Patent ID: 6443083
Filing Date: 2002-09-03
Classification: B63H,Y10T

Abstract:
In combination with a motor or sports boat having an engine, a propeller drivable by the engine, and a steering system:a hand lever pivotal on the boat about a main axis and extending along a handle axis generally orthogonal to the main axis, the handle axis defining a function plane on pivoting of the handle about the main axis; a part carried on the hand lever and pivotal thereon about the lever axis from a central position into a pair of opposite end positions; speed-control means connecting the hand lever to the engine for varying a speed of same in accordance with the angular position of the hand lever in the function plane; a sensor contacting with the part and producing an output on movement of same out of the center position into one of the end positions; direction-control means connected between the sensor and the steering system for operating the steering system in accordance with the output.