Soft sailboard
AssigneeKransco Manufacturing, Inc.
InventorMichael J. Fremont
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Abstract
The invention is an improvement in the construction of the sailboard portion of windsurfers wherein the usual hard-foam slab hull typical of surfboard construction is replaced by a slab of soft foam, the only rigid structure of the entire board being a pair of closely spaced fiberglass stringers longitudinally extended along the midline of the board, and mounts for the mast, daggerboard and fin, which mounts are sandwiched between the two longitudinal stringers which are embedded centrally in the soft foam slab.
Claims4
A soft sailboard comprising an elongated soft foam slab, elongated longitudinally extending generally rigid support means embedded in said slab adjacent the longitudinal midline thereof, said support means comprising a pair of spaced parallel stringers extending for substantially the full length of said slab, said stringers having opposed planar surfaces, and a box-like mast mount insert disposed between and connected to said opposed planar surfaces of said stringers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.