Boat storage apparatus

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING A BOAT IN AN UPRIGHT POSITION COMPRISING, IN COMBINATION, A PLURALITY OF ELONGATED, LONGITUDINALLY EXTENSIBLE SUPPORTS EXTENDING BETWEEN AND ENGAGEABLE WITH THE BOAT AND AN UNDERLYING SURFACE, EACH OF SAID SUPPOTS INCLUDING A BASE PLATE FIXED TO THE UNDERLYING SURFACE, A PIVOT PLATE, A PIVOT PIN PIVOTALLY CONNECTING SAID PIVOT PLATE TO SAID BASE PLATE FOR PIVOTAL MOVEMENT ABOUT A GENERALLY HORIZONTAL AXIS, AN ELONGATED TUBLAR MEMBER HAVING SMOOTH UNINTERRUPTED INNER AND OUTER SURFACES THROUGHOUT ITS ENTIRE EXTENT AND BEING OPEN AT BOTH ENDS, ALL OF SAID TUBULAR MEMBERS HAVING THE SAME INNER AND OUTER DIAMETERS AND BEING OF SUCH LENGTHS AS TO ACCOMMODATE THE BOAT HULL, EACH MEMBER HAVING ONE END PORTION RELEASABLY CONNECTED TO SAID PIVOT PLATE BY A TELESCOPING CONNECTION SO AS TO BE MOVABLE THEREWITH ABOUT SAID HORIZONTAL AXIS, A FIRST THREADED MEMBER RELEASBLY CONNECTED TO THE OTHER END PORTION OF SAID ELONGATED TUBULAR MEMBER BY A TELESCOPING CONNECTION AND ROTATABLE ABOUT A LONGITUDINAL AXIS THEREOF, SAID FIRST THREADED MEMBER HAVING AN INTERNALLY THREADED PORTION EXTENDING GENERALLY PARALLEL TO THE LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF SAID TUBULAR MEMBER, A SECOND EXTERNALLY THREADED MEMBER THREADABLY ENGAGED WITH SAID FIRST THREADED MEMBER, AND AN UPPER SUPPORT PLATE RELEASABLY CARRIED BY AND ANGULARLY ROTATABLE WITH RESPECT TO SAID SECOND THREADED MEMBER FOR THE SUPPORT OF THE BOAT, MEANS FOR RELEASABLY CARRYING SAID UPPER SUPPORT PLATE COMPRISING A ROUNDED END ON SAID EXTERNALLY THREADED MEMBER AND A SHALLOW SOCKET ON SAID UPPER SUPPORT PLATE REMOVABLY RECEIVING SAID ROUNDED END, WHEREBY AN INDIVIDUAL EXTERNALLY THREADED MEMBER MAY BE RETRACTED AXIALLY A SHORT DISTANCE WITHIN SAID TUBULAR MEMBER TO PERMIT LATERAL REMOVAL OF SAID UPPER SUPPORT PLATE.