Marinas Yachting

French boatbuilder Ocea recently delivered two type FPB72 fast patrol boats to the Nigerian Navy and won a new order placed by the same client. The all-aluminium FPB72 is 24m long with a beam of 5.8m. It has a top speed of 35 knots and a range of 600nm at 12kts, carries ten personnel and a fast RIB, and is armed with machineguns. The hulls were produced by Ocea’s Fontenay-le-Comte yard and fitted out at Sables d’Olonne, both on France’s Atlantic coast. On completion, the boats were sent to Saint-Nazaire where they were loaded onto the deck of a cargo ship bound for Nigeria.