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Patrol Craft

All images courtesy Ocean Craft Marine

INSIDE PROJECT

PERFECT STORM

By Eric Haun he latest high-tech rigid hull in? atable boat boat and we gave them training,” Nouhra said. “A year lat- (RHIB) from Annapolis, Md. based boatbuilder er, we gave them another training and learned about their

Ocean Craft Marine (OCM), the 11.5-meter unmet needs, because we didn’t have a chance to talk to the

Offshore Interceptor, is the result of an innova- end user before. From there, we went back to our drawing

T tion push involving some of the industry’s top players. table to produce version two of that boat, building on the “The design itself is an evolution of existing designs feedback we got and bringing more innovation into it.” we’ve done, but taking it to the next level,” said Todd Sa- At this time, OCM established the Accelerator for In- lus, OCM vice president of operations. “It’s the latest and novation in the Maritime Ecosystem (AIME), a platform greatest innovation.” to collaboratively drive innovation integration, especially

The company’s founder and CEO, Roy Nouhra, said within the professional and military segments, but also in the boat’s origins trace back a few years to a design OCM other parts of the maritime industry. OCM said it plans developed for a “very secretive organization” within the to invest more than $250 million over a 10-year period to

U.S. Department of Defense, to be delivered as comman- establish the independent maritime innovation laboratory.

do boats for a military in the Middle East. According to Salus, many government customers in the “We got the contract, we developed and delivered the patrol boat space are typically slow-moving in adopting new 34 | MN June 2024