Patent ID: 6363877
Filing Date: 2002-04-02
Classification: B63B

Abstract:
A power boat including a bow and a stern, the boat having a hull with a longitudinal dimension extending from the bow of the boat to the stern of the boat, the boat also having a boarding platform extending across the stern for enabling boarding of the boat, the boarding platform being located substantially or slightly above the water surface when the boat is stationary in the water, the hull having a planing zone located at a stern region of the hull in the vicinity of the stern of the boat and being located below the boarding platform, the planing zone being shaped so that a longitudinal line extending along the surface of the hull in the direction of the longitudinal dimension from the bow to the stern upon reaching the planing zone turns upwardly towards the water surface relative to the longitudinal line forwardly of and before reaching the planing zone, the planing zone providing a zone of the hull where, when the boat is traveling through the water at speed, drag of the water traveling relatively along the planing zone assists stable travel of the boat through the water, the boat further including a transom extending across the stern of the boat and which rises upwardly from a forward end of the boarding platform, the hull including a transition region where the longitudinal line extending along the hull surface turns relatively upwardly and demarcates the start of the planing zone, the transition region being located generally directly below the transom.