Enterprise III is the latest new groundfish trawler to join the Scottish fleet and owners James Lovie and partners went to the Vestværftet yard in Hvide Sande for their new trawler.
Designed by the yard and completed using a hull built in Poland, Enterprise III has a 28.67-metre overall length with a 10-metre moulded breadth.
The main engine is a 736kW ABC 6DZ driving a variable pitch, four-bladed 3,400mm propeller inside a high-efficiency nozzle, via a Hundested CPG 280-2 reduction gear fitted with two PTOs for hydraulic pumps.
Hundested also supplied the 250hp hydraulic SFT 5 bow thruster. The engine control system with its three stations is from Lyngaa. Additional power is supplied by a pair of Caterpillar C 9.3 gensets delivering 244kVa and a single 40kVa Baudouin harbour set.
The package of hydraulic trawl hardware supplied by MacGregor and installed by AS:Scan, who also supplied the MT–3500 steering gear with two EL-hydraulic pump units to operate a triple rudder.
The deck is laid out with three trawl winches controlled by a Scantrol autotrawl, three pairs of sweepline winches at the head of the long trawl desk with drums large enough to spool ground gear, three net drums over the trawl lanes, pairs of bagging, outhaul and codend winches, and a forward mooring winch. There are three trawl blocks aft that can be tracked into the required position. The deck crane is a 2t/10m unit.
Enterprise III’s wheelhouse has a pair of Vejvad Hansen skipper’s chair facing the array of electronics supplied by Woodsons. The electrics on board have been fitted by Vest-EL in Hvide Sande. The catch handling deck onboard has been delivered by VCU, with a full complement of conveyors and washers, a KM-Fish gutting machine and VCU’s Pack-At-Sea catch management system.
Lemvig company LMK supplied the fishroom chiller installation, cooling for the fish hopper and the pair of 4500kg/24h Buus ice machines.
