SAR Vehicle Photos

ZooJunkie

Explorer
You Coast Guard guys are da bomb! My thanks to you all for saving the men and women who use the sea!


Nice toys!! I knew I should of enlisted w/ the CG!!!!
 

BriansFJ

Adventurer
To add to my original post with pictures of El Paso County (Colorado) SAR's vehicles (here http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/showpost.php?p=273584&postcount=11), I wanted to add a picture of our newest acquisition (sorry for the poor quality cell phone pic; I'll take a better one soon):

Squad 2
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Enjoy!:drool:
 

willyswagon

Adventurer
Can't sink but you can roll them!!!!

Just ordered my expo stickers!!!

All boats can sink! The number of compartments / bilge pumps make it impracticle for this design.

What was the name of that other single walled , multi compartment, unsinkable boat???:snorkel:

In my 21 yrs as a SAR Lifeboatman I have never seen a design that is affected as much by icing as the 47' MLBs. In fact in our area (Eastern Canada) we are forbidden to operate them in icing conditions!

Like every design, they have thier strenghs, and weeknesses
 

alexrex20

Explorer
gotta love the coast guard pilots! my buddy's dad is a pilot and i love hearing stories... like hovering (0mph ground speed) over 20ft seas in 80mph winds.
 

willyswagon

Adventurer
I ve got two of those up her in New Hampsire at station Portsmouth Harbor

If your collecting them, you can take the one I'm on!!

Took a pounding again Saturday night. Two tuna boats lost their wheelhouse windows. 38 NM away

We pounded head to it 3 hrs. Winds 35-45 kts, sea state 4 -5 m (yep 12-16ft)!!:snorkel:
The seas broke lights that are attached to the life rings, tore rescue bags lines apart, just another night in paradice!!:Wow1:

Rendez-vous'd up with them, then escorted back home at 9 Kts

The 47's are like going to sea in a tumble dryer!!
 

SunTzuNephew

Explorer
If your collecting them, you can take the one I'm on!!

Took a pounding again Saturday night. Two tuna boats lost their wheelhouse windows. 38 NM away

We pounded head to it 3 hrs. Winds 35-45 kts, sea state 4 -5 m (yep 12-16ft)!!:snorkel:
The seas broke lights that are attached to the life rings, tore rescue bags lines apart, just another night in paradice!!:Wow1:

Rendez-vous'd up with them, then escorted back home at 9 Kts

The 47's are like going to sea in a tumble dryer!!

Thank G-D for the US Coast Guard (and Air Force Pararescue)! Both have saved my butt.....
 

Cody1771

Explorer
ha, nice to see another CG, i spent a week at Canadian Coast Guard Station Bamfield working relief for the engineer. those 47' lifeboats are amazing. but i think ill stick to my normal SAR vehicle...


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PS heres what the canadian 47'ers look like

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in action shot

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willyswagon

Adventurer
The Gordon Reid... one Canada's floating FRC platforms! We are hoping that with the arrival of the Mid Shore Patrol boats, we may get one of the Arun class Lifeboats...

Now that's a Lifeboat!!
 

LateNate

Adventurer
ha, nice to see another CG, i spent a week at Canadian Coast Guard Station Bamfield working relief for the engineer. those 47' lifeboats are amazing. but i think ill stick to my normal SAR vehicle...


CCGS%20Gordon%20Reid.02%20-%20sar.JPG


CCG%20-%20DND.jpg




PS heres what the canadian 47'ers look like

180px-CCGC_Cape_Sutil_at_CCG_Station_Port_Hardy.jpg


in action shot

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Do they run twin cats.
 

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