For the Sandy Hook Pilot’s Association
16m Pilot Boat
Great safety features and a very smooth ride in an extremely robust construction are the main characteristics for this Derecktor boat, built to a design by Camarc Small Craft Designs. The new fendering system, which ensures great durability together with very high impact resistance, provides a greater surface for the impact zone and has no thru-hull fastenings. Other safety features on this boat include: heated decks and handrails, forward raked windows on bridge for maximum visibility of deck area and of boarding pilots, and port and starboard side doors for direct exit of pilots from the shelter of the deckhouse to the ship’s boarding ladder. The boat is also fitted with a hydraulic platform — built into the stern — that allows retrieval of a person overboard.
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16m Pilot Boat Principle Characteristics
| Names (3 boats): | America, Phantom, Wanderer, Yankee |
| Type: | High-speed Pilot Boat |
| Designer: | Camarc Designs |
| Owner: | New York and New Jersey Sandy Hook Pilots' Association |
| Year Built: | 2000-2005 |
| LOA: | 17m (55.8 ft) |
| LWL: | 14.4m (47.5 ft) |
| Beam: | 5.7m (18.8 ft) |
| Draught: | 1.6m (5.25 ft) |
| Service Speed: | 25 knots |
| Main Engines: | 2 x 600hp Detroit 8V2000 |
| Hull & Superstructure: | Aluminum Alloy |
| Classification: | USCG Under 100GT, Subchapter T, Rivers |
| Complement: | 10 maximum |
| Service: | New York Harbor, Hudson River, Hell Gate, & L.I. Sound |
