Ships – Boats – boat component – or attachment – Collapsible
Patent
1984-05-25
1986-11-25
Blix, Trygve M.
Ships
Boats, boat component, or attachment
Collapsible
114 61, 24115R, B63B 700
Patent
active
046242090
ABSTRACT:
A readily portable kit for assembling a multiple-hulled watercraft, such as a catamaran, from two or more open-hulled boats such as canoes. The kit in one embodiment allows the assembly, using two standard canoes, of a stable catamaran having a large deck surface. The multiple hulled vessel may be rapidly assembled or disassembled using a novel fastening system which allows the deck to be tied down with straps or other suitable hardware. In its disassembled state, the kit and hulls may be readily and compactly carried on the roof of a car or van. In its assembled condition, the deck acts to seal the open hulls, creating a stable, substantially water-tight watercraft of large capacity. The deck is constructed to enable the erection thereon of a tent, or similar collapsible shelter, including a water-tight protective shroud around the circumference of the tent, and in one variation, a protective tarpaulin above the tent.
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Blix Trygve M.
Sotelo Jesus D.
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