Patent ID: 6293216
Filing Date: 2001-09-25
Classification: B60V,B63B,Y02T

Abstract:
A vessel for moving across a water's surface, said vessel comprising a V-shaped hull for supporting said vessel upon said water's surface wherein said v-shaped hull has a gas cavity that is adapted to receive pressurized gas from a gas blower, said V-shaped hull further comprising:air restricting side hull portions adapted to reduce gas loss from said gas cavity wherein said air restricting side hull portions extend substantially parallel to said vessel's direction of movement along said V-shaped hull; andwater redirecting projections positioned on each side of said V-shaped hull wherein said water redirecting portions are adapted to direct a flow of water back toward a blow through area on said V-shaped hull such that a portion of said pressurized gas is prevented from venting from said gas cavity through said blow through area.