Firm delivers new PCs to Eglin

A Florida powerboat company, which sells small, fast heavy-sea boats to the military, has delivered two of its 27-foot high performance patrol craft to Eglin Air Force Base in late January. Hann Powerboats sent the PCs to Eglin as part of an open-ended contract that has the company building an indefinite number of vessels for the AF. The two fiberglass-hull boats are the first that the AF will use for active patrol duty. Eighty-six other boats delivered under the contract were built to be towed at high speed and used for live-fire exercises. The PCs, powered by a pair of 200-hp engines that can hit speeds up to about 61 mph and survive in seas as high as 13 feet, are designed to carry small arms and are bullet resistant. Hann also builds boats for the Navy, Corps of Engineers, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; and to a Nigerian oil company, facilitated by the U.S. Department of Commerce. (Source: Bradenton Herald, 01/30/15)