One of the long series of new pelagic vessels emerging from the Karstensen yard in Skagen, new Finnur Friði was originally intended to replace the 2004-built vessel of the same name. Instead, the owners opted to sell Tróndur í Gøtu, which is now fishing under the Norwegian flag. The 2004 Finnur Friði has now become Tróndur í Gøtu.
Finnur Friði has an 88-metre overall length, with a moulded breadth of 16.5 metres and a 17-metre breadth at the stern – and has a 2,975-cubic-metre capacity in its 15 RSW tanks. It has been built to the Karstensen yard’s own design, with the specification and arrangements fine-tuned and optimised to meet the owners’ requirements.
Skipper Andri Hansen and chief engineer Hardi Hansen were closely involved throughout the development and build process – while their father, now-retired skipper Arni Hansen – also played a key role in the new vessel development.
Finnur Friði has full breadth superstructure with accommodation placed as far as possible from the ship’s propeller to minimise noise levels, which were shown during sea trials to be well within required limits.
Comprehensively equipped
The choice went to Norwegian company Evotec to supply the trawl handling side of Finnur Friði’s deck hardware, while the purse seine layout is from SeaQuest Systems. The 118-tonne trawl winches are controlled by a Scantrol autotrawl, and the deck is laid out with a pair of 147-tonne net drums, aligned to the hydraulic stern gates and guide pins, while the recessed purse seine bin is on the starboard side.
Its Evotec package includes 69-tonne tail-end and 20-tonnes end-wire winches, plus mooring, anchoring and two netsounder winches mounted on the aft gallows.
The purse seine set up combines a pair of 40-tonnes main and 15-tonne auxiliary purse winches, with the SeaQuest Systems 40-tonne nethauler as part of the purse seine package. This includes 7t/13.8m net cranes, float stacker and telescopic leadline stacker, as well as the 4t/18m foredeck crane and the 3.5t/13m aft crane for deploying the two 20-inch SeaQuest fish pumps with associated hose and fish pump reels.
This SeaQuest installation includes complete hydraulic drive sets for the cranes and fish pumps.
Catches are pumped to the selected RSW tanks, which are chilled by a triple PTG FrioNordica 1,300 kW/1,118,000kCal/hour RSW system. The C-Flow vacuum system comprises a pair of 4,200-litre tanks.
Wheelhouse layout
The wheelhouse with its 360° visibility has two control positions facing the Furuno Smart Bridge system that allows users to configure feeds from all of the electronic systems onboard as required. The key fishfinders are the 15-25 kHz Furuno FSV-25S and 25kHz Simrad ST94 low-frequency sonars and the 180kHz Furuno FSV-75 high-frequency sonar, plus a Simrad FS-70 trawl sonar.
Echo sounders are Furuno FCV-38 and FCV-1900, plus a Simrad ES38 unit and a 140-160 kHz Seapix 3D sonar. The current indicator is a Furuno CI-68.
Plotters are an Olex set, plus two MaxSea Time Zero sets. The two gyro compasses and AP-70 autopilot are from Simrad, while the radars, GPS and GPS compass are all from Furuno. Satellite communications are handled by a Starlink system, while the V-Sat, V-sat, GMDSS installation and VHFs are all Sailor equipment.
Finnur Friði has a Wärtsilä power and propulsion package, with a 7,320 kW 12V31 main engine, connected to a SCV 118/2-P74 reduction gearbox, driving a 5,000mm diameter 4G1190 propeller. A 3,300 kW Cummins DSG 114 M1-6W shaft alternator is coupled to the gearbox PTO.
To supply additional electric power, there are two 940kWe Caterpillar C32 gensets, plus a 565 kW C18 harbour set.
During hauling and shooting operations at fishing, when the winch system is in use, the shaft alternators are engaged, and electric power will be supplied from there. When there’s a demand for full power from the deck, there will usually be a high propulsion power requirement, so this means that the main engine can serve as the power source for both propulsion and deck systems.
All electrical power systems are controlled by the vessel’s DEIF Power-Management-System. Electrical power system is fitted for sliding frequency (60-50 Hz), by means of frequency converters for 400/440 V and UPS clean power static supply/converter for 230 V. This will allow main engine and propeller revolutions to be reduced by 17%.
