Rhino Marine Products (Pty) Ltd, a Cape Town based company, manufacture HPDE boats as a more durable replacement for conventional RIB’s, Aluminium and GRP hull work boats since 2003. Rhino Craft hulls are fabricated from High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) and are designed, developed and tested to create robust and virtually indestructible workboats for use with outboard motors as well as inboard diesels with stern drives or jet drives. Over the last 11 years the hulls have been proven in harsh offshore conditions impacting with solid and floating steel structures and have a customised forepeak structure for engaging in offshore bow‐catcher boat landings. The craft generally employ 15mm thick HDPE pipe sponsons which act as heavy duty fenders for extreme offshore abuse. These sponsons are filled with polystyrene foam to render the craft virtually unsinkable.
