Ships – Boats – boat component – or attachment – Collapsible
Patent
1995-06-06
1997-04-01
Basinger, Sherman
Ships
Boats, boat component, or attachment
Collapsible
114347, B63B 706
Patent
active
056156340
ABSTRACT:
A collapsible portable boat with enhanced rigidity includes main skeleton frame and hull, including an end stem section and gunwales connected to each other by a gunwale connector. The hull is made of flexible material, and has a floor section affixed to that portion of the hull section which defines the bottom of the boat and which is disposed between the stringers and the flexible material of the hull. The skeleton frame includes a plurality of support stringers running the length of the boat along the bottom and sides of the boat, including support formers arranged transverse to the lengthwise support stringers. The support stringers themselves include a plurality of short sectional support elements which are affixed to one another by tension between the short sections, including tension between the skeleton structure and the outer flexible hull, which tension substantially prevents longitudinal hull flex.
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