This new art offers six add on motorized attachments for the benefit of the recent trend of hydro foil surfing wherein said wave hydro foils comprise a mast attached to the bottom side of a surfboard and a fuselage that has a large forward lifting wing and a small aft stabilizing wing and is able to lift a 250 lb man and surfboard approximately two feet above the water surface at slow paddling speeds riding a wave from underneath the water surface wherein said new art enables said hydrofoil surfboard to motor along on flat water at high speeds cruising or fielding for waves then said new art can retract a motorized structure completely out of the water while in motion to allow a surfer to catch then foil ride a wave or an ocean swell without power by means of two types of retractable motorized apparatus wherein the first type has a vertical strut that holds a propeller and cort nozzle in a down position motoring forward wherein said strut can retract horizontally up and out from the water surface wherein this retractable strut type can embody three similar versions. Also the second type has a torpedo shaped fuselage that contains a motor, a propeller and cort nozzle also embodying three similar versions that can travel up the foil mast stopping at said surfboard's bottom surface with the power shut off allowing the remaining under water foil apparatus to glide and free ride a wave or swell as it was designed to.
Retractable Power Drive Surfboard for Wave Foils
2020-03-12
Patent
Electronic Resource
English