They also give the boat a top speed of 25 knots, eight knots faster than the current boat at Montrose.
However, although the sea ice is shrinking -- covering less total area as well as becoming thinner -- the Arctic is still a world ruled by ice, a lesson well learned when the Polar Pioneer encountered heavy pack ice between Svalbard and the eastern coast of Greenland, forcing the captain to divert the boat and drop speed to just a few knots.
This was not the flame accompanied by David Beckham on a speed boat and sprinted into the roaring Olympic Stadium before a television audience of 900 million.
Kenyan officials said Kenyan navy personnel pursued the attackers in their high-speed boat, engaging in a shootout, but the gang managed to cross the border back into Somalia.
Once the seals are fitted with their sensors, they are taken out to open water on their own personal speed boat, the Steller Shuttle.
Maryport Inshore Rescue Service (MIRS) operates one high-speed boat independently of the RNLI in an around the Solway Firth.
The pirates raced toward the ship, the Captain Maslov, in a high-speed boat late Thursday afternoon and attacked as it headed from Colombo, Sri Lanka, to Mombasa, Kenya, the ministry said.
As we row back to the yacht, Stjepan peels off his black trousers to reveal a pair of black swimming trunks and, boarding an old speed boat, he disappears into the bilges to service the engine.
As they returned to the launch point at full speed following their outing, the RIB lurched, throwing Holly and her father out of the boat.
The pleasure boat Lamma IV, and a high-speed ferry, the Sea Smooth, collided on 1 October last year.
Named Moksha (meaning liberation in Sanskrit) the custom 26ft (8m) pedal boat had a top speed of three knots, was self-righting and held supplies for months at sea.
"I was sailing between 18 and 22 knots, so the speed was pretty fast, but nothing unusual for such a big boat, " Gavignet recalled.
When the Artemis boat capsized Thursday, the winds were 18 to 20 knots, a normal speed for this time of year.
Since then a few more yachts have joined the speed club, mainly by exploiting the basic rule of yacht design: The longer the boat, the faster it can go.
And for months the only way in and out of lower Manhattan for most NJ commuters was a ferry ride that instead of going directly across to the WFC was re-routed to South Port and forced to go at row boat speed.
Mr Pace said the new boat will improve the lifesaving capabilities of Moelfre RNLI station because of its advanced technology and improved speed.
The pair were on a fishing holiday and had been out on the loch in a boat when they saw what they thought was a tree trunk heading towards them at speed.
Minsheng has drawn up plans for a new class of river boat that more than doubles the current size of 800-1, 000 tonnes, whilst raising the speed from 18kph to 22kph.
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