Offshore Shellfish Ltd has ordered a shellfish farming boat from aluminium boat builder Alnmaritec, to service its mussel farms in the United Kingdom.
The boat is a 15.2m Wave Farmer 1400 design and will service the company’s rope grown mussel farms, which lie between three and six miles offshore in Lyme Bay, Devon, and was specially designed to deploy screw-type moorings for the build-out phase of these sites.
“We needed a boat that could access our farming areas as quickly and fuel efficiently as possible, have excellent manoeuvrability, and provide a stable platform for working from. We have worked with Alnmaritec before and were impressed with the build and performance of a previous vessel, so look forward to taking delivery of the Alysée, named after my granddaughter,” said Offshore Shellfish director John Holmyard.
The boat will be powered by twin Cummins QSC8.3 engines, with ZF 286 marine gearboxes. It will also be propelled by Hamilton HJ364 water jets with Blue Arrow controls, which will aid manoeuvrability, particularly at very slow speeds, which is of prime importance on a rope-grown mussel farm.
Alysée is currently in the fabrication stage. The hull was constructed upside down on the build bed and was released and turned in January 2015 and will be launched in early summer 2015.
