Rigid Inflatable Boats

Foam filled aluminum boat that looks like an RIB, but is it?

http://home.caloundra.net/~oceancraft/

 

http://www.koldacorp.com/english/rescueboats.html

http://www.portcities.org.uk/london.../chapterId/3163/Lifesaving-on-the-Thames.html

http://www.safeboats.com/default/collar.html

 

Hi guys,

sorry for bothering if I don't understand you right. Are you realy discussing the sea worthyness of RIB's like the ones with a V-hull bottom?

From experience I can tell you the smaler ones (<5meters)without fixed seats I don't trust, with bad weight distribution / fixation they can be blown over when driven too hard upwind in heavy seas.

The larger ones can be driven hard, some realy hard. The the Dutch coast rescue fleet should by now all be replaced by alu-inflateble self righting vessels:
http://www.knrm.nl/actueel/06Fotomateriaal/
on the site you can find pictures of the stabillity tests too:
http://www.knrm.nl/vlootschouw/10Type_Arie_Visser/

 

Don't know if you know these ones:
http://www.zodiacmarine.com

 

RIB's like the ones with a V-hull bottom
Yes, that's one of the types - the main type I guess.

Looking at some of the craft you have provided links to, poses a new question; When does an RIB become a just boat with an inflatable collar?

Is that all a RIB really is, a boat with an inflatable collar?

 

Nope,

when you look at the smaler crafts, like a small Avon or Zodiac, the inflatable collar and the hard bottom go hand in hand. The collar (and the inflatable keel) give the panels their rigidity, who in their turn give the colar its rigidity. Push- and-pull.

The largest ones like the one above use it for stabillity and bouiancy at the least. look at the picture in this page:
http://www.knrm.nl/vlootschouw/10Type_Arie_Visser/07Jeanine_Parqui/
You understand it won't be this sea going as non- inflatable.
Not to mention to keep it light weight and in one piece.
The tubes consist of a couple of inner tubes. the outer tube is made of closed cell foam.

 

That is the way I am interested in the most.

See here:
http://www.special-operations-technology.com/article.cfm?DocID=607

 

Remember they are still only motorised contaceptives after all

 

Nice Thread...........

 

shame you had to come and spoil it!

 

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