Dave Linkie gives a round up of the latest boat news across the UK…
Fraserburgh skipper orders 24m trawler with Whitby yard – Fraserburgh skipper Stephen West, of MB Good Design LLP, has placed an order for a new design of 23.95m twin-rig trawler, to be built by Parkol Marine Engineering at Whitby.
Profile of the 23.95m twin-rig trawler Parkol Marine Engineering is to build for Fraserburgh skipper Stephen West.
The fully shelterdecked vessel has been designed by Ian Paton of SC McAllister & Co Ltd, and will feature a round bilge hull with a registered length of 23m, 7.8m of beam and a depth moulded of 4.25m. The hull form will be similar to that of the 26m Our Lass III, Guiding Star and Guardian Angell, built by Parkol Marine in the past 30 months, while the combination of centreline propulsion machinery is identical.
A Mitsubishi S6R2-T2 main engine (476kW @ 1350rpm) will drive a 2500mm-diameter propeller through a Reintjes WAF 474L 7.476:1 reduction gearbox.
Fuel capacity will be 20,000 litres housed in four tanks, including two double bottom tanks under the floor of the fishroom, which will have a working capacity of some 800 boxes. 14,000 litres of freshwater will be carried in the bulbous bow tank, which will supply two 2.5t ice machines.
EK Marine of Killybegs will supply the vessel’s full deck machinery and hydraulic package. This will include a three-barrel two-speed trawl winch (35t) with a drum capacity for 750 fathoms of 22mm-diameter wire. Two 2 x 12t split net drums will be arranged on the shelterdeck. EK Marine will also manufacture a knuckle boom powerblock (1.5t @ 6.7m) and stiff boom landing (1t @ 8m) cranes, a 24in W-sheave powerblock head and a Gilson winch (7.5t).
Construction of the new twin-rig trawler, which will replace skipper Stephen West’s current 18.6m twin-rig trawler Daystar BF 151, is expected to commence next month for delivery in early 2017.
Fairhavens at Kilkeel – The latest addition to the Kilkeel fleet, the 21m twin-rig trawler Fairhavens N 386, fished her first trip on the Irish Sea prawn grounds last week.
Fairhavens leaves Kilkeel at the start of skipper Warren Campbell’s first trip, earlier this month. (Photograph courtesy of Lenny McLaughlin).
Now skippered by Warren Campbell, the former French trawler was bought from Skerries as Mater Dei DA 66 towards the end of last year, since when Fairhavens has been renamed and given a new look, with the vessel’s previous dark red hull being repainted blue.
Mater Dei BL 721890 was built at the Socarenam Shipyard in Boulogne in 1990. Mater Dei moved to Ireland in 2006, when Noel Wilde of Skerries bought the vessel to replace another former French-built trawler. Powered by a Mitsubishi S12R-MPTA main engine, installed in 1998, Fairhavens has a registered length of 19.8m and 6.7m of beam.
New Peterhead trawler progressing well – Hull construction of a new twin-rig trawler, ordered by skipper Andrew West and Partners of Peterhead, with Macduff Shipyards, is progressing well.
Work in progress on a 21.5m twin-rig trawler for Peterhead skipper Andrew West.
Of 21.5m LOA and 21.5m, beam 7.1m and a depth of 4.1m, the double chine steel hull is being built at the Kedat Shipyard in Szezcin, Poland, under sub-contract to Macduff Shipyards.
The centreline machinery for the new build will include a Caterpillar C18 (447kW @ 1800rpm) Reintjes WAF 374 7.476:1 reduction gearbox and a 2000mm-diameter propeller.
A Cummins QSL9 auxiliary engine of 212kW @ 1800rpm will drive the trawler’s main hydraulic system. A Cummins 6BT5 electrical generator auxiliary engine will also be fitted.
Fuel and freshwater capacities will be 24,800 litres and 15,300 litres respectively.
The main items of deck machinery, including a 3-drum trawl winch, two split net drums and a Gilson winch, will be manufactured Macduff Shipyards.
On completion of the hull, the new build will be launched at Szezcin, before being towed to Macduff for machinery installation fitting-out.
Macduff Shipyards is currently building a 24m twin-rig trawler in its main fabrication hall at Macduff for Fraserburgh, while a 25.7m dredger is under construction in its fabrication premises at Buckie.
Last month Macduff Shipyards signed an order with Scottish Sea Farms Ltd (Shetland Division) to build a new 14m catamaran workboat vessel, which will be equipped with twin Iveco N67 engines (194kW @ 2800rpm) and a Palfinger PK18500(M) B deck crane.
First stage of Alison Kay’s lengthening at Skagen – After making his first landing of 2016 in Lerwick, Shetland whitefish skipper James Anderson immediately took the stern trawler Alison Kay LK 57 to Skagen for an extensive three-month refurbishment programme, during which the vessel will be lengthened by 4m, by Karstensens Shipyard.
Alison Kay after being cut in two on Skagen slipway, in preparation for Karstensens Shipyard inserting the new hull section amidships.
Last week the 24m vessel, which Karstensens Shipyard delivered to skipper James Anderson and partners in 2001, was cut in half on the slipway before the two sections were pulled apart in preparation for inserting a new 3.5m hull section into the fishroom.
Other hull work will include heightening the bulwarks forward. This modification, which will increase the trawler’s LOA by a further 0.5m, by extending the stem, will also enable an extended fo’c’s’le deck to be fitted.
Alison Kay’s wheelhouse will also be lifted off and repositioned 1m further aft, at the same time as being raised 1m. A new computer/electronical store will be fitted underneath the wheelhouse, together with a skipper’s cabin and toilet/shower compartment.
New gear stores will also be formed on the main and trawl decks, on which there will considerably more room to spread out trawls when repairing torn gear.
Inserting a new 3.5m hull section amidships has been calculated to raise Alison Kay’s freeboard by 300mm and deliver propulsion and fuel economy benefits.
Increasing the capacity of Alison Kay’s fishroom to 195m. will also help skipper James Anderson and his partners to deal more efficiently and safely with the rise in quota uplift, required in the next few years in order to meet the demersal landing obligation.
On returning to Shetland in April 2016, the upgraded Alison Kay, which in many aspects will be like a new vessel for the owners, will have a LOA of 28m and a registered length of 23.99m, in contrast to her present LOA of 23.95m.
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Dave Linkie gives a round up of the latest boat news across the UK…
Fraserburgh skipper orders 24m trawler with Whitby yard – Fraserburgh skipper Stephen West, of MB Good Design LLP, has placed an order for a new design of 23.95m twin-rig trawler, to be built by Parkol Marine Engineering at Whitby.
Profile of the 23.95m twin-rig trawler Parkol Marine Engineering is to build for Fraserburgh skipper Stephen West.
The fully shelterdecked vessel has been designed by Ian Paton of SC McAllister & Co Ltd, and will feature a round bilge hull with a registered length of 23m, 7.8m of beam and a depth moulded of 4.25m. The hull form will be similar to that of the 26m Our Lass III, Guiding Star and Guardian Angell, built by Parkol Marine in the past 30 months, while the combination of centreline propulsion machinery is identical.
A Mitsubishi S6R2-T2 main engine (476kW @ 1350rpm) will drive a 2500mm-diameter propeller through a Reintjes WAF 474L 7.476:1 reduction gearbox.
Fuel capacity will be 20,000 litres housed in four tanks, including two double bottom tanks under the floor of the fishroom, which will have a working capacity of some 800 boxes. 14,000 litres of freshwater will be carried in the bulbous bow tank, which will supply two 2.5t ice machines.
EK Marine of Killybegs will supply the vessel’s full deck machinery and hydraulic package. This will include a three-barrel two-speed trawl winch (35t) with a drum capacity for 750 fathoms of 22mm-diameter wire. Two 2 x 12t split net drums will be arranged on the shelterdeck. EK Marine will also manufacture a knuckle boom powerblock (1.5t @ 6.7m) and stiff boom landing (1t @ 8m) cranes, a 24in W-sheave powerblock head and a Gilson winch (7.5t).
Construction of the new twin-rig trawler, which will replace skipper Stephen West’s current 18.6m twin-rig trawler Daystar BF 151, is expected to commence next month for delivery in early 2017.
Fairhavens at Kilkeel – The latest addition to the Kilkeel fleet, the 21m twin-rig trawler Fairhavens N 386, fished her first trip on the Irish Sea prawn grounds last week.
Fairhavens leaves Kilkeel at the start of skipper Warren Campbell’s first trip, earlier this month. (Photograph courtesy of Lenny McLaughlin).
Now skippered by Warren Campbell, the former French trawler was bought from Skerries as Mater Dei DA 66 towards the end of last year, since when Fairhavens has been renamed and given a new look, with the vessel’s previous dark red hull being repainted blue.
Mater Dei BL 721890 was built at the Socarenam Shipyard in Boulogne in 1990. Mater Dei moved to Ireland in 2006, when Noel Wilde of Skerries bought the vessel to replace another former French-built trawler. Powered by a Mitsubishi S12R-MPTA main engine, installed in 1998, Fairhavens has a registered length of 19.8m and 6.7m of beam.
New Peterhead trawler progressing well – Hull construction of a new twin-rig trawler, ordered by skipper Andrew West and Partners of Peterhead, with Macduff Shipyards, is progressing well.
Work in progress on a 21.5m twin-rig trawler for Peterhead skipper Andrew West.
Of 21.5m LOA and 21.5m, beam 7.1m and a depth of 4.1m, the double chine steel hull is being built at the Kedat Shipyard in Szezcin, Poland, under sub-contract to Macduff Shipyards.
The centreline machinery for the new build will include a Caterpillar C18 (447kW @ 1800rpm) Reintjes WAF 374 7.476:1 reduction gearbox and a 2000mm-diameter propeller.
A Cummins QSL9 auxiliary engine of 212kW @ 1800rpm will drive the trawler’s main hydraulic system. A Cummins 6BT5 electrical generator auxiliary engine will also be fitted.
Fuel and freshwater capacities will be 24,800 litres and 15,300 litres respectively.
The main items of deck machinery, including a 3-drum trawl winch, two split net drums and a Gilson winch, will be manufactured Macduff Shipyards.
On completion of the hull, the new build will be launched at Szezcin, before being towed to Macduff for machinery installation fitting-out.
Macduff Shipyards is currently building a 24m twin-rig trawler in its main fabrication hall at Macduff for Fraserburgh, while a 25.7m dredger is under construction in its fabrication premises at Buckie.
Last month Macduff Shipyards signed an order with Scottish Sea Farms Ltd (Shetland Division) to build a new 14m catamaran workboat vessel, which will be equipped with twin Iveco N67 engines (194kW @ 2800rpm) and a Palfinger PK18500(M) B deck crane.
First stage of Alison Kay’s lengthening at Skagen – After making his first landing of 2016 in Lerwick, Shetland whitefish skipper James Anderson immediately took the stern trawler Alison Kay LK 57 to Skagen for an extensive three-month refurbishment programme, during which the vessel will be lengthened by 4m, by Karstensens Shipyard.
Alison Kay after being cut in two on Skagen slipway, in preparation for Karstensens Shipyard inserting the new hull section amidships.
Last week the 24m vessel, which Karstensens Shipyard delivered to skipper James Anderson and partners in 2001, was cut in half on the slipway before the two sections were pulled apart in preparation for inserting a new 3.5m hull section into the fishroom.
Other hull work will include heightening the bulwarks forward. This modification, which will increase the trawler’s LOA by a further 0.5m, by extending the stem, will also enable an extended fo’c’s’le deck to be fitted.
Alison Kay’s wheelhouse will also be lifted off and repositioned 1m further aft, at the same time as being raised 1m. A new computer/electronical store will be fitted underneath the wheelhouse, together with a skipper’s cabin and toilet/shower compartment.
New gear stores will also be formed on the main and trawl decks, on which there will considerably more room to spread out trawls when repairing torn gear.
Inserting a new 3.5m hull section amidships has been calculated to raise Alison Kay’s freeboard by 300mm and deliver propulsion and fuel economy benefits.
Increasing the capacity of Alison Kay’s fishroom to 195m. will also help skipper James Anderson and his partners to deal more efficiently and safely with the rise in quota uplift, required in the next few years in order to meet the demersal landing obligation.
On returning to Shetland in April 2016, the upgraded Alison Kay, which in many aspects will be like a new vessel for the owners, will have a LOA of 28m and a registered length of 23.99m, in contrast to her present LOA of 23.95m.
Read more from Fishing news here.
