Patent ID: 6912967

Claim:
A watercraft, comprising: a jet pump; an engine connected to the jet pump by a shaft; a hull that extends longitudinally, further comprising: a forwardly tapering nose section with a keel that knifes downward from the tip of the nose section; a pair of stabilizers that run longitudinally and spaced apart from each other that form a tunnel that runs substantially the length of the back half of the hull relative to the nose section; a water intake ramp located in the tunnel substantially back from the forward-most beginnings of the pair of stabilizers relative to the nose section, the ramp tapering downwardly from its forward-most beginning relative to the nose section; a ventral water inlet located in the intake ramp for supplying water to the jet pump, the intake ramp providing loading to the jet pump; and a mid-section passenger compartment formed within the hull with at least one passenger seat and a steering control mechanism; an aft end-section that extends laterally, the engine being located in the aft end-section; at least one air intake flanking the mid-section passenger compartment; a pair of wings flanking the passenger compartment and extending laterally therefrom and extending rearward to join the aft end-section, there being a left wing and a right wing; wherein a pair of hull ramps runs steeply downward from the leading edge of each of the pair of wings, extending therefrom to the bottom of the hull, there being a left hull ramp and a right hull ramp; wherein a pair of air scoops flanks each side of the passenger compartment from which the pair of wings extend laterally therefrom, thereby forming a left air scoop and a right air scoop, and one of the pair of air scoops comprises the at least one air intake, the pair of air scoops being located above the pair of wings while the pair of hull ramps are located below the pair of wings; and wherein the hull, the pair of wings, the pair of hull ramps, and the pair of air scoops are bilaterally symmetric with a centerline running through the nose section and the passenger compartment.