Adjustable boat hull

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a boat including a hull comprising a bottom surface including a panel having leading and trailing edges, together with forward and rearward bottom surface portions adjacent to the leading and trailing edges of the panel. Also included in the boat hull is structure pivotally mounting the panel to the boat hull forwardly of the stern of the boat hull for movement about a transverse axis between a first position wherein the leading and trailing edges of the panel merge with the forward and rearward portions of the bottom surface and a second position wherein the panel leading edge merges with the forward portion of the bottom surface and the panel trailing edge is spaced below the rearward portion of the bottom surface, together with means for pivotally displacing the panel between the positions. The boat also includes a mast fixedly extending upwardly from the hull, an elongated spar, a rotatable eye and hook arrangement mounting the spar from the hull for pivotal movement about an axis extending lengthwise of the spar and for pivotal movement about a general horizontal axis between an upwardly extending raised position in generally parallel relation to the mast and a lowered position adjacent to the hull, a rigging connected to the mast for raising and lowering the spar between the raised and lowered positions, a sail connected to the spar, and rigging for rotating the spar to furl the sail thereon when the spar is in the raised position.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.