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-Qatar Patrol Cats-
Vessels are not made or manufactured. They evolve out needs.
Then minds seek to find a form that will have the ability to fulfill the needs.
The needs are often many things......... Space, speed, protection, practicality,
maneuverability, maintainability, visual manifestation and more.
Watch these vessels evolve over the next few months.
They have passed through the state of mind onto note pads, from note pads
to computers, from there to paper, then back to the computer, from there to a disc,
from there to a CAD router which cuts the aluminium into forms,
the forms are welded to form larger forms......
 |  | We might have evolved to this point.
| But now we are getting man u factured. |
 |  | All our frames are up and now it's time to start skinning us. It's not as bad as it sounds. | Veecraft Marine is taking boat building
to new levels. |
 |  | This is my Port enging room.
All this aluminium is manufactured
in South Africa. | We have been told us that we are getting two 355hp engines and Castoldi Jets electronic control hydraulic steering & controls. |
 |  | | They have fitted the first tunnel roof. | Here they go welding up our tunnels. |
 |  | Now this looks a little better.
Nice to see us with our skins on. | This is just the beginning.
Lots of work to do once we get rolled over. |
 | .JPG "DSC00800looking back (Custom)") | I am all tacked up right now but they will weld up
all my seems before they roll me over. | Hey look at me!! I am the right way up at last.
I was getting tired of being on my back. |
.JPG "DSC00799inside port hull (Custom)") | .JPG "DSC00794wheel house (Custom)") | Once they weld all the plates on
I will really be strong. | How do you like our wheel houses.
We even have a head in the aft starboard corner. |
.JPG "DSC00802 decks (Custom)") | .JPG "qatDSC04987 (Custom)") | Look at the size of our decks.
Anyone for a dance? | My bow storage area and anchor hatch
on the foredeck. |
.JPG "qatDSC04971 (Custom)") | .JPG "qatDSC04973 (Custom)") | | See the wave breaker and tunnel strakes. | My safety rails & wheel house are mounted. |
.JPG "qatDSC04983 (Custom)") | .JPG "qatDSC04981 (Custom)") | | They are fitting our engines now. | And our Castoldi Jets. |
.JPG "Qat dash DSC05078 (Custom)") | .JPG "DSC05082 (Custom)") | | Our wheel house furniture Is taking shape. | It's a tight squeez to get us out of here. |
.JPG "DSC05046 Q bow (Custom)") | .JPG "DSC05084 (Custom)") | | I present my bow. | The aft end of my wheel house. |
.JPG "DSC05085 (Custom)") | .JPG "DSC05086 (Custom)") | | My aft deck with vents, hatches and bollard. | My fore deck life rings, bell, lift raft and all. |
.JPG "DSC05088 (Custom)") | .JPG "DSC05100 (Custom)") | | Do we look cool or what? | We are on our way to see the sea. | .JPG "DSC05112 (Custom)") | .JPG "DSC05127 (Custom)") | | The riggers are getting all the rigging ready to lift me. | Look at me, way up here.
The water looks cold. |
.JPG "DSC05123 (Custom)") | .JPG "DSC05137 (Custom)") | | I touched the water. It sure feels good. Now I am a real boat. | This is my Cummins Turbo Diesel.
Give me some power let get going!! | .JPG "DSC05138 (Custom)") | .JPG "DSC05139 (Custom)") | This is my Castoldi Jet Drive System.
Serious stuff. | This is my exhauts system.
It looks grand and has Bling too.. | %20(2).JPG "DSC05132 (Custom) (2)") | .JPG "DSC05131 (Custom)") | | See my Golight spot lights, Marco horn and PA system. I even have a Furuno radar system. | Some checks and then my sister and I are off off the do sea trials. See you soon. | .JPG "DSC05212Stormy (Custom)") | .JPG "DSC05204Aft deck (Custom)") | | My sister ship and I traveled from the Port of Cape Town to Hout Bay in stormy weather. | A loyal team stand ready for sea trial with our new owners. See our spacious aft deck. |
.JPG "DSC05203wheelhouse (Custom)") | .JPG "DSC05227 (Custom)") | Ebby goes through the technical equipment with Captain Neville Gibbs-Jones of Qatar Petroleum.
While the airconditioner keeps them warm. | Oh Boy! Good weather for sea trials at last.
We head off towards Slangkop lighthouse at speed and everyone is full of smiles. | .JPG "DSC05238 (Custom)") | .JPG "DSC05241 (Custom)") | The Captain checking all the functions
and is happy with all of them. | Mr. Abdulla Almahannadi Commander of Qatar Petroleum is happy too. | .JPG "DSC05236 (Custom)") | .JPG "DSC05243 (Custom)") | He will give us our names some time soon.
I hope it's Sea Wolf or something like that.
Now it's back to port for my sister and I. | At the end of the day our new owners were happy with our performance and went home with their reports. | .JPG "DSC05245 Two Qatar CT (Custom)") | .JPG "DSC05265 Eliott Basin (Custom)") | | Hello!! Hello!! Here we are back in Cape Town again. We had a great trip back from Hout Bay. We sure are going to miss the wonderful views. | A week has passed and still no boat to take us to Qatar. Have they got lost the Fogg?
A new boat has been found!!
So we will be taken out of the water today. |
.JPG "DSC05273 Side on(Custom)") | .JPG "DSC05278 at sea(Custom)") | We have enjoyed all the attention during sea trials and systems checks.
By the way this is my loo side. | And this is not my loo side. I could see that you were wondering why our sides are different. |
.JPG "DSC05283 Oil rig(Custom)") | .JPG "DSC05287Last one (Custom)") | I am practicing being a Qatar Petroleum Security Patrol Boat. Do you like the back drop?
Edmund has been teaching me to look stern. | Well this is it, we are getting out of the water.
We sure will miss the chaps at Veecraft Marine.
They have been so attentive and careing. | | The little people who build this site, are very happy to hear that the catish twins have performed very well. | A regular pair of Patrol Cats. We sure will miss them when they leave for Qatar onboard a steamer later this week. | | | We hope that they don't get seasick. | | | |
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