Patent ID: 7249987

Claim:
An air intake device for a watercraft having a watercraft body composed of a hull forming a watercraft bottom and a deck covering the upper side of said hull, an engine provided in said watercraft body, and a saddle seat located on the upper side of said engine, wherein: said engine has intake ports opening to a side surface of said engine, an air cleaner is located on the rear side of said engine, and an outlet of said air cleaner is connected through an intake passage to said intake ports of said engine; an air duct extends from an inlet of said air cleaner along the side surface of said engine to the position corresponding to the front end of said engine, and an outside air inlet unit is located on the front side of said engine in said watercraft body to supply an outside air to a front opening of said air duct; whereby the outside air introduced from said outside air inlet unit into said watercraft body is supplied through said air duct to said air cleaner and subsequently supplied through said intake passage to said engine.