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MetalCraft Marine's Bob Clark loves talking about small boats, especially small boats his company builds. "The one that's really hot is the 43/44," he said, referring to MetalCraft's 43'1"×l4'4" FireStorm 40. "Five are on order and five new orders are coming in." Many of these boats - 60% in fact -are fireboats and some will be combination fire and police boats. "Why have two boats when you can have one boat that solves two problems?" said Clark, who added that his Kingston, Ontario-based company made sure to feature multimission boats at the 2023 International WorkBoat Show in New Orleans recently. Clark said the Port of Corpus Christi, Texas, has two FireStorm 40s and a FireStorm 70 (70'10"×22'10"). Both boats combine fire and police functions. He expects to build a FireStorm 40 for the city of San Diego that will also be crewed by both fire and police department staff. "It just makes so much sense," said Clark. "You satisfy both groups." |