MetalCraft Marine

Whether it is a township, city, or county, officials from areas throughout the U.S. are taking delivery of new fireboats. In many instances, the new vessels are also used for search-and-rescue and patrol duties.

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In early March, MetalCraft Marine, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, had five of its 43/44s (that’s MetalCraft Marine’s FireStorm 40, measuring 43’1”x14’4”), under contract and a sixth was about to be sold to the Port of San Diego Harbor Police Department, which will use it for 24/7 security as well as a fireboat.

The Fire Storm 40 design is extremely popular. “It’s been selling like a train,” is how MetalCraft Marine’s contracts manager Bob Clark puts it — ever since it won the 2020 WorkBoat magazine Boat of the Year award.  Since then,

“We’ve never had less than three of them on order at any given time,” said Clark. “So much the success of that boat is directly related to WorkBoat magazine.” The design gets its 43/44 moniker because “it can be made a little longer or shorter without any real costs attached,” said Clark.

What’s new is that the 43/44 fireboat now has an outboard option. The first 43/44 to be powered with outboards came out of MetalCraft’s metal shop in mid-March and should be going to St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, this summer with triple Yamaha 300 outboards mounted across its transom.  The driving force for the outboard option is “cost per horsepower,” said Clark. “There are many reasons but [cost] that’s the biggest; it’s dramatically less with outboards.”

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The days of creating patrol boats by outfitting general-use motorboats and fishing trawlers with machine guns and obsolete naval weapons are long gone. That was World War II. 

Jump ahead 80 years, and patrol boats have evolved into platforms that have the latest navigation, communications, and propulsion systems while being designed and built with highly efficient hulls that move easily and rapidly through the water and can carry out multiple missions in locations across the globe.

Three cases in point: MetalCraft Marine is building 65 patrol boats that will mostly operate in foreign waters; a high-speed 35-footer from Moose Boats that’s outfitted with fire-fighting systems; and Inventech Marine Solutions’ 40' patrol boat for a sheriff’s department in Florida, which hits 72 mph. 

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MetalCraft Marine, Cape Vincent, N.Y., working on a contract with the U.S. Navy to design and build 45 Force Protection Small (27'x8'6") and 20 Force Protection Large (39'6"x12') patrol boats, recently delivered a 27-footer to the Navy and is due to deliver a 39-footer. The Navy’s Force Protection program evolved from the attack on the guided-missile destroyer USS Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden on Oct. 12, 2000, that killed 17 Americans. 

Eventually, when American military vessels dock in potentially hazardous ports, “there will be two (Force Protection) boats for every ship,” said MetalCraft Marine’s Bob Clark. “No one’s getting near them.”

The American military vessel will have a large sonoboom around it with sonobuoys at the ends of cables that reach almost to the bottom to detect an unwanted presence. A Force Protection patrol boat will open the boom when deliveries are being made to a ship and then close it when completed. The 39' Force Protection vessels, with four machine-gun posts, will be stationed in remote, open ports, such as Guam in the Western Pacific and Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. The 27' Force Protection vessels, with two machine gun posts, will work out of enclosed harbors.

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MetalCraft Marine, Watertown, N.Y., was recently awarded a second contract by USCG for the new Long Range Interceptor III Program. Long Range means 200 NM.

MetalCraft Design has made many incremental improvements to the design from direct input from Coast Guard crews around the country. Improvements include a finer bow entry, improved collar design by Wing, window and door improvements for better egress/ingress, full walk around cabin, higher thrust jets, redundant bucket controls, redundant sea water systems, independent crew heating and other small yet extremely important details, according to MetalCraft's partner/contracts manager Bob Clark...

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The National Marine Manufacturers Association (NMMA) has announced the induction of Bill Connor, President, MetalCraft Marine and Stanley Boats, into the National Marine Manufacturers Association Hall of Fame at their annual State of the Industry Breakfast in Toronto.

Established in 1998, the NMMA Hall of Fame recognizes and honours individuals whose names and deeds are synonymous with the pursuit of quality and innovation, and those who make a substantial and lasting contribution toward the advancement of the marine industry...

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WorkBoat recognized the 10 Significant Boats of 2022 and named its Boat of the Year at an awards ceremony at the International WorkBoat Show yesterday. The 2022 Boat of the Year is the Monjed 2, an 85'x26'x12' fire boat built by Metalcraft Marine for the Kuwait Fire Force. The boat was designed by Walker Marine Design Ltd.

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MetalCraft Marine is nearing completion of the 85'x26'x12' aluminum firefighting, rescue, patrol boat Monjeb 2. The vessel is scheduled for delivery to the Kuwait Fire Force in September.

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Signing a contract with the U.S. Navy for 45 8-meter (26.25') Interceptor model patrol boats and 20 12-meter (39.2') Interceptors.

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MetalCraft Marine (MCM) US delivered boat 7 of a 36-boat order to Pensacola, Florida for the United States Coast Guard (USCG), Medium Endurance Cutter. 

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WorkBoat’s Boat of the Year for 2020 is Boat 42, a 42’6″x13’4″x3’9″ patrol boat for the Los Angeles Port Police. The boat patrols Los Angeles harbor. Boat 42 was built and tested at MetalCraft Marine’s two shipyards at Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and Watertown, N.Y. 

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Kingston, ON, January 12, 2021 - MetalCraft Marine (MCM) has been awarded the WorkBoat Magazine’s 2020 Significant Workboat of the Year. MCM was the only Canadian company among nominees from around the world. 

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Kingston, ON, March 24, 2021, The Fire Department of Quang Ninh Province (Canh Sat PCCC) in Northern Vietnam ordered their first MetalCraft Marine (MCM) high performance fireboat - for the island of Tuan Chau, in Ha-Long Bay. 

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