Designed to alternate groundfish or shrimp fisheries, Vingaskär has been built for Swedish owners Vingaskär Fiskeri at the Karstensen yard in Skagen.
There has been some delay in delivery due to Covid-19 restrictions, and the new trawler was delivered to its owners on 15th June.
The 34 metre LOA, 10 metre moulded breadth Vingaskär is built to a Karstensen design, achieved through close co-operation between the yard and the trawler’s owners, with two continuous decks.
The trawl deck is laid out with hydraulics and winches from Thyborøn Skibs & Motor, with three S-110 25.0 tonne trawl winches and four net drums. These are 15.5 tonne SN-109 net drums – two with a 20m3 capacity and two smaller 12m3 drums. The T-307 11.5 tonne gilson, auxiliary and mooring winches are also from Thyborøn Skibs & Motor. The cranes are a TMP 1300K and 3.2t/12m TMP T-KL-50 mounted on the aft gallows.
The main engine is a1326kW ABC 6DZC, turning a 3400mm diameter Hundested VP 12 propeller via a Hundested CPGD280 reduction gear, is fitted with two detachable power take-offs to power the hydraulic system.
Auxiliary engines are two Volvo Penta D7A TA units, each developing 139kWe to supply the electrical system which is run by a Power Management System, manages energy consumption and automatic start-up of the diesel generators.
While fishing, with the hydraulic system more or less constant use, one or more of the main gear's PTOs and pumps is engaged. When full power is required on the winches, there less demand for main engine power, so the main engine output is the primary power source for both propulsion and Vingaskär’s hydraulics, allowing just one of the two auxiliaries to be required at any one time.
Able to operate on either whitefish or shrimp, Vingaskär has a processing deck fitted out by KM Fish Machinery, which includes their own gutting machines, while Intech International supplied the Connie 800 shrimp cooker and processing line. The ice machines on board are a pair of Buus SE-4500 units and Nordkøl fitted the chiller systems.
Vingaskär’s wheelhouse has two NorSap 1600 chairs facing a bank of four 55-9inch Olorin widescreen monitors which display feeds from the fishfinding and navigation electronics, with the complete installation carried out by KS Electro.
Sounders are a Simrad ES80 and a Furuno FVC-1150, and a rig of Marport trawl sensors is used to monitor the trawl gear. The plotters are MaxSea Time Zero, Sodena, Quodfish and Olex sets.
