Portable boat step device
OwnerGeorge T. Bollerslevinventor
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Abstract
A portable boat step device for allowing the user to more easily scale the bow as one enters the boat from the bow. The portable boat step device includes a planar step member having a back end and a front end and being adapted to suspend from a side of a boat; and also includes a flexible line being attached at the back end of the planar step member and being adapted to loop about a mooring cleat of the boat; and further includes a fastening member being attached to the front end of the planar step member and being adapted to removably attach to an eyelet which is securely attached to a bow of the boat.
Claims7
A portable boat step device comprising:
- a planar step member having a back end and a front end and being adapted to suspend from a side of a boat;
- a flexible line being attached at said back end of said planar step member and being adapted to loop about a mooring cleat of the boat;
- and
- a fastening member being attached to said front end of said planar step member and being adapted to removably attach to an eyelet which is securely attached to a bow of the boat;
- wherein said fastening member includes a hook member mounted on and extending outwardly from said front end of said step member, a lever hingedly attached to said hook member for biasedly closing an opening in said hook member, said hook member being adapted to hook about the eyelet with said lever preventing said hook member from falling off the eyelet.
A portable boat step device comprising:
- a planar step member having a back end and a front end and being adapted to suspend from a side of a boat;
- a flexible line being attached at said back end of said planar step member and being adapted to loop about a mooring cleat of the boat;
- and
- a fastening member being attached to said front end of said planar step member and being adapted to removably attach to an eyelet which is securely attached to a bow of the boat;
- wherein said fastening member includes a handle being attached to a bottom of said step member, and also includes a hook member being integrally attached to said handle and extending outwardly from said front end of said step member, and further includes a lever being hingedly attached to said hook member and biasedly closing said hook member, said hook member being adapted to hook about the eyelet with said lever preventing said hook member from falling off the eyelet.
A portable boat step device comprising:
- a planar step member having a back end and a front end and being adapted to suspend from a side of a boat;
- a flexible line being attached at said back end of said planar step member and being adapted to loop about a mooring cleat of the boat;
- and
- a fastening member being attached to said front end of said planar step member and being adapted to removably attach to an eyelet which is securely attached to a bow of the boat;
- wherein said planar step member includes a plurality of holes being spaced apart and being aligned along said back end thereof and being disposed through said planar step member;
- wherein said flexible line is weaved through said holes in said planar step member and has a portion which is movably supported upon a bow chalk having a slot therein, and also has an end portion which is looped about the mooring cleat of the boat for securing and suspending said step member to the boat.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.