The new Maryland Pilots’ Baltimore class pilot launch is a sister ship to its first, pictured right here.
The Association of Maryland Pilots has ordered a brand new pilot boat from Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding, Duclos Corporation. Piloting the Chesapeake Bay since 1852, the Association of Maryland Pilots is the oldest state-codified organization of pilots in the U.S. and is a robust advocate of expertise, coaching, accountability and security. The high-speed vessel is a sistership to its first Baltimore Class pilot launch, delivered lower than two years in the past. Delivery from the Somerset, Mass., shipyard is scheduled for 2024.
With a size total of 48 toes 5 inches, beam of 15 toes 6 inches, and draft of 4 toes, the all-aluminum pilot boat options the Ray Hunt Design deep V hull.
It can be powered by twin Volvo Penta D13, EPA Tier 3-compliant diesel engines, every delivering 600 hp at 1,900 rpm and turning 5-blade Bruntons NiBrAl propellers by way of ZF370A gear packing containers to offer the pilot launch a high pace of 30 knots.
A Humphree interceptor trim-tab management system, with computerized trim optimization, can be put in on the transom.
The engines will flip 5-bladed Bruntons NiBrAl propellers by way of ZF370A gear packing containers. The launch can be outfitted with a 6 kW Northern Lights genset.
The wheelhouse, with a small trunk, is being put in amidships on a flush deck. With forward-leaning entrance home windows, the wheelhouse is outfitted with a center-line helm station, 4 NorSap shock-mitigating seats, a bag rack, fridge and two 12,000 Btu reverse-cycle HVAC items. A second 10,000 Btu HVAC unit can be put in within the forecastle, which can embrace a porta-potty, device field and storage for security gear.
Outside of the wheelhouse are huge heated facet decks and hand rails, facet and rear doorways, and boarding platforms on the roof. A Harken TR-31 security rail can be put in on handrails on the perimeters and across the entrance of the wheelhouse. A management station, together with a powered J-Basket rescue system for pilot rescue operations, can be put in on the transom.
