This aquatic sporting device can be used by paddlers of water crafts or boats to paddle their craft or alternately use their paddles as quick-action squirt guns or water cannons with high range and high water exchange rate. The ridged paddle is transformed into a squirt gun by hand turning a nut on the paddle shaft to free the movement of a piston within the paddle shaft, inserting the bottom end of the paddle into the water and then pulling on the paddle handle to draw a central piston several feet out of the outer paddle shaft thereby creating a suction which draws water into the paddle shaft through a nozzle at the bottom end of the paddle blade. The paddle is lifted out of the water and pointed toward the target then the handle is pushed causing the piston to forcefully squirt the water, within the paddle shafts' water chamber, out of the nozzle. The squirt gun can be switched back to paddle mode by pushing the piston back into the outer shaft and re-tightening the central nut. When the piston is fully protracted the paddle can be used as a gaff to pull swimmers toward the boat.

Combination paddle and squirt gun

Disclosed is a combination oar and bilge pump which serves as an oar when the apparatus is in a locked first position and when in an un-locked second position becomes a bilge pump by plunging a second tube member having a plunger on its inner end, inward and outward of a first tube member which acts as a gripping surface.

Combination oar and bilge pump

A hand operated boat propulsion device (paddle or oar) that may also be used to draw and spray water. The device may also be used as an air pump.

Combination paddle and water syringe

A bilge pump for removing water from a personal watercraft such as a kayak or a decked canoe that has a hull and a deck attached to the hull forming a cockpit opening for an operator includes a pumping device secured within the hull and below the deck. A pickup is also located within the hull and is fluidly coupled to the pumping device. An operating handle is positioned proximate the cockpit opening and is coupled to the pumping device to operate the pumping device.

Bilge pump for a personal watercraft

A combination telescopic boat hook/bilge pump which includes a novel locking device is described. The inner tube is provided with a washer at the proximal end which acts with the outer tube as a piston. The ball tip distal end of the boat hook is provided with an axial bore so that water can be sucked into the outer tube for subsequent discharge. For use as a boat hook the inner tube is extended until a pair of spring loaded pins mounted in the inner tube at the proximal end thereof releasably engage any two of three circumferential slots provided adjacent the proximal end of the outer tube so as to provide an extended rigid shaft.

Combined boat hook and bilge pump

A combination paddle, hook and pump is disclosed wherein the hook is located at one end of the paddle and is contoured to permit smooth paddling action by the paddle. The hook can be rotated from a closed, non-hooking position to an open, hooking position and has a pair of openings therein to permit the pump to either pump air or water into an object or to pump a fluid such as water from a source of the fluid. The paddle comprises a dielectric material that contains metal particles to reflect a radar beam thereby permitting a boater using the paddle in a raised position to be spotted by radar.

Joseph L. Botero

Papers

Combination paddle, hook and pump and method therefor