{"id":11453,"date":"2018-01-24T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2018\/01\/24\/fly-shooter\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T00:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T23:20:12","slug":"fly-shooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/vessels-shipyards\/fly-shooter\/","title":{"rendered":"Maaskant to deliver new twin-rigger\/fly-shooter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The yard is already building the new <em>Spes Nova<\/em> UK-205 for another operator in Urk, and like this vessel, the new <em>Wilhelmina<\/em> LT-60 has been designed by naval architect Vripack.<\/p>\n<p>The new trawler is slightly smaller than the UK-205, with an overall length of 31 metres and a 9.40 metre beam, and its hull will be built in Poland and brought to the yard in Stellendam for completion. It will operate under the UK flag.<\/p>\n<p><em>Wilhelmina<\/em> will have an ABC main engine with a Reintjes gearbox and a 3400mm fixed-pitch propeller, plus a pair of Caterpillar C18 auxiliary engines.<\/p>\n<p>The new vessel\u2019s winches for fly-shooting and twin-rig trawling are to be delivered by VCU and owners Rense and Johannes de Boer have opted for a package of electrically-driven deck equipment.<\/p>\n<p>This newbuild is a replacement for the present LT-60, a 40 metre beam trawler built at Maaskant in 1991 as <em>St Matthew<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owners in the Dutch fishing hub of Urk have placed an order with Maaskant Shipyards in Stellendam for a new combination twin-rig trawler\/fly-shooter for delivery in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-11453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vessels-shipyards"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11455,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11453\/revisions\/11455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11453"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=11453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}