Australia’s Northern Territory Police, Fire and Emergency Services recently took delivery of a new fast patrol boat built by Western Australia-based Dongara Marine. Deutrom was purpose designed, built, and equipped for police operations requiring very high speed and the ability to carry multiple...
RIBs and RHIBs
Rescue boat delivered to Wisconsin’s Suamico Fire Department
Annapolis, Maryland-based Ocean Craft Marine (OCM) has handed over a new search and rescue (SAR) boat to the Suamico Fire Department in eastern Wisconsin. The rigid inflatable boat (RIB) has a length of 26 feet (eight metres) and features OCM’s proprietary high-performance, concave reverse-chine...
AWARDS 2023 | Best RIB Pilot Boat – Aldebaran – Naiad Design (Whiskey Project Group)
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...
AWARDS 2023 | Best SAR RIB – Woolgoolga 30 – The Whiskey Project Group
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...
RIB delivered to French maritime affairs directorate
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...
AWARDS 2023 | Best Assault Craft – Lightning – Ultimate Boats
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...
OBITUARY | Össur Kristinsson, founder of Rafnar
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...
VESSEL REVIEW | Lightning – UK builder unveils multi-role security watercraft prototype
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...
VESSEL REVIEW | Ocean Watch – Western Australia rescue organisation welcomes response RIB to fleet
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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VESSEL REVIEW | Aldebaran – Pilot RIB delivered to Central America operator
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...