Patent ID: 6805065
Filing Date: 2004-10-19
Classification: B63B,B63H

Abstract:
a system and method of reducing or eliminating sailboat heeling comprising:a sailboat with a hull and deck within which is integrated a support cross member, a housing attached to the cross member comprising a pivot ball and retainer ring, a mast support tube comprising a tube with a ball socket joint on one end that fits the pivot ball of the housing, a thrust wear button that fits inside the mast support tube upon which the mast can sit and rotate, a tensioning tube that fits over the mast support tube, a tensioning plate that is attached to the tensioning tube, tensioning devices that attach the tensioning plate to the retainer ring in the housing, a tensioning adjustor that can raise or lower the tensioning plate, a mast that is self stayed so that it can tilt freely with the mast support tube, a mast that is reinforced at the base to prevent it from bending between the bridged part of the mast and the mast support tube, a mast that has wear collars and a wear tube at the base that allows it to turn freely in the mast support tube, a sail management system that, excepting a point of sail sheet, frees the sail and boom of all lines to the deck that would hinder the tilting of the mast independently of the hull and deck, a sail that is cut upward away from the mast comprising a sleeve that holds a doubled line that is the boom vang and a sail clew at the outer end of the boom vang sleeve, a boom vang that is a line doubled in the boom vang sleeve of the sail allowing a boom vang loop to extend out of the sleeve just below the sail clew.