The Pilots’ Association for the Bay and River Delaware has taken delivery of another pilot boat from Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding, Duclos Corporation. The vessel, the Pennsylvania, is the pilot association’s fourth Chesapeake Class
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The Pilots’ Association for the Bay and River Delaware has taken delivery of another pilot boat from Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding, Duclos Corporation. The vessel, the Pennsylvania, is the pilot association’s fourth Chesapeake Class launch and eleventh pilot boat built by the Somerset, Mass., shipyard since 1957.
With a deep-V hull designed by Ray Hunt Design, the all-aluminum Pennsylvania measures 53.6 feet overall, with a 17.8 feet beam and a 4.9 feet draft. The boat is powered by twin Volvo Penta D16 diesel engines, each rated for 651 bhp at 1,800 rpm. Top speed is over 25 knots. The engines turn 5-blade Brunton’s propellers via ZF 500-1-A gear boxes. A Humphree interceptor trim control system, with its Automatic Trim Optimization, is installed at the transom.
The vessel’s wheelhouse, with a small trunk, is amidships on a flush deck. It has electrically-heated forward-leaning front and side windows for deicing and four tinted windows on the roof. The wheelhouse has the helm station on center
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