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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 1989
Filed:
Jan. 05, 1988
Ronald D Schlesch, Stuart, FL (US);
Merrill H Armstrong, Stuart, FL (US);
Stafford J Vallery, Stuart, FL (US);
Harold S Durham, Stuart, FL (US);
Armstrong International, Inc., Three Rivers, MI (US);
Abstract
A motorized outrigger drive for an outrigger on a fishing boat, the outrigger being of the kind having a boom fixedly cantilevered laterally outboard from the side of the boat for releasably trailing a fishing line from a point laterally spaced outboard from the side of the boat and thereby to minimize risk of tangling while simultaneously trolling with several fishing lines. An outrigger line loops around an outboard line direction changing means fixed adjacent the free end of the boom and a motorized drive unit fixed with respect to the boom and boat. The motorized drive unit reversibly feeds the outrigger line. A traveler unit is carried on the outrigger line and has a portion supporting a fishing line release.