Built for Ice Trawl Greenland Nataarnaq has an overall length of 82.3 metres and a beam of 18 metres. It has been built to operate on shrimp, with options for fishing for Greenland halibut.
Delivered at the end of 2021, Nataarnaq has been built at Astilleros de Murueta in Spain, which has already built filleter Sisimiut and shrimp trawler Avataq for Royal Greenland, which is a partner in Ice Trawl Greenland, and another trawler in the same Skipsteknisk-designed series, Tuugaalik, has recently been launched for outfitting.
Nataarnaq has a Carsoe factory deck with processing lines for grading, cooking and weighing shrimp, a line for processing Greenland halibut, freezing and palletising systems, and elevators to take frozen production to the refrigerated fishroom.
The main engine is a 7200kW MAN 12V32/44CR, driving a 4500mm MAN CCP VBS 1180 propeller via an ACG 1080 reduction gear. Gensets are pair of 940kW Caterpillar 32 units, plus a 163kW Caterpillar 7.1. Electrical power is also drawn from the 3200Kw PTO shaft generator.
The deck is laid out with four 45-tonne Seaonics permanent magnet winches, enabling Nataarnaq to operate with three trawls, managed via a Seaonics Scantrol control system. Seaonics also supplied the eight 18-tonne sweepline winches and a package of additional winches.
Nataarnaq has four 3400-mesh Vónin 2014 shrimp trawls. This is a three-wingtip trawl, which distributes the tension along the selvedges, providing better headline height as well as stability during the tow to result in higher catch rates.
The four trawls were supplied rigged onto rockhopper footropes and the gear is spread with a 16m2 pair of Vónin Storm trawl doors, plus Nataarnaq also has a 16m2 pair of Injector Kiwi trawl doors from Mørenot.
