Polaris Industries Inc.

Carnegie Mellon University

Blair A Donat

Bradley Roy Fishburn

Gabriel A Marshall

Andrew C Schmid

Michael J Fuchs

Michael F Donoughe

Brad Roy Fishburn

Jacob Steven Vogel

David A Yoder

Louis James Brady

Herman Herman

Brian D Krosschell

Gabriel Goldman

Aidan B Shaughnessy

Jeremy C Smith

Chiao George Liu

Matthew Glisson

Patrick D Weldon

Karl Muecke

Nishant Pol

Suryansh Saxena

Katie C Kirchner

Prasanna Kannappan

Louis Hiener

Krishna Pandravada

An adjustable seat assembly may have a seat back that is configurable in a fore position or a stern-facing seat, an aft position for a bow-facing seat, and a pillow position which facilitates a user laying down across the stern-facing seat. In addition, the seat back may be placed in a stowed position in which the seat back is absent from both the bow-facing and stern-facing seats, such that the seats cooperate to provide a planar support surface along an aft-to-fore extent of the seat assembly. The seat back may be adjustable by hand without tools, such that a user may easily reconfigure the seat assembly to sit facing the bow, to sit facing the stern, or to lie down.

Adjustable seat for a boat

A pontoon boat including a thruster system is disclosed.

Thruster arrangement for a boat

Boat handling and control systems and methods related to one or more of steering and propulsion of a pontoon boat.

Boat maneuverability and stability control systems and methods

An aquatic vessel, illustratively a pontoon boat including a thruster system is disclosed. The aquatic vessel executes a process to automatically position the aquatic vessel relative to a target location such as a mooring implement. Exemplary mooring implements include a dock, a slip, or a lift.

System and method for positioning an aquatic vessel

A pontoon boat including a thruster system is disclosed. The pontoon boat executes various operations relating to a speed and heading of the pontoon boat.

A pontoon boat is provided that includes at least two pontoons running longitudinally beneath the boat and providing buoyancy thereto; a deck framework mounted above and connected to the pontoons; a deck mounted on the deck framework; a recessed deck portion extending downwardly through the deck and the deck framework, the recessed deck portion forming a cavity into the deck including a bottom and side walls forming a basin extending into and beneath the deck; and at least one seat adjacent the recessed deck portion and mounted to the deck.

Structure and assembly for recessed deck portion in pontoon boat

Growing community of inventors

Elkhart, IN, United States of America

Blair A Donat