System and method for controlling representative information about the use by one or more users of one or more habitable locations of a ship, comprising: a plurality of habitable locations, each habitable location comprising a plurality of electrical and/or electronic components controllable during the use of the habitable location by a user; a plurality of local control units, each local control unit of said plurality being operatively associated with at least one portion of habitable locations of the plurality of habitable locations of the ship, each local control unit being configured to control said at least one portion of habitable locations to which it is operatively connected; a central control unit; a data communications network, each local control unit of said plurality being operatively associated with the central control unit via the data communications network.

A failure prediction system having small boats operable by operators, each mounted with an outboard motor equipped with an engine and an Electronic Control Unit and a computer located in a land office connected to the ECU. The ECU acquires boat ID assigned to one small boat on which one operator boards and his personal ID, accesses the computer to acquire past manipulation data of the acquired personal ID for all boats, acquires manipulation data of the one operator during current run, merge the data with past data to generate merged data. Then, it select a parameter in the generated data and set a normal value range by the parameter, assesses whether parameter in the data during current run is within the range, and determines the outboard motor mounted on the one boat is in failure when the parameter is out of the range.

A vessel with three platformsan outer hull, an inner deck hull and a passenger carriage, having four independent suspension systems there between so as to accommodate for the multi axis movements of the outer hull. This multi axis suspension system spread between the three platforms will offer the passenger carriage stability against the pitch, yaw and roll rotations a vessel makes as it twists and turns going up and down the slope of a wave as well as the heave, sway and surge movements induced by the waves pushing the vessel around and or the ship sliding down the face of a wave.

It relates to an urban craft, which belongs to the industrial sector of nautical vehicles for transportation of crew and passengers in general, composed of a speedboat (1) equipped with a central cab (2), a transparent roof (3), a honeycomb grid (4), an X-shaped structure (5), faceted areas (6), a catamaran hull (7), an inverted nose (8), a negative bow (9), engines (10), a propeller (11), seats (12), safety belts, airbags, acceleration and braking pedals (13), a steering wheel (14), a dashboard (15), a central console (16), a gear shift lever (17), armrests (18), cupholders (19), internet/Wi-Fi access, detachable tablets (20), a lateral boarding platform (21), headlights (22) and lateral arrows in the camera-based rearview mirrors (23), an air-conditioning system, a pneumatic suspension system with adjustable airbags and hydrogen-based shock absorbers, individual (rear and front) lateral doors (24), large gullwing lateral doors (25), an upper airfoil (26), a rear window (27), a foldable rear platform (28) with a step over the propelling devices (29), a central watershed system (30), a panoramic front window (31), a front hood with luggage compartment and access to fuel supply, a rear camera (32).

Boat configurations and implementations are provided to make it more accessible for disabled people to participate in boating, commercial or recreational. A boat engine may be positioned in front of the helm, a flat boat deck may allow access to the engine and helm by a person in a wheelchair or similar physical impairment, and a flat access to the boat deck at the stern of the boat may allow disabled people to easily get on board.

A vessel with three platformsan outer hull, an inner deck hull and a passenger carriage, having four independent suspension systems there between so as to accommodate for the multi axis movements of the outer hull. This multi axis suspension system spread between the three platforms will offer the passenger carriage stability against the pitch, yaw and roll rotations a vessel makes as it twists and turns going up and down the slope of a wave as well as the heave, sway and surge movements induced by the waves pushing the vessel around and or the ship sliding down the face of a wave.

A bulwark terrace with integrated door is provided; the bulwark terrace may be a portion of a bulwark on a ship or yacht that is hinged so as to be able to fold outwards and downwards and be flush with the deck after doing so, thereby extending the deck surface. The bulwark terrace may also include a door that may open independently of the bulwark terrace to allow boarding of the yacht or ship through the bulwark without deploying the bulwark terrace.

The invention relates to a marine surface vessel (1), in particular a passenger ship, extending in a longitudinal direction between a bow (2) and a stern (3), comprising least one power providing apparatus (6) operatively connected to at least one propulsion unit (7) for propulsion of the vessel, a fuel tank arrangement (8) for storing gaseous fuel in a liquid phase, connected to the power providing apparatus (6) by means of a gas supply system for running the power providing apparatus (6), and a plurality of decks (91-98) distributed vertically, one above the other, the fuel tank arrangement (8) comprising two tank sub-arrangements (81, 82), each tank sub-arrangement comprising at least one gaseous fuel tank (811, 812, 821, 822), each fuel tank extending vertically past at least two of the decks (92-95), and at least two of the decks (92-95), past which the fuel tanks (811, 812, 821, 822) extend, each presents a passageway (941) extending between the tank sub-arrangements (81, 82).

A bulwark terrace with integrated door is provided; the bulwark terrace may be a portion of a bulwark on a ship or yacht that is hinged so as to be able to fold outwards and downwards and be flush with the deck after doing so, thereby extending the deck surface. The bulwark terrace may also include a door that may open independently of the bulwark terrace to allow boarding of the yacht or ship through the bulwark without deploying the bulwark terrace.

Fabrication of about a thirty-story parking structure where commuters will park and then take elevators to the to of the structure where they will embark on a skiff or small boat and travel down a water trough that goes over the tops of roads, freeways and bridges to the other side of normal traffic bottlenecks, to docking spaces about the third floor of downtown buildings where they will dock their skiffs or boats and disembark on the dock, and their vacated skiffs will go onto a conveyor belt that will take the vacated skiffs to the top of another thirty-story building in the downtown area where commuters wanting to return to the original parking structure will embark on the skiffs going down a similar water slide back to the original parking structure from which they had departed earlier, to get their cars and trucks and drive back to their homes.