{"id":5839,"date":"2021-06-01T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2021\/06\/01\/new-borkur-heads-for-home\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T23:56:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:56:25","slug":"new-borkur-heads-for-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/vessels-shipyards\/new-borkur-heads-for-home\/","title":{"rendered":"New B\u00f6rkur heads for home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first of the two new vessels built at the Karstensen yard to the same design was delivered in April to Samherji, and <em>Vilhelm Thorsteinsson<\/em> has since then been fishing successfully on blue whiting. Sister vessel <em>B\u00f6rkur<\/em>, built for S\u00edldarvinnslan, is now steaming home and is due to dock in Neskaupsta\u00f0ur on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re doing fine, cruising on one of the two main engines,\u201d said skipper Hj\u00f6rvar Hj\u00e1lmarsson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re in no hurry as the delivery trip doubles as our isolation period. Most of the crew are on board, plus a few others, and everyone\u2019s delighted with the ship. It\u2019s exceptionally quiet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He commented that <em>B\u00f6rkur<\/em> is an outstanding new vessel and fitted out with the latest equipment throughout.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe carried out sea trials with purse seine gear a week ago and everything performed very well, and we had already carried out trials with trawl gear This is going to be a great ship to work on and everyone\u2019s happy with it,\u201d Hj\u00f6rvar Hj\u00e1lmarsson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second of a pair of new pelagic vessels for owners in Iceland is on its way home from Skagen, and is expected to dock this week in its home port of Neskaupsta\u00f0ur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-5839","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\/5839","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=5839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5841,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5839\/revisions\/5841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5839"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=5839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}