New pelagic vessel Havskjer has been delivered by Karstensens Skibsværft to owner Henning Veibust following a construction period that has not been short of challenges, largely due to delays related to the Covid-19 pandemic and in taking delivery of key equipment.
Now the new vessel has been delivered and left the yard in Skagen this week for its home port of Ålesund in western Norway.
“Thanks to good collaboration between owner and yard, we have reached our goal. Both owner and yard can be proud of the result,” said Kent Damgaard at Karstensens.
Havskjer’s hull is the second to be built at Karstensen’s own subsidiary in Gdynia, and was delivered to the Skagen yard for fitting out in January 2020.
Designed by Karstensens Skibsværft, Havskjer features a trawl deck aft raised a level higher than usual, increasing the vessel’s freeboard and contributing to higher safety levels on the working deck.
Havskjer has an 80 metre overall length with a moulded breadth of 16 metres, and the RSW tanks have a 2650m3 capacity.
It is expected to operate on conventional pelagic fisheries, trawling for blue whiting and concentrating on purse seining for mackerel and herring, operating on the same principles as its predecessor and the other two Veibust Fiskeriselskap vessels, Havfisk and Havstål.
Havskjer has a Wärtsilä propulsion system with a 12V32E2 main engine, SCV 95-PDC58, 750/130rpm reduction gearbox and a 4200mm diameter 4D1095 propeller.
The combination of the 6960kW main engine and the Marelli 3400 kW/4250 kVA water-cooled shaft generator supply sufficient energy for trawling and for the electrical system, including the 1300kW Brunvoll side thrusters, when purse seining.
The bank auxiliary engines consists of one 990kWe Nogva Cummins QSK-38DM and a pair of 660kWe Nogva Scania DI 16 units that can be run in parallel if required.
On sea trials Havskjer demonstrated a 17.80 knot top speed under main engine power and a respectable 11 knots in diesel-electric mode.
Owner Henning Veibust opted for a Karmøy Winch hydraulic deck equipment layout, including pair of 90-tonne trawl winches managed by a Karm autotrawl system, a 57-tonne tail end winch and a pair of 148-tonne net drums, as well as an array of smaller winches.
The purse seining arrangement, including both Karmøy Winch and Triplex systems, starts with a pair of 40-tonne purse winches, a 40-tonne Tristar Giant hauler and a 7-tonne, 13 metre reach net crane and transport roller.
There are Triplex FLH-112 corkline and GL-112 leadline stackers, as well as forward deck and fish pump cranes, plus an after fish pump/deck crane
The complete high pressure hydraulic system is from Karmøy Winch, with seven 158kW, three 110kW and two 87kW power packs. Karmøy Winch also supplied the two 20-inch fish pumps and the associated hydraulic and fish hose reels.
Catches pass into the selected tanks via the dewatering system on deck. The 2650m3 RSW capacity is chilled by a double FrioNordica 2x1500 kW/2x1,290,000 kCal/hour system with four 600m3/hour circulation pumps and two 290m3/hour capacitor pumps. The RSW circulation system has Eltorque actuated valves, controlled from the C-Flow control system.
C-Flow supplied the vacuum system with four 66 kW compressor units and twin 4200 litre tanks.
KS Elektro provided Havskjer’s full electrical installation, as well as installing the wheelhouse electronics supplied by Furuno Sweden.
The wheelhouse is laid out with four NorSap 1600 chairs and a control position facing a Furuno SmartBridge system with 55-inch Olorin 4K widescreen monitors. There is plenty of Furuno gear in Havskjer’s wheelhouse including the low frequency FSV-25, medium frequency FSV-85 and high frequency FSV-75 sonars and the FCV-38 and two FCV-1900 and DFF1-UHD echo sounders. The trawl sonar is a Furuno TS-331A set and the network of trawl gear sensors is from Marport.
The CI-68 current log, 2238 BB, 2218 BB, 2218 BB and DRS6A NXT radars, SC130 and SC70 GPS gyro sets are all from Furuno, while the GC80 gyro compass and AP70 autopilots are from Simrad. Plotters are an Olex system and a pair of MaxSea Time Zero sets, plus there are two Tecdis T-2138A ECDIS sets.
The communications package is from Sailor and the satellite TV system on board is from Furuno Sweden. Flir supplied the gyro stabilised M625CS thermal imaging system.
