Mooney Boats in Killybegs has delivered the new Ella to the Atlantic Dawn Group, which is currently making significant investments in new fishing capacity.
The 24.47 metre LOA, 8.10 metre beam Ella G-233 replaces Star of Hope, and is skippered by Sean O’Donnell. Ella is designed by Vestværft to operate mainly on pelagic fisheries, with options for switching to whitefish. Ella is designed to complement the trio of 64 metre pelagic vessels currently at varying stages of construction at the Cemre Shipyard in Turkey.
Ella’s steelwork was completed in Latvia and the hull was brought to Killybegs for outfitting by Mooney Boats. The new vessel’s internal layout was pre-designed three dimensionally by Mooney Boats’ design team to comfortably accommodate the latest technologies while allowing owners to virtually walkthrough and review layouts and finishes prior to outfitting.
Accommodation on board for a crew of six, with a single skipper’s cabin, three two-berth cabins, galley, mess and rest areas, is finished to a very high standard. Bespoke furniture is provided throughout the living quarters which have been brought into the 21st century with the use of accessible charging ports, LED strip lighting, Mooney’s distinctive TV and mess seating layout, underfloor heating, air conditioning and innovative storage.
Ella’s main engine is a Mitsubishi S12R-(Z3)MPTAW, driving a 2780mm four-bladed controllable K600 pitch propeller via a HG510 2PTOCR gear, both supplied by Nogva Heimdal Propulsion. The harbour set is a 40kVa Mitsubishi S4SDT and the auxiliary engine powering the hydraulics is a Mitsubishi S6B3-MPTAW. A John Deere WDJ140 powers Ella’s electrical systems. All of the engines on board were supplied by Padmos Ireland.
SeaQuest Systems supplied the deck equipment layout with 20-tonne main trawl winches, twin 20-tonne, 9m3 net drums and a 20-tonne top-line winch, 15-tonne mid-line and tail-end winches, and a net sounder winch.
Catches can be bagged forward over the starboard side, or pumped on board at the starboard quarter using the SeaQuest Systems fish pump.
For pelagic fisheries, KER Group supplied the 275Kw RSW system with R134a as the refrigerant as well as the vacuum pump with a 2000 litre tank, plus for whitefish there the is 3-tonne icemaker and a high-efficiency fishhold chiller system. KER Group also supplied Ella’s heating and air conditioning systems.
Fishing gear is a herring trawl supplied by Swan Net Gundry and scad/mackerel and tuna trawls from KT Nets, who also supplied an inventory of chandlery and the 22mm Bridon Dyform warps.
The wheelhouse has twin skipper chairs facing three 55-inch main screens, with fishfinders, navigation and communications systems supplied by Barry Electronics.
The primary fishfinders are Furuno FSV-25 low frequency and FSV84 medium/high frequency sonars, and the sounders are a Furuno FCV-1900L Broadband set connected to CM599LHG Broadband Transducer and a Simrad ES-80 38/200kHz Echo Sounder with Combi D transducer. The JFV130 50kHz net sounder is from JRC unit and Marport supplied the M3 receiver, catch sensors, door sensors and tunnel sensor.
