New tin boat at work.

[hunterguy86]

Well we got us a little tin boat at work.

The purpose for the boat is fire suppression and victim rescue. It's running side scan/ down scan sonar, radar, and FLIR. It's pushed by twin 250hp Honda's and has 5.7L chevy pushing 300 hp to run the 1500 GPM fire pump.

See below for pics and a link to the news story.

https://kens.mlnwap.com/article.html?hash=%2F17302%2F8f46ce0aa157af4eff9aa46e1282967a%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.kens5.com%2Fnews%2FCanyon-Lake-Fire-Dept-gets-new-toy-rescues-man-during-training-214216361.html

 

[Rich27028]

are ya ever tempted to turn that hose on seadoos - they need it :mrgreen:

 

[hunterguy86]

Rich27028 » Yesterday, 11:51[/url]"]are ya ever tempted to turn that hose on seadoos - they need it :mrgreen:

Folks around here call those things cockroaches lol

There are times when I'd love to do that but 1500 GPM could really hurt someone lol

 

[dieselfixer]

That is quite a boat. All you need now is a trolling motor and a couple of rod holders. :lol:

 

[cva34]

Crank up chevy point the nozzle to rear(or any direction) into water and you got trolling motor..Not too quiiet probably

 

[MiPikeGuy]

that's a sweet rig

 

[hunterguy86]

Thanks y'all. We've been training on her every shift. The boat has already been used on two calls so far, picking injured folks up from the lake and transporting them to the boat ramp to a waiting ambulance.

 

[DanMC]

Nice rig,love those Honda's !

 

[bgeddes]

transporting them to the boat ramp to a waiting ambulance.

at 75mph!!!

 

[hunterguy86]

Nice rig,love those Honda's !

So far so good with them. I really like how quiet they are. The factory rep says they get a little better performance out of mercurys in the same size but not much.

The best I've seen her do is 43mph and that's with 10 people on the boat lol. The lake was slick as glass though.

It runs 40 consistently in the chop but we don't run wide open unless going to a call since she drinks 50 gallons an hour at full throttle.

 

[fender66]

WOW.....

One question though....

Where's the trolling motor?