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US 5,964,177 AGranted
Sit-on-top kayak
AssigneeOld Town Canoe Company
InventorTimothy A. Niemier
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Abstract
A sit-on-top kayak having a seating and footwell arrangement that allows three people to sit comfortably in a cockpit of the kayak. Three seating surfaces and footwells are preferably employed. The footwells associated with the two rearmost seating surfaces straddle the two forwardmost seating surfaces. An improved hull is provided having a keel and winglets extending on either side of the keel. The keel and winglets terminate at the front in a bow portion of the hull lower surface and come together at a point at the stern of the kayak.
Claims24
A sit-on-top kayak, comprising:
- a hull defining a hull outer surface and having a bow and a stern;
- a cockpit area;
- a seating deck defined within the cockpit area, the seating deck having aft, middle, and forward seating surfaces and first and second hatch surfaces;
- and
- a footwell associated with each of the seating surfaces, each footwell having a first footwell portion and second footwell portion;
- wherein
- the first and second hatch surfaces are generally planar;
- the aft, middle, and forward seating surfaces are contoured to provide comfortable seating areas;
- the first hatch surface is spaced along the seating deck between the aft and middle seating surfaces and the second hatch surface is spaced along the seating deck between the middle and forward seating surfaces;
- and
- the first and second footwell portions of the footwell associated with the aft seating surface straddle the middle seating surface, and the first and second footwell portions of the footwell associated with the middle seating surface straddle the forward seating surface.
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A sit-on-top kayak, comprising:
- a hull defining a hull outer surface and having a bow and a stern;
- a cockpit area;
- a seating deck defined within the cockpit area, the seating deck having aft, middle, and forward seating surfaces and first and second spacing surfaces;
- and
- a footwell associated with each of the seating surfaces, each footwell having a first footwell portion and second footwell portion;
- wherein
- the first and second spacing surfaces are generally planar;
- the aft, middle, and forward seating surfaces are contoured to provide comfortable seating areas;
- the first spacing surface is spaced along the seating deck between the aft and middle seating surfaces and the second spacing surface is spaced along the seating deck between the middle and forward seating surfaces;
- and
- the first and second footwell portions of the footwell associated with the aft seating surface straddle the middle seating surface, and the first and second footwell portions of the footwell associated with the middle seating surface straddle the forward seating surface.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.