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7258072 Multiple steer by wire helm system  
A steering apparatus for a marine craft or other vehicle having a communication bus and a plurality of helm apparatuses. Each of the helm apparatuses includes a steering device. Additionally, each...
7257921 Duck decoy anchor  
A banana shaped weight has a connecting eyelet on a forward end of a top side to which a line is attached to the decoy and a wider tongue member extending from a bottom side beneath the connecting...
7255617 Personal watercraft incorporating capsize-recovery facilitating structure, and method of using same  
A personal watercraft can be rotated in a correct direction of rotation when the personal watercraft has been overturned, and can thereby be restored to a normal, upright position. The personal...
7255616 Steering system for a marine propulsion device  
A steering system for a marine propulsion device eliminates the need for two support pins and provides a hydraulic cylinder with a protuberance and an opening which cooperate with each other to...
7255403 Take-down seating  
A seat assembly ( 10 ) for use in a watercraft ( 12 ) having a deck ( 14 ). The seat assembly ( 10 ) comprises a first portion ( 16 ) and a second portion ( 18 ) spaced from the first portion ( 16...
7255059 Adjustable adapter assembly  
An adjustable adapter assembly secures a framework/console to an anchoring fixture. A housing member connected to the framework has two pairs of parallel walls having laterally aligned elongate...
7255058 Hatch assembly with contiguous seating area  
A hatch assembly for a boat including a contiguous seating area across a stern of the boat. The contiguous seating area includes a main portion and at least one removable portion that can be...
7255057 Ramp for pontoon boat  
A ramp for a pontoon boat on which a boat user can come and go from it without having to get wet. Rotatably attached to the outboard end of the ramp is a cylindrical float which not only keeps the...
7255056 Stable, high-speed marine vessel  
A marine vessel that possesses a capability for greater speed than most static-lift craft and is more stable than most dynamic-lift craft is disclosed. The vessel incorporates elements from both...
7255055 Floating docking system  
A floating dock comprises a plurality of floats, and a plurality of connectors for joining the floats together, each float having a top surface, a bottom surface, two opposed side surfaces and two...
7255054 Cache boat  
A submersible surface-planing vessel has the capability to operate with a lowered profile on surface propulsion to lessen the visibility of the vessel, and sink to the bottom for temporary storage,...
7255053 Boat deck locker  
A boat having a deck with a deck locker is disclosed herein. The deck locker includes a compartment mounted beneath the deck, and an opening in the deck for accessing the interior of the...
7252727 Repair system and method for fiberglass boats  
A method to repair moisture damaged wood core boat hulls remotely identifies and repairs all wet core hull areas and optionally performs preventive maintenance on dry hull areas to restore the...
7252264 Flying sailboat  
A vehicle adapted for airborne flight and waterborne sailing has a fuselage ( 20 ) with left and right wings ( 52, 54 ) that pivot independently about a respective longitudinal axis from a...
7252047 Wave-forming apparatus for boats  
An adjustable wake-forming apparatus attachable to a boat stern providing means for generating waves of a particular form for water sport activities. The attachment is comprised of a pair of blades...
7252046 Apparatus for deploying and recovering a towed acoustic line array from an unmanned undersea vehicle  
A free flooded section of an unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV) contains a rotating cylindrical drum, which serves as a spool for a towed line array cable. At the end of the cable is a reverse...
7252045 Storage device for items such as marine lines  
A mooring line storage device and system for watercraft having a housing defining an inner cavity. The housing has at least one access aperture and a cover in overlying relationship with the...
7250915 Satellite antenna positioning system  
A system and method for automatically positioning an antenna aperture on a mobile platform in a manner to avoid blockages created by other components/subsystems on the mobile platform between the...
7250568 Underwater vehicle deceleration and positive buoyancy assembly  
An assembly for vehicle deceleration and buoyancy comprises a pair of doors enclosing flotation bags inflatable for buoyant recovery of the torpedo. In operation, the doors are controllably forced...
7249987 Air intake device for watercraft  
An air intake device for a watercraft adapted to suppress noise generating from an intake system of an engine and can obtain good intake efficiency. The air intake device includes intake ports...
7249568 Boat camper  
A boat camper vessel 10 has a pair of pontoons 12, 13 joined by a bridge 44 that provides the deck of the vessel. A main canopy 22 stores in the bow when not is use. The raised canopy 22 ...
7249567 Submarine short-range defense system  
Disclosed is a launch system of an affixed lower section of launch tubing and an upper section of launch tubing configured to telescope vertically from a stowed position within the hull of a...
7249566 Hatch assembly  
A hatch generally includes a hatch lid frame having a fixed opening defining a perimeter, a lens having a lens perimeter smaller than the opening perimeter such that the lens is insertable into the...
7246970 Shallow water watercraft lift  
A watercraft lift with translating bunks supported by a base frame and having rollers mounted to the base frame to initially raises the watercraft upward when driven onto the lift sufficiently to...
7246568 Sports board with integral laminated stiffening element  
A sport board for snow sledding or surf body boarding comprises a multi-layered laminated composite foam core coupled with stiffening elements for mechanical strengthening of the board. The...
7246567 Remote operated vehicles  
An ROV comprising a topside, a fish and an umbilical cable for connecting the topside and the fish together. The fish is adapted to be powered by an onboard battery inductively coupled to the fish....
7246566 Combination surface and submersible watercraft  
A modular watercraft capable of both surface and submersible accommodation and transport of passengers. In one embodiment of the submersible watercraft of this invention, the hull comprises air...
7246565 Boat hull dispersion tunnel engagement device and method  
A boat hull includes a dispersion tunnel extending fore and aft forming a channel within a hull bottom surface for receiving a flow of water. A gate is inserted into and out of the channel for...
7244157 High-lift, low drag fin for surfboard and other watercraft  
This invention discloses a fin, for use on a surfboard and other watercraft, of a low-drag, high-lift, high-aspect-ratio, low-sweepback-angle planform of symmetrical foil section, with a fit root...
7243609 Telescoping buoyancy capsule  
The present invention relates to a capsule sized to contain a weapon for launching and to withstand depth pressures. A telescoping nose section of the capsule, normally unextended around the...
7243608 Methods and apparatus for assembling docks  
A method of assembling a dock is provided. The method includes positioning a first dock module adjacent a second dock module wherein each dock module includes a top surface, a bottom surface, and a...
7243607 Wind driven sailing craft  
A wind driven sailing craft is disclosed with a hydrofoil element which provides variable lift to the stern of the craft to maintain a level trim when the craft is operated under power propulsion....
7240634 Foldable rigid frame attachment system for portable inflatable pontoon boats  
A foldable rigid frame attachment system for portable, inflatable pontoon boats including first and second inflatable elongated pontoons arranged to be approximately parallel to each other. The...
7240633 Underwater chain stopper and fairlead apparatus for anchoring offshore structures  
An underwater chain stopper and fairlead apparatus for offshore structures, drilling platforms, ships or other vessels. The apparatus comprises a mounting member, a fairlead member and a chain...
7240632 Personal watercraft center keel  
A personal watercraft having improved bottom hull shapes in general, and improved center keel shapes in particular. The center keel can have a substantial section over which the keel angle becomes...
7240631 Loop ballast exchange system for marine vessels  
A method and apparatus for replacing existing ballast water in a ballast tank of a ship while the ship is underway in the sea includes a seawater inlet port associated with the ballast tank in the...
7240630 Gyrostabilizer for small boats  
A gyrostabilizer system that counteracts the natural rolling motion of a small boat or vessel. The invention constitutes an improvement in prior art systems of this type in that the system weighs...
7240445 Inflatable display apparatus  
A display apparatus having a base portion and a display support portion extending vertically from the base portion. At least one display feature bearing at least one graphic presentation is...
7238073 Inflatable towable float  
A towable structure is configured to be towed behind a boat while floating above the surface of a body of water. In one implementation, the towable structure has a platform for supporting one or...
7238066 Pod propulsion system with rim-mounted bearings  
A pod propulsion system comprises a housing defining a fluid duct and an annular drum rotatably mounted to the housing within the fluid duct. The annular drum has a drum interior and a cylindrical...
7237788 Boat loading system  
A system enables a boat to be loaded from water onto a trailer that is partially submerged on a ramp at the edge of the water. One part of the system is a connector that is mounted on the keel of...
7237503 Protective platform for a boat  
A protective platform is disclosed that includes a panel that moves from a first position to a second position. In the second position, the protective platform may protect swimmers from the...
7237502 Boat bumper  
A boat bumper for use on a boat dock includes a bumper body and a frame. The frame includes uprights and connectors that interconnect the uprights and permit the frame to deflect when a force is...
7237501 Means and apparatus for one person to load and unload a marine vessel from a trailer without assistance from other individuals  
An electronic control system is provided to permit one-person loading and unloading of a vessel from a trailer. The control moves the vessel using bow, stern and fore/aft thrusters that are...
7237500 Hull construction for side hulls of trimaran and the like  
An amah for a high speed seagoing multi hulled vessel, the amah having sides extending upwardly and outwardly from a base line, the sides having longitudinally extending vertically spaced...
7237499 Support structure  
A support structure for auxiliary machinery in a seagoing vessel, the support structure comprising a trussed frame supporting a mounting plate at an elevated height above the bottom or deck of the...
7234410 Buoyancy control systems for tubes  
A buoyancy control system for controlling the buoyancy of a tube may includes generally tubular length of buoyancy control material having a selected buoyancy characteristic. The length of buoyancy...
7234409 Vessel for transporting wind turbines, methods of moving a wind turbine, and a wind turbine for an off-shore wind farm  
A wind turbine ( 1 ) has a base ( 5 ) divided into at least three ballast tanks ( 12 ). A vessel ( 7 ) has means for displacing the wind turbine between a loading space ( 25 ) and an unloading...
7234408 Water sport tow attachment with recoil  
A pivot is coupled to a water craft. A lever arm is pivotally coupled to the pivot at one end. A tow spool is coupled to the lever arm at an end opposite the pivot. The tow spool is configured to...
7234407 Active anti-fouling systems and processes for marine vessels  
Systems and processes for controlling and/or preventing fouling of marine vessel hulls and fixed structures are disclosed. The systems and processes deliver an anti-fouling composition through a...