Patent ID: 7581614

Claim:
A planing boat with an airbag system comprising: a boat body extending in a longitudinal direction of the planing boat; an engine mounted in the boat body; a steering handle bar disposed at an upper portion of the boat body; a meter panel disposed in front of the handle bar; a hood which covers a front half upper surface of the boat body in front of the meter panel; a frame extending along the longitudinal direction of the boat body at a bottom portion thereof; a support frame provided in a vicinity of a distal end portion of the frame so as to extend toward a lower surface of the hood; and an airbag system including at least one bag-shaped airbag body, a housing which accommodates the airbag body, a detector for detecting a collision of the boat, an expanding unit which inflates or blows up the airbag body at the time of collision of the boat, and a controller for controlling the detector and the inflation of the airbag body, the airbag system further including a first airbag body in the handle cover which is blown up from the handle bar to a rear side of the boat, and a second airbag body in the handle cover which is blown up toward a front side of a knee position.