Portland Pilot Boat "Spring Point", Rainy day in Portland, Maine, May 28, 2009
Photograph (C) copyright 2009 Ivan Safyan Abrams. All rights reserved.
This all-aluminum boat, designed by C. Raymond Hunt Associates, measures 52.5 x 17-ft. with a 4.8 ft. draft, and is designed to reach 25 knots. It was built in 2004 by Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding, a division of Duclos Corporation. The vessel is powered by twin Caterpillar 3406E diesel engines, each delivering 600 bhp at 2,100 rpm, with Twin Disc M65114A gear-boxes. The engines turn five-blade Hall & Stavert bronze propellers. The launch is equipped with a Northern Lights generator, with 10 kW of output. It's fitted with heated handrails and decks to prevent ice build-up in the winter, and the design features wide side-decks, and side and rear doors. At the transom are throttle and steering controls and a winch-operated U-frame over a recessed platform for pilot rescue operations.
Portland Pilot Boat "Spring Point", Rainy day in Portland, Maine, May 28, 2009
Photograph (C) copyright 2009 Ivan Safyan Abrams. All rights reserved.
This all-aluminum boat, designed by C. Raymond Hunt Associates, measures 52.5 x 17-ft. with a 4.8 ft. draft, and is designed to reach 25 knots. It was built in 2004 by Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding, a division of Duclos Corporation. The vessel is powered by twin Caterpillar 3406E diesel engines, each delivering 600 bhp at 2,100 rpm, with Twin Disc M65114A gear-boxes. The engines turn five-blade Hall & Stavert bronze propellers. The launch is equipped with a Northern Lights generator, with 10 kW of output. It's fitted with heated handrails and decks to prevent ice build-up in the winter, and the design features wide side-decks, and side and rear doors. At the transom are throttle and steering controls and a winch-operated U-frame over a recessed platform for pilot rescue operations.