or PayPal.Eleven Sevtec sevs (4 Vanguards, 1 Surveyor, 3 Prospectors and 3 Explorers) at the July, 1998 Pacific Northwest Hover-in. (Below) 3 more Vanguards in the designer's backyard hoverport.
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skimming along on a cushion of air, over land and water and ice and snow. Sevtec sevs (Surface Effect Vehicles) give you all the pleasures of hovercraft, and you fly along, efficiently, with low spray, with a minimum of commotion.
There are commercially constructed hovercraft that do just this, but you have to put up with incredible noise, lots of spray, and usually a cantankerous, high strung two stroke engine that guzzles amazing amounts of fuel. Some of these hovercraft are so loud, that if you use earplugs, you can still hear them with your teeth! No wonder there are not very many of them around, they are not very good neighbors. After all, skimming along on a cushion of air shouldn't take a whole lot of power, but the fundamental engineering has to be in the design to accomplish this.
The Sevtec line of sevs covers surface skimmers from a 12 to 25hp, single place Scout sev , 16 to 23hp, 2 to 3 place Vanguard sev , 25-28hp single engine, 4 place, or up to 41hp two engine Surveyor sev, 45hp Geo Metro 3 cylinder or 60hp 4 cyl inline single engine, 6 place, or up to 78hp two engine Geoduck sev, 80-98hp, 4 to 5 place, Prospector sev , 80-98hp, 6 to 8 place Explorer sev. The complete line of Sevtec sevs can also be seen on a graphics intensive page.
Search Sevtec for Sevtec newsgroup activity, including tips on building, operating and design of sevs.
As a home construction project, sevs offer an adventure of the level only associated with projects like homebuilt aircraft or ultralight aircraft. However, while some of the same building skills are used as are used in homebuilt aircraft or ultralights, a sev can be built for a tiny fraction of the cost and time that is required for home construction of a homebuilt aircraft.
Also, the Sevtec sev project, with its foam and fiberglass composite construction, can be a valuable training aid for someone interested in building a composite homebuilt aircraft, and provide a source of new adventure as well.
Sevs can be custom built, or, Look at the new manufactured Vanguard at Amphibious Marine. A new manufactured sev is now available as manufactured by Sevtec, as seen at the Anacortes rally the new Fan-Tastic SP.
Videos are available that show plenty of hovercraft and Sevtec sev action as well as construction of sevs.
Read all about the 2002 Pacific Northwest Spring Rally and past rallys in Surveyor Report pages. The Canadian Fort Langley 2002 rally is also reviewed. 04 Lake Osoyos BC, 04 Harrison Bay BC, PNW 04 Harrisburg OR rallys are done. Watch this space for other western rally information.
Watch for 2007 rally information.
The north to Alaska adventure is done! Read all about the 1400 mile journey in the North to Alaska (John Carter's account of the trip) pages. Click here to read about Barry Palmer's account.
San Juan Island Sampler, or a Whale of a Tale is done! This 300 mile roundtrip journey was made from the designers home north through the San Juan Islands, using the Surveyor sev, overnighting along the way. Read all about it in Surveyor Report pages.
Sevtec is continuously researching the surface skimmer concept, and as the plans are computer drawn, they can be readily updated as new knowledge is gained.
Builder activity and Sevtec prototype sev images are shown here.
Look at builder activity on Sevtec sev builder web sites.
Sevtec makes available the more difficult parts such as propellers and lift fans, skirt material, and drive hardware to ease the construction of low noise, high performance, most user friendly skimmers available to the homebuilder.
Join the adventure with sevs that have features unavailable on almost all other surface skimmers.
Check out the new Sevtec Surveyor is now a homebuilder program!
The information package will be sent free to anyone purchasing plans or videos or from this order form (this form is in an Excel spreadsheet). If the order form cannot be downloaded, state that the order for videos or plans is off this web site.
Please send check or money orders to: Amphibious Marine, Inc., 3121 SE Kamilche Point Rd., Shelton, WA 98584
Ph: (360) 426-3170 (Office Hours: 8 am - 5 pm PST Mon-Fri), Fax: (360) 427-5885
Email questions to: bryan@amphibiousmarine.com
Some older sevs of the designer's are shown here. (Sevtec throws away the old designs so the builder can concentrate on the newest and best designs.)
The designer is available for engineering consulting and management of serious commercial sev programs. Sevtec technical section is available for those who wish to look deeper into the design of sevs. The numbers do not lie, but the numbers do not show the part of design that is called "art", which can be established by experience, only.
