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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7997223 | Vessel mooring apparatus A mooring buoy includes a buoyant shell that defines a chamber and has a channel extending from the chamber through the outer surface of the shell. The channel accommodates a pendant line therethrough. Within the chamber is a rotating takeup/payout that rotates abou... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7363871 | Apparatus for cleaning the hull of a floating vessel Improvements to a cleaning assembly include a support for a rotating object, a rotary brush, an apparatus for manoeuvring a floating vessel and an arm arrangement for cleaning a surface. Thus, an inventive cleaning assembly is provided, the cleaning assembly compris... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7347157 | Static soft rail launch and recovery system The static soft rail launch and recovery system provides an anchor or piling located in a body of water away from the shoreline. The anchor remains at a fixed point under water, while being attached to cables having their opposite ends affixed on land to tension the... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7191836 | Dry tree subsea well communications apparatus and method using variable tension large offset risers Disclosed are compliant variable tension risers (106) to connect deep-water subsea wellheads (102) to a single floating platform (104). The variable tension risers (106) allow several subsea well-heads (102), in water depths from 4... | 03/20/2007 |
| 6978730 | Magnetic boat docking system A magnetic boat docking system includes an elongated pole having a handle end and a working end and a docking line having a magnetic member attached thereto. The pole has a magnet for attracting the magnetic member of the docking line where the magnet is located adj... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6945499 | Satellite stand-off tether system A tethered spacecraft is tethered to a base using a semirigid stand-off and a moving tether operated as a belt drive and operated in tension so that the tethered is precisely positioned in tension from the base spacecraft. ... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6928946 | Remote mooring pulley system An adjustable pulley device which resides on a boat's anchor rope, which, when the anchor has been set offshore, allows an operator to pull the boat from shore to a pre-determined point on the anchor rope, and retrieve it. It comprises a housing with an integral pul... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6651577 | Portable marine outhaul A portable marine outhaul has a closed loop of line strung between pulleys attached to a pair of anchors, e.g. sea and land anchors, and used to keep a boat moored off a temporary shore. The outhaul uses a reel rotatably mounted inside a housing. One half... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6408778 | Watercraft retriever lift A boat lift construction is disclosed for retrieving watercraft from one location and moving them to another location by use of a fixed longitudinal member operatively connected to a winch which moves a carrier frame mounted on wheels back and forth betwe... | 06/25/2002 |
| 5816182 | Tension mooring system An offshore system is described that minimizes mooring loads attributable to oscillating wave drift. A tension member (24, FIG. 1), such as a chain, has a lower end (32) fixed to the seafloor and has an upper end portion (40) coupled to the vessel (12), s... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5749535 | Deceleration device A self-adjusting deceleration device comprises a rewind spool-laden base and pneumatic chamber. A linear medium, attached to the spool, passes into the pneumatic chamber, attaches to a piston, and passes back through the base and out of the device. An ene... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5738033 | Bumper and sling arrangement to assist boat docking A bumper and sling arrangement assists a user to dock his or her boat to a dock or the like by allowing the user to set-up the sling in slack condition between moorings on the boat and dock, and then allowing the user to tighten the slackness out of the s... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5579710 | Boat docking method and apparatus A method and apparatus for docking a motorboat including providing boat docking apparatus with a length of cable, having a weight affixed to one end, and cable retrieving apparatus, having a second end of the cable adhering thereto. The boat is moved to w... | 12/03/1996 |
| 5524566 | Dock line shock absorber Shock absorber apparatus for mooring lines of boats and yachts includes an automotive type, double acting, telescopic shock absorber arranged in a two part, telescoping cage with attachment rings on each end for the mooring lines. Tensile forces in the li... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5483911 | Elastic anchor rope A hollow braid woven anchor rope having an elastic core, of tubular latex, occupies a major portion of rope length. Ends of the elastic core are secured to the rope proper by rings, one each, located on rope end segements. A snap assembly at one end of th... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5265553 | Small boat mooring system A small boat mooring system is provided for securing a boat to a dock, pier or pilings in such a way that the boat is free to move vertically with the normal changes in tide or wave action. The system comprises a plurality of nylon lines, a snaphook for c... | 11/30/1993 |
| 5222453 | Apparatus and method for reducing motion response of marine structures An apparatus and method reducing the motions of a marine structure anchored in a body of water over a hydrocarbon drilling or production site using a spread type mooring system. The structure's motions are reduced by increasing the amplitude and altering ... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5168823 | Transportable off-shore boat mooring and method for using same A transportable remote-controlled mooring apparatus and method for water craft is disclosed. The mooring of the present invention employs a relatively large hoop of flexible material through which a water craft activation line travels. The mooring attache... | 12/08/1992 |
| 4754957 | Shock absorber for lines The instant invention is an apparatus for introducing resilient forces into a line when the line is tensioned. The apparatus comprises a housing to form and maintain a section of line into a loop or bight portion lying generally in planes substantially pa... | 07/05/1988 |
| 4543070 | Linked-spar motion-compensated lifting system An improved system for operating a lifting cable over the side of a ship at ea in which a spar buoy having an adjustable lifting capacity is coupled to the ship by a rigid linkage which is free to pivot on an axis attached to the ship deck, and operates to... | 09/24/1985 |
| 4065822 | Single point mooring with strain relief anchoring A single point mooring for an offshore body of water, being capable of holding a tanker during a loading or off-loading period. A conduit depending downwardly from the floating mooring to the ocean floor carries fluid from a source thereof. A resilient, s... | 01/03/1978 |
| 4022450 | Line tensioning device A line tensioning device for maintaining a resilient sinuous bend in an elongated flexible line includes a pair of opposed semi-circular sections forming a rigid tube clamped coaxially about a portion of the length of the line and a pair of parallel elong... | 05/10/1977 |
| 3971329 | Mooring device A device for moving a boat from a dock with the boat being moored in the water a distance from the dock so that it will not be damaged by being tossed against the dock due to waves or choppy water. The boat is moved away from and to the dock by a mooring ... | 07/27/1976 |
| 3948201 | Position correction system of floating bodies The position of a ship moored by at least three anchor ropes extending between the ship and independent remote anchor points is corrected by a control system comprising a rope orientation angle detector, a device for designating the angle and amount of mo... | 04/06/1976 |
