A transportable folding boat structure
OwnerAaron KIELLERUPinventor
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Abstract
There is provided a folding boat structure for facilitating transportation, the structure comprising: a central structure having a fixed primary hull; outrigging supporting at least one secondary hull structure having a secondary hull to the central structure, wherein: the outrigging is double hinged so as to be user configurable in a deployed configuration and a stowed configuration and wherein: in the deployed configuration, the at least one secondary hull is located laterally adjacent the main hull and downwardly orientated; and in the stowed configuration, the at least one secondary hull is located above the main hull and upwardly orientated.
Claims18
A folding boat structure for facilitating transportation, the structure comprising:
- a central structure having a fixed primary hull;
- outrigging supporting at least one secondary hull structure having a secondary hull to the central structure, wherein:
- the outrigging is double hinged so as to be user configurable in a deployed configuration and a stowed configuration and wherein:
- in the deployed configuration, the at least one secondary hull is located laterally adjacent the main hull and downwardly orientated;
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- in the stowed configuration, the at least one secondary hull is located above the main hull and upwardly orientated.
A folding boat structure as claimed in claim 15, wherein the structure further comprises elevating walling fastened between the compartmentalising framework and the bimini such that, when the bimini is raised in the deployed configuration, the elevating walling extends upwardly from the compartmentalising framework.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.