HYBRID HUMMM!

[pjay9]

SAW this today and maybe you Alloy chaps on the east cost can give us report! Are we so totally ate up with PC that we need to have a GREEN boat for the Brown stuff?

http://www.workboat.com/blogpost.aspx?i ... nformzNews

[Challenge]

did I read this correctly $400K to retrofit a 10 year old 23' Boat w/a "off the shelf" battery? what will they do w/the batteries in 4-6 years... Oh I guess that is another $400k disposal. I hope this harbor master writes alot of tickets and charges big bucks for the brown stuff... what is our world coming to?

thanks for posting!

[welderbob]

I could deliver 4- 23' aluminum pump-out boats with a 4 stroke outboard for less than the $400k. We keep wondering why the government is broke? Twenty or thirty years from now the whole boat could be recycled. AND WE SENT $300K OF OUR TAX DOLLARS OUT OF THE COUNTRY. LETS GIVE IT ALL AWAY. Lets keep more Canadians working.

And because the city built the boats with grant money they can't charge the public. No hope of getting any of that money back.

Welderbob

[goatram]

$300,000 of our tax dollors and $100,000 from the north to retrofit 2 old boats. Break Out Another $100,000
Bob The government has spent a Pile of money on New Alloy boats. Les started a thread a month ago about a order for a bunch of them. The Navy Base here in Everett has 6 or 8 boats of different sizes to escort the big ships out and also to maintain the nets and security across the mouth of the inlet to the docks

[welder]

September 28, 2011

Metal Shark Aluminum Boats Response Boat-Small transiting the York River in Southeast Virginia. U.S. Coast Guard photo by
Here is the post again,


Cmdr. Richard Condit.
The U.S. Coast Guard awarded a delivery order valued at approximately $13 million on September 26 to Metal Shark Aluminum Boats for the production of 38 Response Boats-Small (RB-S).

On February 4, the Coast Guard awarded two fixed price Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contracts to begin replacement of the current RB-S fleet, which is nearing the end of its ten-year service life. The contracts were awarded to Metal Shark Aluminum Boats of Jeanerette, La., and SAFE Boats International of Port Orchard, Wash. Under the terms of the contract, each builder produced a minimum of one boat, based on a proven hull design, that was delivered in June. The Coast Guard tested and validated each boat this summer and based on the results of the down-select process, selected the boat that provides the best overall value to the government.

This contract allows for the procurement of up to 500 boats. Up to 470 boats will be delivered to shore units throughout the Coast Guard to perform port and waterway security, search and rescue, drug and migrant interdiction, environmental and other law enforcement missions. Up to 20 boats may be ordered by Customs and Border Protection and up to ten by the U.S. Navy. The RB-S replacement is one of the largest boat buys of its type for the Coast Guard.

The RB-S will have an approximate length of 28 feet, be capable of at least 40 knots, a minimum range of 150 nautical miles and accommodate a crew of four. The RB-S will also have a standardized communications and navigation suite as well as an increased emphasis on ergonomics and crew comfort. The current RB-S fleet was originally procured in 2002, following the attacks of September 11, 2001. In addition to bringing a higher level of standardization to the Coast Guard’s small boat fleet, the RB-S has proven to be a tremendous asset in a wide variety of Coast Guard missions, especially ports, waterways and coastal security.

Here is the link , http://www.uscg.mil/hq/cg9/newsroom/upd ... 092811.asp

[pjay9]

LES, the link didn't work for me...maybe the USCG didn't want us to read it again! Capt. PJ

[JETTYWOLF]

And it has nothing to do with "homeland B.S. security", and the cash still flowed?
wow.