Best RIB Pilot Boat – Aldebaran – Naiad Design (Whiskey Project Group) New Zealand-based Naiad Design (part of the Whiskey Project Group) is renowned globally for its, usually, aluminium-hulled rigid inflatable boats that are used for patrol, rescue, assault, tourist and pilotage, among other...
Best SAR RIB – Woolgoolga 30 – The Whiskey Project Group The rapidly growing Whiskey Project Group has hit the deck running in both Australia and the United States. Its Naiad-designed and Yamba Welding-built aluminium rescue RIBs, especially, can be seen all over eastern Australia, particularly in...
French boatbuilder Sillinger recently handed over a new rigid inflatable boat (RIB) to the French Directorate General for Maritime Affairs, Fisheries and Aquaculture (La direction générale des affaires maritimes, de la pêche et de l’aguaculture; DGAMPA). The boat has a deep V aluminium hull, a...
Best Assault Craft – Lightning – Ultimate Boats These large, open and fast RIB assault boats have been designed for a multitude of roles. Obviously built for military operations, they are MILSPEC but remain quite simple in both construction and fit out. They will be easy to own and economical to...
Icelandic boatbuilder Rafnar has confirmed the passing of company founder Össur Kristinsson on Tuesday, February 6. Kristinsson was born a congenital below-knee amputee and studied to become a certified prosthetist orthotist in Sweden. In 1971, he founded an O&P Clinic in Iceland, a facility that...
UK-based manufacturer Ultimate Boats has unveiled a new watercraft prototype designed for a range of maritime security operations. Ordered by a local operator, the rigid inflatable boat (RIB), which has been named Lightning, is capable of transporting fully equipped troops at high speeds for a...
The Marine Rescue Jurien Bay detachment of Volunteer Marine Rescue Western Australia (VMRWA) recently acquired a new rigid inflatable boat (RIB) built by local company Dongara Marine. Built with input from VMRWA volunteer crew, the 10-metre-long Ocean Watch will be operated alongside the smaller Bay Watch, Marine Rescue Jurien Bay’s other boat. Both vessels were […]
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A new pilot boat was recently handed over to an undisclosed customer in Central America. Aldebaran was built to a design by New Zealand-based naval architecture firm Naiad Design. The vessel is a rigid inflatable boat (RIB) has an aluminium hull, a length of 11.3 metres, a beam of 3.85 metres, a...
The Philippine Navy, the Samoa Police Service, and a law enforcement agency in the US state of Pennsylvania take delivery of new vessels while a future Royal Australian Navy patrol ship is launched into the water for the first time. Philippine Navy acquires two additional fast attack craft The Philippine Navy has taken delivery of […]
Hamble, UK-based builder RS Electric Boats recently handed over a new rigid inflatable boat (RIB) to Dutch boat charter operator Energyboats. The 6.3- by 2.3-metre, 610-kilogram vessel is the first production example of a new series of RIBs that were designed from the outset to be powered entirely...