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BBW Columbia Gen3 (Single player efficient design for Starter Dock)

BBW Columbia Gen3

Columbia fits in the starter dock to give you many great abilities in a package that designed for efficient and fun play.

Operators have requested a deeper hull version of the highly capable BBW Columbia. This Generation 3 version provides that. It maintains the existing dense capability package in a hull that is slightly deeper (2 blocks). The extra displacement giving a dryer deck for operators.

A secondary result of the deeper hull is more head clearance on the lower decks allowing a second bed in the first equipment room. Solo operators could use the original bed as a dining table while team operators now have that second position.

For a more extensive list of features see the write up of the BBW Columbia 2022 refit. A short list of abilities include:
= Gen3 doubles the motors for inversion recovery
= operator efficient layout of systems
= cost effective operations
= inversion recovery
= various rescue and firefighting
= long range or dashing
= towing
= beachable and can often be pushed back into the water
= anchor capable of debeaching
= Electronics for: Map; Radar; Beacon handling; Radio; Rear Camera; Weather
= Passenger seating eight (#1-8) in heated pilot’s cabin; another three heated in lower cabin (#9-11) plus four exterior unheated on stern (#12-15) (set Stormlink ?pcap 8, 11 or in warm regions 15)

Mass ~4,850
Cost ~74.5 K
For max range both gears on ~150 km
For highest speed gear alpha off, gear beta on ~18 m/s ~35 knots

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Efficiency concepts

The cost efficiency for this boat is designed to get many jobs down without being too heavy. Fuel is this games primary cost to operate. By “right sizing” you spend less fuel to get the same rewards thus a higher profit margin. Equipment like sonar was left out as for most missions its not helpful.

Operational efficiency is achieved by arranging things that critical and common tasks can be done with minimal movement. This applies to the layout of the dashboard like the big red button for manual shutdown of the engines which happens when ever you arrive at a rescue or at a hospital. Rescued injured people are easy to monitor from the seat or by standing and turning. With topside engines they are protected from bottom strikes making engine fires very rare, quickly noticeable from flame light coming through the rear pilot windows with a rapid response of grabbing a handheld extinguisher and putting the fire out from the pilot house door.

Many SW designs based on real boats have larger boats that in this real world are manned by crews of many people (four for UK rescue boat services). Not only are most people playing single player the multiplayer is often just one or a few people. Real world boats thus don’t translate so well. Columbia, like the other River series boats, are meant to be efficient single player boats in the Stormworks
“reality”.

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Inversion recovery procedures:

Important:
It takes both the inversion motors and main engines to get the boat upright. The main engines even on purely starter motors will get forward motion going. This forward motion is then used by the roll stabilizers to complete the inversion recovery.

If outside:
= If outside swim to the door on the opening side, orange striping aides finding it.
= Quickly enter and close the door
= If needed done diving suite at the rear of the pilot house
= Preferably repair hull damage and turn on pumps. Light green is the pilot house which would take in some or a lot of water if you used the door.

When ready to upright:
= Locate inversion circuit breaker is orange and is in the centre. When inverted it will up center. When in the pilot chair it is down centre.
= Turn on inversion circuit breaker
= Start the main engines, throttle up as well

Inversion direction control:
= If needed you can change direction of inversion roll with a toggle next to the circuit breaker. Note it is hard to see when sitting in the chair but easy to see if standing in an inverted boat.

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Deflooding

To manage costs and cpu load the deflooding pumps are manually controlled.
The pilot house regular pump is primarily for draining water that got in when you were using the door, especially if coming in when inverted.
The lower “bilge” pump is a large pump that supplys to the fire fighting turret and deck fire hose hookup. To use it for draining water be sure the seawater valve is closed or you will just flood the boat. After making the seawater valve is closed open the cabin valve and the large pump will draw the water from the lower crew cabin.
To get water out of the other lower compartments you will need to manually open the doors. This design choice restricts how much flooding can occur due to damage. It gives you more chances to keep the boat afloat, fix the damage and then open the compartments one at a time in a controlled manner.

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Vessels in the BBW “river” series:

A theme of the Canadian Coast Guard was selected largely as this is my homeland of Canada with this series named after various Canadian rivers.

Fraser
Classic career mode starter boat with that limited technology and tiny budget fitting in the starter dock
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2417132209

BBW McKenzie 20000
Career mode starter budget as of 2023 July. Has links to the other phases and prices of the McKenzie from career play throughs.
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3009173228

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BBW McKenzie Phase 6 with stern connector for towing rafts such as fuel barges.
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3010674093

Columbia
Fleshed out version with all parts and moderate budget fitting in the starter dock
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2419184460

BBW Columbia 2022 refit
Refit for the mid 2022 game updates.
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2826643073

BBW Columbia Gen3
A slightly deepened hull for keeping the main deck higher above the water as per an operator request. This also gave more height below deck with room for a second sleeping bed. Now with speargun for shark encounters.
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2867725953

BBW Thelon
Thelon design began as improving on the Gen 3 to reduce slipping off the deck. Improvements continued to fully enclose the upper engine and cargo bay. It is now well suited to operating in arctic conditions with increased heating and durability. Armor and rifles for defence from wildlife.
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3007367471

BBW Yukon
Arctic adventurer high capability design. Three times the mass of the Columbia. Needs the larger boat dock to spawn.
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2822448270

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