Pilot boat ORC 136

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The pilot launch ORC 136 is designed to perform day and night pilot tasks fromits home port of La Rochelle to the ships on waiting area. The pilot lauch ORC 136 carries 2 crew plus 7 drivers. This pilot boat is suitable to ensure pilots transfers on operating vessels for many daily landings of large or smaller size vessels. To achieve these types of intervention, the hull of the ORC 136 is reinforced on the front side to withstand collisions and resist to side impacts due to crushing during dockings of ships in motion. It is powered by two diesel engines each driving a shaft line and a propeller. The pilot lauch ORC 136 sails safely but requires a pilot’s driving behaviour adapted to the changing sea conditions encountered. The concept of this pilot boat is designed to serve as a pilot along the walls of surface ships at a speed between 8 and 12 knots, taking into account the usual précautions (sea - speed - weather). This pilot boat ORC 136 is built according to French law and to the régulations of Bureau Veritas. Features a) - Underdeçk The hull is divided in 4 bulkheads and includes 5 compartments: . a forepeak . a forestore . an engine room . a baggage compartment & auxiliaries . an aft peak b) - Ondeçk The superstructure of the pilot boat: the wheelhouse with its command station, the deck house, engine ventilation ducts and, at the rear, 2 blocks for a safe access to the engines. The foredeck plus railings and mooring rigs. Afixed ladder above the deck house. .On the aft, two half-balconies, lifeboat and mooring rigs.