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7596901 Fishing rig drogue apparatus  
A drogue attachment consisting of two symmetrical shaped arms is affixed to one end of a shaft, that end of the shaft being attached to a fishing line. The other end of the shaft is tied to a...
7207287 Boat control device  
A drift bag that includes one or more narrowing members to reshape a mouth of the drift bag in the vertical direction to reduce a draft of the drift bag.
6684808 Boat stability and directional-control device  
A device for providing stability and directional control to a boat. The device includes a flexible water container for being deployed from one quadrant of the boat and including opposing sides, a...
6447426 Water trampoline  
A water trampoline including a supporting shell and a plurality of concentrically disposed inflatable rings disposed within the supporting shell to form a stable, low profile buoyant platform. A...
6230646 Deep ocean, mid-water farming apparatus  
A deep ocean, mid-water farming apparatus, for propagating bi-valves, kelp and sea weed comprising a plurality of air-containing tanks arranged in a frame and including a lower frame element and an...
6135046 Spring biased drift anchor  
A sea anchor having a leading edge that is outfitted with a flexible, resilient hoop member that biases the leading edge to self-expand. The hoop member is constructed from a material having no...
6106199 Pile for anchoring floating structures and process for installing the same  
A pile for anchoring a floating structure in deep water includes an elongated body provided with a tapered pointed tip at the lower end thereof and a closure disc at the upper end thereof. A...
5595135 Arrangement for towing of a disabled ship  
An arrangement for towing a disabled ship comprising a wire on a wire drum having an axis extending in a longitudinal direction of a ship at the stern or stem of the ship, the wire being...
5517938 Drag inducing drogue for multiple towed arrays  
The drogue of the present invention induces drag for a plurality of underer tow lines. A tail section is axially movable within a nose section and extends partially therefrom. A tow line passes...
5463971 Collapsible sea anchor or drogue  
A collapsible sea anchor or drogue (50) having first and second hollow frusto-conical body parts (74, 80) which are made from strong flexible material, such as canvas. Four flexible lines (60, 62,...
5419275 Batten reinforced anchoring bag  
A square bag (28) open at the top or front with holes (30) in the bottom or opposite end for drainage and flow through. Tow members (16) secured to the periphery of the bag (28) at the open end of...
5394817 Collapsible drift sock  
A sea anchor or boat drag apparatus formed from a cylindrical tubular body and designed for inflated deployment from a fishing boat or the like and arranged to provide controllable or selectable...
5317985 Self-opening belt-like drogues  
Drogues are formed in a flat configuration having a central portion and peripheral edges consisting of a plurality of spaced inner and outer intersecting belts or webs which may be separately...
5241922 Collapsible sea anchor  
The invented sea anchor is made from two sheets of flexible material sewn together to create a generally frustum-shaped body. The body is collapsible and has a first end defining a first opening of...
5144904 Stabilizing apparatus  
Stabilizing apparatus for stabilizing boats comprising a weighted concave body which is suspended from the boat and which is formed as a grid defining openings through the body and a flexible flap...
5108326 Flexible surface drogue/stabilizer for drifter buoys  
The invention relates generally to the stabilization of drifter buoys and the like and more particularly to surface or near surface Lagrangian Drifter Buoys launched from aircraft or surface...
5062379 Method and apparatus for controlling the speed of boats  
A speed reducing device for use from a fishing boat when fishing in a boat moving with the wind and/or a current comprising a rearward portion formed as an essentially circular end panel of water...
5025746 Sea anchor assembly for kayak  
A sea anchor assembly for a kayak having two ends and one or more occupant seats, the assembly comprising: an anchor assembly comprising joined end-to-end in succession, an anchoring rope, a...
5016556 Sea anchor or drogue  
A sea anchor comprising a hollow body having a front part and a rear part and at least one water outlet located adjacent to the rear end of the front part. The front part has water inlet openings,...
4969413 Sea- or drag-anchor  
A sea anchor or drogue having a body comprised of a front section which tapers forwardly to a nose, and a hollow, rearwardly tapering back section. Longitudinal open channels are formed in the...
4926780 Sea anchor deployment and storage device and associated method  
A sea anchor and apparatus for deploying the sea anchor into water and for storing it when not in use. An associated method provides for the deployment of the sea anchor into water and storing the...
4905622 Marine anti-roll device  
A system for reducing roll of vessels comprises at least one and preferably a pair of hydrofoil devices suspended from lines rigged on each side of the vessel, preferably from outrigger booms. The...
RE33068 Sea anchor or changeable drag  
A device of the nature of a sea-anchor has a body tapered to the nose where it is attachable to a cable from a boat and formed with ports normally closed by spring-loaded closures but opened, by...
4834015 Anchor device  
An anchor device for use with inflatable rafts and cushions includes a compartmentalized cylindrical tray. The tray is designed to store beverage containers and the personal effects of an...
4766837 Recoverable sea anchor  
A recoverable sea anchor for a vessel wherein the anchor is made from a flexible sheet material with a periphery and a center. A plurality of lines interconnect a plurality of spaced points around...
4747797 Man overboard retrieval apparatus  
A life buoy 1 in the form of an inflatable ring with a floor 10 has a textile, invert cone keel 11 filled with water and held open by a ballast mass 14. Around the keel hangs an open mesh textile...
4733628 Recoverable sea anchor and method  
A sea anchor wherein the shroud may rotate about a mooring line to suppress shroud line fouling and including a trip line configured for drawing the center of the shroud forwards a vessel embodying...
4653219 Fishing line assembly  
The assembly includes a fishing line having a hook, lure or other fish-securing device adjacent its free end, and a fish drag in the form of a collapsible or foldable, umbrella-like water scoop...
4637330 Reinforced seam construction  
A reinforced seam and method of sewing the seam for joining adjacent fabric panels in an assembled relationship using a conventional sewing machine wherein a first panel is folded over and stitched...
4632051 Sea anchor  
A sea anchor for a vessel, which is formed in a generally symmetrical configuration of a hollow and baseless truncated body or paraboloid with a wide mouth member at the edge of the cone base of...
4612870 Structures and methods of forming sea anchors  
Structures and methods for constructing sea anchors having body portions defined by at least three spaced corners or vertices wherein bail ropes are sewn to and extend diagonally inwardly from each...
4563157 Cold-proof water-proof garment  
This cold-proof water-proof garment is designed to be worn by someone working in cold seas, or aboard a ship in distress at sea, to protect the life of the wearer if he should fall into the sea.
4534306 Sea anchor  
A tandem array of sea anchors is provided. Each sea anchor is generally umbrella shaped and has a relatively small opening at the apex. A single tow rope from a boat is secured to a plurality of...
4377123 Boat stabilizer apparatus  
A boat stabilizer apparatus comprising as an integral unit a stabilizer fin, a fin support strut to maintain the upright position of the stabilizer fin, moveable baffles attached to the fin to...
4346664 Lifeboat  
Lifeboat in the general form of a hollow prolate spheroid having a hatchway opening in the upper portion and a weighted keel in the lower portion. The lifeboat comprises a main body having inner...
4330895 Stabilizer for reducing motion of an object disposed in a fluid  
A stabilizer or drogue, packageable in a minimal volume, which can be auttically deployed to dampen horizontal, vertical and rotational motion of a device, such as a hydrophone, operating in a...
4299184 Method of towing large masses at sea  
A large floating mass (10) such as an off-shore structure or an iceberg is towed using two sea anchors (20 & 30) alternately. The motive power for towing is derived from winch means (15 & 16) on...
4096818 Drogue type deceleration device  
A device for rapidly decelerating a high velocity projectile in a liquid ium, e.g. water, while preventing both excessive high inertial loading of sensitive projectile components and high impact...
4058792 Ship security system  
A security system for a floating structure such as a boat, or the like, and which comprises an electro-mechanical apparatus that is sensitive to substantial changes in the position or orientation...
4027615 Boat anchor  
A boat anchor configured to facilitate dislodgement from hooking engagement with the various foreign objects at the bottom such as rocks, ledges and the like. The boat anchor comprises a weighted...
3973236 Horizontal hydrophone array  
A system for maintaining a two-legged hydrophone array in a horizontal plane is disclosed. This system uses a pair of directional maneuverable drogue chutes for providing tension on the hydrophone...
3969903 Underwater escape apparatus  
Underwater escape apparatus, intended for use in conjunction with an underwater escape suit provided with means for imparting to the suit an ascent velocity to permit escape from an underwater...
3952694 Marine signalling device  
A signalling device for indicating the position of a boat or person in the water comprising a bouyant member adapted to be attached to the boat or person and being of a color contrasting with that...
3926137 Deep ocean parachute release  
A drogue chute is used to extend a long line transducer array in the water s it is being towed in or played out in an ocean current. To avoid problems during a subsequent retrieval of the array,...
3922989 Hydrophone drogue  
A non-fouling, high drag, packageable drogue for substantially reducing the urrent flow past a suspended hydrophone. A single rectangular sheet capable of high density packaging in a sonobuoy...
3902327 Underwater escape apparatus  
An ascent retarding apparatus for attachment to a one-piece escape suit is used in underwater escape. The retarding apparatus is operated automatically, at a predetermined depth below the water...
3859598 AERIAL DROP PENETRATION DEVICE  
Aerial drop penetration devices constructed in accordance with this invention exhibit a reduction of mass at implant by separating into two separate masses (that is, the two mating parts of the...
3842778 PARACHUTE EQUIPMENT  
A parachute equipment comprising a box body having formed therein a parachute storage compartment provided with an openable door and a cocoon-shaped parachute cable storage compartment, a parachute...
3755836 STABILIZATION ARRANGEMENT FOR COMMUNICATION BUOYS  
In association with a communications buoy of the type launched from a submerged vessel, an automatically deployable surface stabilization arrangement for preventing inundation of the buoy even...
3472195 SEA ANCHOR  
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