The RNLI Historic Lifeboat Foundation maintains and operates historic RNLI lifeboats, exclusively in support of RNLI fundraising. Each year these Historic Lifeboats travel thousands of nautical miles throughout the UK, Ireland, Europe and Scandinavia, spending many hours at sea in the harsh marine environment. Doing so has been problematic for electronic navigation and network devices onboard the vessels. Extremes of heat, frost, wind, rain, snow, salinity, humidity, condensation and corrosion cause signi cant and premature deterioration and failure of devices, leading the Foundation to search for a more robust and reliable solution.
Following a detailed strategic systems and operational review, together with an extensive analysis of available solutions, the Foundation quickly pinpointed Getac’s B360 Pro fully rugged laptop as the only solution that ticked all of its boxes. Not only is the B360 Pro built to thrive in harsh and challenging conditions, but its powerful connectivity and lightweight portability makes it ideal for use both at sea and on land.
With the Getac B360 in place, the Foundation is bene tting from multiple ef ciencies in terms of cost, connectivity, and performance. The laptop ful ls all the Foundation’s needs in a single solution, something it didn’t think would be possible.
“We never imagined it possible, but the Getac B360 Pro ful ls all of our needs in a single rugged device, allowing us to make an incredible leap forward in both ef ciency and performance.Passages and events on the Historic Lifeboats can be highly demanding, due to uncontrollable factors like weather and sea conditions. With the Getac B360 Pro on board our vessels, we can be con dent we have the very best technology at our disposal, which can be relied on to get the job done all year round.”
Ishabel MacIntyre
First Of cer RNLB “Joseph Soar” (RNLI Portrush Crew)
“Passages and events on the Historic Lifeboats can be highly demanding, due to uncontrollable factors like weather and sea conditions. With the Getac B360 Pro on board our vessels, we can be condent we have the very best technology at our disposal, which can be relied on to get the job done all year round.”
The RNLI Historic Lifeboat Foundation, maintains and operates historic RNLI lifeboats, exclusively in support of RNLI Fundraising.
Each year these Historic Lifeboats travel thousands of nautical miles, throughout the UK, Ireland, Europe and Scandinavia.
Military-grade and mission-ready, the B360 Pro fully rugged laptop is packed with power and performance you can depend on.
