Water sports towing vessell and method
AssigneeCorrect Craft IP Holdings, LLC
InventorsBORDEN M. LARSON, WILLIAM N. SNOOK
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Abstract
Wakeboarding performance is improved using a vessel having an operator station located generally amidships, a vertical support unit fitted across a beam of the vessel near the operator station, and adjustable ballast. An upper portion of the vertical support is at a height substantially above a level of the operator station, and a container is onboard and proximate the starboard and port sides, wherein water from a body of water within which the vessel is operating is directed into the container for weighing down a stern of the vessel to provide the ballast so as to modify a wake created for a wakeboarder or the like being towed by the vessel using a tow rope attached to the upper portion of the vertical support.
Claims18
A method for improving aerial characteristic of a performer being towed by a water sports vessel, the method comprising:
- positioning an operator station generally amidships between opposing starboard and port sides;
- fitting a vertical support unit across a beam of the vessel proximate the operator station, the vertical support unit having a tow rope receiver attached to an upper portion of the vertical support unit at a height substantially above a level of the operator station;
- attaching one end of a tow rope to the tow rope receiver, a free end of the tow rope adapted for receiving by the performer;
- positioning at least one container onboard the vessel and proximate the starboard and port sides thereof;
- towing the performer by the vessel within a body of water, wherein the towing is sufficient for providing a wake;
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- modifying the wake by extracting water from the body of water and storing the water in the at least one container for weighing down a stern of the vessel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.