Regent's Ground-Effect Vehicle Reimagines Coastal Travel

"The Seaglider is designed to handle ocean swells up to a meter and a half high" - that severely limits where it can be used or during which seasons.

https://www.youtube.com/user/RCtestflight

RCtestflight has a bunch of cool ground effect videos.

China has also been developing secret modern erkanoplans https://www.hisutton.com/Chinese-WIG-2025-07.html

Here's hoping for many good-weather/calm seas days...

Loved ground effect since I first saw it on (iirc) beyond 2000 television program. I haven't been able to find any reference to that episode...

Everything old is new again: https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2001/1001/110.html

Be interesting to see the efficiency metrics on this compared to high aspect ratio planes.

What's the advantage over a catamaran or hydrofoil ferry?

10m seems quite high for ground effect?

Imagine a fleet of these as ferries between Hawaii's islands for example. Awesome stuff, best of luck to the team!