Albert Hickman Torpedo Boat

[hick seaslead]

Hi

Does any one know know any thing about the Torpedo boat designed by Albert Hickman in 1918 for the US Navy. I belive that they did not adopt the design. also if any one has info/plans for the Hickman sea sled of any design jet or prop

[Guillermo]

Probably you already know these...
http://easyreader.hermosawave.net/news2000/0316/vintage.asp
http://continuouswave.com/whaler/reference/13/originalHullDesign.html
http://www.glen-l.com/wwwboard/wwwboard2/messages/476.html
http://www.mysticseaport.org/library/manuscripts/coll/coll239/coll239.html
A lot of them more if you google around, like:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Albert+Hickman&hq=%2Flibrary&sitesearch=mysticseaport.org
Cheers.

[hick seaslead]

Probably you already know these...

yep thanks mate used forums after doing web serch but will try http://www.mysticseaport.org

have you any knolage of Hickmans Torpedo boat as would love to know more about it web only tells that it was 50 foot long ad build around 1918

[Matthewf]

I built ahickman sea sled a couple years ago 32 by 10 we got it to go 40+ knots. I plan on building 60 by 20.

[Matthewf]

Hi

Does any one know know any thing about the Torpedo boat designed by Albert Hickman in 1918 for the US Navy. I belive that they did not adopt the design. also if any one has info/plans for the Hickman sea sled of any design jet or prop
I might be of some help

[hick seaslead]

Matthewf any info you want to pass on will be greatfully receved. you can post it here or E-mail me

[madmatt]

hicksea sled, sorry about late responce. matthewf now madmatt (frgot my original password) I`ve read positive and negitive things about hickmans design. My experience with the hull was most positive. My brother and I were looking for a shallow draft barge type vessel for our mussel operation. Were commercial fishermen downeast Maine USA. I had rememberd reading a artical about Hickmans seasled years ago in a boat mag. I talked my brother into building the seasled insted of a flat bottom barge. I looked everywere for infromation on the hull design, but as you know the information is limited!!! I only found this website a few months back and I`m delighted to see that I was not the only crazy bastard to try and build one. I had found a very small picture of the hull at www.aeromarineresearch.com and I winged from there. I also found that a company named Winninghoff boats inc had built a few crafts similar to hickmans. But they seemed to think you had to go with a narrow hull. 50 by10 or 12 in width. We did not want a narrow tippy hull with the wieght we plan`d on carrying. We went with a third of the total lenth for the width of the hull. I later found out that the small picture was of the very early design. Maybe our success with the hull was not knowing any real spec`s of the hull. As I said I winged it from that small picture. We built the hull with plywood and glassed the hell out of it. It was powerd by two four cylinder inboard outboards. When we lanched the boat and hit the throtals the boat jumped up on plan so fast that my brother almost went over the stern. I`m talkin scary/dangerous fast!!!! It handled great, tracked strait in flat or rough conditions. We never experienced the so called triping I`m now reading from other peaples experiences with the hull. My guese is that the out drives dig down into the water better than the surfuce peirsing blades hickman used. There were some things I would change. Now that I`ve got a little more knowledge of the hull,and reading others experience and opinions. I would really love to get the navy`s data on there tryals on the larger hulls. I have my own drawings for a much larger one I plan to build,but I would like to know more before I actualy start. I might be able to answer some of your questions, But I have alot of my own! Dont be scared the worst that can happen is you`ll gian knowledge.

[hick seaslead]

My guese is that the out drives dig down into the water better than the surfuce peirsing blades hickman used.

from what I can gather Hicman wanted a shallow draft vessal so any thing like a Out drive would not have been what He wanted so not thought about.

Dont be scared the worst that can happen is you`ll gian knowledge.

good point But I dont want to spend time & money on something that dose not work properly or is dangerous to use