Lightweight personal watercraft
AssigneeRoundabout Watercrafts LLC
InventorsCurtis Todd Foucher, Scott Edward Williams
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Abstract
A substantially circular watercraft has a buoyant, generally toroidal hull supporting a rigid deck with an outer periphery in substantial conformance with the perimeter of the hull. The deck has an opening located above the central opening of the hull to permit placement of power means to drive and steer the watercraft. The hull is made of a substantially rigid material and in a preferred embodiment the hull and deck are formed from a molded plastic. The leading edge of the watercraft is equipped with a “Carolina flare” which provides greater ease of movement through the water.
Claims13
A watercraft comprising:
- (a) a substantially circular hull formed by a continuous outer annular wall directly connected to a bottom wall, the continuous outer annular wall having two opposing arcuate shaped sidewalls that are each directly connected to a bow and a stern thereby forming an outer diameter of the hull;
- (b) an inner annular sidewall that is spaced apart from but connected to the continuous outer annular wall by a flat wall that forms an upper circumference of the hull, the inner annular sidewall forming an inner diameter of the hull defining a recess in the hull;
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- (c) a recessed deck formed in the inner diameter of the hull that is connected to the inner annular sidewall, the recessed deck configured to receive a seat thereon, wherein:
- the bow is formed of directly connected, angled sidewalls that extend outwardly away from the bottom wall in a direction towards the flat wall that forms the upper circumference of the hull, and
- the stern is substantially flat in a direction extending from the bottom wall to the flat wall that forms the upper circumference of the hull such that the stern is perpendicular relative to the bottom wall and is configured for mounting a motor thereon.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.