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Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 18:11:33 -0400
From: "Harry Schoell" <
[email protected]>
Subject: RE: Information on the Step V Hull - read you email wrong a 2nd answer
To: "William BARBER" <
[email protected]>
I am sorry I read your email wrong. The step that they are talking
about is
what is known as the longitudinal steps hull. We now call them
strakes. He
got a patent on this in the 60's. What Hunt did was get a design
patent for
a vent on one of the strakes so they called it a vented stepped hull.
But
the step was longitudinal not to be confussed with Harry's patent of
the
step hull known as patent 5,456,202 which later was changed to
RE36,879.
It is a shame to me that Harry has not gotten the credit due him for
the
changes in hull design that we all now use. How many other have
patents
that are used on almost all boats?
Frankie