Some commercial ferries

Usage examples of hydrofoils.

When the Angels operated alone, they had to depend instead on skimmers launched from their dreadnoughts to keep hostile hydrofoils and surface-effect torpedoboats at bay.

They were well positioned to block torpedo attack by Blackhorse hydrofoils, but they could do nothing to stop the one and two-ton shells from the dreadnoughts which would rumble overhead as soon as the range closed to thirty miles or so.

It mattered not to Homat, whose crumpled form lay motionless now near one of the boat's hydrofoils, knees drawn tight against the thin chest, all hint of aggression fled along with the life force.

After leaving the Nuku'alofa harbor, the boat circled around to the south side of the island, there to rise up on its hydrofoils and speed southeast across the open ocean.

Fishboats were sturdily designed for Welladan waters, to race on hydrofoils with the scaly spawn of her seas, to plunge trenchward with the whales, to endure the savagery of a sudden squall, to wallow, whalelike, within the school itself without being attacked by a nervous male.

And, as they watched, they could see the fishboat rise slightly from the water on its hydrofoils, then take off in the plume of spray that arrowed northeast by east.

That stumbling didn't last long, as hydrofoils unfurled from housings on both sides of the hull.

The pilot had also been forced to slam the throttle back to lower speed, causing the hydrofoils to retract.

The hydrofoils can carry much more gold and can outrun anything in these waters we'll have constant radar communications, the best, so we can outrun any pirates.

But with modern ownership, new hotels, new games, new hydrofoils you'd have so much revenue you'd have to open your own bank.

The hydrofoils can carry much more gold and can outrun anything in these waters-we'll have constant radar communications, the best, so we can outrun any pirates.