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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2017
Hobie Cat Company, a Missouri Corporation, Oceanside, CA (US);
Philip James Dow, Oceanside, CA (US);
Gregory Scott Ketterman, Carlsbad, CA (US);
James Taylor Czarnowski, Fallbrook, CA (US);
Jason Christopher Kardas, Oceanside, CA (US);
Drew William Brackett, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Shane Yellin, Carlsbad, CA (US);
John Thomas Myers, III, Sacramento, CA (US);
Hobie Cat Company, Oceanside, CA (US);
Abstract
A watercraft having a propulsion mechanism extending through an opening in the bottom of the watercraft having a propulsion mechanism adapted to be inserted in an opening in the bottom of a watercraft comprising a pair of pedals each coupled to a flexible fin extending below the water line, the pair of fins oscillate through an arcuate path on a horizontal axis to propel the watercraft. The horizontal axis is preferably continuously rotatable in either direction through 360° on a vertical axis disposed at a substantially right angle to the longitudinal axis of the watercraft to propel the watercraft in any direction.