Jack-Knife Starter Career Tanker
Introducing the Jack-Knife, a Beginner Docks spawnable early career tanker. With the new oil drilling major update only a couple of weeks away you need to get ready to start a new career save, and this is the starter tanker for you! With a very low price-tag of $49.8k, the ability to spawn in the Beginner Docks, a generous cargo volume of 35.6k, and a cruise speed of 40 knots, this tanker will maximise your profits in any early career and make any fluid transfer a breeze, all while looking like an actual tanker instead of a giant bath tub lmao. Truly the tankery nature of this tanker cannot be overstated, its a mini tanker that looks like a tanker while it tanks! What more could you want?
Keeping this ship below 50k in price has also left a lot of room for customisation and upgrading. There is plenty of room to add all the luxuries, modifications, and customisation you need as your career progresses and your bank balance grows! Add radar, map screens, an anchor system, more equipment, even outfit the interior or add some paint blocks with your personal logo! The room for making this tanker your own is endless.
Specifications and Features:
- Price: $49.8k – CHEAP!
- Spawnable in the Beginner Docks!
- 35.6k litre cargo capacity
- Excellent stability – even in 100% wind
- 3 large pumps each for both intake and outlet – Fast to fill and empty!
- 40 knots cruise speed
- 45 mile / 75 KM range – Gets you to the Arctic, or fill the cargo tanks with diesel and pump into your fuel tanks as you steam and go for thousands of miles lmao
- Efficient engine – just 1.4 l/s at cruise
- Accurate AutoPilot
- Automatic bilge system keeps you level and stable no matter how much cargo on board
- Automatic tank purging system – never have a tank clogged full of air or any contaminant fluid again
- Realistic Naval Lights
- Auxiliary Battery – never return to a flat battery again!
- Easy to use, simple controls
- Powerful firefighting hoses
- Heater – Stay toasty in the Arctic!
Instructions
- Start the engines with the key to the left of the steering wheel. Let the RPM stabilise before adding any throttle
- W/S is Forward/Reverse, or you an directly click the throttle – all clutches etc are automatic
- The throttle has a deadzone between -0.05 and 0.05 where the waterjets will be in neutral, for ease of use.
- A/D is steering
- AutoPilot is engaged after entering a waypoint with the keyboard via the button on the ceiling panel with the light switches
- You can still turn the vessel even if it is in neutral
Filling/Emptying the Cargo Tanks
- Keep the engines on while pumping to keep the batteries topped up
- Red side is pumping out, White side is pumping in.
- There are 6 pumps, 3 each for pumping in and out
- Connect a hose to a nozzle and flip the corresponding switch
- You can fill or drain any tank from any connection, the cargo tanks will self balance
Please have an awesome time using this tanker! Also let me know what you like or if anything needs changing, any feedback encouraged lmao.
Thanks so much for checking it out!
Credits:
I fully ripped off Expo’s awesome idea for folding the the ship. Thanks for letting me use it!
Kahrstrom’s K&O Advanced Fluid Jet Controller
surativefire’s autopilot
Adester’s AFR Controller
Zizo’s Maritime Nav Lights
Hopefully haven’t missed anyone.
