Patent ID: 8579669
Filing Date: 2013-11-12
Classification: B63B,B63H,Y10T

Abstract:
1. Gear housing for an aquatic vessel, the gear housing being attachable at an attachment site to an underside of a bull of the aquatic vessel, wherein the gear housing comprises at least one region that is weaker in strength relative to a surrounding area of the gear housing such that the region has an increased tendency, relative to the surrounding area, to yield in strength when the gear housing is rotated around the attachment site following an impact against a first end of the gear housing; two side walls located opposite to one another so as to form a compartment; and a tail region where the side walls meet, the tail region being located at a second end of the gear housing, and the region comprising a slit dividing the tail region into a first and a second part, the first part exhibiting an oblique surface facing an oblique surface on the second part such that the first and second parts slide past one another following the impact.