Patent ID: 7610870

Claim:
A water craft comprising: a hull having a gunwale substantially continuously therearound defining a regular polygon in shape around said gunwale, said gunwale having at least first, second, and third sides contiguous to one another, said hull having retractably mounted thereto an oppositely disposed pair of elongate substantially horizontally extending first and second rudders each independently rotatably mounted to said hull by a corresponding substantially parallel spaced apart pair of substantially vertical steering shafts, said shafts defining therebetween a keel line along a lowermost portion of said hull, said rudders rigidly mounted to lowermost ends of said shafts so as to lie along said keel line when said rudders are co-linearly aligned, wherein rotation of one or both of said shafts pivots one or both of said rudders correspondingly, Wherein upper ends of said shafts extend upwardly along and are mounted to a rigid steering tower rigidly mounted substantially centrally in a footwell cavity defined by said hull, said steering tower having a central hollow core, said hollow core hollow between a lower-most opening in said hull between said lowermost ends of said shafts and an upper opening in said tower adapted for rotatable mounting into an operative position of a motor thereto so as to operatively position a throttle and steering control of the motor above said tower and a lowermost propulsion end of the motor below said tower and hull.