The Virginia Pilot Association awarded a contracted to Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding to build a Chesapeake-class pilot boat. It will be ninth pilot boat built for the Virginia pilots by the Somerset, Mass., shipyard since 1983.
Since the Chesapeake-class pilot boat was introduced by Gladding-Hearn in 2003, 19 have been delivered to 11 pilot associations throughout the U.S.
The Virginia pilots’ new boat incorporates Volvo Penta’s IPS 3 pod system and Humphree interceptors. “The combination of the...
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