Fast-Response RHIB
Role: Compact, fast-response Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat built for coastal patrol, SAR support and quick insertions/extractions.
Crew & Passengers: Up to 6 seats for crew, medics, or boarding teams, with clear sightlines.
Features
- 6 Seats: Enough room for a pilot, navigator, and 4‑man boarding / rescue team.
- Remote Control: Integrated remote helm with approximately 100 m control range for unmanned approaches, docking, or sending the boat ahead into tight spots.
- Fast-Response Layout: Low profile, clear deck, and simple systems designed for quick launches and rapid turnarounds.
- Stormworks-Friendly: Compact footprint, easy to spawn and recover, ideal as a tender for larger cutters or patrol ships.
Story behind the RHIB
When the main cutter is still spinning up its turbines, this RHIB is already in the water.
Originally commissioned as a “station boat” for a small coastal outpost, the A-70 Fast-Response RHIB quickly earned a reputation for showing up first and leaving last.
During heavy weather, larger vessels hold off in deeper water while this craft runs the shoreline, threading between rocks, wrecks, and harbor debris to reach stranded crews.
On quiet nights it serves as a low‑profile interdiction platform, slipping into dark coves under remote control so the boarding team can stay off radar until the last second.
Whether it’s hauling survivors off a burning freighter or racing a storm front back to port, this RHIB is built to be the first hull over the horizon and the last one to give up the search.
Credits
This build uses an outboard that I have used in the Interdictor on its RHIBs – huge thanks to the creator:
M25 Outboard
