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This is John Eichelshem from Boating New
Zealand magazine. This morning we're
aboard 'North Shore Rescue', Coastguard North
Shore's new vessel. An AMF 9.5 m
purpose-built for rescue work.
I'd like to introduce John Kothe who
project managed this whole build, John
tell us a little bit about how this build
came about, and what sort of special
features you asked for in this boat.
Well I guess to start with we were very fortunate in
going from one AMF to another AMF,
because there really was a huge amount
right with the previous vessel. Yes, there
were some minor changes, so we had a big
brainstorm with a group and got
everybody's opinion: the good the bad and
the ugly from the old vessel, and made
some changes which have proved to be
hugely successful thus far.
What sorts of things did you alter between the two boats?
Well, I think the big one that
stands out that people notice
immediately is this boat has seats.
Previously our boat was standing room
with bolsters only, this came out from
our group as the number one would be seats.
[John E] I understand that you know pretty
much everything you really liked about
the other boat, and you operated it
for nearly nine years, but this one has
got a few little improvements I think ...
... one of the things you mentioned to me
was there's a bit more glass area in this in this hardtop.
Yes, in the last boat if there
was a criticism to do with the view
sometimes we found that our shorter
members had trouble seeing over the
dashboard, & out of the windows. So in this
one we lowered everything but retained the
height, so as a result of which we've got
all of this glass and a beautiful view
everybody that gets on the boat now says
"wow! look at the
beautiful view!" [John E] Now, the seats are quite
impressive - what's special about
these seats. What's special about them as
opposed to a lot of other vessels which
have seats that are sprung or a lot of
foam in them - these are purpose-built
heavy duty boat seats manufactured for
boats with all of the features required
for boats and none of the features not required.
Great, now you've gone with
Yamaha outboards again, I understand there
were Yamaha's on the previous boat ... the
engines get quite a bit of work in this
kind of environment. Quite correct, we do
in round numbers about a thousand engine
hours a year. So, on the current boat
after nine odd years we're on our
fifth set of engines Yamaha's always been
very, very good to us - they've come to the party,
warranties, price-wise - everything. We've
always used yamaha, and quite honestly we
see absolutely no reason to consider any
other outboard engine.
And after running this boat now for a short while at least
as you're sort of running it in, and getting
your crews sort of up to speed on it ...
how's your feeling? Has it been a success?
Very much so the previous boat we
probably took five or six weeks to
commission, and get everybody trained
getting up to speed with it. On this boat
almost without fail people have been
on it and being on it for an hour or
two and said "Okay, good to go! Ready to go!"
The controls are the same, we've try to
put everything back in the same place so
the transition was very, very easy.
Thank you John, and I'd have to agree this this
boat certainly seems to handle
brilliantly it's smooth and it's very
soft riding of course, and more
importantly it's an extremely capable
vessel that's going to be able to
operate throughout the Hauraki Gulf.
Every aspect of this vessel has been
worked out so that the ergonomics are
just perfect. They've used the experience
that they've gathered from the boats
that they've had previously, in particular the
last of the AMF boats they have operated,
and then have adjusted where everything
is positioned from the wheel, to the
throttle, to any of the switch panels.
Anything at all - so that they're within
easy reach. They've put them where they want
them rather than having to adapt to
where the Builder put them, and in order
to do that they actually went to the
trouble to make a full-sized MDF
mock-up of this boat interior, which the
both builders then consulted when they
were building the real thing.
Every single one of the handrails on this boat
has a knurled surface, so that it is
easier to grip, no chance of your hands
slipping off there it's a little detail
a good example of the many details on
this boat that someone has thought about.
The layout down below has been
changed as well, the ceiling has been
lowered so there's a little less headroom in
here, but what they have done this time
is instead of having a seat either side
there's actually a berth here now.
So, should they need to lie somebody down in
a rescue situation they've got somewhere
to do that.
Tthis is obviously a very impressive
vessel it's not one that you can go to
your local boat yard and buy.
It benefited from a huge amount of local
funding Coastguard is of course a
volunteer organiaation and Coastguard
North Shore hooked in the local
community you've got right in behind the
project. This is an amazing vessel, and
for boaties, for us out on the water
we can feel really good that a boat like
this is keeping us safe, it's going to be
able to operate anywhere in the Hauraki Gulf.
So, with a boat like this there
are so many things to talk about. To get
some of those details check out my
article in the April edition of
Boating New Zealand Magazine.
John Eichelsheim from Boating New Zealand.
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