North Sea Winches has recently cemented its position as one of the major players in the UK deck machinery market, having just supplied a winch package for a 16.5 metre trawler/scalloper for the West coast of Scotland, built by MMS Ship repair yard of Hull, East Yorkshire.
The main trawl winch is a model GF-170 15 tonne 4-drum winch and a pair of 3-tonne gilsen winches supports the main winch during scalloping operations.
The winch company is also completing a winch and net drum package for a 21.5 metre twin-rig trawler being built at the Parkol Marine yard in Whitby for a North Lincolnshire fishing company. This package features a 20 tonne main winch, 10 tonne split net drums and various auxiliary winches, as well as a complete engine-room hydraulics package with wheelhouse controls, designed and supplied by North Sea Winches.
In addition to the UK fishing industry, North Sea Winches designs and builds winches for fishing and marine applications worldwide. A good example of this is the model GM-170-PD 15 tonne purse-seine winch (see picture). This winch was supplied, along with a pair of 10 tonne net drums, for service in Fujian Province in China.
The company has also built parallel-drum Mexican-style shrimp-trawl winches for South America and trawl winch packages for Saudi Arabia.
