Several years of travel to and promotion in the Middle East is now bearing fruit for Seattle-based Kvichak Marine Industries, (now a Vigor subsidiary). The first client is the Port of Duqm in Oman. The first products are a pair of 19-meter multipurpose pilot boats. Designed by Camarc in the U.K., the same firm that has provided designs for many Kvichak-built boats, the all-aluminum, deep-V, double-chine boats measure 62.3'×19.7' and are powered by pairs of Cummins QSK-19 800-hp engines. But unlike most other Kvichak pilot boats, these boats don't feature waterjet propulsion. The ZF 2000A transmissions turn 5-bladed nibral propellers.
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