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With reference to the article "Ferry on Skis" [June 22], I want to draw your attention to some misstatements about who really deserves the credit for the design and the development of the hydrofoil boats built by the Rodriquez Shipyard in Messina, Italy, under a license agreement of Supramar Ltd. The indisputable merit for the invention and the design of hydrofoil boats of the "Schertel-Sachsenberg System" goes to Baron von Schertel-by the way, a grandson of the founder of the Schaefer Brewery in New York. Since World War II, all patent rights belong to Supramar Ltd., which...
Legacy from Adolf. A trip in a Rodriquez hydrofoil is like water-skiing in a bus. Projecting down from the ferry's trim speedboat hull are legs with winglike metal skis on the end. As the ship picks up speed, the hull rises out of the water and skims along on its skis. Because it has only the drag of the skis, a Rodriquez hydrofoil needs only half the power of a conventional boat to achieve the same speed. More important, its top speed is three times that of the average conventional ferryboat-which means that it can move...
...Rodriquez' aliscafi come in two models: the 72-passenger PT 20, which is driven by a 1,350-h.p. Daimler-Benz V12 engine and will make up to 40 knots, and the 140-passenger PT 50. which has two V-12s and does 37 knots. Both were designed by Austrian Engineer Friedrich Lobau, who built his first hydrofoil for Hitler's navy and his second as a prisoner of war in Russia. (The Russian model, he now says...
...Rodriquez, anxious to expand his family's 61-year-old shipyard, bought Lobau out and has kept him at work in Messina ever since...
Volga Boatmen. Rodriquez' success has spawned numerous competitors. The Russians, despite Lobau, now have a 150-passenger hydrofoil plying the Volga...