Inflatable sailboat

• US 4,249,276 A
• Filed: 06/07/1979
• Issued: 02/10/1981
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/1979
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Fredric Snyderman
• Original Assignee: Fredric Snyderman
• Inventors: Snyderman, Fredric
• Primary Examiner(s): Reger, Duane A.
• Application Number:
  US06/046,219
• Time in Patent Office: 614 Days
• Field of Search: 114/39, 114/102, 9/2 A, 9/11 A
• US Class Current: 114/345
• CPC Class Codes: B63B 15/0083 Masts for sailing ships or boats
• CPC Class Codes: B63B 7/085 Accessories or mountings specially adapted therefor, e.g. seats, sailing kits, motor mountings
• CPC Class Codes: B63H 9/06 Types of sail; Constructional features of sails; Arrangements thereof on vessels

Abstract

A sailboat with an inflatable compartment defining a hull and having a plurality of interconnected tubular members forming a support structure for a mast. A plurality of brackets are mounted to the hull for captively holding the tubular members in a substantially A-frame configuration. A sail is connected to the mast which is captively held to the support structure and hull.

Claims

1. An inflatable sailboat comprising:

(a) an inflatable hull;

(b) starboard bracket means mounted to said hull on the starboard side thereof;

(c) port bracket means mounted to said hull on the port side thereof;

(d) bow bracket means mounted to said hull at the bow thereof;

(e) an A-frame with a substantially triangular upright body that terminates in a pair of rearwardly extending feet which are substantially perpendicular to said upright body, one of said extending feet received within said starboard bracket means and captively held to said hull by said starboard bracket means, the other of said extending feet received within said port bracket means and captively held to said hull by said port bracket means;

(f) a mast, one end of said mast configured to be captively held by said bow bracket means, a portion of said mast intermediate its ends captively mounted to the apex of said triangular body, said mast sloping obliquely upward from said bow bracket means to its mounting at said apex of said triangular body; and

(g) sail means carried by said mast.

2. The inflatable sailboat as claimed in claim 1 wherein said A-frame includes a plurality of interlocking members.

3. The inflatable sailboat as claimed in claim 2 wherein said interlocking members are tubular members of substantially similar diameters, certain ones of said tubular members having narrowed ends that are configured to be received by certain other ones of said tubular members.

4. The inflatable sailboat as claimed in claim 2 wherein said starboard bracket means includes a pair of ring brackets and wherein said port bracket means includes a pair of ring brackets, said extending feet received within said ring brackets.

5. The inflatable sailboat as claimed in claim 4 wherein said A-frame includes a plurality of interconnectable tubular members, said tubular members fixed against relative slidable and rotational movement when interconnected, said tubular members defining said extending feet captively held by said ring brackets.

6. An inflatable sailboat comprising:

(a) an inflatable hull;

(b) a plurality of bracket means mounted to said hull along the sides thereof;

(c) a sail support structure having a substantially triangular body with a pair of feet rearwardly extending substantially perpendicular from said body, said feet received within said bracket means and captively held by said bracket means, said body being substantially upright with respect to said hull when said feet are captively held by said bracket means, said feet substantially parallel with respect to said hull when held by said bracket means;

(d) mast means, one end of said mast means mounted to the bow of said hull, a portion of said mast means intermediate the ends thereof connected to the apex of said body, said mast means sloping obliquely upward from said bow to said apex of said body; and

(e) sail means connected to said mast.

7. The inflatable sailboat as claimed in claim 6 wherein said A-frame includes a plurality of interconnectable tubular members of substantially equal diameters, certain ends of said members narrowed to fit into certain other ones of said members, said tubular members defining said extending feet captively held to said hull by said bracket means, one of said extending feet captively held to the starboard side of said hull and the other one of said extending feet captively held to the port side of said hull, said feet extending towards the stern of said hull.

8. The inflatable sailboat as claimed in claim 7 wherein certain ones of said tubular members have narrowed ends that are received within certain other ones of said tubular members for interconnecting said tubular members.

9. The inflatable sailboat as claimed in claim 8 including locking means for locking said interconnected tubular members, said locked interconnected tubular members are fixed against rotational and slidable movement relative to one another.

10. The inflatable sailboat as claimed in claim 9 including first and second outrigger means, said first outrigger means connected to said body on the starboard side of said hull, said second outrigger means connected to said body on the port side of said hull, said first and second outrigger means substantially parallel to the respective sides of said upright body.