New pelagic vessel Ruth has been delivered, starting its fishing career on mackerel with a first landing in the Faroe Islands.
This latest Ruth was delivered to Gullak Madsen by the Karstensen yard last month, and has been completed on a hull built at the yard’s shipbuilding facility in Poland.
The 89.35 metre Ruth has a 17 metre moulded breadth and has a 3590 cubic metre carrying capacity in 16 tanks, arranged around the RSW pump and manifold room.
The new vessel is built to the yard’s own design to Gullak Madsen’s specifications, and the outcome is the result of close co-operation between the yard’s design team and the owners. The focus is on providing the best possible working, conditions, safety and comfort for the crew, while also optimising catch handling, storage and fuel consumption.
To reach these goals, Ruth is fitted out with the latest high-tech machinery and equipment, including a 4800kW MAN 9L32/44 CR main engine driving a 4500mm VBS1100 propeller via a Scana Volda ACG980/PF680 reduction gearbox with a 2700 kW/3375kVA shaft alternator run from the PTO.
Auxiliary engines are a set of three Cummins QSK38-DM uni9ts, each developing 1002kWe, plus a single 538kWe Cummins QSK19-DM harbour set.
The high lift flap rudder is from Kongsberg and the steering gear is a Kongsberg Tenfjord SR 723 unit. Brunvoll supplied the 950kW stern thrusters and the 1500kW AR80 LTC2100 azimuth thruster.
Ibercisa supplied Ruth’s trawl layout, with a pair of 97-tonne main winches controlled via a Scantrol autotrawl system.
There are two 140-tonne net drums mounted side-by-side on the trawl deck aft, with a third net drum amounted above the portside drum in a waterfall configuration. Ibersisa also supplied the 90-tonne tail-end and topline winches, a 20-tonne end-wire winch and a pair of net sounder winches mounted on top of the aft gallows. Also part of the Ibercisa package are the 40-tonne purse winches and a pair of 15-tonne auxiliary purse winches.
MacGregor Triplex supplied the purse seine handling gear, with a 32-tonne 1020 net hauler, KNR-120 and KNR-75 net cranes, a NK-6000 intermediate roller crane and corkline and leadline stackers. The pumping layout is an all-electric MacGregor system with three 20-inch fish pumps and associated cable and hose reels, as well as cranes for deploying the pumps at the stern and over the starboard side.
Catches are pumped through the foredeck dewatering separator via the manifold to the selected tanks, which are chilled by a double 1500 kW/1.290.000 kCal/h Johnson Controls (York/Sabroe) system. The vacuum pump discharging system is from Iras and consists of three 87 kW compressor units and three 3000 litre tanks.
