currently operating that appeared in the May/June 1999 sail powered flying hydrofoil is the issue of MULTI- HULLS Magazine. 25 footer, Eifo He relates the time when he saw Dave (http//www.hydrosail.com). She was Keiper pull up in his driveway some active in Florida coastal racing from years ago with an elderly red-stripe 1995 through 1998. She’s now in the Hobie 18 with weird aluminum Netherlands (Walter van Varik; pieces bolted all over the sides and http//[email protected] stern. “It flies,” Keiper had e-mailed m). A very interesting current Lat- from his home in Missouri. He goes vian activity is the Catri hydrofoil sta- on to synopsize Dave’s foiling philos- bilized ophy for beachcats, combined with trimarans pro- some practical foiling descriptions. ject (http://us- Cats have power and speed, and make ers.erols.catri.p an excellent platform for sur- df). Several face-piercing foils. Two triangu- large (and well lar-shaped foils are mounted at the known) ocean front crossbar, producing both lifting racing trima- and righting force, which prevents rans have suc- the rig from capsizing in puffs while cessfully lifting and allowing tremendous drag employed foil reduction and high speed. assist in the re- cent past but, up to now, only for sta- For the complete story, it is recom- Photos Provided by Joddy Chapman bilization. Obvious exceptions are mended that you seek out Carlson’s Paul Ricard, the ocean cruiser 2-page article. The strong winds at the beginning of Williwaw, and Hydroptere (the latter the week enabled the Rave to put in a still in development). The French are ********** best speed of 24.4 knots ( in around fortunate to have strong corporate 17 knots of true wind), while the and national financial and technical Trifoiler achieved 30.6 knots (~19 backing. We know of several efforts

IHS Winter 1999-2000 Page 11 30 YEARS AGO - HYDROFOILS MAKE THE NEWS IN THE USA PGH-1 FOILS FOR SALE

(From Fast Ferry International, October 1999) currently have Flagstaff PGH-1 ven Hovering Craft & Hydrofoil made reference to the war. “Well pleased Iin my possession. I am looking Ewith the performance of the PGH-1 Flagstaff in the heat and high humid- for someone that would be inter- ity of the tropics, Irv Palmer and Frank Caracci returned in ested in purchasing the hydrofoil to mid-September from a stay in Da Nang, Vietnam. They had flown there to be save it from the cutting torch. The on hand while the Navy reactivated Grumman’s hydrofoil gunboat, built at ship is 85% complete. My father, Plant 77, the Stuart facility, in 1966-67, and launched there on January 9, 1968. John R. Altoonian, recently passed away and I, his son can not afford “As it turned out, the navy crew was eager to get ‘flying’ again after a slow, 30 to complete the restoration and day trans-Pacific voyage, and they had Flagstaff ‘flying’ within 24 hours of would not want to see the hydrofoil unloading. ‘She doesn’t loaf around; cut up. For more info I may be con- she just gets up and goes like a scared tacted at 954-444- 0820; John jackrabbit’, Palmer commented. The Altoonian. Flagstaff speed is officially quoted as ‘in excess of 40 knots in open water’ and Palmer says the gunboat is ‘ex- tremely stable’. She is on coastal patrol NEW BENEFIT duty out of Da Nang Harbour.” IHS provides a free link from the IHS website to members’ per- Meanwhile, back in the USA, away from the military, progress was also being sonal and/or corporate site. To re- made by commercial operators in the USA. “Hydroflite, a Virgin Island corpo- quest your link, contact Barney C. ration owned by Patmar Investment of Long Beach, California, has announced Black, IHS Home Page Editor at the inauguration of a hydrofoil service between downtown St. Thomas and [email protected]. downtown St. Croix starting October 17, 1969. The company will start the ser- vice with a Grumman Dolphin - an 88 passenger air-conditioned luxury craft. A second Dolphin is planned to augment the service in mid-1970. “The sched- IHS OFFICERS 1999 - 2000 ule calls for two round trips per day from Monday to Saturday, with Sundays reserved for special charters. The fare is $9.00 one-way, which is 10% less than John Meyer President the current airline rate. The Dolphin’s cruise speed of 48 knots should provide Mark Bebar Vice President a welcome addition to the inter island surface transportation facilities. The Dolphin is fully certificated by the American Bureau of Shipping, US Coast George Jenkins Treasurer Guard, and Germanischer Lloyd, and operates under Panamanian registry.” Ken Spaulding Secretary

HALES TROPHY (Continued From Page 9) IHS BOARD OF DIRECTORS the maximum speed capability of the 1997-2000 1998-2001 1999-2002 ship publicly disclosed. Conse- quently, the company was instructed Mark R. Bebar Stephen Duich Jerry Gore to restrict the output of the engines. Had it not done so, it was estimated William Hockberger John R. Meyer James King that the liner would have been capa- ble of 42 knots. If it had averaged that George Jenkins Frank Peterson Mike Perschbacher speed, as Mr. Sherwood observed, the Trophy would still be in New Ralph Patterson, Jr Peter Squicciarini Kenneth Spaulding York!

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More ex-Foilers Surface... News From The US Fleet... be able to aid me in the development of this device as a saleable product. — Michael [30 Dec 99]Thanks for the IHS Membership [30 Nov 99] I spent 4 ½ years (1982-1986) Mirfield update and hope your holidays were happy. working in the MLSG. As an Engineering ([email protected]) Technician (ET), I was responsible for main- Life here on USS HOPPER goes well as we taining all the Communications, radar, nav Wanted: Small Hydrofoil Sailboat Design get ready to go to San Diego next month and aids, and HYCATS (High speed collision deploy to the Arabian Gulf in April — still [4 Dec 99] I am very interested in Frederic avoidance and tracking system) on all 6 pretty busy out here. My commodore CAPT Monsonnec’s sailing mini-foil, but he has not ships. Most of my time was in Key West, but I Pete Daly is an old HERCULES XO — just answered repeated requests for more infor- spent a few months in Bremerton before never know where a hydrofoiler is going to mation. Has anyone else built something like making the transit with USS ARIES show up. Sadly my command tour is coming his trimaran? Specifically, a sailing hydrofoil (PHM-5). Maybe if a few more of us stumble to an end this summer as I take off to Newport that holds one person, and can be built in to this site we can start making plans for a to Surface Warfare Officers School to be- cheaply? It looks like the outer foils pivot. Is reunion in Key West (I can hear Durty come the Director of the Division Officer this the case? I would appreciate information Harry’s calling). — Chuck Shannon, Engine Course (SWOSDOC — the SWO Ensign about cheap, car-toppable (if possible), Co. 68 FDNY ([email protected]) “finishing school”). I’m in-zone next month home-built hydrofoiling one-or two- person [24 Nov 99] Interesting web site. I spent 2 for captain — I’m pretty hopeful — this sea- sailing multihulls. going life continues to agree with me. years (1990-1992) aboard USS GEMINI Response... PHM-6. I was the ET (Electronics Techni- Hope all’s well with you. cian) and spent most of my time taking care [4 Dec 99] David Keiper’s 14 ft STORMY of the communications gear, navigation, Very Respectfully, CDR John W. Peterson PETREL (now owned by Buck Trippel) and electronic warfare (EW) and nearly anything Donald Nigg’s FLYING FISH (contact Student Project... with electronics! We did one overhaul during AYRS for info) come to mind. It couldn’t those 2 years at Bender Shipbuilding in Mo- [24 Dec 99] I am a student of Naval Architec- hurt to contact Dave Carlson, who success- bile AL. Otherwise we were always under- ture at the University of Strathclyde in Glas- fully installed Dave Keiper’s hydrofoil kit to way in support of Fleet exercises and gow, Scotland. My current final year project his catamaran. Also, take a look at the counter-narcotics operations. I only have 2 involves the design of a detachable hydrofoil TRIAK with hydrofoil option. Suggest you pictures one is of the GEMINI flying high, kit for the Hobie 16. I wondered whether you also visit the IHS Photo Gallery page devoted and one of all 6 PHMs flying. I left as the currently have overseas members, and also to sailing craft, though admittedly this needs Navy was starting to downsize and just prior whether I would be able to gain anything to- a lot of expansion (member and visitor con- to decommissioning. — Todd Spates ward this project by joining the International tributions are solicited and appreciated... ([email protected]) Hydrofoil Society? Furthermore, I wondered send them in!) — Barney C. Black if there may be any opportunities opened up ([email protected]) Watch Out For Logs... by joining the society, for work as a trainee 95-Foot Foilcat For Sale... [18 Nov 99] We are looking for a “log identi- naval architect when I graduate, with any fying equipment” to install on a hydrofoil op- companies currently involved in the design erating in waters polluted with debris. We and/or production of sailing hydrofoils? I [24 Nov 99] 95 foot FOILCAT for sale: 150 have spoken with many companies carrying also hope to be able to offer a new invention passenger hydrofoil assisted catamaran; radar/sonar equipment, but none seem to as an addition to the aeroplane configuration, L=95’, B=27’, D=12’; Speed 50 knots max, have anything suitable for our purposes. — which I am currently developing, which I 45 knots service speed in calm water, 38 knot Alyona ([email protected]) hope will further smooth out the wave inter- service speed in SS4; 2 each MTU 16-396 action characteristics of the aeroplane con- 2000kw engines with recent W-5 overhaul; figuration. I feel that the IHS would be a good Vessel in service in Hawaii; Contact Eric starting point to look for some partnership Schiff, Navatek Ships, Ltd., phone: 808 from an experienced foil designer, who may 531-7001 ext. 25, email: [email protected]. Continued on Next Page

IHS Winter 1999-2000 Page 13 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Response... engine. — Barney C. Black (Continued From Previous Page) ([email protected]) [21 Nov 99] I recall a nice photo in an old Supramar brochure that showed a picture of a 2nd Response... Response... moderately-sized log which had been neatly [7 Nov 99] Check out our website at [21 Nov 99] Of all the work that was done by sliced in half by one of the hydrofoils of their www.ssturbine.com. We would love to sup- Boeing trying to develop a suitable sensor to design. Apparently, that had caused minimal ply technical information regarding detect the logs, deadheads (vertically float- damage to the foil surface. So perhaps that is LM-1500 and LM-2500 power plants, as ing submerged logs.), whales, etc., some the most expedient solution - build the foils well as potentially supplying engines. If there were more successful in some situations but solidly enough to deal with the ‘average’ is any interest, please contact us. — Robin C. not all conditions. I was not privy to all the floating debris! I know this is not much help Sipe ([email protected]) data, but only got comments now and then to an operator like Alyona who is apparently about the progress of their tests. Generally, in encountering problems with an existing de- Mobile Logistics Support Group Mem- rough water conditions, the log and dead- sign. — Martin Grimm ories... heads were covered up by the waves. In addi- Response... tion, even when the units were modified to [29 Oct 99] I kind of stumbled across a web use the higher frequencies, most sensors [21 Nov 99] The only log finder that is cur- site devoted to the old Key West PHMs and were overcome with flow noise of the rently available is the human eye. When Boe- was surprised to see that folks still talked foil/strut and sensor itself at well below the ing was testing hydrofoils in Puget Sound, about ‘em. I was in the MLSG (Mobile Lo- foilborne speeds. The other problem, the they were faced with the problem all the time. gistics Support Group) in Key West FL from mammals, generally can sense the pressure All of the hydrofoils took a hit. Good eyes in 1983 to 1987, spending time in the 51A & G wave of the bow of the ship and stay away the day, and at night... it’s a real problem. — electrical shops, and 31T turbine shop. I also from danger. With the hydrofoil, the mammal John Monk ([email protected]) did a couple of stints on USS PEGASUS, cannot sense the pressure wave of the for- USS HERCULES, and USS TAURUS. In ward foil early enough to escape. Jetfoil did Warbird Engine... 1991, I went back as a crewman on hit a Manta Ray and did considerable dam- TAURUS, but left because of surgery. If any- [31 Dec 99] I am looking for information age. one wants to talk foils, I’m teaching at Sur- about the gas turbine engines made in the face Warfare Officer’s School. — John R. It is my opinion, in daylite operations, the USA by Avco Lycoming that were used on Andersen, Master Training Specialist, Sur- helmsman can see most of the logs and mam- the Grumman OV1 Mohawk airplanes. face Warfare Officer’s School Command; mals. It is the deadhead that cannot be seen. These engines are the turboprop version of Newport, RI 02841-1209 Most of the damage to the foil/strut/founda- the famous Huey helicopter engine. I am ([email protected] ) tions that I can remember were caused by looking for a engine specification list, instal- logs because when striking them broadside, lation drawings, and an operations manual. If Hydrofoil Archeology the hydrofoil is trying to accelerate the float- anybody out there knows how to get these [26 Oct 99] I have found a gutted hydrofoil ing log from zero to ship’s speed. Striking the documents, please contact me. You are prob- speed boat that looks as if it is from the 1940s. top end of the deadhead with the foil causes ably wondering why I am asking: I have an I am trying to find out more information on it the deadhead to deflect at some angle which idea that these engines will suit a Russian too see if it is possible to restore it. And if so is considerably less force than the broadside Voskhod hydrofoil perfectly as a main pro- how to go about finding out more informa- hit of a log. I can recall being on HIGH pulsion engine. The light weight and small tion about it. It is about 30ft long and I have POINT when strikes of deadheads were en- dimensions will suit ideally for this applica- been told that it originally came from Russia, countered, with only a mark on the paint to tion. I know that in the USA, Unlimited hy- but I do not know if that is reliable or not. confirm that the noise we heard was a strike. I droplane race boats also use the bigger Also the current owner ( a goat herder) is ask- believe some work was done on USS PEGA- version T55 as main engine. — Peter Venema ing quite a lot of money for it $1500, so I need SUS with an infra-red camera. The video ([email protected]) to know if it is going to be worth it in the long tapes shown to me looked like most floating Response... run. I have seen a photo of Al Spani’s Volga objects were visible. Of course, it will not 70 and must say it looks similar, yet different pick up deadheads. Sumi Arima [31 Oct 98] There is a web-based bulletin in some ways? If there is any way you could ([email protected]) board for buying and selling Mohawk air- help me or steer me in the right direction I craft and parts. This would be a source of Continued on Next Page people with whom to correspond about the

Page 14 IHS Winter 1999-2000 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR links page. — Barney C. Black start would be “Hydrodynamic Design of (Continued From Previous Page) ([email protected]) Planing Hulls” by Daniel Savitsky Marine Technology, Oct. 1964. I will have to look would deeply appreciate it. Frank Boering, 2nd Response... through my literature for more references. United Arab Emirates [26 Oct 99] I have sketches of the first hydro- Hydrofoils can aggravate or improve the ([email protected]) foils of Rostislav Evgenievich Alekseev dat- porpoising limits of a hull depending mainly on the position and the amount of lift carried Response... ing back to the 1940s. Perhaps it is one of them?! —Konstantine Matveev by the foils. A foil carrying a large fraction of ([email protected]) the displacement placed quite far forward [26 Oct 99] There is not much description to will likely result in an increase in trim for the go on other than length and current location. I American Hydrofoils For Sale or Lease... vessel and result in earlier porpoising. A foil will send a copy of this reply to several IHS placed aft will improve the porpoising limits [23 Oct 99] American Hydrofoil: 49 Passen- members, some of whom which may have an of the hull. There does not seem to be any ger, 40 knots, Detroit Diesel services 2000, idea. Also, here are some suggestions: There easy way to determine what the exact effect Low Wake Wash, Complete electronics is some correspondence on Volga hydrofoils of specific hydrofoil design will be on package, 4 month delivery . Leasing terms on our FAQ and Posted Messages web page. porpoising. Model testing remains the best also available. For details, visit Quick Tow Youshould feel free to contact any of the peo- way to find this out. If you can give me more and Salvage Website or send email.— Fred ple who wrote on this subject to ask for help information on the details of your problem, Rodolf identifying the craft, tips on restoration, etc. or if you have specific questions, I can be of You might also take a look at the Helmut Porpoising Question... more help. —Gunther Migeotte Kock biography; it is possible that one of his ([email protected]) vessels ended up in the Emirates. Finally, the [23 Oct 99] I am a Spanish student, and I have [24 Dec 99] Payne and Martin did reason- reference book Janes Surface Skimmers, Hy- read something about porpoising, but I would ably definitive analyses of porpoising in the drofoils, and Hovercraft is a good source of like to know something more about this ef- late 70s and early 80s. Their work was pub- photos and technical description that could fect. Could you give me some information re- lished in the Journal of Ship Research. help you identify that vessel. Youwould need garding porpoising phenomena? F. Blasco www.sname.org — C. D. Barry to find an old edition in a library or used ([email protected]) ([email protected]) bookstore. I have the seventh edition Response... (1973-74), so I looked under USSR for hy- Hydrofoil Ferry For Sale... drofoils of about 30 ft in length. One candi- [9 Nov 99] To answer your request on infor- date vessel mentioned is the Molnia, a mation about porpoising. I assume you are [13 Oct 99] We have for sale Russian built popular six-seat hydrofoil derived from interested in porpoising of planing hulls and hydrofoil type KOLKHIDA for 120-140 pas- Alexeyev’s original test craft. The Volga 70 the possible effects of hydrofoils. Porpoising sengers. All equipment made in Germany. 2 is the improved, export version of that vessel. of any high speed vessel usually takes place Engines 12 V MTU 396 TC. Actual working At that time many hundreds were available when the trim of the vessel is too high in rela- speed 35 knots, GMDSS equipment A2 in- for hire on Russian lakes. The overall length tion to the amount of lift being generated. stalled, ISM code. The vessel is in good con- is 27 ft 121 in (8.5 m), bean 6 ft 5 in (1.95m), There are some papers available which give dition, built 1984 passed class repair in max speed 32 knots (60 km/hr). Another craft porpoising limits or planing hulls. A good August 1999. Russian Register class docu- was the Nevka, 35 ft 11 in long, only a proto- ments till 2004 At this time vessel works at type at that time. It is not likely that the ves- Mediterranean Sea, can be inspected any Letters To the Editor allows sel. You found dates back to as early as the time. The price USD 499 000 — G. hydrofoilers to ask for or provide infor- Kasyanenko ([email protected]) 1940s, but if it does, then that then it is news! mation, to exchange ideas, and to inform As to what it is worth, I don’t have a clue. the readership of interesting develop- Wake Problems of Fast Ferries... One thing is certain though, you will pay ments. More correspondence is pub- much more for the restoration than you paid lished in the Posted Messages and [11 Oct 99] I have been asked to supply docu- for the vessel itself. As a possible alternative, Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) mented support demonstrating hydrofoils it is very possible I believe to get a Volgathat section of the IHS Internet web site at produce far less wake when foilborne com- is still in working condition to start with. http://www.erols.com/foiler. All are in- pared to other hull designs. Do you know of There are also new craft of this size being vited to participate. Opinions expressed marketed. There are links to them on our are those of the authors, not of IHS. Continued on Next Page

IHS Winter 1999-2000 Page 15 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR they do not exist... also tricky to weld-repair 200, which is very roomy and in operating (Continued From Previous Page if they still do exist (you would need to get a shape. — Nat Kobitz ([email protected]) copy of the weld repair procedure). The ships were also stripped of their LM2500 gas 3rd Response... any studies supporting this? — Robin Beasse turbine main propulsion engines. However, ([email protected]) [18 Oct 99] Please note that since the PHMs the Navy must have many of these stockpiled were decomm’d in 1993, all of the technical Response... now due to mass decommissioning of ships, information (Shipboard Operations and so it should be possible to get one surplus for Maintenance Manual) has been purged. I was [12 Oct 99] First off, are you interested in sur- a reasonable price. IHS could possibly give able to rescue some of this just before de- face wake or the overall effect? I do not know you some leads to follow up on there, if you struction and provide it to Mr. Meinhardt. To of any measurements made of the surface are seriously interested. You should read my knowledge, there is not a duplicate of this wakes from hydrofoil ships. Displacement of about the efforts of BJ Meinhardt and Eliot information available. You may want to fol- the ship’s weight, regardless of whether it is James to restore the PHM they bought. This low up with John Monk to confirm this. — hull or foil supported produces a pressure includes technical discussions of various Mark Bebar, ([email protected]) wave. Trials were conducted by types and discussions of where to get docu- PLAINVIEW, HIGH POINT, Jetfoil, and mentation. Look at both the new Calcs For Human Powered Hydrofoil... PHM to make specific measurements under a /uncategorized section as well as the PHM [8 Oct 99] I am currently working on my highly classified project. Naval Coastal Sys- section of these posted messages. You may master thesis. The aim is to develop a wing tems Center, Panama City, Florida was the want to collaborate with these two individu- and ground and hydrofoil supported human primary laboratory in making the measure- als, or at least “pick their brains” for lessons powered waterbike. And here is my question! ments and reporting the results. I do not have learned from their efforts to date. Technical Do you know how to calculate the spray drag any of the data available to me. Maybe some- data and drawings are hard to come by. Both of surface piercing foils and struts? Or where one at NAVSEA or the Navy laboratories Boeing and the NAVSEA Project Office could I find information about these topic. — could advise me as to present classification turned their data over to the government for Carsten Lehfeld and availability of the report. — Sumi Arima storage, and probably some or all of it has ([email protected]) ([email protected]) been routinely purged by now. However, it is not hopeless, and there are IHS members Another PHM Restoration... Response... who can help you track down data. Also there [10 Oct 99] We consider to convert one of the is the method of submitting Freedom of In- [10 Oct 99] There was an excellent report on last 4 PHM’s in a mini cruise vessel. Unfortu- formation Act requests. It is quite possible to the subject of Spray Drag of Sur- nately are no lines plans and others available buy a used commercial hydrofoil vessel. Just face-Piercing Struts. It was written by R. B. by the seller, and the reason that we contact a few of the many for sale from Russia and Chapman many years ago, but it is a classic you is the question, if you know where and elsewhere are listed on our website in the an- paper. I will send you a copy. — John Meyer how we can get such information! — Volker nouncements section, and you should also ([email protected]) Gries, Naval Architect, Charlotte NC look at the posted messages in this section ([email protected]) concerning how to buy a hydrofoil tour boat or ferry. Most or all of the used vessels for 16 Pages... that’s the limit for the Response... sale will be of the surface-piercing hydrofoil print edition. But readers of the variety... less sophisticated and capable than [10 Oct 99] The following comments are of- electronic version usually get a restored PHM would be, but this could have fered in response to your interesting inquiry. more. The electronic version of advantages (lower cost of conversion and — Barney C. Black ([email protected]) this edition includes two addi- less risk) to offset the disadvantages. tional pages of text and photos. Before buying one of the remaining PHMs, Also... the electronic edition ar- 2nd Response... please be sure that you can get the foils. My rives earlier, and the color photos understanding is that these were removed are in color! If you have Internet from all but one of the PHMs, and that vessel [11 Oct 99] BOY, do I agree with you, Bar- access and the free Adobe Acro- has been bought by one of our members B.J. ney! PHM would not be a good cruise ship, bat Reader, why not switch your Meinhardt. Although the ship’s are alumi- anyway. Your suggestion of a surplus option from “print” to “electronic” num hulled, the foils are a 17-4ph precipita- Russian boat also good. Another choice in now? just email your request to tion hardened steel... impossible to recreate if that speed range might be the Navy’s SES [email protected].

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR intention of testing WHITE HAWK “on (Continued From Previous Page) Lake Mead or perhaps a lake in Florida” they disappear from sight. Does anyone know anything at all about what became Need Hydrofoil Extrusions... of Frank, Stella or the WHITE HAWK? Any information at all would be most ap- Is there a source for small (4" to preciated. I maintain a large website in 6") hydrofoil extrusions for my pet pro- Vancouver, BC devoted to unlimited hy- ject (6x6 amphibious hydrofoil)? droplanes and other high-speed David Rauseo watercraft. A few months ago I ran [email protected] across a picture of the WHITE HAWK in the New York Times November 4, 1952 [I don’tknow of anyone that offers and I have been intrigued about the boat Frank and Stella Hanning-Lee foil extrusions for sale “off the shelf” for and Frank and Stella Hanning-Lee ever hobby purposes, but there are some po- since. I have put together a web page ple with gear. A rough estimate of the tential sources. At least a few people (The Hanning-Lees and WHITE HAWK) payload is 400 to 800 lbs. It will be for have ordered spare foils for the with several articles and photos from the recreational use and powered by an out- Trampofoil water bike and have used British press, a piece by Kevin Desmond, board motor. As far as speed is con- them for other purposes. Evidently the and a link to your own Bob Johnston’s cerned, I’m looking for around 40 mph or price is reasonable. There were several personal reminiscence of his experiences so. I plan on using aluminum sheeting for articles in the handyman magazines with the couple. the pontoons, tubing for the platform back in the 1950s/60s on how to add hy- Leslie Field structure and nylon webbing for the deck drofoils made of wood and fiberglass to Vancouver, BC, CANADA similar to the Hobies. Everything will be motorboats. You can find more info at [email protected] done to minimize weight as I would like www.erols.com/foiler/popmags.htm. This www.lesliefield.com to use as small a power plant as possible. might be a workable approach for you, at Building the pontoon boat will be no least for a prototype - Ed] [For info about this fascinating problem, but when it comes to the couple and their rocket-like vessel, visit foils...I’m pretty clueless. I know I want Solar Hydrofoil, Student Project www.erols.com/henning.htm. -Ed.] surface piercing as they are inherently stable. I want the foils to be retracable for We are mechanical engineering beaching, or at least be able to remove a students at the College of New Jersey few pins for their removal. It seems like 4 and are working on a hydrofoil design independent foils (one at each corner) for a monohull solar powered boat would be a good place to start for that ca- (approx 16ft long, 2ft wide). We are pability. Here are just a few of the ques- starting the calculations but are a little tions I have at this time: confused on where to start. If we know the approx velocity, weight, and power, • Is there an “airfoil” cross section that what calculations can we use to deter- you would recommend for this? mine the size of the hydrofoils. Also are there any good software programs out WHITE HAWK in action • Is there any available premade any- there that might help us in our design?. thing for this? Gregg Bonstein and Mandy Newman Foils for Motor-Driven Pontoon Boat [email protected] and [email protected] • What kind of configuration would you I would like information, plans or recommend (the frontal view angles, Who Knows the Fate of the a kit for the following project I want to dimensions, etc.)? Hanning-Lees? undertake. I want to build a pontoon boat hydrofoil combination. The boat will be After Frank and Stella Hanning- 12’ to 18’ long, made to carry 2 to 4 peo- Continued on Next Page Lee arrived in the U.S. in 1953 with the

IHS Winter 1999-2000 Page 17 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR face-piercing foils, and others have de- CLASSIC FAST FERRIES (Continued From Previous Page) vised various ways of attaching foils to sailing catamarans and trimarans... this A web-based “cyberzine” dedi- • Is there anyone who could provide may be your best avenue of research. Af- cated to classic fast ferries made its debut plans specific (or even general) to my ter Dave died, IHS reprinted his recent with the January 2000 issue. According application? files on the subject of foil kits that he was to editor Tim Timoleon, “Like any jour- preparing sell for catamarans; these may nal, CFF needs input from the the • Would it be possible for a sheet metal be of interest to you (details at reader/visitor. If you have a story or pho- shop to bend the correct airfoils and www..erols.com/foiler/ihspubs.htm). As to tos to share, this is a great place to do it. weld a bead on the leading and trailing whether hydrofoils are still in the pio- We would welcome stories and photo- edge to “create” the foils I’d need? neering stage, you can get a sample of graphs of hydrofoils, catamarans, air what pioneers have done at cushion vehicles, and other classic fast • What engine horspower would I need www.erols.com/foiler/pioneers.htm.Ifyou ferries to go into our collection and sub- to accomplish this? can pull this project off successfully, then sequently be used for the joy of fellow maybe you can join their ranks! - Ed.] enthusiasts. I’m undecided on the actual size, etc of this boat as I’m not even sure what Response... “From my visits to numerous hy- would be possible. An 18’ version would drofoil ports I have found that it isn’t al- be nice, but not if it needs 300 hp to oper- Design guidance and a review of ways easy to get within range to ate. My goal is for a small day transport some of the sailing hydrofoil craft that photograph hydrofoils while foilborne, that could be used to sunbathe on, fish had been built by the early 1970s are in even with a 300mm telephoto lens. In from, even camp on overnight. (I thought the following book which is in an easy to many a horbor there willbe speed restric- about being able to attach a small 4 per- read format: Hydrofoil Sailing by Alan J. tions, meaning that the hydrofoil has son tent on the deck for inclement Alexander, James L. Grogono and Don- come off foils by the time it is close weather). It should be able to operate in ald J. Nigg; Published in Great Britain in enough to get captured on film. And not 2’ to 3’ waves. Some of the info I’ve re- 1972 by Juanita Kalerghi,ISBN 0 all ports offer piers or breakwaters where ceived has been rather technical in na- 903238 00 4. One of the authors, James you would want them to be... or you can’t ture. I’m an average person with a good Grogono, designed and built a very neat access them for pne reason or another.” mechanical aptitude. “Reynolds num- surface-piercing hydrofoil based on a bers” mean nothing to me. I would appre- Tornado catamaran hull. From memory, The premier issue is filled with ciate practical advice for the layman if this had a pair of inclined surface pierc- beautiful photos. It is accessible to any- possible. I really need help on this as ing hydrofoils forward supporting the one free of charge at the following site: there seems to be no real source for any- greater portion of the weight of the boat. http://classicfast-f.homepage.dk. Editor thing ready made. Apparently, hydro- One was attached to the outboard side of Tim Timoleon’s email address is: foils are still in the pioneering stage(?) each pontoon hull. I believe the aft foils [email protected]. Jeff Mikkelsen were fully submerged and connected to [email protected] the base of the rudders which were at- THE ULTIMATE??? tached to the transom of each hull. In any [There is nothing ready-made for case, the book describes the evolution of IHS Member Hanno Smits writes what you want to do. IHS has been con- that sail boat design (named ICARUS) in that he has updated his hydrofoil photos tacted a couple of times in the past few some detail, and it is the nearest I can page to include pictures and movies of years by people who had a similar pro- come up with to an 18’ powered catama- the “ultimate” personal sailing hydro- ject in mind, but we never heard if anyone ran.By the way, I had a laugh when I read foil: Cory Roeseler on an airchair hydro- actually carried through. You should your belief that hydrofoils are in the pio- foil waterski with his kiteski kite for start by reading Tom Lang’s article at neering stage... more like twilight if we traction! This is definitely not the pre- www.erols.com/foiler/upright.htm. Maybe don’t do something about it! ferred mode of transportation for the lux- one of our engineer/designer members Martin Grimm ury market. For much interesting info on will comment on at least some of your sailing hydrofoils and other non-motor- questions. If you could get David ized vehicles, visit Hanno’s website: Keiper’s book Hydrofoil Voyager, it Notice of Hydrofoils For Sale http://home-1.worldonline.nl/~hbsmits/ would help you even though his or Hydrofoils Wanted To Buy are WILLIWAW was a sailing trimaran. He posted in the announcements sec- had a system of retractable, sur- tion of the IHS Website.

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Editor: John R. Mever SUMMER 1999 WHERE ARE YOU IN CYBERSPACE?!

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IHS Membership is still only US$20 per calendar year (US$2.50 for students). Your renewal or new member- ship is critical. Please remit 1999 dues as soon as possible. We regret that high bank fees make it impractical for IHS to accept payment by credit card or a check drawn on a non-US bank, or by other than US finds. Overseas members with no easy way to send US funds, are advised to send money order to IHS or US Dollars cash. by Bill Ellsworth he past several months havc believe that all IHS members will Black to post this on the IHS Home Tseen the loss of several mem- Iagree that this issue of the News- Page. I recommend that all of you log bers of that select, albeit small. letter be dedicated to Robert on and read this very touching tribute group of Hydrofoil Pioneers. We arc Johnston. I sent an announcement to to a father from a son. deeply saddened to report the loss oj all members having e-mail within another of the members of this spe- hours of hearing of his untimely If not mentioned here or elsewhere, it cial group of hydrofoilers. On 16 death. For those who did not receive should be noted that Bob played a ma- April, Bob Johnston died of cance1 it, I said: "It is with great sadness that jor role in the MS as its Newsletter Editor for many years. During that at his home in Daytona Beach, Fla., I send you word that I received from just nine days before his 81 st birth- David Johnston this weekend. Rob- time the Newsletter grew and became, in itself, an historical document on the day. He is survived by his dear wife, ert (Bob) Johnston passed away on Marcia, his son, David Johnston of Friday morning, April 16, after a subject of hydrofoils. For this, we are all very grateful. Washington, DC, two step-children, long bout with skin cancer. To say Cynthia Redick, also of Washing- that we will miss Bob is an under- Along a different vein, you may re- ton, DC, Alicia Stickel of Toronto, statement. He was a close personal member that I mention an effort on the Canada, and seven grandchildren. friend to many of us, a highly re- part of the IHS to promote the genera- His first wife Dixie died in 1976. spected colleague for those who had tion of a Hydrofoil Video. Although Another son of his first marriage, the opportunity to work with him, this has been slow in coming, I re- Robert J. Johnston, Jr., died in and one for which there is no re- cently had a meeting with the Produc- 1996. placement. tion Manager at the Discovery Channel to discuss the content of such Bob was born in Sheboygan, Michi- For those in the IHS who did not 5an. He graduated with an engineer- know Bob, he was a major player in a video. Also I showed and left with her several hydrofoil videos that I Ing degree from Purdue University the hydrofoil world which made him and received Masters Degrees in well known and respected world- have collected over the years. A good Naval Architecture and Marine En- wide. Working closely with our col- impression was made and I was en- sineering from Massachusetts Insti- leagues in England, he led the couraged to submit a proposal. tute of Technology. transition of the Society in its trans- I ask all of you to keep in mind that the fer to the US in the 1980s. He served Board has decided to proceed with a He began a career in the US Navy in as President and provided leadership celebration of the 30th anniversary of World War I1 and was assigned to of the Society for many years and re- the founding of the IHS. An an- Vavy yards in Boston and New ceived a special MS Award. He had nouncement and Call for Papers was York. After the war, he was trans- the unique capability of spinning a in the Spring Newsletter. Your partici- Ferred to the Navy's Bureau of Ships yarn about his hydrofoil related ex- pation is needed to make this a suc- In Washington, DC as an ED0 periences-mixing humor and techni- cessful event. We expect to receive Commander. In 1952, he moved to cal details in just the right amounts. abstracts of papers soon at which time the Ofice of Naval Research as Hy- For those who haven't logged onto the Papers Committee will encourage drofoil Program Officer where he the IHS Home Page recently, Bob's authors to proceed with first drafts. We ;ontinued to be deeply involved in Award Citation and his stories are will keep you posted on progress and the Navy's Hydrofoil Research & there for posterity." detailed plans as they develop. Development Programs . Jean Buhler was thoughtful enough [n 1953, the Navy's focus shifted to to send us a copy of the Eulogy by John R. Meyer, President the application of hydrofoils to Bob's son David. I've asked Barney Continued on Page 3 Page 2 IHS Summer 1999 tract from Israel to design and build moral integrity. He also was an ex- SHIMRIT, a 100-ton hydrofoil gun- ceptionally skilled manager with a boat similar to FLAGSTAFF. gentle but firm touch who com- landing craft. This was motivated manded the respect and affection of In the early 70s, Bill Ellsworth, head by funds becoming available to de- all who worked for and with him. of the Systems Development De- sign and build a number of new He will be sorely missed by his partment in the Naval Ship Re- LCVPs. many friends and associates and search & Development Center, will always be remembered as a In 1954, Bob left the Navy and asked Bob Johnston to consider be- never-failing supporter of the MS. joined Miami Shipbuilding Corp. in coming the Technical Manager of Florida. They designed and built the Hydrofoil Development Project We extend to Bob's wife Marcia and HALOBATES (LCVP(H)), which Office (Code 115) at Carderock, the members of their family our was completed in 1957. Also, dur- MD. Bob agreed to make the change deepest sympathy and pray that they ing this period, the Army became and reported aboard on 9 April will be comforted in their loss. interested in the potential of foils to 1973. In this capacity, he continued increase the speed of their amphibi- to be a major force in hydrofoil ous DUKW. Miami Ship, working R&D for the next nine years. He with AVCO Lycoming, was given a managed the Navy's hydrofoil tech- by Neil Lien contract in 1957 to demonstrate a nology development program. This "FLYING " DUKW. included operations of the Hydro- n March 6, 1999 my wife, foil Special Trials Unit at the Puget 0Joann, and I had the privilege In 1960, Boeing won the competi- Sound Naval Shipyard, conducting of visiting with Bob Johnston tion for the Hydrofoil Patrol Craft trials of the experimental hydrofoil and his wife Marcia and enjoyed PCH-1. As a result, the Miami Ship ships HIGH POINT and with them a dinner at the country Board of Directors decided the PLAINVIEW. This laid the founda- club. The visit was about his career company should not remain in the tion for the design and procurement and the times spent together at hydrofoil business. In view of this of six Patrol Hydrofoil Missile ships Baker Manufacturing Co. on the decision, Bob Johnston, who had (PHMs) which the Navy acquired various hydrofoil contracts. Bob become President of Miami Ship, from Boeing. was very beneficial in promoting decided to resign and join hydrofoils and we owe a great deal Grumman as head of Marine Opera- Bob retired from federal service on to him for it. tions. During this period, Grumman 1 July 1982 and formed a small laid the keel for the hydrofoil R&D firm called Advanced Marine We talked about the MONITOR hy- DENISON under contract with the Systems Associates (AMSA). He drofoil sailboat and the interest of Maritime Administration. In 1961, and his associates carried out an im- many whom wanted to know more they were given a contract by the portant task for the Urban Mass about it. We also discussed HIGH Navy to do the guidance design of Transportation Agency of the De- POCKETS and how it helped dem- the 320-ton hydrofoil ship, partment of Transportation. In Au- onstrate the advantages of hydro- PLAIWIEW (AGEH-I), the gust 1984 they completed a foils to so many whose first world's largest at that time. 6-volume world-wide Study of indoctrination to hydrofoils was High Speed Waterborne Transpor- with a ride. HIGH TAIL, HIGH DENISON was launched in June tation Systems. LANDER, and the LVH proposals, 1962 and a month later achieved a the various hydrofoil configurations speed of 72 knots on a trial run. This brief review of Bob's many tested at Patuxent Naval Air Test Later in 1968, Grumman completed contributions to the development of Station and the twisted foil proposal a Navy contract for the design and hydrofoil ships and other water- were all subjects covered in our construction of the hydrofoil gun- borne craft is ample support for his short enjoyable visit. boat FLAGSTAFF (PGH-I) deliv- having been recognized as a true hy- ered to the Navy on 14 September. drofoil pioneer. He demonstrated Some time later they received a con- the highest level of professional and Continued on Page 5 IHS Summer 1999 Page 3 Among its 13 subsidiaries are Royal Additionally a paper entitled: "Hydro- Hawaiian Cruises, which owns and foil Catamaran Developments in operates the SWATH tour boats South Africa" by Dr Hoppe was re- Dept. of Transportation. It will also Navaiek I and Navatek II, and Ho- cently presented at the HIPER '99 serve as a demonstration craft, pro- nolulu Shipyard Inc., Hawaii's Conference in South Africa in April viding test rides for customers inter- largest commercial ship repair 1999. The abstract from the paper is ested in evaluating the design. company. provided below. A hydrofoil-assi sted catamaran, the Further information: Michael Abstract Westamaran Foilcaf 2900 combines Schmicker,(808) 53 1-700 1 Ext. 18 the best properties of a slender hull Hydrofoil assistance on a catamaran catamaran with the speed capability Davies Pacific Center model was tried twenty years ago and of hydrofoil craft fitted with fully 841 Bishop Street #I880 an unexpected resistance improve- submerged foils. The vessel origi- Honolulu Hawaii 968 13 ment of 40% initiated the creation of a nally entered commercial service in Telephone 808 53 1-7001 research project to investigate the ef- 1992 between Sweden and Denmark Fax 808 523-7668 fect. Today the research project is still and subsequently ran in commercial ******** active in spite of designs and model service in Indonesia. In 1997, tests resulting in the construction of Navatek acquired the vessel and over 160 Hysucats. Theoretical efforts rights to the design and construction to determine the hydrodynamics of the technology from the original builder, n the Spring 1999 IHS Newslet- Hysucat principle resulted in a numer- Westamarin AIS of Mandal Norway. Iter, an article entitled "Ride Con- ical model for design analysis of plan- trol Technology Advances ing type Hysucats which allows "We are now adding further improve- Steadily" referred to a foil assisted further design optimization. ments of our own to the existing de- vehicle concept know as Hydrofoil sign, incorporating knowledge Supported Catamaran (HYSU- gained from our ongoing advanced CAT). Space did not allow for a pic- hull design research and development ture or illustration of the concept. program for the U.S. Navy and the However, a picture did appear in the Dept. of Defense," Loui says. Naval Institute Proceedings of date Navatek expects to eventually license in an article by Dr. K-G.W. Hoppe both the original and the improved in connection with an article by J.R. design to U.S. shipbuilders. Navatek Meyer, entitled: "Hybrids - Varia- teamed with Lockheed-Martin to de- tions On A Theme". The picture is sign and build the 105-foot, 30 knot reproduced here. Typical HYSUCAT Arrangement fast SWATH vessel SLICE for the The milestones in the Hysucat Devel- US. Office of Naval Research. It is opment are mentioned and the three currently researching and developing most recent applications explained. a series of advanced hull designs, in- The smallest Hysucat, a 6 5m cluding lifting bodies, for which it has Semi-Rigid Inflatable Hysucat, a 12m U.S. patents, patents pending or pat- Fast Patrol Boat by Stingray Marine, ent applications. Cape Town and the Panther 64 Navatek Ships, Ltd. parent company Hysucat by Prout Catamarans, UK are Pacific Marine, founded in 1944, is a described and the Performance evalu- diversified, privately-held corpora- ation is given in some detail. The re- tion with annual sales of $54 million quest for hydrofoil assistance on large and operations in shipbuilding and ship repair, specialty contracting, tour Continued on Next Page boats, and environmental services. Page 4 MS Summer 1999 NOOK, is an Advanced Multi- hull Design AMD 385 built in Washing- ton by Dakota Creek Industries. A ferry catamarans and the desire for sister vessel to the 44m catamaran, higher speeds in the Ferry Industry (From Fust Ferry Inlernalional, SNOHOMISH, is currently nearing have lead to an extension of the March IYY9) completion at the same yard. Hysucat research project to include semi-displacement catamarans. A ashington State Ferries has is- [Editor h Note: See Letters 7i) l3i- number of model test series have wsued a request for proposals tor secfion of this NL by K Dzflanu' been completed already with differ- (RFP) for the construction of M Buckley on this subject.] ent type hulls and various foil sys- as many as six fast ferries. The initial ********* tems which are different from the contract will be for one vessel plus original Hysucat foil system and the two options for up to five more. Commalion wltf~6ib ~@hn$tb#'', (Continued From 3) most important learning and basic re- Delivery will be within 14 months of Page sults are discussed. confirmation of order and "WSF in- tends to exercise the option [for three Specifically talked about was how Considerable improvement due to vessels] within 60 days following we were testing HIGH POCKETS' foil assistance at the higher Froude successful delivery and acceptance on an endurance run, which had numbers are possible, but at lower of the first ferry." never been done before, between Miami Shipbuilding and Fort Laud- Froude numbers most hull-foil sys- The operator has specified a design erdale. tems tested so far showed slightly in- using proven technology that has a creased resistance. The slower waterline length of up to 38.5m, As noon approached we decided to ferries, which operate at the lower beam of 13.8m to 14.2m, minimum stop over at a restaurant called Freud numbers, can hardly be im- service speed of 34 knots at full load Baker's Haulover. Interestingly, in proved and only increased power for displacement and 85% mcr engine this obviously rather upscale restau- higher speeds brings the foil advan- power, interior seating for a mini- rant, they allowed us to take off our tage. A new foil system for improve- mum of 3 50 passengers and stowage wet rough weather gear by our table ments at the lower Froude numbers areas for 30-40 bicycles. to enjoy a deep sea turtle steak. Also is being developed at present and we talked about some of the experi- Wake wash characteristics must in- model tests have already shown good ments and testing performed on clude a maximum 28 centimetre results. A 72m car ferry designed by HIGH POCKETS while operating height from crest to trough at a dis- AMD Australia is being retrofitted out of Miami Shipbuilding and tance of 300 metres from the vessel with such a foil system which has to Patuxent Naval Air Test Station. when operating at all speeds above deliver the final prove of the suitabil- Also discussed was how he con- 30 knots in a water depth of at least ity of foil assistance for these large vinced the Navy to fund the hydro- 22 metres. craft. Some power ratios are given to foil fabrication for the MONITOR allow physical performance compar- to learn more about the procedures isons of hydrofoil assisted Semi- Additionally, the wake wash energy must be equal to or less than 2,450 of manufacturing. The Navy subse- Displacement Catamarans with to- quently required their name on the day's craft. The indication is given Jouleslmetre of wave front of the largest wave in the wave train and boat even though the entire design that most efficient ferries at higher and construction, other than the hy- speeds can be improved by opti- wave power of 15,400 watts for the largest wave in the wave train. drofoils, was funded by Baker Man- mized hull-foil design. ufacturing Co. Prof. Dr-Ing K-G. W. Hoppe, Pr-Ing, The formal RFP package was issued SAIMENA, Division of Marine En- in the middle of February and re- Bob passed away shortly after our gineering, Dept of Mechanical Engi- sponses must be submitted by April visit. He was a special person and a neering, University of Stellenbosch, 8. The newest fast ferry introduced pioneer who the hydrofoil commu- Republic of South Africa. by W SF, just under a year ago, CHI- nity owes a great deal of respect.

MS Summer I999 Page 5 Jeffrey C. Menoher - Jeffrey is from Pavlov - During his entird Norwalk, Connecticut. He indicated career, Stanislav was in- that he has an interest in boats and in Grant Calverley - Grant is from Fri- particular, hydrofoils, because of day Harbor, Washington State. His their speed and efficiency over water. he is quite interests in hydrofoils started when he had a ride on a 1970 Russian Volga out of Roche Harbor on San Juan Is- Robert 0. Miller - Bob mentioned land. One ride and he was hooked. that when the NY World's Fair Grant has currently started a project opened in 1964, the "ALBATROSS" to convert his 14' runabout into a hy- was joined by her sister ships on runs drofoil. He is considering using a sub- between the Battery and the Flushing merged foil design using air controls Bay Marina. In the mid '80s, while Lerge Pelentsov-Serge is Vice- Pres- (ventilation) for altitude control. He looking for something that would be of Akula Cruise Lines Ltd., would greatly appreciate any infor- suitable for a floating houseboat, British Columbia, Can- mation on the subject. Robert responded to an ad that read in hydrofoils starte "36' aluminum hull". In a coal yard in Christopher Edgar - Christopher Northport, N.Y., he found two hydro- just completed his studies in Mari- foils, both stripped and vandalized, time subjects at Liverpool John one of which turned out to be the Moore University, UK. He plans to do "ALBATROSS", America's first a dissertation on sail-powered commercial hydrofoil. He offered her thrill was to see a hydrofoil vessel multi-hulls. to a number of museums, including perating in Sydney. Serge's com Neil C. Lien - Neil began working on the Smithsonian and the Mariner's any recently purchased Russia hydrofoils in December, 1949 when Museum. Apparently, these institu- uilt hydrofoil (VoskhodISunrise) t hejoined Baker Manufacturing Co. in tions didn't share his opinion of the as a tour-ferry boat in Sain Evansville, Wisconsin, USA to work historic nature of such a vessel so she awrence sea-way system aroun for J. Gordon Baker. He conducted currently sits in his son's driveway in ontreal. Centereach, N.Y. 4 welding experiments on hydrofoil hilip Schlund - Philip is from fabrication in Baker's lab. Inter- ch, Switzerland. His primary spersed with several hydrofoil sail- Michael C. Y. Niu - Michael is the boat projects, including MONITOR, president of AD Airframe Consulting he participated in High Pockets, High Company and is a metallic and com- Tail. High Lander, LVH proposals in posite airframe consultant. He was a addition to twisted foil and other hy- Senior Research and Development drofoil concepts. Neil joined the sci- Engineer, Lockheed Aeronautical entific staff at the Physical Sciences Systems Co. He was lead engineer Lab at the University of Wisconsin responsible for the LlO11 wide body Graduate School. When Mr. Baker derivative aircraft wing and empen- became ill, Neil was asked to take a nage stress analysis. During 1966 and one year leave of absence to help run 1968, he served as stress engineer for homas Young - Tom became inter- Baker Manufacturing. Upon Baker's the B727 and B747 at The Boeing kted in hydrofoils in January of this death in 1975, Neil became the vice Company. He has been an honorary year at the Houston Boat Show when president, director of research, design adviser in structures and airplane de- he was introduced to the Windrider and development until retirement on sign to the Aero Industry Develop- pe.He bought one on the spot, Dec. 1, 1990. Today, he continues to ment Center (AIDC), China (Taiwan) trading in his 1964, 24 ft. Bahama Is- do engineering consulting work and since 1973.He is a Consulting profes- lander. Tom will be building the foils enjoys retirement at his home in Ev- sor in Beijing University of Aeronau- ldesigned by Dave Keiper and offer- ansville, Wisconsin. tics and Astronautics. /ng them for sale. Page 6 MS Summer 1999 Delivered to Belgian operator RTM Jersey, 3 hours for Torquay- Guern- in 1 9 8 1 as Princesse Clementine, the sey, 2 hours 30 minutes for fully submerged hydrofoil was oper- Torquay-Alderney and 1 hour 45 ated from Ostend to Dover, and later minutes for Alderney-Cherbourg. ore than 110 passengers and Ramsgate, until it was withdrawn Mfive crew members were in- early in 1997. Having been laid up for Guernsey was briefly included in last jured when a Jetfoil hit an un- 18 months, it was purchased, along summer's timetable but this is "the derwater object near Tai 0 Saturday, with sister vessel Prir~cessStephanie, first time that Channel Hoppers will 2 May 1998. by Adler Blizzard for a planned route have regularly served that island". off the north coast of Germany. Explaining the background, the com- The accident occurred about one mile pany says, "A constructive meeting off Tai 0 (near Hong Kong) at 12:25 Between May and October last year was held with the Guernsey Transport PM when the Jetfoil "Flores" was on Channel Hoppers leased Fjellstrand Board on March 9. Channel Hoppers its way to Macao. There were eight 3 8.8m catamaran Varangerfiord from hopes that Guernsey will now feature crew members and 236 passengers on Finnmark Fylkesrederi to Rutesels- more prominently in future opera- board. Several fire services and po- kap for a service between Portsmouth tions. lice launches and Marine Department and the Channel Islands of Alderney vessels were dispatched to the scene and Jersey. "Since the Jersey Transport Author- immediately after the report was re- ity and Guernsey Transport Board ceived. All the casualties were taken According to Channel Hoppers, "The obliged Condor to become signato- to hospitals for treatment. Jetfoil is configured for 255 passen- ries to a binding Service Level Agree- gers and will complete the Southamp- ment, Channel Hoppers has always The Police hasmade arrangement for ton to Jersey sector direct in 3 hours indicated its willingness to volun- the other passengers to return to town. 45 minutes, and Jersey to St. Malo tarily enter into a similar agreement The damaged Jetfoil will be towed will take just one hour. Southampton with the States of Jersey and ulti- back to a dockyard in Cheung Sha to Alderney non-stop will be mately, it is hoped, with the States of Wan. achieved in 2 hours 30 minutes. Guernsey. This Service Level Agree- ment is, in effect, a statement of pol- Passengers were urged to offer infor- "Agreement has been reached with mation on vessel collision. A report icy outlining guarantees of minimum Associated British Ports to use the service levels that we shall extend at said that a total of I 17 passengers and former Stena terminal in Southamp- five crewmen on board were injured. all times to our passengers in times of ton Docks. This will vastly improve operational problems." The Director of Marine has ordered a the conditions in which island bound preliminary inquiry into the incident, passengers are handled. We have also and a surveyor of the department has applied for permission from HM Cus- been appointed to take charge of the toms to open a duty free shop in the inquiry. terminal. BDElNO JETFOILRETURNS TO Channel Hoppers is also planning to ENGLISH CHANNEL transfer Varangerfjord to a new Eng- lish port this summer. From May 2 1, From Fast Ferry International April the catamaran is to be operated from 1999) Torquay on a daily return service to -ersey based operator Channel the Channel Islands. The destination Hoppers is to introduce Boeing will be Jersey on Mondays, Wednes- Jetfoil 929-1 15 Adler Blizzardon a days and Saturdays; Guernsey on new route across the English Channel Tuesdays and Thursdays; and Alder- between Southampton, Alderney, ney and Cherbourg on Fridays and Jersey and St. Malo. First services are Sundays. Scheduled journey times scheduled for April 28. are 3 hours 30 minutes for Torquay-

MS Summer 1999 Page 7 then small Rodriquez shipyard, he tional operators to switch from tradi- started his education as ship's master. tional means of transportation to the advanced one. By Diego Mazzeo & Dino Di Blasi The year 1954 was a starting point for The yard was known for its edge tech- everal months ago we had been the small outfit at Messina, as Carlo nology making use of X-ray, strain asked by Bob Johnston to write a Rodriquez started discussion with gauge technique, plasma cutting, nu- few lines on Leopoldo Rodriquez Supramar on a license agreement to merical control machines, all of who passed away not so long ago. build the PT20 passengers hydrofoil, which were familiar at Rodriquez This is always a difficult task and in which was still on the drawing board. shipyard. this instance it is much more difficult as the writers of these lines are two of The first vessel built at Messina, the During his management, cooperation his highest admirer and closest Freccia del Sole or Sun Arrow left its started with a number of prestigious friends. It could be said that we are nest during 1956 and Leopoldo was international companies.just to name not the most suitable ones to remem- among the design and why not the a few, Hamilton Standard, a division ber to all of you Leopoldo, as many construction team of it. At that time of United Technology, SMA, Flor- others who had the venture to cross the Yard was not more than a small ence with whom a novel family of hy- his path could have done it in a better workshop with limited tools and al- drofoils were designed, the Towing way. most unlimited manpower. Italy was Tank in Rome, the Institute for Naval just trying to forget the destruction of Automation of Genoa University, Writing on Leopoldo is as writing the Second World War and opportu- CETENA, the Italian Center for Na- about the history the high-speed de- nity to work was very scarce. val research, The Institute of Sound velopment at sea. As a matter of fact and Vibration at Copenhagen. Rodriquez and the Rodriquez Ship- Not because he was the owner's yard has always been closely related nephew but only because Leopoldo At a time when individuality was the to hydrofoils and thus on the fastest was a very determined person, he norm, he was so clever to realize that vessel plying the seas up to the point climbed all the way into the yard or- only a finely tuned team was the win- that Rodriquez and their products ganization from assistant to the Man- ning solution, so that he set up a very were synonymous of achievement ager to Technical Manager in charge fine team, able to compete with soon and economic speed. for the construction of the two very to be fierce international competition. first hydrofoils. His death leaves a sense of emptiness that is reaching not only those, who During 1957 he was given the post of In spite of this cooperative mood, he were close to him, but also the entire General Manager of the yard. Under always wanted to stay ahead of all the hydrofoiler community. We, believer his management the yard manpower others and to achieve this task he used of the power and never ending valid- went from the original 85 to over 3 50, to work always long hours. At night, ity of the hydrofoil, should grim his but more importantly the quality of his ofice windows were lit, and liter- departure. manpower improved to a level that ally mountains of files were covering was uncommon for that time and for his working desk. Next morning, as Leopoldo has been for many years, the geographical area where the Yard his team reached their yard's offices, the glorious ones, Managing Director was located. they surely would find on their desk of the Rodriquez Shipyard located in the relevant file with the terrifying re- Messina, Italy. He took this responsi- He was a traveler at a time when trav- quest "please tell me' He made sure bility shortly after graduated from the eling was not as easy as nowadays. He not to sign a single order or telex (yes, Genoa University as Naval Architect was always on the move to open new7 it was still the telex era) unless he was in the year 1952. Having always markets and to spread all over the fully convinced and sure that it was thought that one day he would have world the idea of high speed at sea. It fair for all concerned. On the other been involved into the family busi- was not an easy task, as Rodriquez hand, he never escaped from taking ness, as his uncle was the owner of the was pioneering this field and it was always a challenge to convince tradi- Continued on Next Page Page 8 IHS Summer 1999 LEOPOL'DU / duction went to the larger PT50. Leopoldo was active not only in the (Continued From P~M'OUSP'I~c) When the marriage between pure shipyard industry. He was, for a Rodriquez and Supramar went sour, relevant lapse of time, manager at a on the responsibility for all actions Rodriquez promptly put on the mar- Hotel resort owned by Carlo. He and decisions regarding the Com- ket a modified version of their the managed to contract North European pany's activity. Nothing was too RHS series well out of the license tour operators, who chartered flights complicated for him; even when mat- brackets. to Catania and then toured tourist to ters were completely out of his educa- Messina and to the Eolian Islands, It was the time when discussions with tion and studies-, he listened to the from were his ancestors had come. Hamilton Standard were developing explanations given by his advisors. and the acronym RHS stood for The hotel was the homeport and it We are sure that he was only able to Rodriquez-Hamilton-Standard, later was even sporting a private mooring grasp the headlines of it, but he then changed to Rodriquez-High-speed. point, aimed at embarking tourists to had the capability to explain the mat- the Islands. Cinema festivals and im- ter to others so clearly, as if he had portant events were held at the pre- perfectly mastered the matter. Leopoldo was the father of the mises that was very flourishing. RHS 1 10 series and more importantly Under his brilliant management, the RHS200, a vessel too advanced He was founder of the International sometime against the will of his uncle for the time, plus the highly success- Hydrofoil Society, at the time of the Carlo, the Yard participated to shows ful series of RHS160, then modified Countess Juanita Kalerghi, Com- and conferences were he always gave into the RHS 160lF and now mander M. Thornton and Leopoldo's ample space to his colleagues, as he FOILMASTER series. All those hy- close friend Peter Dorey. Fellow of used to called his employees. drofoils were sporting an Electronic the Royal Institution of Naval Archi- Tough but incredibly gentle and full Seakeeping Augmentation system tects, member of the Society of Naval of humanity. He made sure that night that was adopted at a later stage by al- Architects and Naval Engineers, workers (Sometime the yard was most all the other fast ferry builders. member of ATENA he contributed to working round the clock) had good all of them with a number of articles Another ahead of time project, vigor- food and he even drove himself and papers. ously supported by Leopoldo, was the downtown to fetch coffee and ciga- ALlMIUNO, developed by He had been President of APRO (As- rettes to pamper his workers. Rodriquez in the 70's, a forerunner of sociation of Organ Recipient), very Leopoldo's maniacal working habits both the hybrid advanced naval vehi- active in this highly humanitarian as- have been very costly to him but more cles, successively investigated in the sociation to whom he donated money, to his family. He was seldom at home. US and the current day foil supported time and efforts. Traveling in Italy and abroad, when in catamarans; the project did not go be- yond the design stage only because A Rotarian since 1960, he served Ro- Messina, he spent most of his time at tary Club of Messina as President his office; he was unable to spare the market was not yet prepared to ac- cept that kind of novelty. during 1973-1974. He received the enough time for his children and his Paul Harris Fellowship for his efforts wife. In an era when all Navies were in towards the Rotarian culture. Alda, his wife, was never complain- search for a fast economical and reli- Leopoldo served the Rotary until his ing even when without any notice he able naval unit, Leopoldo came with departure as Commission President jumped at home with some guest for a the idea of the MAFIUS class of hy- and he guided his commission as a late dinner. His home was always drofoil (Missile Armed First Italian leader. open to clients and friends who en- Unsinkable Ship). Lacking support from the Italian Navy, at that time al- We can only cry his departure, the fast joyed his very Sicilian sense of warm feny world has to cry his departure hospitality. ready committed with the Sparviero class, this brilliant idea was shortly but his figure will always remain in It is worth reminding all of us of the aborted but a huge fallout benefit our mind as a pioneer of the Fast Yard's achievement during his man- came to the Yard. Feny market. aging life. From the small PT20, pro- MS Summer 1999 Page 9 B00K ON HYDROFOIL HYDRO* technological optimism that per- DYNAMICS PUBLISHED vaded society in those halcyon days. (By Stanislav P. Pavlov, Director of These trends found a single focus and MTD Marine Technology Develop- ne of our members, Dr. Frans outlet in a great event of the decade ment Ltd., Branch Ofice in Saint 0van Walree, has recently com- that, fortunately, was ideally suited Petersburg, Russia) pleted a book as a thesis on the for the introduction ofthe USA's first subject of theoretical hydrofoil hy- commercial hydrofoil : the New York he organization, MTD-SP was drodynamics in partial fulfillment of World's Fair. established in 1995 by its parent his doctorate degree from the Techni- Tcompany, MTD Marine Tech- cal University of Delft. The book is nology Development Ltd., which is entitled "Computational Methods for located in the UK. The company was Hydrofoil Craft in Steady and Un- formed to provide scientific and engi- steady Flow". It will be available to neering services for preliminary stud- the public at a cost of NLG 100 ies, conceptual design, model tests, (approx. US$ 50), and can be ob- design and development of advanced tained by sending a request to: Mari- high speed craft of different types time Research Institute Netherlands, such as hydrofoils, monohulls, cata- Attn: Ms. R. Jurriens, Librarian., P.O. marans, foil-assisted catamarans and Box 28,6700 AA Wageningen, Neth- monohulls, SWATH and erlands; semi-SWATH vessels, multihull ves- sels, etc. Tel: +3 1-3 17-493417; Fax: +3 1-3 17-493245; ALBA7ROSS I Flying by UN MTD-SP had established a relatively E-mail : [email protected]> large (12 persons) and talented engi- The market for commercial hydro- neering organisation, where the best [Ed Note: When this book was re- foils in the USA was seen as commu- specialists were collected from dif- ceived, I sent a message to Dr. van ter service. It was noted at the time ferent design offices and R&D cen- Walree stating: "I was very much im- that 23 of the USA's 25 largest cities tres in Saint-Petersburg. Since 1995, pressed with the quality of your work were on or near navigable waterways they have established quite an inter- and heazrt~filpresentation ofthe ma- that were mostly under-utilized and esting list of new developments, in- terial. It is indeed a very scholariy could carry hydrofoil traffic with cluding so-called Foil & Interceptor work, and you shozrld he very none of the huge outlay required to in- Conception, which has recently been pro nd. ' 7 crease the capacity of highways and ...... :. ...-..< .,,,. ...,~,.,.,~,.,.,.,.,~,...,.,.,~,.,.,.,.,.,~,.,~.~,,., , , ,,,, '"yflE''&g)BfiTR@JS...... Ri'M11[;rnE#:. . .:.:.:...... ,,,...... commuter railroads. All that was patented in all major countries, L.,..,. ,. .. . ,...,...... including the USA. The prototype ~&OMMERC[AL ~~YD~FOIL,E~~isj.i needed to unite the technology with . . this market was the construction of a vessel, built based on such concep- IN AMERICA - - tion and known as Marinteknikis fleet of hydrofoils. One firm that was By Paul Miller Superfast Cat, has been successfully ready to accept the challenge was a subsidiary of C.I.T.,Wilson Shipyard tested in 1998 in Singapore. Foil & he concept of the surface skim- Inc. of Delaware, and its entry was the Interceptor Conception was proven ming hydrofoil had spent most of hydrofoil ALBATROSS'/ and her sis- of being extremely efficient in terms Tthe 20th Century as a designer's ters. of speed and power (weight-to-drag dream or an inventor's toy. By the ratio is about 12 at volumetric Froude early 1960s, it appeared that the hy- ALBATROSS I was designed by the number 4), while seakeeping perfor- drofoil was an idea whose time had noted hydrofoil designer Helmut mances in terms of accelerations come. It was more than just the devel- Koch (an IHS member - Ed), who were several times better, than those opment of light-weight hull materials moved to the USA from his native typical for conventional craft. and power plants that made the early Chile in 1955. The original construe- 1960s bode so well. It was also the economic prosperity and social and Continued on Page 12

Page 10 MS Summer 1999 future of the speed sailboat is after nism (feathers) at the wrong end! All THE SAILORS PA6E the hydrofoil. patents, issued in this field in the last CATRI FOILERS - years, have to do with moving hydro- TRAILERABLE, HYDROFOIL - What is the problem? foil stabilization mechanisms, where- STABILIZED TRIMARANS A greater speed of a sailboat can only as the Catri Foiler solution simply at- taches the "feathers" at the end of the by Aldis Eglajs be achieved by ensuring a higher level of stability, which cannot be arrow, thus making all kinds of regu- (IHS has received several ir~qtriries guaranteed by traditional types of lating mechanisms irrelevant. Tests abouf the CA TIU hydrojbil sailboats, boats. Multihulls offer a solution to have been carried out to control the which range in size .j?om 22 fo 303 this problem. working and interaction of sails, hy- length and can be buil/ as a kit fde- drofoil and wind, and an optimal so- sired Accordingly, we presen/ wi fh- The problem of a hydrofoil sailboat lution has been found. stability is even more complicated. mrt recommenu'afionor endorsement (fhe full sfory on CafriFoilers can the concept and design description of Up until now technical solutions have been found only for still water and he found on /he IHS Home page. We /hew vessels ir~/heir designer 's owrl recommend /ha/yo14 log on. - Eq wordx ForBrther irformafion, con- uniform wind conditions. Under tact the author directly: CATM, aaftn: these conditions the speed of a hydro- A ldis Eg1aj.s; Box 120, Iiiga, L V 1063, foil sailboat exceeds 40 kt (74 km/h). LA TVIA; TEL./FAX + 3 71 725842 7; Still, to this moment no appropriate E-mail: [email protected] - Eu'i for] hydrofoil sailboat has been devel- oped for open sea and real weather THE CONCEPT OF CATRI conditions. Catri Foilers offer the first FOlLERS feasible solution to this problem. The EIFO is a 25 ft racing hydrofoil atri Foilers are not meant only Why Latvia? trimaran. The boat was designed by for hydrofoil enthusiasts. The Walter Schurtenberger, and the hy- Cuse of this recently patented hy- The French have been more active drofoils were designed by Prof. Sam drofoil system opens a new level of than others in the field of sail- hydro- Bradfield. Mr. Schurtenberger, the high-speed sailing to any contempo- foil research. Very expensive hydro- president and founder of Multihull rary amateur sailor. It is applicable to foil projects take place regularly in Technologies in Key West FL, has ac- a wide range of vessels, from small France. cumulated over 18 years of experi- ence in the field of design and day-sailers and micro-cruisers to On the other hand, despite years of construction of Hi-Tech composite 60-feet offshore racing machines in isolation from the international com- boat structures. His company has all weather conditions. munity, Latvia has made use of a been successfully building catama- number of stimulating factors,- Why hydrofoils? rans and trimarans since 1993. EIFO namely, the results of Russian re- is entirely constructed out of carbon Even though a sail-boat does not eas- search in the field of hydrofoil appli- fiber and is capable of speeds up to 30 ily associate with speed records, the cation. A group of talented students in knots. modern wing-like sails are very ef- hga started yachting-research as a fective at high speed. The hydrofoil hobby, but understood soon enough, Principle characteristics are: LOA - can also be very effective at high that their only hope to compete with 25'; BOA - 24'; Displ. - 500 kg.; Sail - speed. As compared to the popular the outer world was attempting to 45 sq. m. The prototype is currently gliding principle (glider), it allows to break the speed records. for sale. See the EIFO web page: reduce water resistance by three http://multihulltechnologies.comleifo.htm The Latvian solution times. or send an email to [email protected] for more information. A combination of sails and hydrofoil If we compare a hydrofoil with an ar- is therefore very effective - both sci- row, it is remarkable that up till now entists and designers agree that the attempts have been made to stabilize it by attaching the regulating mecha- IHS Summer 1999 Page 11 - INTERNATIONAL HYDROFOIL SOCIETY 30th ANNIVERSARY MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS tion and testing was done in 1961-62 by Hydro-Capital, Inc., of Newport he International Hydrofoil Society will hold its 30th Anniversary Beach CA and involved 180,000 meeting in May 2000 in the Washington, DC area. The event will con- man-hours of work. The California Tsist of an afternoon technical session comprising 3 to 4 technical pa- tests were very successful, and pers, followed by a social hour, dinner, and a Speaker or a Panel Discussion foilborne speeds up to 40 mph were on future commercial and military applications of hydrofoil and hydro- achieved with a full load of 24 people. foil-hybrid marine vehicles. Technical papers related to hydrofoil and hy- On the basis of these tests, ALBA- drofoil-hybrid marine vehicles are solicited in, but not limited to, the TROSS I received United States following areas: Coast Guard certification to carry passengers commercially, the first - Engineering and Applications U.S. hydrofoil to do so. - Market Analyses with Cost and Intermodal Issues Highlighted The rest ofthe story is posted on the - User Experiences, Lessons Learned, and Future Perspectives Home Page. We recommend thatyou tune in. - Ed] I Please submit an Abstract, of 250 words or less, to the International Hydro- foil Society, P.O. Box 5 1, Cabin John, MD 208 18, USA, (or by e-mail to: [email protected]) not later than 1 August 1999. Authors will be notified of acceptance of their paper by 1 September 1999. Draft papers, in hard copy, will be required by 1 February 2000. This will provide adequate time for re- view, suggestions, and modifications by the author prior to submittal of the final copy for reproduction and dissemination at the meeting. The IHS 30th Anniversary Meeting will be held in conjunction with a joint meeting of the IHS, the U.S. Hovercraft Society (USHS) and the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME) SD-5 Panel. IHS wel- ALBATROSS I Today comes your participation in this event. Questions regarding technical pa- pers may be addressed to members of the Technical Papers Committee: Mark Bebar, Jim King, and Frank Peterson who may be contacted via the IHS e-mail address: [email protected]

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Page 12 IHS Summer 1999 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR WASH CHARACTERlSTICS gal challenge. How many potential A second bit of info is that Gabor responders to the WSF RFP have Referring to the article from Fast Karafiath at the Center (301-227- been so advised? I think you should Ferry International re Washington 7005) is the person to talk to about include these thoughts in the IHS State Ferries RFP, this is good infor- ship wakes. He is acquainted with the newsletter, don't you? Karl Duff mation to publish, but it will mislead wake problems of the M/V Chinook many ifyou do not also advise that the and indicates that with a set of lines he criteria being applied are extremely could investigate the benefit of bow questionable from several stand- MORE ON WASH and stern modifications which might points: CHARACTERISTICS lead to wake and concurrent drag re- ductions. He has not heard from Stan (1) It deals only with an "average" William H. Buckley wrote: Stumbo. wave, constructed with arithmetic Dear Karl, sums of a series of individual wave Regards, Bill Buckley measurements, (centered upon the John Meyer copied to me your e-mail RUSSIAN HYDROFOILS waves with greatest wave height). messages regarding wave energy and Hence, the "wave" upon which en- related matters and suggested I re- MTD-SP was established in 1995 by ergy calculations are made is an artifi- spond to your inquiry if I had the info its parent company, MTD Marine cial wave that has extensive you wanted. Regarding wave energy, Technology Development Ltd., arithmetic "cancellation" of much of Vol. I of the Army Corp of Engineers which is located in the UK. The com- the energy actually involved ahead "Shore Protection Manual" (p. 2-27) pany was formed to provide scientific and behind the wave of highest wave gives the following total (P+ K) en- and engineering services for prelimi- height. ergy equation: nary studies, conceptual design, model tests, design and development (2) In the high speed wake world, the E = (rho)g(H squared) divided by 8; of advanced high speed craft of dif- waves ahead of the highest wave where H = trough to crest wave height ferent types such as hydrofoils, height have much longer periods and monohulls, catamarans, foil-assisted The energy flux for waves of uniform hence, correspondingly higher wave catamarans and monohulls, SWATH height = '/2 EC where C is the phase energy to compensate for lower wave and semi-SWATH vessels, multihull velocity of the waves, which is given height. (The Chinook's appear to all vessels, etc. I was graduated from Le- by C = gT/2(pi) with T = the wave pe- have about the same wave energy all ningrad Shipbuilding Institute (State riod. the way out to waves of only four or Marine University now) in 1975 as five inches of wave height, moving at naval architect and research engineer very high speed!) A bit of information regarding wake in hydrodynamics and mechanics. (3) There is no dealing at all with the problems of high speed ferries is con- Since then I have worked in a big na- true destructive damage cause by the tained in a Danish Maritime Author- val design ofice in Saint-Petersburg, entire wave train, because the whole ity report Chapter 1 ofwhich has been as a research engineer, senior engi- wave system is not analyzed. translated into English and can be neer, head of propulsion department. down loaded at the following web ad- From 1975 to 199 1, we have devel- (4) There is a tremendous law suit go- dress: sname.orglcommit- oped several interesting projects, in- ing on between property owners teesltech-opsl044lhighspeed.html. You cluding the biggest (more than 400 t) whose beaches, bulkheads, marine can track the SNAME high speed fer- and fastest in the world so far (more life, etc. are being destroyed by the ries initiative which leads to this re- than 60 kn.) hydrofoil craft with fully Chinook. Hence, it appears Washing- port at the following address: submerged automatically controlled ton State Ferries could be further lia- www.sname.orglcommitteesltech foils. In MTD-SP we had established ble for proceeding with follow-on opsl044/home.html. Incidentally, Stan a relatively large (12 persons) and tal- boat procurement using criteria Stumbo is a Corresponding Member known to be inadequate and under le- of the 044 Panel. Continued on Next Page MS Summer 1999 Page 13 the LM2500. I know that this ship scanned copies to you ....if you want can be bought very cheap! I believe it them. I have about a dozen boxes of would take less work to make her sea- material that I brought home over the worthy enough to ferry than what it years, and have been meaning to see ented engineering organisation, took us on Pegasus. It would be a what I had accumulated. I saw Dennis where best specialists were collected shame to see this fine ship scrapped! (Clark) a year or so ago at a marine from different design offices and work boat show in New York. He R&D centres in Saint-Petersburg. Eliot James was there drumming up business for Since 1995, we've got quite an inter- HYDROSAIL the model basin. Times have cer- esting list of new developments, in- tainly changed. I see Jack Murphy in cluding so-called Foil & Interceptor Sam Bradfield reported that the 1 6.5 town from time to time. He and his Conception, which has recently been foot RAVE offered by HydroSail, Inc. wife moved east after he retired. Last patented in all major countries, inc. is in production now. Their 25 footer time I talked to him he was recovering the USA. The prototype vessel, built (EIFO) has been sold (Netherlands) nicely from a heart attack. He also based on such conception and known and will be racing in Europe this com- said Larry Bauer was doing the same as Marinteknikis Superfast Cat, has ing season. HydroSail is doing pre- recovery. Hear from Ed Hermanns been successfully tested in 1998 in liminary design work on a 60 footer occasionally and always get a nice Singapore. Foil & Interceptor Con- now. note from Ray Wright at Christmas ception was proven of being ex- time. Same with Frank Otto, who is tremely efficient in terms of speed BOB JOHNSTON MEMORIES the big man (in more ways than size) and power (weight-to-drag ratio is Bob was a special person and even at Edo these days. Nice to hear he is about 12 at volumetric Froude num- though I worked for him only for 2 % doing well. Best regards, Charlie ber 4), while seakeeping perfor- years, he had a profound effect and Pieroth. mances in terms of accelerations influence on my life and later career. were several times better, than those FOIL DESIGN GUIDANCE As far as I can tell, mostly positive typical for conventional craft. NEEDED and constructive things happened Stanislav P. Pavlov - Director of from any interactions with Bob. I still I am writing to ask for assistance in MTD Marine Technology Develop- remember quite clearly the day that locating specific design information ment Ltd., Branch Office in Bob asked me to help him organize on underwater foils. I am doing a con- Saint-Petersburg, Russia (MTD-SP) what was then the IHS-NAA (a sub- cept design of a twin keeled sailboat sidiary of the London group). Bob ex- for which I would like to find lift and HIGH POINT plained that he'd like for me to get the drag coefficients for a symmetrical group incorporated and then to get cross section foil. I am a retired I was on the west coast last month tax-exempt, charitable status from Livermoore engineer moderately ca- where I met up with Will Knuth who the IRS. When I told Bob I'd never pable in stress and vibration but weak is at this time tending High Point until done anything like that before, he just in hydrodynamics. I am, e.g., igno- a buyer can be found. I was able to get leaned back in his chair and did his rant as to how the shape of such sym- aboard and take an extensive tour. customary 1ittle"chuckle/gurgle" and metrical foils are characterized, i .e., She is in very restorable condition. informed me that it (my inexperi- by tabular values, by equation, or The layout is very usable as a ence) didn't bother him .....and before even perhaps by a NACA airfoil iden- live-aboard and with very little work it was done ...and IHS-NAA tification number. Of particular inter- the main deck could accommodate long, was a New York not-for-profit corpo- est is the effect of aspect ratio, i.e., large windows and seating for sight ration with 501 (c)(3) status. how the lift and drag parameters of a seeing. The hullborne propulsion in- single keel compare to the ones for a cluding engine and outdrive is intact William C. Stolgitis double keel of half the chord and pro- and with one Detroit turning a prop I GRUMMAN REMINISCES portionally reduced cross section but would guess very affordable to oper- of the same span or draft. That is, of ate. the only thing that appears miss- I enjoy the Newsletter. One of these double keel of the same wetted area as ing for foilborne operation are the days I will have to go through my col- turbines and I understand that these lection of hydrofoil pictures and send Continued on Next Page can be found reasonably compared to Page 14 IHS Summer 1999 4 SMALL, FUN, CHEAP ANOTHER HYDROFOIL HYDROFOIL SAILBOARD DESIGN PROBLEM i a conventional single one. Regarding I 'm the "webmastei' of a little site the lift and drag coefficients, I have 'PK hydroptere de loisirs" (with all I'm working in the design of a : assumed that for the probable small {ista, key word: hydroptere) I hav windsurf board with the hydrofoil angle of attack of a keel, the lift to designed and built a little hydrofo concept. Do you have some informa- ! drag ratio remains relatively constant )oat for only $800! This is not a bo; tion regarding this idea? - for small changes in the angle. Here 'or speed record but for "the plei Juan Carlos Santilli I again however, unlike to angle of at- ;urel' ! - Frederic Monsonnec ([email protected]) [email protected]) tack assumption, my ignorance is Response ... I large. In thinking about the problem I have wondered if perhaps relevant in- There is an on-line magazine article formation on the design parameters HYDROFOIL SAILBOARD that describes the Miller hydrofoil of the foils used for lifting high speed DESIGN PROBLEM wind surfer in detail ... this descrip- power or sailing craft out of the water tion will give you plenty of ideas for might apply. Perhaps the such under- 'm a student in my first year in th your project. Please note that Miller's water horizontal foils are unsymmet- %ole Nationale Superieure de design is patented and may not be rical as might also be the case for the viines de Paris, And I'm just begir copied for profit! -Barney C. Black self leveling vee-type. But maybe ling to work on a project : I'd like t ([email protected]) their parameters are sufficiently close ry to make a windsurf board with hp to those of symmetrical ones that this irofoils. I know this is not very origl RUSSIAN VESSELS FOR SALE might be a good place for me to start. lal, and I have seen the links to viiller hydrofoil," but I don't kno~ We have for sale two Russian hydro- In the off chance that there might be a foils type KOLKHIDA, 140 passen- textbook in print on foil design, I low to contact him. Moreover, I don :now which solution I am going t gers, 1985, 1989 year, engine MTU, would be happy to purchase it if you Russian Register of shipping Class know of such. Published papers, or :hose ( number and type of foils). I' ike to have some advice on this issuc documents (A2) 4 years, excellent perhaps Master or Doctors theses condition (just after repair), location might also be available. Or even already have some contact wit lugues de Turckeim, a French shape Black Sea, US$ 520 0001each. - G. Internet items of your Association. Kasyanenko([email protected]) Or, as is likely, something that I am vho is working on the TECH unaware of. Thank you in advance for \IIQUES AVANCEES, the catama THE RACE whatever help you can provide with- an of Ensta, also a Frenc out being too much of a demand on mgineering school. - Yannig We are currently designing three 9' your time of patience. If the mathe- ;ranqois le Roux, PARIS. horizontal foils for my 60' long and matics of my pipe dream are encour- [email protected]) 59' wide I5.OOO# trimaran with 3,000 aging, I would be happy to share the sq. ft. of sail. (ex Ker Kadelac) They idea with you. If at even greater odds are being designed to swing aft and up there might come to be a prototype, -- in case of collision. Would appreciate info from anyone experienced with I'd invite you for a sail somewhere in Letters To the Editor allows the San Francisco Bay area if it were hydrofoilers to ask for or provide infor- this type of application. Also, inter- not for the fact that I am semi- inva- mation, to exchange ideas, and to inform viewing ambitious students willing to lided with rheumatoid arthritis and the readership of interesting develop- get their hands dirty. - Peter Murray occupy my spare moments now with ments. More correspontlence is pub- te1.1.561.708.7008; fax..219.2270; thinking about sailing rather than ac- lished in the Postetl Messages ant1 (therace2000@ hotmail.com) Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) tually doing it. - Jerry B. Cain IETFOIL POSTERS ([email protected]) section of the IHS Internet web site at http:Ilwww.erols.comlfoiler. All are in- [ am in need of any Boeing Jetfoil vited to participate. Opinions expresscd posters or pictures for our company are those of the authors. not of ZHS.

MS Summer 1999 Page 15 lettors To Tbo Editor thewake to perform tricks, using it as ally you get larger wakes. But then so (Continued From Previous Page a ramp. For the project that I am mak- much is involved especially since you ing in my Design and Technology apparently want to place this wake at course at Ashville College, I have de- a distance from the boat for the office. Where can 1 find any? (We are cided to make a device which will at- wakeboard. I don't know what type of interested in the Far East's Hydro- tach to the back of a speedboat which hull your boat has, but I am not sure foils.) Please advise. -Kelly Ander- will increase the size of the wake to that adding a foil section to pull the son (kel [email protected]) allow me to perform more tricks due hull down will do much toward your RUSSIAN HYDROFOIL FOR to the increased size of the ramp. At goals. I feel that adding weight on the SALE the moment I am thinking about using stem would accomplish the same a hydrofoil with the blade angled thing. Before we go any further, lets Volga 275 Russian Hydrofoil downwards to pull the back of the look at other considerations. Are you Aquaflite -Previously in Spain, this boat down into the water which will going to accept the increased drag vessel is now located on the Hamble increase the size of the wake because which relates to requiring more speed at Ancasta Marine Port, Hamble. Se- of the greater displacement of the to plane the boat? This will also de- riously for sale please contact the boat. I am hoping to be able to use the crease the top speed. Does your en- owner c/o [email protected]. water to make the size of the wake gine have the additional horsepower Guide price - in region of &20000. bigger instead of just increasing the to overcome the increased load? Are water displaced by the boat to make you willing to play with the propeller RACING BOAT DESIGN the wake bigger. I am hoping to be i.e. diameter and pitch to obtain opti- SOURCE able to find a way to channel the water mal performance? Handling charac- Does anyone know where you can get that would be wasted, make the wake teristics would also change, most designs for jet boats (sportlracing of the boat bigger. For example, likely contributing to wandering con- versions - not fishing/commercial)? smaller wakes are generated by a dition. Many I/O boats exhibit this Please email me. - Mathew Davies speedboat during speeds of around 1 8 characteristic before coming up on ([email protected] mph and I want to be able to get rid of plane due to the heavy weight of the eserve.co.uk) these smaller wakes, using them to engine at the stem. Boat designers make the main wake bigger. I am try- take all of these factors into consider- Response ... ing to find a diagram showing where ation when designing boats, espe- each component of the boat wake co- The following groups run both pro- cially when they try to reduce the mes from in order that 1 might be able peller boats and JET (impeller) boats wake for water skiing, which is oppo- to develop a way of using the smaller in various classes. The prop boats are site of what you would like to do. 1 quicker but both achieve speeds in wakes in a different way. - Andy don't think you will find an easy fix. excess of 200 mph regularly. Con- Padgett ([email protected]) It could be that a new hull form would give you the most gain. - Sumi tacts (Hope the phone numbers are Response ... current.): Liquid Quarter Mile maga- Arima (arimasl @juno.com) zine (909) 989- 1 169; IHBA Intema- Andy, I am not a hydrodynamicist nor 2nd Response .... tional Hot Boat Assoc. (714) a boat designer so I may not use the 634-4422; ADBA American Drag proper terms in my reply to you. My Andy, Have you seen the April 1999 Boat Assoc. (2 16) 543-9647; NJBA background is in the construction and issue of Trailer Boats? on page 64, National Jet Boat Assoc. (714) evaluation of hydrofoil ships and sys- they report on a test of a Correct Craft 993-2664; Southern Drag Boat tems for the US Navy's research cen- Pro Air Nautique, which is a modified Assoc. (8 17) 662-0774 - Ken Cook ter. The problem you present is not Nautique to induce wake for ([email protected]) necessarily a hydrofoil related solu- wakeboarders. They also mentioned tion. Mainly, a wake is a product of a installing a bladder to carry water for STUDENT NEEDS ADVICE ON pressure wave caused by the hull or in ballast to enhance the wake. Check- WAKE CHARACTERISTICS case of the hydrofoils, the foils carry- ing the magazine, subscriptiodback ing the weight of the ship. My under- I wakeboard a lot (like snow boarding issues manager can be contacted at standing is that the more harder the but being towed by a boat) and use "[email protected]". - Sumi Arima chine and flatter the bottom, gener- (arimasl @juno,com)

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