Patent ID: 7021234

Claim:
A sit-on-top kayak hull with elevated voids comprising: a hull defining a surrounding hull and interior void, the surrounding hull having a bow end and a stern end longitudinally spaced from the bow end and a port side and a starboard side laterally spaced from the port side and a top surface and a bottom surface vertically spaced from the top surface and primary interior walls extending from said bottom surface to said top surface and longitudinally spaced from said bow end, and longitudinally spaced from said stern end and laterally spaced from said port side and laterally spaced from said starboard side, the interior void having no top and no bottom and surrounded by said primary interior walls, a cockpit defining a seating surface and port and starboard leg recesses, the seating surface being a fossa within said surrounding hull top surface of sufficient depth to be below the top of said primary interior walls and above the normally laden waterline and located aft of said interior void, and laterally centered within said surrounding hull top surface, the port and starboard leg recesses being fossa within said surrounding hull top surface of sufficient depth to be below the top of said primary interior walls and above the normally laden waterline and arranged transversely straddling said interior void and adjacently forward of said seating surface, a cockpit drainage system defining cockpit drains, the cockpit drains traversing through said top surface and said primary interior walls into said interior void, whereby water drains from said cockpit through the cockpit drains afferently into said interior void.