Abstract: A watercraft carrier is secured to a large watercraft having a transom. The carrier includes a mounting structure secured to the transom and a platform structure including a pair of laterally spaced platform units extending parallel to the transom and substantially in a horizontal plane above the water line of the large watercraft. The platform units each similarly include a support bar. A plurality of rollers are secured in longitudinally spaced relation along the bar. The rollers are formed of a resilient material or resiliently loaded to conform to the bottom of the personal watercraft. The personal watercraft has an inclined bow or front end and is self-propelled causing it to move upwardly out of the water onto the platform units in a highly safe and reliable procedure. Power is applied to the personal watercraft to move the hull upwardly on the entrance end and then the power is increased to cause the watercraft to move rapidly onto and in essence pop out of the water onto the platform units.

Abstract: A bolt is fabricated from an elongated threaded rod by severing the rod along a planar surface angularly oriented with respect to a longitudinal axial plane through the rod. A cup-shaped nut has three equicircumferentially spaced lateral locking openings in the side walls adjacent the outer base wall thereof. The cup-shaped nut has an axial length greater than twice the diameter of the opening, with the opening in the half of the nut including the base wall. The nut is threaded onto the severed end of the rod with the base wall abutting the end of the rod. At least one locking opening is exposed to the inclined planar surface, and a pin is forced into the exposed opening with the inner end of the pin terminating within the nut and located immediately adjacent to the inclined surface thereby affecting a positive interconnection of the nut to the rod. In one embodiment the pin is a solid pin formed of a softer metal than the rod.

Abstract: A bolt is fabricated from an elongated threaded rod by severing the rod along a planar surface angularly oriented with respect to a longitudinal axial plane through the rod. A cup-shaped nut has three equicircumferentially spaced lateral locking openings in the side walls adjacent the outer base wall thereof. The cup-shaped nut has an axial length greater than twice the diameter of the opening, with the opening in the half of the nut including the base wall. The nut is threaded onto the severed end of the rod with the base wall abutting the end of the rod. At least one locking opening is exposed to the inclined planar surface, and a pin is forced into the exposed opening with the inner end of the pin terminating within the nut and located immediately adjacent to the inclined surface thereby affecting a positive interconnection of the nut to the rod.

Abstract: A bolt is fabricated from an elongated threaded rod by severing the rod along a planar surface angularly oriented with respect to a diametrical plane through the rod. A cup-shaped nut, having aligned openings in the sidewalls adjacent the outer base thereof, is threaded onto the severed end of the rod with the base adjacent the end of the rod. The aligned openings extend across the inclined surface adjacent the outer end of the rod. After the nut is threaded onto the rod, a pin is forced onto one of the openings. The pin is located immediately adjacent to the inclined surface of the rod thereby affecting a positive interconnection of the head to the rod and completing the fastener bolt.