In this section I will atempt to tell you how I built my hovercraft skirt, and how to build your own (without violating any laws that I accepted ect ect...)
I actually bought the plans from the plan depot for about 15.00 $$ (u.s.) and then they sat on a shelf for about a year... (hey, I was busy!) Anyway, now I am back, and have finished the main part of the hovercraft, the platform. I actually started with the skirt, I went to "joanns" fabric store and bought about 6 yards of hypalon, polyurethane (nylon) To find out if it was worthy of becoming my hovercraft skirt i took a quarter and tried to scratch off the PVC coated material, nothing came off, so I put the fabric up to my mouth, and tried to blow air through it, that didn't work either, the material was camoflage, so it looked good too, I had just found the perfect skirt material, well, the most-perfectest, (other than buying neoprene, that costs major $$)
All this cost me.... 30 bucks (american $$)
what you are looking at is the end of all the skirt panels (there will be 8 panels, 2 sides, 2 front and 4 corners) Now what I insist you do, is make a template of the side (including the 2 in overlap) and use that to lay out the rest of the skirt panels. The side of the hovercraft is 61 & 7/16ths in long (excluding the end piece (look up) The corners are 17 in long (again, excluding the template part,) and the front panels are 24 in long (yes, excluding the template)
All this must be sewn together using tough quilting thread, and then seam-sealed together using seamsealer.
those holes you see, along the bottom there, the are the most important part, so important, you will not even question me as to why they are there...
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when the leafblower blows through that hole in the back of the craft, the air will circulate throughout the skirt and then out the holes, the air will then seep around the bottom of the inflated skirt,and lift the craft.
Again, back to the picture. The holes are spaced 6 inches apart, and 5 in off the ground. There should be 2 holes on the corner panels, 3 on the fron panels, and 11 holes on the side panels... When you are sewing the skirt together every other panel you put on, you should go out and see if it fits the hovercraft base. if its too big, heck, you can scrunch it up when puting on the molding... if its too small, you should allow for more seam allowence, (dont ask me, I had my mom make the skirt, an exelent idea by the way)
here is a picture of MY hovercraft skirt, all laid out...
