It isn't commonly known that the Coasdt Guard tested
a couple of hovercraft on San Francisco Bay in the
early 1970s:

http://groups.sims.berkeley.edu/waypoint/images/41.jpg

http://groups.sims.berkeley.edu/waypoint/images/42.jpg



Geoff

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