Timing buoy with remote timing capability

Details Timing buoy with remote timing capability Timing buoy with remote timing capability

1995-08-07

1996-12-31

Basinger, Sherman

Buoys, rafts, and aquatic devices

Buoy

441 26, 441 32, B63B 2218

Patent

active

055888895

ABSTRACT:
A timing buoy comprising a flotation buoy having an outer shell. A switch in communication with the outer shell and activatable in response to forcible contacts to the shell. A timing device responsive to the switch to start and stop a timing sequence in response to a forcible contact to the shell of the buoy. An embodiment of the invention may also include a transmitter and receiver to start and stop a remote timing device in response to contacts on the shell of the buoy which actuate the switch. The invention may also include a method for timing a watercraft event by positioning the inventive apparatus in the path of the watercraft and enabling the watercraft to strike the buoy to start and stop the timing sequence of the timing device.

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