ROLLS ROYCE , HSBC, STANDARD CHARTERED DONATE GEAR. Thanks!

PT Polytech are working round the clock to fit out 6 of their unbreakable 6.2m utility boats for delivery to Padang on Saturday 15th January. The boats, 40 hp engines, radios, anchors and other gear have been donated by Rolls Royce, HSBC Indonesia and Standard Chartered Bank.



Reports from BA confirm that even the toughest millitary spec Zodiacs are being trashed in hours as they try to deal with the piles of trashed timber and rusty nails that litter the foreshore. Polytech boats are moulded in one piece in a huge rotating oven in their high tech factory outside Jakarta. The boats are close to indestructable and can be used for SAR, fisheries, transport or tourism. After serving as beach landing boats for our mother-ship, these boats will be donated to villages community in remote locations.

One mother-ship could support up to 20 of these workhourses for ferrying aid to beaches, river mouths, small islands and into ports that are too badly damaged to be used by larger shipping.