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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4061101 | Sail furling apparatus A sail furling apparatus having a fixed core for connection to a wind powered device is disclosed herein. A rotatable sail sleeve having a bore formed therein is rotatably mounted on the fixed core. A double sheet airfoil sail is connected to the rotatabl... | 12/06/1977 |
| 4059063 | Roll-furling mainsail In the roll-furling mainsail arrangement disclosed herein, the clew of the sail is trimmed to a boom by means of a car which is freely slidable along the boom. An outhaul line rigged to pull aft from the tip of the boom passes forward through a block on t... | 11/22/1977 |
| 4034694 | Jib furler The jib furler comprises an upper swivel system attached to a mast including a halyard sheave and a stay attachment device, a lower swivel system attached to a deck including attachment for a jib tack pendant, stay and halyard; and a halyard, luff rope an... | 07/12/1977 |
| 3980036 | Roller furling assembly An improvement on U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,789,790 and 3,749,043 employs spool sections which are notched so that they are spliced together over the jib stay rather than having pins in two of the grooves in the sections to join the same end-to-end, thereby freein... | 09/14/1976 |
| 3964419 | Anti-fouling roller furling gear upper assembly Furling gear unit comprising a stay slide and a cooperating stay bushing for attachment to the upper end of a forestay extending between the bow and the mast head of a sailing vessel, said unit being attached to the forestay, sail luff wire and sail halya... | 06/22/1976 |
| 3958523 | Sail hoisting, supporting and furling apparatus A sailboat forestay or headstay assembly for hoisting, supporting and furling a jib, including a roller furling unit, a wire secured at its lower end to this unit and at its upper end to a swivel unit, and a furling-drive connection adjacent the upper end... | 05/25/1976 |
| 3938460 | Sail-raising system In a jib sail system, roller-furling and interchangeability of jibs is provided by utilizing a rotatable, slotted stay member, preferably aerodynamically shaped, and by providing at the top of the stay member a ratchet-latching mechanism so that tension o... | 02/17/1976 |
| 3938458 | Adjustable boat hull Disclosed herein is a boat including a hull comprising a bottom surface including a panel having leading and trailing edges, together with forward and rearward bottom surface portions adjacent to the leading and trailing edges of the panel. Also included ... | 02/17/1976 |
