Ships – Boats – boat component – or attachment – Canoe or kayak
Patent
1998-07-16
1999-10-26
Sotelo, Jesus D.
Ships
Boats, boat component, or attachment
Canoe or kayak
114363, B63B 3500
Patent
active
059709030
ABSTRACT:
A kinesthetic seat assembly is disclosed for a watercraft used in white water conditions of the type having a hull and a cockpit opening formed in the hull for access to a cockpit seat assembly of the watercraft. The seat assembly includes a contoured seat with a pair of opposing contoured upper leg supports, a contoured buttock support, and an adjustable kinesthetic crotch pod assembly. The crotch pad assembly is carried by a medial portion of the seat assembly between the opposing upper leg supports, and includes a crotch pod constructed from a shapeable material which may be contoured and customized for the anatomy of an individual boater. An adjustment mechanism mounts the crotch pod to the medial portion of the seat assembly for adjusting the position of the crotch pod on the medial portion in a longitudinal direction relative to a longitudinal axis of the kayak to fit the boater. The crotch pod is contoured and arranged to accommodate the boater in the seat assembly in a kinesthetic manner so that movements of the boater may be imparted to the watercraft for guidance and control.
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King Todd Dean
Maughan David
McDonough Bob James
Phillips Aaron Lee
Flint Cort
Perception, Inc.
Sotelo Jesus D.
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