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Diesel Motor Launch

This is a Diesel Engine Motor Launch I have built with sections of my RIB boat in Stormworks. It is an open boat and would make an ideal tender to an island or houseboat (provided it is not too far away). This vehicle has very limited fuel and electric capacity and therefore unlimited fuel and electric is almost essential unless the purpose of the launch is simply to reach a vessel in a shallow bay (with a fuel station onboard!). Controls are explained in game and as with all my vehicles the clutch and throttle are integrated into one lever (This boat does not have astern gear; remember this when mooring!).Hopefully you will enjoy using my launch as much as I have enjoyed making it. WARNING: This is a launch and so handles like a launch. At full - throttle is can become unstable when turning sharply and could even capsize. While this has never happened to me is has felt very close when i have been testing it. WARNING 2: In high swells, risk of swamping occurs and is more prominent when going at full - throttle. In harsh conditions there is risk of major swamping leading to a stern - over - bow flip.

Changelog 2.1
In response to the new modular engines update in Stormworks, I have reworked the engine to be a single cylinder inboard which is horribly slow in flat calm conditions and has a tendency to reverse in strong head-to chop. I will attempt to rework this again in the future to make it a bit faster than this, but a bit slower than at the start. With this there is just throttle, steering and starting to worry about. Also, I have touched up some paint that was falling off, and re-antifouled it for you all (which is only me at the time of writing...)

Enjoy!

Changelog 2.2
Right, all is well! The extra cylinder has been installed. In regards to speed, it is much faster in calm conditions and I have just taken it out in maxed-out wind and fog (and rain) and it did fine on around 80% throttle, but was a bit terrifying and fairly unsafe on 100%. Then, I took it out on a tsunami, and to my delight, didn't do too bad at 80% (didn't try 100%!).

Changelog 2.3
Added astern gear.

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Enjoy!