Ships – Displacement-type hull – Multiple hulls
Patent
1986-09-26
1988-03-15
Basinger, Sherman D.
Ships
Displacement-type hull
Multiple hulls
440 6, B63H 508
Patent
active
047305711
ABSTRACT:
A pontoon boat that includes a pair of pontoons, a chair, a parallel linkage system for maintaining the pontoons in spaced apart parallel relationship and mounting the chair for movement between a position the chair seat is at a higher elevation than the pontoons and a position at a lower elevation than the surface of the body of water in which the pontoon boat is being used, power operated mechanism within one of the pontoons for operating the linkage system to move the chair between its positions, a motor mounted by each of the pontoons for propelling the boat, the propelling motors being operable at different speeds and/or forward and reverse for controlling steering, and controls mounted adjacent to the chair for controlling operation of the propelling motors and the power source for operating the linkage system, each pontoon having a compartment that may be flooded with water and a pump for pumping water out of the compartment.
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patent: 3517632 (1970-06-01), Gray
patent: 3626894 (1971-12-01), Stuart
patent: 3848561 (1974-11-01), Price
patent: 4276851 (1981-07-01), Coleman
patent: 4537144 (1985-08-01), Horton
Hedlund Kevin B.
Hedlund Lorry L.
Basinger Sherman D.
Johnson Clayton R.
Lee-Zure Line Inc.
Swinehart Edwin L.
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