More than 12 years have passed since the Fosnavåg-based owners of fishing company Gollenes AS sailed from Skagen with their 62-metre fishing vessel. It performed so well that they’ve been back to the Karstensen yard for a larger and more sophisticated replacement.
New Gollenes is larger than its predecessor at 69.99 metres and with a 14.8-metre moulded breadth, the new vessel designed by the yard also represents a serious step into the future in terms of the latest technology.
The Ose and Kvalsvik families are behind the ownership of the new Gollenes, and the company is managed by Frode Kvalsvik. The next generation of the two families is already onboard as Ivar Ose Bjørneset and Willy Kvalsvik are among the crew.
In going to Karstensens for their new trawler, the owners were looking for a high level of operational versatility, and this is reflected in the capacity new Gollenes has to operate on fisheries for herring and mackerel, as well as industrial species, and also whitefish, with a processing deck, plus a silage plant to ensure full utilisation of everything that comes onboard.
Gollenes is laid out to pump catches over the port and starboard quarters, with a pair of 24-inch Macgregor Rapp electric fish pumps. Catches of pelagic or industrial fish are routed to the nine RSW tanks with a combined capacity of 1963 cubic metres, chilled by a pair of PTG FrioNordica 1300kW, 1.118.000 kCal/h systems, while whitefish catches pass to the processing deck, outfitted by Boa Tech with a pair of KM Fish Machinery gutting machines and with catches cooled using slurry ice from the Kapp Optim-ice BP-140 + T-4000 system.
There is a large aft trawl deck with a package of Macgregor Rapp electric winches, including 80-tonne trawl winches, pairs of 80-tonne and 60-tonne net drums, plus 45-tonne auxiliary winches and a net sounder winch on the aft gantry. The aft net crane and the forward deck crane are from SeaQuest.
Rerouting power
The energy layout is highly flexible, ensuring high reliability with a choice of operating modes. The configuration is on the premise that while fishing and with the winches in constant use, the PTO and shaft generator remain engaged, but when full power is needed for the winches, there’s a reduced energy demand on the main engine, enabling the ABC 6DL36 main engine as the main source of energy for both propulsion and power supply onboard. The main engine drives the Brunvoll Volda stern gear, with a 4500mm diameter CP95/4 propeller and an ACG 980, 750/110rpm reduction gear fitted with a PTO for the 2200kW/2750kVA Marelli shaft generator.
Auxiliary power is provided by the three 615kWe Nogva Scania DI16 generator sets, which are powerful enough to provide all the power Gollenes needs for normal running, including meeting the winch systems load requirements. If necessary, an additional 1000kW can be routed to the main shaft by running the diesel generators in parallel. The electrical system is provided with a Power Management System (PMS) which manages power consumption and automatic start-up of the generator system.
In addition, Gollenes has 950kW aft thrusters and an 850kW Brunvoll combined submersible azimuth/tunnel thruster forward. This is capable of providing forward propulsion in an emergency, or when simply operating at low speeds.
Eyes on the prize
Gollenes also has a 1100A shore current connection. This makes it possible for the ship to discharge without the use of diesel generators, although infrastructure is not yet available in all locations. The 360°-visibility wheelhouse is laid out with a pair of NorSap 1600 Comfort chairs facing the bank of screens forming the Furuno BlueBridge display, and a third in the aft wheelhouse control position overlooking the trawl deck.
The flexible display facing the wheelhouse team allows feeds from fishfinders, navigation systems, onboard CCTV and more to be programmed as required.
The fishfinding electronics onboard Gollenes is a practically all-Furuno setup, with a low-frequency FSV-25, medium-frequency FSV-85 and high-frequency FSV-75 sonars, as well as an Imagenex TS-360 trawl sonar, and FCV-38, FCV-1900 and FSS-3BB echo sounders. The trawl monitoring array is a Scanmar ScanBas 365 system.
The CI68 current log, the 2238 BB, 2318 BB, DRS6A-NXT radars and SC-70 satellite compass are all Furuno equipment, and the GC80 gyro compass and AP80 autopilot are from Simrad.
Navigation systems are a pair of Tecdis T-2138A systems, and MaxSea Time Zero, Olex and Sodena plotters.
