... boats that have rigid hulls and an inflatable ... These boat designs are generally safer than designs that do not incorporate flotation devices within the hull.

The floating rigid-inflatable boat includes a hull having complementary ... do not have room to accommodate multiple emergency auxiliary watercraft.

Rigid inflatable boats, also known as RIBs, typically have a rigid hull ... are labeled with like numerals throughout the several Figures. FIG. 1 is a ...

As shown, boat 20 has a hull 22, bow region 24, sidewalls 26, aft region 28, and transom 30. Boat 20 typically will be motorized, either with an inboard or ...

This method of attachment has been adapted to inflatable boat manufacture where the tube is equipped with a rope that slides into a slot on the rigid hull. In ...

There are, at present, floating vessels that incorporate an inflatable hull ... Also, the latter are mainly intended for motor propulsion, and do not have ...

Accordingly, there is a need in the art for a simplified means for joining the inflatable tube to the hull and/or deck of the boat such that it can be easily ...

The inflatable collar is partially filled with foam, and the foam inserts are sized so that the boat retains a sufficient righting moment for its intended ...

The boat can include an inflatable exterior member connected with the hull ... The method 230 can be accomplished using any suitable collapsible boat hull having ...

The forward hull 22 sections are inflatable, normally comprised of a number of individually sealed compartments, with the aft hull sections 24 being rigid ...

A high performance boat stabilized through the use of foam stabilizing members (12) is provided. The boat has a rigid, planing hull (10) including a transom ...

A valve system and bag/bladder will be needed for each separate air chamber of the boat design, whatever the length, diameter, or number of individual chambers.

... inflatable boat including a hull with an inflatable buoyancy collar. The collar comprises a number of separate inflatable members each of which has an ...

... boat for high speed towing applications having a compartmentalized hull ... These inflatable boats have the advantages of increased mobility, because they can ...

... hull structure such as an inflatable boat (including rafts and kayak-types). [0002]. It is common knowledge that most rafts and inflatable kayak-type boats can ...

Marine surface vessels in the form of a rigid-inflatable boats (RIB) have a variety of uses. ... The hull may present a single skin, or it can be a sandwich ...

It will be understood that as the boat after the assembling and vulcanization is inflated, the inner and outer skins 1, 2 of the boat hull or those of the ...

assembly 10 may have an elliptical cross-section instead. Collar assembly 10 additionally is designed for attachment to hull H of a 20 watercraft such as boat B ...

... inflatable boats or the like can be used to make the hull 2. the latter can ... 5 as a flying boat having a composite hull including the inflatable hull 2 and the ...

Application Numbers Publication Numbers ... A collapsible boat can have one or more interior members (18) that are inflatable to support the collapsible hull in ...