A fast rescue boat on a single point suspension is light years away from the rescue boat typically fitted to merchant ships, especially those fitted with a free fall lifeboat. With its 15hp outboard and launched disturbingly close to or over the propeller aperture, this is a vessel for those days when the sea is like a mill pond, the sun is shinning and a logbook entry can be combined with running the master from the port to the town at Papeete. Boarding from the wharf steps of course.