Patent ID: 6581538
Filing Date: 2003-06-24
Classification: B63B

Abstract:
An integrated safety accessory arrangement and components for users of personal watercraft whereby access is provided to accessories comprising a plurality of personal hydration accessories, navigation accessories, communication accessories, and manual pump accessories, wherein said accessories are accessible while said watercraft is underway thereby facilitating personal hydration, navigation, communications, and self-rescue emergency pumping by users of said watercraft,said arrangement and components comprising: a personal watercraft having a hull, a user seat on said hull, a multi-purpose accessory hatch positioned forward of said seat, said hatch comprising a hatch fitting and hatch cover, wherein said hatch and said cover serve as an operating platform for said accessories, a containment sleeve for a flexible personal hydration reservoir with integral draft tube positioned internal to said hatch, said hatch cover fitted with a sealed hydration port having an aperture sized to pass said tube, a tether securing a cap to said port, a pump holder attachment to said hatch, said holder sized and configured for said accessory pump, whereby said pump may be stored or operated, dependant on selected position, an internal beverage holder for said hatch, a storage ring fitting situated proximate to said hatch on interior bottom of said hull, wherein said hatch cover(s) and said accessories mounted upon said hatch covers may be stored and easily accessed by said user while underway in said watercraft, a companion hip-hatch with internal storage bag and tethered hatch cover sized to allow internal storage of said accessory hatch covers and said covers fitted with said accessories, and said reservoirs, improved with addition of said hydration port to said hatch cover, said storage bag sized to store said reservoir and said mounted accessories, said port positioned in said hull proximate to said compartment and said seat, wherein said tube is accessible to said user while underway in said watercraft, whereby said arrangement and components are functionally effective in any combination individually and collectively.