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Jim Russell is a professional engineer with a mechanical and aeronautics background. Currently living in Canada, he has done extensive aerodynamic research at University of Michigan, MI; University of Toronto, Canada; Institute for Aerospace Studies (UofT) and marine research at the NRC water channel laboratory in Ottawa, Canada. His published works are highly acclaimed, and are specifically related to the aerodynamics and hydrodynamics of performance catamarans, tunnel boats, vee and vee-pad hulls. Russell has appeared on SpeedVision's 'Powerboat Television' as a guest expert on 'Tunnel Hulls', was performance/design technical consultant on National Geographic's 'Thrill Zone' TV show, and editorial consultant on Discovery Channel's 'What Happened Next' TV show. . Russell has designed and built many tunnel boats. As a professional race driver, he piloted tunnel boats to Canadian and North American championships.  He is also a private airplane pilot.

For 35+ years, he has written power boating articles for many worldwide performance magazines and has covered UIM and APBA powerboat races.  Russell is the author of the "Secrets of Tunnel Boat Design" book, "History of Tunnel Boat Design" book, and the "Secrets of Propeller Design book." His company has designed and published the well-known powerboat design software, "Tunnel Boat Design Program©" and "Vee Boat Design Program©" software specifically for the design and performance analysis of tunnel boats, powered catamarans, performance Vee hulls and Vee-Pad hulls; and "PropWorks2©" software for propeller selection and speed prediction.

Jimboat is recognized for his advanced research and consulting on powerboat design, performance analysis, safety analysis, accident investigation & analysis.  He also lectures on engineering hydrodynamics, aerodynamics and powerboat design.

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"Jim is indeed an incredible person, and a genious with tunnel boat design. We have him featured in several articles on Scream And Fly".  [Greg Terzian, 3-1-2003]

Jimboat writes performance powerboat articles in many worldwide powerboat magazines...including: Powerboat, Hot Boat, Powerboat & RIB, Family & Performance Boating, RaceBoat International, World of Powerboats, Extreme Boats, IMPBA Roostertail, Powerboat & Ski, Australian Powerboat, Yachting, RC Boat Modeler, Scream&Fly, BoatDesign.net, and other hi-performance boating magazines. Get your full, illustrated, 13th edition copy of the "Secrets of Tunnel Boat Design" book, with over 200 pages of powerboat history, design practices and formulae and over 150 photographs.

The publications "Secrets of Tunnel Boat Design©" book, "History of Tunnel Boat Design©" book, "Secrets of Propeller Design©" book, the "Tunnel Boat Design Program©" software, "Vee Boat Design Program©" software and the "PropWorks2©" software for speed prediction and propeller selection are available at the Aeromarine Research web site. 

"Secrets of Tunnel Boat Design©" book   

"History of Tunnel Boat Design©" book   

"Secrets of Propeller Design©" book  

"Tunnel Boat Design Program©" software 

"Vee Boat Design Program©", software  

"PropWorks2©", software for propeller selection and powerboat speed prediction
 

Jimboat guest on Powerboat Television


Jimboat is powerboat design technical consultant on National Geographic special for "Thrill Zone" series...


Jimboat is editorial consultant for Discovery Channel's "What Happens Next - Boat Dynamics"