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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 31, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 07, 1999
Clarence E. Blanchard, Pleasant Prairie, WI (US);
Bombardier Motor Corporation of America, Grant, FL (US);
Abstract
A boat or other water craft having an inboard engine, an outboard pump jet apparatus and a transom plate on which the pump jet apparatus is pivotably mounted. The boat hull bottom has a water tunnel formed therein, the transom plate has a tube portion in flow communication with the water tunnel, and the pump jet apparatus has an inlet which, in the operating position of the pump jet, is in flow communication with the tube portion of the transom plate. The pump jet apparatus is selectively pivotable between an operating position and a service position. In the service position the pump jet inlet is accessible to a boat occupant to clear debris from the pump jet inlet.