When is a RIB not a RIB?

Commercial RIB Charter are introducing yet another vessel that doesn’t look like a RIB. In fact with a fleet now topping out at thirty four vessels, only twenty six are RIBs in the purest sense. We ask Director Stuart Hedges to explain what’s going on…

Commercial RIB Charter don't just charter RIBs

‘’The name dilemma is a constant debate but as we have been a key supplier of commercial RIBs to the European market for nearly twenty five years, we are loathe to change it.

Our growth has been organic and essentially is driven by happy customers. Whilst there is no doubt that we have a name for our shallow draft expertise built around RIBs, our high levels of repeat business are largely down to our ‘whatever the question is, the answer is yes’ attitude.

Customers who have booked our RIBs and been impressed by this attitude, and their flying through whatever audits are thrown at them, have pushed us into providing the catamarans we have been launching in the last few years.

Our new dive vessel CRC Sentinel is a perfect example and we would like to thank the clients who have provided us with their guidance and expertise to build up the ‘perfect’ specification for what we acknowledge is a very niche vessel. CRC Sentinel combines 1.8m shallow draft, a comfortable 12 pax CTV capability, deck crane and full air / nitrox IMCA D023 compliant dive spread with four point anchoring.’’

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