There had been delays to the newbuild’s delivery, due to the ongoing hostilities in Ukraine and delayed deliveries of equipment, but Kjell-Gunnar Hoddevik and business partners Johnny Årvik and Jan-Ove Langeland have now received the seine netter from Karstensens Skibsværft
These are enterprising fishermen, who established Atlantic Seafish AS with older vessels, before investing a few years ago in the first new vessel in the Norwegian fleet to take advantage of changes in regulations allowing new gear combinations. Their newbuild Atlantic, delivered from its Turkish builder in 2020, is an innovative combination of a longliner and seine netter, and has fished successfully.
In 2021, with more fishing opportunities available than they could manage, the decision was taken to add a second vessel, and this time the order went to Karstensen for a combination seine netter/twin-rig trawler, also with capacity to deploy static gear for fishing snow crab.
The result is 43.4-metre,11.5-metre breadth Polarbris, which packs a great deal of technology into a relatively small space to provide a highly versatile new vessel capable of pursuing a variety of fisheries, including groundfish, shrimp and crab.
Polarbris is outfitted with electric deck equipment from Evotec, with a pair of 24-tonne fly-shooting winches at shelterdeck level, with pairs of 15.5-tonne net drums at the stern and amidships. The three 22-tonne trawl winches are fitted at boat deck level aft of the wheelhouse. Deck cranes are a TMP 1300 XL forward, and a SeaQuest PKB 4t/11m unit mounted on the gallows and able to reach any part of the trawl deck.
Polarbris has a C-Flow vacuum pump system with a 4,200-litre tank to transfer catches to the processing deck, outfitted by SteelTech to process whitefish catches as H&G production. KM Fish Machinery supplied the Mk 5 gutting machines. There are also options to route catches to tanks for live fish.
Whitefish and shrimp catches are frozen in the four DSI vertical plate freezers. Refrigeration for the freezers and the 470-cubic-metre fish-room, and the RSW system on board are from Teknotherm. Carsoe supplied the crab handling line for Polarbris.
The main engine is a 1370kW Yanmar 6EY22AW, powering the 3,900mm Brunvoll Volda propeller and two-step reduction gear, also runs an 890kWe Cummins shaft generator. Auxiliary power is supplied by a 600kWe Nogva Scania DI16 genset. In addition, a 600kWh Corvus Orca battery pack is a key part of the setup.
The electrical system as a whole is managed by a power management system controlling power consumption onboard and managing automated genset start-up as well as the battery pack’s function, providing optimal usage of the main engine and a high level of operational reliability.
Polarbris has a wheelhouse with 360°visibility, and with a bank of screens facing the control position managed by a Florvaag FMCS screen selector application. The fishfinders onboard Polarbris are the Simrad SN90 sonar and ES-80 echo sounder. The primary navigation systems are a pair of Tecdis T-2138A esdic sets, a MaxSea Time Zero plotter and an Olex 3D system.
The X-band and S-band radars are from Furuno, as are the CI-68 log, SC-70 GPS gyro, GP-170 navigator, and FA-170 AIS set. Autopilots are AP70 MkII sets from Simrad.
