Hovercraft dashboard

Hovercraft reconstruction photos.

This is after I fixed the motor mount, the side of the cockpit and replaced the dash.

The dash is the yellow stripe with the fiberglass over it, the clamps show the cockpit side fix. the motor mount isn't shown here.

the dash is an experiment. it's a piece of styrofoam formed into a handle and then fiberglassed. hopefully it'll be as strong as the wood wasn't.

Here you can see the cracked mount. Two different boards just separated, probably from bad epoxy or something.

This is a patch job on the upper inside of the thrust duct. I sprayed foam in there and screwed a piece of cardboard on to keep it there till the foam dried.

Shots of the "new dash." This is a piece of foam shaped and bent around to be a convenient underhand handle, and then fiberglassed fairly heavily.

This is damage from my first crash. I was cruising on a river, and after much difficulty got back to the ramp after full dark, and it was March. In Minnesota that means that there's still snow on the ground. I had lost a mitten and was exposed to constant spray because of my inability to drive and the inability of the engines to work properly anyway. I missed the canoe launch and made lots of damage to my craft. This is the part where I was thrown against the side of the cockpit and tore it up. The craft suffered much damage, I did not.

	Here you can see the cracked mount. Two different boards just separated, probably from bad epoxy or something.
	This is a patch job on the upper inside of the thrust duct. I sprayed foam in there and screwed a piece of cardboard on to keep it there till the foam dried.

	Shots of the "new dash." This is a piece of foam shaped and bent around to be a convenient underhand handle, and then fiberglassed fairly heavily.







	This is damage from my first crash. I was cruising on a river, and after much difficulty got back to the ramp after full dark, and it was March. In Minnesota that means that there's still snow on the ground. I had lost a mitten and was exposed to constant spray because of my inability to drive and the inability of the engines to work properly anyway. I missed the canoe launch and made lots of damage to my craft. This is the part where I was thrown against the side of the cockpit and tore it up. The craft suffered much damage, I did not.