City of Elizabeth Fire Department Takes Delivery of RIBCRAFT 6.5
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April 9, 2012 – RIBCRAFT, the United States manufacturer of professional grade rigid inflatable boats for law enforcement, safety professionals, and military agencies announced the recent delivery of a RIBCRAFT 6.5 to the City of Elizabeth Fire Department.
The purpose built RIB will be used by the fire department for search and rescue operations. Given Elizabeth, New Jersey's large and active commercial port and waterways, the new boat will provide the department with improved response times and enhanced on-water coverage.
The 21'5" RIBCRAFT 6.5 features a center console with leaning post, aluminum T-top, antenna arch, 360 degree scene lighting, and a complete communication and navigation package. Equipped with a single 150HP Evinrude E-TEC engine, the boat will reach speeds in excess of 40 knots. The versatile and simple layout makes the boat the ultimate on water response apparatus.
Source: Firehouse.com
Zodiac International to change its corporate identity
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PRESS RELEASE
Summerville, SC – The Zodiac Marine & Pool Group wishes to reaffirm the positioning of its Recreational sector ( Zodiac Recreational of North America ), represented by Zodiac International , with a strong and distinctive corporate identity. With a distribution network of more than 1,600 sales outlets throughout the world in more than 90 countries, Zodiac International is the world leader in the field of semi-rigid and inflatable boats.
The new logo reflects the dynamics and spirit of renewal which characterize the activities of Zodiac International. The choice of blue for the logo reaffirms the brand’s links with the maritime world. The logo lines remain consistent with the legendary “Z”, yet modernized, thereby expressing the new, strategic direction taken by the company.
Source: Boating Industry
The last kayak: 1860 Alutiiq boat hold clues to an Alaskan culture
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Around 1860 near Kodiak Island off the south coast of Alaska, an Alutiiq warrior built a streamlined kayak by stretching and sewing the hides of five female sea lions around a sophisticated wooden frame.
A warrior and whaler, he gave his kayak the biurficated, or double bow, his people favored to slice through the rough seas of the Gulf of Alaska to hunt whales with javelin-sized harpoons.
For reasons still unknown, the Alutiiq stitched into the kayak’s surface near its prow several strands of human hair.
Perhaps the last of its kind, the 14-foot, 7-inch kayak is being conserved in a special gallery at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University so visitors can watch.
Source: Daily News Transcript