Hike Metal Announces HIKE30 Series Commercial Patrol Workboat 2011 Expansion Line

Hike Metal, the Preferred Custom Commercial Workboat supplier to the Police, Sheriff and law Enforcement Departments around the world, has announced their 2011 HIKE30 Series Commercial Workboat line expansion. Our HIKE30 Series Workboats are known as the “Workhorse” of the Commercial Boatbuilding Industry “Heavy Duty Workboats”. For 2011, Hike Metal has expanded the HIKE30 Series in 2 ft increments out to 38 ft, and every one of our 30 Series Workboats comes with our 10 year written warranty. We maintain the flexibility to customize to desired lengths.

The different working environments of the variety of law Enforcement Agencies around the world require flexibility in length, and we launched our 2011 HIKE30 Series to meet their demand. Our 25 plus years of time tested and proven precision engineering and production processes for the manufacture of our HIKE30 Series allowed us to standardize our 2 ft increment extended builds. There is quite a difference when you compare the vast patrol, search and rescue conditions in the Florida Keys or along the coasts of the Caribbean and South America to that of the rivers, lakes, bays and harbors of the world, and we know, because we deliver to them all.

Our streamlined and proven Hike Hull with its 18 degree modified V, precision engineered reverse chines, Lift Strakes and its low coefficient of drag is standard on all HIKE30 Series. We manufacture one of the most agile Workboats in the industry, and our precisely engineered Hike combination brings theHIKE30 Series 30 – 38’s up on plane and up to top speeds quickly, just like a Quarter Horse, and in a variety of sea, lake, river and harbor conditions.

The HIKE30 Series 10 year warranty is the Commercial Workboat standard for Hike, and our patented and proven “Harmonic Vibratory Stress Relief Process”; a process performed during the structural welding, that minimizes the inherent weld distortion, cracking and residual hull stress found in conventional boat and shipbuilding manufacturing processes. Our patented process consistently delivers extended service life. Every weld is performed by our highly skilled welders, who are all Canadian Welding Bureau (CWB) certified.

Our Hike Metal ship and boatbuilding factory manufactures a variety of Workboats outside of the Law Enforcement Industry, which bolster our over-all Custom Commercial Boatbuilding performance. We are also a preferred supplier to the Fire Departments around the world for their Fire-Boats, like the heavy duty 90′ NFPA Type III Fire-Boat recently delivered to the Chicago Fire Department (CFD), and the 90 ft Custom Class “A” Fire-Boat delivered to the Baltimore City Fire Department. We build many types of Custom Commercial Work-Boats, such as “Self-Righting” Search and Rescue Boats (SAR) and Hovercraft for the Coast Guard and Custom Jet Boats like the 49” RIB delivered to the Blue Heron Company this July 4 th weekend for their Toberbory and Flower Pot Island tours, they even christened it the “Flower Pot Express”.The Hike Team takes pride in every boat, ship and vessel we build and deliver,and we’re proud to expand our rugged HIKE30 Series work boats to meet the demands of the Law Enforcement Agencies who protect and preserve our water ways around the world, and we provide every bit of personal safety and protection for them in every Workboat we deliver.

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Hike Metal Ships and Delivers Chicago’s 90′ Fire Boat

Hike Metal of Ontario, CA. delivers Chicago’s heavy duty NFPA Type III Fire-Boat. Designed and built to operate year-round in Lake Michigan, the Chicago River, and surrounding harbors. The Fire-Boat will be used to respond to the Chicago Fire Department (CFD), Rescue, Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosive incidents (CBRNE), Hazmat decontamination, dive operations, and other waterway related responses. Chicago’s Fire-Boat is named the “Christopher Wheatley”, in memory of a fallen 31-year-old Chicago Firefighter who died in the line of duty.

Unique Custom CFD Fire-boat features include ;

•  300 tons; Steel hull with Aluminum superstructure.
•  Twin 1,600hp Caterpillar diesel engines.
•  Two 30 KW diesel powered generators.
•  2,500 gallon diesel tank
•  Two 500 gallon foam tanks
•  Two 7,000 GPM pumps powered by 2-1,000hp Caterpillar Diesels.
•  4 monitors, 3 on the bow, 1 on the stern, stern monitor elevates to a height of 30 feet.
•  Mast can be lowered hydraulically to allow passage under the bridges on the Chicago River system.

The CFD heavy-duty Fire-Boat is designed to break up to 12 inches of ice so it can operate year-round. It can travel at 12 knots or at three knots through ice. The Custom Fire-Boat can be used with scuba divers for rescues, for firefighting with foam or water and as a pumping station to supplement the city’s fire-main supply of water. It can be run with a crew of 5 or up to 10 when fighting a fire. It has a full galley, washrooms, medical room, Hazmat crew protection quarters, and crew accommodations below decks.

One of the 4 monitor nozzles sits on a platform that can be elevated 30 feet, and the force of the powerful spray is enough to blast brick off the side of a building.

The heavy duty custom Fire-Boat represents a year of work at Hike Metal Products Ltd. It is one of many boats the Wheatley, Ontario shipbuilding factory has shipped out of the harbor and is larger than a similar heavy duty Fire-Boat we built and delivered to the city of Baltimore, MD.

Hike Metal has built over 180 custom commercial boats, ships and vessels up to 150′ since 1958. Wespecialize in unique and complex high quality projects ranging from Coast Guard self–righting SAR’s Vessels and Hovercraft, Fire and Police Department Fire Boats and Patrol Boats, Car and Passenger Ferries, Tug, Tow and Pilot Boats, Fishing, Diving and Research ships.

Our modern waterfront shipyard and factoryis strategically located on the North shores of Lake Erie, facilitating the complete construction of vessels up to 100 ft under climate controlled cover while enabling a full program of sea trials prior to delivery. Hike has delivered many turn-key custom commercial steel and aluminum boats and ships to governments, municipalities and private sectors around the world, including the USA, Canada, Central and South America, the Caribbean and the Middle East.

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Stanley Steps in to Provide Stearn Electric with Sonitrol Alarm Verification

Following the launch of its first European ProtectionNet Customer Service Centre in the UK, Stanley Convergent Security Solutions (Stanley CSS) has been awarded the Sonitrol alarm monitoring contract for two Stearn Electric distribution warehouses in the South of England.

A national electrical distributor supplying over 10,000 electrical wholesalers and outlets across the UK, Stearn Electric uses Advanced Audio Verification using Sonitrol Audio Impact technology at its Bristol and Leighton Buzzard branches. Having recently obtained exclusivity in the UK on the provision of Sonitrol, Stanley CSS was quick to react when Stearn Electric’s Bristol branch contacted the company to see if they could take over the system from the previous provider.

Stanley CSS put in place a strategy to take over the system rapidly, including sourcing a replacement board for the panel, supplying qualified engineers to undertake the work and programming Stanley’s ProtectionNet Customer Service Centre (PNC) system to receive the Sonitrol signals – all in one visit. Stearn Electric Bristol branch Manager Alan Blackwell is impressed with the service provided: “I have been very pleased with Stanley’s response and the manner in which they carried out the repair and takeover. The alternative would have been to install a new system at considerable expense and disruption, which I did not really want to do.”

In fact, so impressed has Alan been that he has recommended Stanley CSS to other Stearn branches, including Leighton Buzzard which has also appointed Stanley CSS to take over their Sonitrol alarm system shortly.

Sonitrol provides organisations with the ability to verify an alarm event in real time by allowing operators to hear what’s happening on a monitored site. When security alarm systems are triggered, the system immediately alerts Stanley’s PNC and transmits the sounds of the break-in attempt and a code describing the location of the activated audio sensor. Professional operators on duty around the clock listen silently to determine the nature of the noise and take appropriate action, such as calling the authorities or resetting the system. Such a facility increases apprehension rates as intruders are not alerted and police respond quickly to a verified crime in progress. False alarms can also be quickly identified.

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