NEW LIFE IN THE SOUTHERN LAND

摘要

The Van Dienten has been in service with the Tasmanian Police Department for 21 years. This vessel has been so successful that, when the department decided to increase its capability by adding another vessel, the very detailed specifications were fora similar but larger and faster vessel.Fine Entry Marine and Southerly Design won the order. Fine Entry's managing director Tim Browne knew he would be working in familiar territory - he had, after all, built the Van Diemen to a Southerly design when he worked at Geraldton Boat Builders. He even delivered it. Much of the team he assembled had worked alongside him, as had several ofhis contractors. Personnel at many of the suppliers also remained unchanged. This is the way it is in a town, remote by some standards, where people tend to be long-term residents.