Ships – Building – Canal and ferry boats
Patent
1979-01-12
1981-10-20
Blix, Trygve M.
Ships
Building
Canal and ferry boats
114 61, B63B 704
Patent
active
042952360
ABSTRACT:
A relatively small watercraft typically used by one or two persons includes a pair of spaced and usually parallel pontoons, each of which consists of an elongated body of closed-cell foamed plastic such as polystyrene. A load-distribution truss is provided on top of each of the foamed cell bodies, for transferring vertical loads to said bodies. A personnel station extends generally between the two spaced pontoons and above said pontoons. The personnel station includes a chair and a floorboard, and is sufficiently narrow so as to restrict personnel on the station to a central portion of the watercraft. A structural frame of tubular members or the like may be selectively connected to the pontoons, or the frame may be permanently connected to them. In one embodiment wherein the structure frame and the pontoons are only temporarily connected, a plurality of eye bolts and specially positioned slots are utilized so that the eye bolts need never be removed from the watercraft. The watercraft also includes a generally puncture-resistant skin of polyethylene which surrounds each of the foamed plastic bodies and protects those bodies from being abraded or attacked by chemicals, etc.
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Advanced Marine Concepts, Inc.
Blix Trygve M.
McHugh Charles W.
Sotelo Jesus D.
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