Macduff Shipyards have signed over their latest newbuild, twin-rig trawler Forever Faithful, to Andrew West of St Fergus in Scotland. This is the fourth vessel built at Macduff for the West family, with the hull design developed by Macduff Shipyards and Macduff Ship Design.
Forever Faithful measures 21.50m overall with a 7.10m beam and a depth of 4.05m. The design is for a modern equivalent to the yard’s older 21m design that fits between the 19m under-ticket design and the yard’s 24m design.
The hull was sub-contracted to a yard in Poland where the completed hull was shot blasted, zinc coated from the waterline up and fully painted, before being towed to Macduff for outfitting. The trawler’s layout has four main compartments at main deck level, with the level above divided into an aft shelter, casing, and a handling area, with the winch room located forward.
The layout throughout has been designed specifically to the owners’ requirements with a noticeable difference including a small steel bulkhead bounded store within the processing area on the centre of the vessel where an ice machine and various small machinery is situated.
The main engine is a Caterpillar C18 ACERT rated 600hp close coupled to a Reintjes gearbox with a 7.476:1 reduction. The vessel features a 2000mm propeller designed and supplied by Teignbridge Propellers which is installed inside a high-lift low-drag nozzle. The remaining stern gear package was designed in house by the shipyard and produced by Macduff Precision Engineering on CNC machines. Sea trials demonstrated encouraging results with this stern gear package with very smooth and quiet performance in all operating conditions.
A 285hp Cummins QSL9 variable speed auxiliary engine drives the hydraulic pumps for the deck machinery through a JBJ splitter box. Emergency hydraulic power is arranged with a Dong-I power take off driven from the front of the main engine. A Beta Marine generator is fitted based on a Cummins 6BT5.9D1(M) and Mecc Alte alternator with an output of 58 kW, 415/3/50. An emergency generator is arranged from the auxiliary engine with a clutched Mecc Alte alternator.
The deck equipment package includes a three-drum trawl winch, two split net drums and a gilson winch supplied by Macduff, plus a Thistle MKB7 Short Post Crane with tilting 24” Power Block head and a Thistle MFB8 Discharge Crane with Winch.
The fish handling system was supplied by Macduff Shipyards, with the fishroom chilling and ice maker from Premier Refrigeration in Fraserburgh.
