Device for detachably securing a centerboard to a sailboard or t

Details Device for detachably securing a centerboard to a sailboard or t Device for detachably securing a centerboard to a sailboard or t

1981-02-20

1983-08-16

Basinger, Sherman D.

Ships

Centerboards

Pivoted

441 79, B63B 4100

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043984851

ABSTRACT:
The device comprises a casing adapted to be secured, as by gluing, to the sailboard, the casing having a downwardly opening, mortise-defining recess surrounded at its lowermost end by a peripheral flange, the centerboard having a tenon at its upper end adapted to be received in the mortise, the centerboard having a shoulder at its front end adapted to engage the peripheral flange, the tenon terminating rearwardly in an outwardly opening bore having resilient lips adapted to be snap-fitted around a hinge pin extending horizontally between the opposite sides of the mortise, the mortise including a self-locking attachment adjacent its front end releasably engagable with the front end of the tenon to secure the centerboard in the mortise in its normal position of use, the centerboard being readily inserted in and removed from the mortise and pivotable about the hinge pin if it strikes an obstruction.

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