Canadian boatbuilder signs up for Seawork
Seaworks international reach continues to grow, with Canadian builder Rosborough Boats crossing the Atlantic for the 2009 event.
For over 54 years Rosborough Boats has been building semi-custom vessels to suit the specific needs of its professional operators and have yet to find two requirements that are exactly the same.In the year 2000, Rosborough had a request from the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans, which owns over 50 of the company’s RF-246 workboats, to develop a RIB that would have greater sea keeping abilities and larger personnel carrying capacity and higher speeds in harsh conditions. Rosborough Boats started to develop their Rigid Hull Inflatable line up through various prototypes and released the Rough Water 9.11 in 2003.
The Rough Water 9.11 is presently in service with several Canadian and American federal, state/provincial and municipal agencies as well as those in the private sector serving the needs of policing/ patrolling, SAR, conservation and environmental protection, oil platform assistance, survival training craft, water ambulance and general all purpose workboat.
The Rough Water 9.11 is fully semi-custom to match the present and future needs of its operators. With the success of the Rough Water 9.11, Rosborough Boats further developed their Rigid Hull Inflatable line up, adding the 8.50, 7.90 and 6.70. The Rough Water line up also includes the RFV HammerHead (hard shell), available in 22′ and 25′ versions.
Earlier this year, Rosborough Boats delivered a Rough Water 9.11 RIB (the first Rough Water delivered to the UK) to Calypso Marine, a small family run business based in the Firth of Forth. This Rough Water 9.11 will be on display on the Seawork 2009 floating pontoon, where visitors to the show will be able to try the Canadian approach to multi-purpose workboat themselves.
