Astilleros Armón Navia has launched the 36.47-metre hybrid surface longliner Oventura for Galician owner Veraguas Lar at its Navia yard in Spain in September.
The 482GT vessel has a beam of nine metres. Her propulsion package combines diesel-electric drive and battery storage with photovoltaic panels and a rigid wing sail intended to provide wind-assisted propulsion.
Construction is continuing, with completion targeted for late 2027. Trials in Spanish fishing grounds are planned before the vessel proceeds to her intended ocean fishing areas.
The F. Carceller design also includes electrically driven longline machinery and an Argos system supplied by Coterena to monitor fuel consumption and machinery performance.
Construction was initially planned for Armón’s Vigo facilities but was transferred to Navia.
Spain’s fisheries secretary-general Isabel Artime visited the yard on September 18 to review progress. Veraguas Lar is based in Marín, Galicia. The vessel will target swordfish and blue shark in the North Atlantic. Her planned fishing grounds also include the Indian and Pacific oceans.
In March 2025, Veraguas Lar co-owner María José de Pazo told La Voz de Galicia: “A green-energy project, a hybrid vessel with solar panels that is moving towards decarbonisation, cannot receive EU funds because it is more than 24 metres long.”
Spain’s Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Minister Luis Planas called for more flexible EU fleet-modernisation funding in July 2025 as part of his broader proposals for reform of EU fisheries policy.
On September 21, 2026, the Commission proposed EMFAF amendments that would clarify support for pilot and research projects testing innovative technologies. The proposal does not remove the exclusion on funding new fishing-vessel construction.
