Karen N Fleckles

48418994, Jun 27, 1989

Mar 30, 1988

7/175300

Logan N. Fleckles - Des Plaines IL
Karen Fleckles - Des Plaines IL

B63B 3571

114347

A frame made up of structural pieces (wooden) and hardware pieces interconnecting them, and a flexible hull. The frame includes a main frame and coaming. The main frame is separable transversely at the middle, and each half thus formed is insertable into one end of the hull which is drawn taut over the frame half, after which the coaming is applied to the main frame and the hull secured thereto. The frame is made up of a plurality of relatively short pieces that are separable or foldable to enable them to be put in correspondingly short bundles, for carrying purposes. The hardware pieces include, at the ends, strips on the stem pieces having recesses and hook elements, and hooks on the gunwales, and one ridge rail hooked in the recesses; connectors interconnecting parts of the gunwales including plates on adjoining parts having interfitting hooks and plates interfitting in face-to-face relation and held in such by cross ribs of the frame; telescoping connectors in the chines, one of which has an interlocking pin dimensioned and confined against the hull bearing thereon; brackets on certain ribs for securing the hull to the coaming. Also of two backrests, one is adjustable; packs are detachably mounted in the frame within the hull, that are flexible and adapted to be carried on a person's back. The hull is transparent forming a "glass bottom" and the floor boards have transparent portions in register with the glass bottom.