Ships inventions 10/06

20060236909 - Stealthy powered catamaran: An articulated boat may include a pair of pontoons and a central cabin connected by pair of struts, each pair forming a parallelogram and one or more motors for changing the elevation between the central cabin and the pair of pontoons and for moving the boat through the water. The...

20060236910 - Masthead control system: A masthead control system and method are provided for a sailing vessel to reduce the number of cables running inside the mast to a single coaxial cable carrying power, control and data signals, and VHF radio signals. The coaxial cable connects an antenna directly to a VHF radio communications device...

20060236911 - Fast sail: This invention belongs to the field of wind propelled vehicles. The goal of the invention is to provide large sails creating no overturning force. This is achieved by placing the top part of the sail above the vehicle and the bottom part of the sail aside from the vehicle....

20060236912 - Device for and a method of transferring personnel between units at sea: A method and device for a personnel capsule (1) for transferring personnel from/to a first vessel (2) and to an offshore installation (40) or to another ship by means of a lifting device (44), the lifting device comprising an attachment point (42), and where a guideline (36) connected to the...

20060231003 - Non-planing boat hull: A non-planing boat hull includes a forward portion having a bow with the width tapering from a beam toward the bow and an aft portion having a stern with the aft portion having a width tapering smaller from the beam toward the stern. A keel is provided and disposed along...

20060231004 - Apparatus and method for reducing fluid drag on a submerged surface: An apparatus and method for reducing surface friction drag on the hull of a surface vessel by entraining air into water flowing in the boundary layer flow along the hull. A hemispherical protrusion creates flow separation by diverting a portion of the water flow away from the surface of the...

20060231005 - Freshwater supply system: A freshwater supply system that stores fresh water transported by transport ships in storage devices and takes out the fresh water from the freshwater storage devices at need to use the same. The system comprises management device that puts management information together and sends and receives various information of countries...

20060231007 - Control system for positioning of a marine seismic streamers: A method of controlling a streamer positioning device (18) configured to be attached to a marine seismic streamer (12) and towed by seismic survey vessel (10) and having a wing and a wing motor for changing the orientation of the wing. The method includes the steps of: obtaining an estimated...

20060231006 - Control system for positioning of marine seismic streamers: A method of controlling a streamer positioning device (18) configured to be attached to a marine seismic streamer (12) and towed by seismic survey vessel (10) and having a wing and a wing motor for changing the orientation of the wing. The method includes the steps of: obtaining an estimated...

20060231008 - Systems and methods for reducing vibrations: There is disclosed a system comprising a substantially cylindrical element, at least one strake element about a circumference of the cylindrical element, wherein at least one of the strake elements are closed and comprise a thickness measured in a direction along a longitudinal axis of the cylindrical element less than...

20060231009 - Rigging caddy for telescoping outrigger: A rigging caddy in combination with an outrigger boom that has at least one tube section of a given diameter and a rigging line. The rigging caddy includes a first attachment device to attach to the given diameter. The first attachment device has a first extension for wrapping the rigging...

20060231010 - Boat system: A boat includes a hull, topsides with a cockpit therein. A top is provided having a perimeter contoured for engaging a topsides perimeter in a closed position and providing a canopy for the topsides in an open position. Linear actuators are provided for moving the top between the open and...

20060225633 - Seabed located storage: Seabed located storage for crude oil or other fluid, distinguished in that it is comprising a storage section in form of an oil and waterproof cloth formed as a flexible balloon that can be filled with, store and emptied for a storage fluid, a structure section formed as an external...

20060225634 - Stabilized floating platform: A floating structure is floatable in a body of liquid and stabilized with respect to at least one of roll and pitch. Such a structure includes: a hull including compartments, each compartment being open at the bottom thereof relative to a horizontal plane, and being adapted to accommodate ingress by...

20060225635 - Frameless modular floating dock with inflatable pontoons: A modular buoyant support apparatus is comprised of buoyant support modules of inflatable pontoons. The pontoons comprise inflatable cylindrical tubular chambers, typically fabricated of polymer coated fabric sheet material. Pontoons are fashioned so that they may be connected directly, in a modular fashion, to the underside of an appropriately configured...

20060225636 - Boat window system: A cabin enclosure of a boat which is substantially water proof is provided. The cabin enclosure comprises a top, frame with joists attached to joist covers, plurality of windows, flashing and track which are layered upon each other to cascade water down the top, onto the windows and onto the...

20060219142 - Hybridhull boat system: A hull is formed of a forward section, a rearward section and intermediate sections there between. The forward section is in a generally triangular configuration. The forward section has a forward-most point. The forward section has rearwardly extending sides. The rearward sections are formed of exterior and interior walls. A...

20060219143 - Surface topography for non-toxic bioadhesion control: A coated surface for resisting or enhancing bioadhesion includes at least one patterned polymer including coating layer having a plurality of features attached to or projected into a base surface. The features each have at least one microscale (<1 mm) dimension and have at least one neighboring feature having a...

20060219144 - Telescoping mast having variable height locking and a chain erection mechanism with a cable management system: A telescoping mast for supporting and raising a load may be telescopically extended by a zipper-action chain extension system further comprising a system for the management of one or more cables, such as power or communication cables traversing the length of the mast, and is capable of being locked into...

20060219145 - Seat guide device: A seat guide device has at least one linear guide system and a seat base supported in a movable fashion on the carriage of said system against the force of a spring. The device further comprises: (a) damping element coupled to at least one of the carriage and the spring,...

20060219146 - Amphibious vehicle steering: An amphibious vehicle has retractable wheels (2, 3) attached to hubs (2), and a planing hull (10, 11, 3). Front wheels are arranged to be steered by a power assisted transversely mounted element (16), which may be a rack and pinion unit. The element may be linked to the wheels...

20060219147 - Cover plate removal tool: A cover plate removal tool including an elongate solid unit having a hollow longitudinal track having an end portion including a cylindrical recess having an axis transverse to a longitudinal axis of said track. The cover plate removal tool also includes a plurality of solid pegs securable perpendicular within said...

20060219148 - Method for producing a floating base: Method for producing a floating base, which base is made up of a number of coupled-together base elements, characterized in that floating elements and rigid elements are supplied first, after which a number of floating elements and a number of rigid elements are joined together, wherein each base element is...

20060219149 - Active platform for a boat: A device for elevating a platform over a boat deck. This type of device can include a platform, a drive, and at least one driven lift which is in communication with the drive. This driven lift can be coupled at a first end to the platform and at a second...

20060219150 - Stackable support shock absorbing platform: A system for supporting a user in a shock absorbing manner over a base floor comprising at least one base platform selectively secured the base floor. There is at least one additional platform wherein this platform can be stacked on top of the base platform. This additional platform can comprise...

20060219151 - Method and apparatus for welding a fluoropolymer seam: A method for sealing and smoothing a seam produced from applying flexible protective covering sheets of a fluoropolymer to a hull of a marine craft, thus forming a protective fluoropolymer film on the hull. The method comprises placing a thread of fluoropolymer caulk onto the seam produced from applying the...

20060219152 - Process for manufacturing a boat hull: A closed molded system uses reaction injection molding for producing large vessels with hulls, such as a boat hull or large containers. Inserts are used to create a cavity to produce a core. Thereafter the inserts are removed and the same mold is then used to make the other layers...