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7234406 Fast sail  
This invention belongs to the field of wind propelled vehicles. The goal of the invention is to provide large sails creating no overturning force. This is achieved by placing the top part of the...
7234405 Sea rescue craft  
An apparatus, method and system for rescuing persons and distressed vessels, up to about 50 tons displacement, in foul weather and for transporting loaded full sized truck/ship containers or other...
7234404 Water craft with a sail  
A catamaran-type water craft includes a frame ( 1 ) which is fixed on two bodies forming floats ( 2 ) and a sail ( 5 ) for wind-driven displacement when the floats are on a stretch of water,...
7233544 Harbor fence  
Methods and apparatus determine if an intruder passes into a security zone that is associated with a waterfront asset. An embodiment of the invention provides a harbor fence system that is designed...
7232356 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...
7232355 Flying ski  
The present flying ski is designed to be towed behind a conventional powered watercraft with the rider in a seated position. The flying ski comprises an elongate board and a seat that extends...
7232353 Retrievable pneumatic buoy system for submarine use  
An inflatable buoy launch and retrieval system comprises an underwater platform, a launch/retrieval tube within the underwater platform, and a mechanism for ejecting and retrieving an inflatable...
7232351 Personal watercraft  
A personal watercraft includes a saddle ride type seat provided at a roughly central portion of a watercraft body, an engine mounted on the lower side of the seat and directed in a front-rear...
7231883 Apparatus including vehicle, console and molded canopy  
An apparatus including: a vehicle; a console attached to the vehicle; and an integrally formed, internally supported, molded canopy attached to the vehicle. In various embodiments, the apparatus...
7231882 Support assembly for loading and securing a tender  
A support assembly for loading and securing a tender including first and second subassemblies. The first assembly includes a winch assembly for positioning the tender on the support assembly and...
7231881 Dehumidifying radome vent  
A dehumidifying radome vent in open communication between a radome and the external environment for passively ventilating and dehumidifying the radome. The dehumidifying radome vent is a duct...
7231880 Vessel with a multi-mode hull  
A ship having a multi-mode hull where the draft, seakeeping, and payload-carrying capacity are varied to match the requirements of the required mission. For example, the ship has a hull with first...
7228812 Sea-based hydrogen-oxygen generation system  
A method for generation of gasses contained in a salt solution in accomplished by disposing automated, floating wave power collection vessels in waters distant from shore, the vessels navigating...
7228811 Multiply hinged sundeck for pontoon boat  
An engine compartment cover for watercraft incorporates first and second pivots The cover can be rotated from an adjacent engine compartment in a first direction to a second location to provide a...
7228810 Powerboat with disappearing tunnel  
A shallow draft boat has a hull that protects a propulsion propeller within a tunnel that passes only partially through the hull from stern to bow. The hull has a mechanism, such as a flap for...
7226325 Device for stabilizing re-entrant cavity flows past high-speed underwater vehicles  
A stabilizing device for a supercavitating vehicle that isolates re-entrant jet flows of liquid from its cavity. The device has a receiving means positioned on the supercavitating vehicle where the...
7226245 Modular marine structures  
A load-carrying modular structure assembled from 3-D structural modules constituting parallelepipeds with rectangular faces, the 3-D modules adjoining each other along said faces. The modules...
7226041 Winch assembly for a lift structure supportive of a recreational boat and related watercraft  
An improved winch assembly adaptably configured for use with a new or existing lift structure suitably dedicated for short- and long-term storage of a recreational boat and related watercraft. The...
7225752 Power boat with improved hull  
A power boat having an improved hull including concave aft sections, and which hull is capable of operations at a wide range of speeds with low relative horsepower for vessel weight and improved...
7225751 Connecting link assembly and socket arrangement for assembly of floating drive-on dry docks  
The present invention provides a connecting link assembly and socket arrangement for assembling modular dock and/or deck elements into walkways, decks and drive-on docks.
7225750 Rescue ship for disabled vessels, vessels rescue method, and use of a rescue ship  
A rescue ship for a disabled vessel includes a hull which delimits an elongated dock ( 12 ) which is at least 150 m long and preferably at least 250 m long and at least 30 m wide and preferably at...
7225749 Turret mooring system for concrete hull vessel  
A turret mooring system for a vessel which includes a concrete hull and a moonpool which extends generally vertically through the hull comprises a turret which is positioned in the moonpool, an...
7225748 Stealthy powered catamaran  
An articulated boat may include a pair of pontoons and a central cabin connected by pair of struts, each pair forming a parallelogram and one or more motors for changing the elevation between the...
7223457 Composite elements  
The invention relates to composite elements comprising the following layered structure: (i) 2 to 20 mm metal, (ii) 10 to 300 mm plastic, (iii) 2 to 20 mm metal, whereby (i) and/or (iii) optionally...
7222582 Vehicle expansion retainer  
In some embodiments, an accessory retainer apparatus for a vehicle may include one or more of the following features: (a) a handle member, (b) a shaft pivotally coupled to the handle member at the...
7222581 Transition device for coupled metal frames  
A transition device for providing a smooth corner of a pair of angular oriented interconnected windshields on a boat, the boat having a forward facing or front windshield and a side facing...
7222580 Enclosure incorporating adjustable releasable fastener  
An enclosure is removably securable to a support member including a first part of a releasable fastener. The enclosure includes a panel of material sized to enclose the support member. A flexible...
7222579 Control system for positioning of marine seismic streamers  
A method of controlling a streamer positioning device ( 18 ) configured to be attached to a marine seismic streamer ( 12 ) and towed by seismic survey vessel ( 10 ) and having a wing and a wing...
7222578 Apparatus for removing attachments deposited on underwater structure  
An apparatus for removing attachments deposited on a surface of an underwater structure and preventing that such attachments be deposited thereafter. The apparatus is floated on the water surface...
7222577 Method and apparatus for controlling a waterjet-driven marine vessel  
A system for controlling a marine vessel having at least first and second steering nozzles and corresponding first and second reversing buckets is disclosed. The system comprises a processor...
7221620 Apparatus for seismic measurements  
An apparatus for three-dimensional single-channel seismic measurements, wherein at least one seismic source and hydrophone devices are towed behind a vessel, and a pair of submerged deflectors are...
7220156 Outboard motor steering control system  
In an outboard motor steering control system having an actuator steering the outboard motor, three rotation angle sensors each detecting a rotation angle of a steering wheel, three steering angle...
7219854 Cycloidal hybrid advanced surface effects vehicle  
A “wing in ground effect” aerial vehicle includes a wing mounted on a fuselage, and two cycloidal propulsion units for providing lift, thrust and longitudinal control. Additional lift is...
7219617 Wake tower and method of making same  
An attractive wake tower assembly of a unique, generally U-Shaped configuration that can be readily pivotally mounted on powerboats of various constructions to enable the wake tower assembly to be...
7219616 Protective cover for a windshield of a boat  
A protective cover for a boat having a deck, a windshield with a top peripheral edge and a bottom peripheral edge and a plurality of twist stud fasteners includes an inner layer, a center layer and...
7219615 Extended semi-submersible vessel (ESEMI)  
A semi-submersible vessel has a pair of vertically spaced pontoons with varied buoyancy. The lower pontoon is retained in a close vertical proximity to the upper pontoon when the vessel is in...
7219614 Apparatus and method for reducing fluid drag on a submerged surface  
An apparatus and method for reducing surface friction drag on the hull of a surface vessel by entraining air into water flowing in the boundary layer flow along the hull. A hemispherical protrusion...
7219613 Reconfigurable attack and reconnaissance vessel II  
A reconfigurable marine vessel is disclosed. The marine vessel includes an upper hull, two propulsion hulls, and two struts for coupling the propulsion hulls to the upper hull. The struts are...
7219612 Naval ship decoy  
A method for defeating or reducing the effectiveness of efforts to detect, track or target a naval vessel by means of its characteristic underwater and electrical fields. In this method, a wave...
7216604 Retractable arch system for a boat  
A retractable arch system for a boat is provided that includes at least four substantially vertical legs for permanent installation on the boat. A first traverse member forms a first arch and is...
7216603 Structure for use in body of water having reduced width for ground transport  
A structure can be installed in and removed from a body of water in a seasonal fashion. The structure has a lower level that includes a boat lift and may include an upper level that provides an...
7216602 Seasonal, multi-use, multi-level structure transportable both by ground and water for use in a body of water  
A multi-use, multi-level structure can be installed in and removed from a body of water in a seasonal fashion. The structure has a lower level that includes a boat lift and an upper level that...
7216601 Apparatus and method for a dual hull boat with control gate  
The current invention is an apparatus and method for an inner and outer dual hull boat capable of transforming between different levels of planing ability. The design is a gateway in the outer hull...
7216600 High maneuverability towcraft  
A high maneuverability towcraft has a hull, a primary water-engaging device, and a towline attachment above a waterline of the hull. A towline line-of-tension extends through an effective...
7216599 Method and apparatus for controlling a waterjet-driven marine vessel  
A method for controlling a marine vessel having a first steering nozzle, a reversing deflector and at least one of a bow thruster and a second steering nozzle is disclosed. The method comprises the...
7215275 Independent temperature and apparent color control technology for adaptive camouflage  
An apparatus for adaptive camouflage with independent control of both temperature and apparent color. The apparatus has cells or individual pixels behind a transparent outer layer. The temperature...
7213798 Method and apparatus for retrieving submerged vehicles  
A submerged vehicle extraction method employing a specifically designed apparatus known as the submerged vehicle extractor. The primary purpose of the submerged vehicle extractor is to facilitate...
7213533 Foldable windshield for T-top watercraft  
A foldable windshield device for removable attachment to a T-top of a motorized watercraft includes: (a) a lower windshield portion including at least one lower attachment mechanism; (b) a...
7213532 System and method for managing the buoyancy of an underwater vehicle  
The present invention provides a system and a method, including a gas supply proximate to a worksite, for repetitively recharging the ballast tank of an underwater vehicle as required to control...
7213531 Multidirectional floating dock element  
The present invention relates to a multidirectional floating element. The multidirectional floating element is preferably a polyhedron in overall shape including a first generally planar surface...