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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7413379 | Boat storage stand A boat support stands. A pair of aligned and mutually opposed beds is pivotally mounted by risers atop a base plate. A cable and spring urge the beds to move together. ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7413378 | Boat lift A boat lifting assembly includes a cradle for carrying a boat mounted between three pilings on each cradle side. A pair of support housings is affixed to the pilings on each cradle side. A pair of hydraulic lifts are housed in the housings and connected to the cradl... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7367747 | Adjustable and extending transport cradle for watercraft A cradle assembly for moving and positioning a watercraft with respect to a support module. The cradle assembly comprises a plurality of horizontally varying cradle beams, a cradle wall extending upward from the cradle beams and a transportation track traversing the... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7293522 | Roller assembly for floating dock A roller assembly facilitates travel of a watercraft hull on a floating dock having a longitudinal, keel-receiving valley with a pair of flanking ridges supporting opposite sides of the hull during docking and launching of the craft. Pockets in the ridges contain wh... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7267071 | Apparatuses and methods useful for centering watercraft Apparatuses and methods useful for helping to center watercraft—such as personal watercraft, ski boats, fishing boats, luxury boats, and the like—as they are docked (such as on trailers or watercraft-lifting systems), especially in rough waters and/or strong cro... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7225751 | Connecting link assembly and socket arrangement for assembly of floating drive-on dry docks The present invention provides a connecting link assembly and socket arrangement for assembling modular dock and/or deck elements into walkways, decks and drive-on docks. ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7191726 | Boat pad and boat pad assembly A boat pad may include a planar member composed of an elastomeric, rubber or like material. The planar member may include a plurality of spaced-apart raised features formed on a surface thereof and which are configured to contact a surface of a water vessel hull as ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7117809 | Floating dry dock for light watercrafts A watercraft support platform casing for a floating dry dock for light weight watercrafts is described. The support platform casing has integrally formed floatation chambers and an elongated central ramp is formed in the top surface of the casing to support the hull... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7112007 | Cradle for item transportation and storage, especially watercraft storage A cradle assembly for moving and positioning an item with respect to a support module in a storage assembly with the item including a bottom. The cradle assembly comprises a plurality of cradle beams, at least one cradle wall vertically extending upward from the plu... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7069872 | Floating drive-on-watercraft dock A floating drive-on watercraft dock comprises a one-piece molded body defining a watercraft receiving area. The watercraft receiving area includes roller assemblies on the bottom of the watercraft receiving area and glide assemblies on the sides of the watercraft re... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7055449 | Apparatuses and methods useful for centering watercraft Apparatuses and methods useful for helping to center watercraft—such as personal watercraft, ski boats, fishing boats, luxury boats, and the like—as they are docked (such as on trailers or watercraft-lifting systems), especially in rough waters and/or strong cro... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7044921 | Medical device with changeable tip flexibility A medical device with a changeable flexibility and a method of using the same. The medical device may include a core member, a tip member, and a tie member. The tip member may be configured to longitudinally shift relative to core member, which may alter the flexibi... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7025531 | Bidirectional adjustable boat cradle A boat cradle has two pair of channels comprised of two lower channels supporting two upper channels. The lower channel members are each pivotally fixed to its own upright; the upper channels support a plastic pad that rotates to match the bottom and the inclination... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6976442 | Variable range apparatus for watercraft lift The invention generally relates to an apparatus and method that allows the lifting range of a four-bar, ground-based watercraft lift to be adjustable. More particularly, it relates to a ground-based watercraft that that allows for the lifting range of a watercraft s... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6964241 | Portable mooring device for small watercraft A portable mooring device for a small watercraft includes frame means having a pair of opposing side members and a plurality of crossbar members that are assemblable and adjustable by releasably securing telescopic engagements therebetween with removable pins, water... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6953003 | Watercraft landing cradle A parallelgram arrangement of linkages interconnect a stern ramp frame with a plurality of parallel rails vertically adjusted to positions above the ramp frame by actuators for reception and maintenance of a watercraft thereon with minimized vibration, further reduc... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6830410 | Bunk beam and bunk cushion apparatus for supporting a watercraft The present invention is directed to an apparatus for supporting the hull of a watercraft using a flexible bunk beam and a convex cushion attached to the beam using locking elements. The beam has a longitudinal recess with a narrow upper neck portion and a larger lo... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6644231 | Boat landing apparatus A third embodiment of the boat landing apparatus includes a pair of roller assemblies, a pair of cross members and a set of four retention brackets. A first embodiment of the retention bracket is a surface pivot bracket. A second embodiment of the retenti... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6612775 | Hydraulic watercraft lift A watercraft lift having hydraulic cylinders secured to lift towers and pivot axles located above the water surface to raise and lower a cradle that is secured to a surrounding support framework with lift frames that radiate from the framework and cradle ... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6602022 | Drive-on boat docking apparatus, method and kit for creating such apparatus An apparatus for lifting and storing a boat above the water in the well of a floating dry dock is made up of a frame onto which the boat can be driven under its own power and which pivots on a rear bar mounted across and away from the entrance of the well... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6575661 | Boat lift A boat lift having a stationary frame and a lifting frame that can be raised and lowered on the stationary frame. The lifting frame has a front cross member and a rear cross member. A pair of bunk rails are adjustably mounted upon the cross members so tha... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6520728 | System and method for elevating a watercraft An apparatus (10) is provided for elevating a watercraft out of a body of water and maintaining the watercraft at a predetermined elevation over the water or removing the watercraft therefrom for towage behind a vehicle. Apparatus (10) includes a forwardl... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6139219 | Docking/support system for personal water crafts The disclosed portable docking/support system has a frame structure including end stands and elongated members connected at opposite ends thereof to and between the end stands. The elongated members include a pair of upper members and a lower member space... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6092961 | Beach ramp system for watercrafts A beach ramp system for watercrafts comprising at least one set of rails, each set including two rails. Each rail has a cross-section with aligned holes and an axle. Each rail also includes an aperture above the aligned holes with an elastomeric roller su... | 07/25/2000 |
| 6079936 | Personal watercraft carrier with lowering and lifting capability A personal watercraft carrier having a watercraft cradle coupled to a support frame wherein the support frame has two vertical leg support members which are pivotally coupled to advance from an essentially horizontal position to an essentially vertical up... | 06/27/2000 |
| 5941660 | Modular watercraft support structure A watercraft support structure formed from a plurality of rigid platforms that are coupled together by the use of linking pins or insertion plugs. Each platform having independent buoyancy formed integral therein for support of most any size watercraft. T... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5890835 | Hydraulic lift for boats A hydraulic lift for raising a boat out of water into a raised storage position is proposed. Pivoting booms are connected to a frame that is supportable by a bed of a body of water. A boat rack is provided at an upper portion of the pivoting booms. A hydr... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5888019 | Walking hoist A walking hoist has a pair of elongated parallel laterally spaced side members with opposite ends. A downwardly extending leg with upper and lower ends is rigidly secured to the ends of each side member. A pair of U-shaped crank members are rotatably secu... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5860765 | In-water dry dock system with removable centerline insert The present invention provides a simple system for in-water dry docking pleasure boats using existing boat slips. The system includes a dry-dock basin having one or more ballast tanks mounted below the bottom surface of the basin. The basin is submerged a... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5839851 | Personal watercraft lift A lift is provided for a personal watercraft and includes two relatively elongated channel members each of a generally C-shaped transverse cross-section. A carriage carrying a platform upon which the personal watercraft can be supported is mounted for sli... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5795098 | Modular watercraft support structure A watercraft support structure formed from a plurality of rigid platforms that are coupled together by the use of linking pins. Each platform having independent buoyancy formed integral therein for support of most any size watercraft. The structure includ... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5641242 | Apparatus for storing a boat An apparatus for removing a boat from water and storing in a position above water includes a stationary frame with a pivoting frame attached thereto. An end of the pivoting frame extends into the water, allowing engagement with a boat. The stationary fram... | 06/24/1997 |
| 5622447 | Self-leveling boat hull support A boat hull support has a pair of support members each pivotally attached to a respective upright. The inner ends of the support members oppose each other. One of the inner ends mounts a pair of cam plates having aligned banana-shaped cam openings. The ot... | 04/22/1997 |
| 5460112 | Securing apparatus An apparatus for securing a movable work object relative to a substantially amorphous mass, the apparatus having a frame; a penetrating member adapted to be received in the amorphous mass; a member for interconnecting the penetrating member and the frame ... | 10/24/1995 |
| 5449247 | Boat mooring station A boat mooring station comprises frame members connected to define a mooring station frame. The mooring station frame is positioned above a waterline of a body of water and oriented generally parallel to the surface of the body of water. An extensible fro... | 09/12/1995 |
| 5316409 | Portable boat skidway A portable boat skidway is provided by combining lengths of steel rods interconnected by flexible joints in a ladder-like array with skidding tubes of high density polymeric material which serve as "rungs". A turning pad is provided by assembling a square... | 05/31/1994 |
| 5290124 | Boat stand Boat stand assemblies for dry dock maintenance or storage of boats with and without keels including two or more rigid frames of adjustable width each including a pair of struts of adjustable height, the frames being connectable by cross braces to provide ... | 03/01/1994 |
| 5267811 | Portable dock for watercraft A portable dock consisting of a raised V-Shaped structure, with an essentially rectangularly shaped horizontal base with attached spaced apart angled platforms situated above the base, said dock adapted to reside substantially underwater. The raised V-sha... | 12/07/1993 |
| 5259694 | Personal watercraft launcher An improved personal watercraft launcher is disclosed having a deployable carriage mounted upon a dock surface and movable in a guided path between a stowed and deployed position. A cradle assembly affixed to the dock surface near to the water is equipped... | 11/09/1993 |
| 5186576 | Boat hull support The invention concerns a boat hull support that includes a pair of hull support members spaced from each other and each pivotally mounted intermediate its ends to spaced uprights. A guide post is mounted for vertical movement in the space between the supp... | 02/16/1993 |
