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A safety cockpit for a powerboat totally separable from the remainder of the boat. The cockpit has a single wall between the interior and the exterior formed of a sandwich material of an Airex rigid foam to which are epoxied, on either side, two layers of Kevlar polyamide cloth. The removable cockpi

A safety cockpit for a powerboat totally separable from the remainder of the boat. The cockpit has a single wall between the interior and the exterior formed of a sandwich material of an Airex rigid foam to which are epoxied, on either side, two layers of Kevlar polyamide cloth. The removable cockpit section may extend only a portion of the length of the boat. In this instance, the boat then also includes two sponsons attached together to form a permanent deck; the cockpit then sits in a cavity formed between the sponsons in front of the deck. Alternately, the cockpit section may extend the entire length of the boat. In this case, a sponson attaches to each side of the nose section. The nose section also will then hold the engine powering the boat. In either event, the cockpit and the remainder of the boat only adjoin and connect to each other along vertical walls of each. The boat may use either hydraulic or cable connections to translate the manipulation of the controls in the cockpit to changes in the engine\s orientation. Lastly, the engine may attach to a bar journalled to the vertical walls of the powerboat to eliminate the usual transom.

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A powerboat comprising: (A) a float section including means for supporting said boat on the surface of a body of water; (B) a substantially nonnavigable nose section with (1) an outer shell, the bottom of which comes close to making contact with the water in which said boat is placed; (2) a cockpit

A powerboat comprising: (A) a float section including means for supporting said boat on the surface of a body of water; (B) a substantially nonnavigable nose section with (1) an outer shell, the bottom of which comes close to making contact with the water in which said boat is placed; (2) a cockpit for holding the driver of said boat; and (3) manipulatable controls within said cockpit for controlling the operation of said boat, said nose section being connectable to and removable from said float section; and (C) affixing means, coupled to said nose and float sections, for removably and rigidly connecting said nose and float sections together.