A STRUCTURE OF A SAILING BOAT FOR DIDACTICS AND FOR DISABLED PEOPLE

Abstract: A structure of a sailing boat that allows disabled people to learn how to sail and to perform without any danger all manoeuvres performed on the great competition sailing boats, consists of a multiple housing (1) realized in the boat (BV), provided with two seats (2, 3) placed in succession, so that a teacher, sitting on the back seat, may check, suggest and correct the manoeuvres performed by a disabled person or by a young sitting on the front seat, and who may work only with his arms.

Description: "A STRUCTURE OF A SAILING BOAT FOR DIDACTICS AND FOR DISABLED PEOPLE" The present invention concerns a new structure of a sailing boat that allows disabled people to learn how to sail, and to learn how to perform, without any danger, the same manoeuvres done on the great competition sailing boats. Furthermore, the structure according to the present invention has prooved to be suitable for the didactics also of all kind of beginners, specially youngsters. It is well known that until today all those people that are disabled at their legs - even if they are able to use their arms - have been kept away from the marvellous world of sailing due to a total lack of floating means equipped and structured in such a way as to allow the presence and the cooperation of th disabled person accompanied by a teacher. Said lack is completely solved by means of the structure of sailing boat according to the present invention, consisting of a multiple housing realized in the boat and provided with two seats in succession so that a teache, sitting on the back seat, may check, suggest and correct the manoeuvres performed by a disable person or by a young person sitting on the front seat, and who may work only with his arms. The main feature of the structure according to the present invention consists in that it provides for an important sociale and sports function which has never before been faced and solved by any existing floating means or sailing boat. The present invention will be described more in detail hereinbelow relating to the enclosed drawings in which an embodiment is shown. Figure 1 shows a lateral, transparent scheme of a structure of a sailing boat for didactics and for disabled people, according to the present invention. Figure 2 shows a scheme of a section normal to th e longitudinal line of the boat. The enclosed figures show the structure of a sailing boat for didactics and for disabled people, comprising a multiple housing 1, realized in the hull of the boat BN in which the seats 2, 3 are placed in succession, both in correspondence of the terminals for the control of the sail and of the rudder, so that a teacher may accompany and teach the disabled person or the young without any danger. The advantages deriving from the present invention are many and considerable: - the two seats allow, besides the safeness of a companion, also the possibility of hosting a teacher who may teach the beginner all manoeuvres for sailing, thus giving all disabled people, without any distinction of age and sex, the possibility of savouring the satisfactions and emotions of this sport; - greatest safeness: the hull is practically unsinkable due to the double cofferdam filled up with high density plastic foam; - a drift with 160 kg of lead lumps avoids any possibility of capsizing; - the sports efficiency corresponds to the one of a great sailing- race boat: infact, besides the spanker and the "genova" staysail, the boat may also be provided with a spinnaker of wide surface; - the structure is easy to transport, due to its weight and to is very contained dimensions.

Claims: CLAIMS 1. A structure of a sailing boat for didactics and for disabled people, characterized in a multiple housing (1) realized in the hull of the boat (BV), in which two seats (2, 3) are provided in succession, both placed in correspondence of the terminals for the control of the sails and of the rudder, so that a teacher may accompany and teach the disabled person or the young, in complete safeness. 2. A structure of a sailing boat according to claim 1, characterized in a drift with 160 kg of lead lumps that prevents any capsizing possibility, due to its particular use.

Inventors: LA MURAGLIA RICCARDO, LA MURAGLIA, RICCARDO
Applicants: MURAGLIA RICCARDO, LA MURAGLIA, RICCARDO
Application year: 2000
Main classification: B63B29
IPC codes: B63B29, B63B35