Owner/operator: Brazos Pilots Association, Freeport, Texas
Designer/builder: Metal Shark, Jeanerette, La., and Donald L. Blount and Associates, Chesapeake, Va./Metal Shark
Dimensions: L: 64’ B: 19’ D: 4.5’
Mission: Pilot boat
Crew size: Seats six, sleeps two
Hull:
- Aluminum monohull
Propulsion:
- (2) Caterpillar C18 diesel engines, 803 hp each at 2,100 rpm
- Twin Disc MGX-5146SC gears, direct mount, electric shift
- (2) Michigan Wheel five-blade nibral propellers
- Kohler 40-kW genset
- Vessel speed: 28 knots
Capacities:
- Fuel: 1,200 gallons
- Water: 55 gallons
- Lube oil: 60 gallons
Navigation/communications:
- Furuno NavNet TZtouch system, radar and chartplotter interfaced with multifunction displays
- Furuno compass and AIS
- Furuno E-nav software
- FLIR M-Series 625CS thermal imaging camera system
- (2) Engine room CCTV cameras
- (2) Furuno FM8900S VHF radios
- (2) Standard Horizon GX2000S VHF radios
Additional equipment:
- (5) Llebroc Bandera shock-mitigating seats
- Fireboy-Xintex GA2 fire suppression system with HFC-227 agent
- KVH TracVision TV3 satellite television system
