VESSEL REVIEW | Tronderhav – Seiner/processor designed for northern Norwegian waters
Trønderhav, a fishing company owned by Norwegian fishing boat skipper Børge Refsnes, recently took delivery of a seine fishing vessel.
The vessel, which is also named Trønderhav, was built by Denmark’s Thyboron Skibs and Motor to a design by Norwegian naval architecture firm Seacon. Design work was undertaken in close collaboration with the owner, who intends to use the vessel to catch cod, saithe, haddock, herring and mackerel in the North and Barents Seas off northern Norway.
Laid out for operational flexibility
The newbuild has a length of 43.83 metres (143.8 feet), a beam of 9.5 metres (31 feet), and a displacement of 550 tons. Power is provided by an ABC 6DZC main engine that produces 735 kW (986 hp). The generators include two QSB19 units and a QSB7 supplied by Cummins while bow thrusters from Brunvoll provide additional lateral manoeuvrability.
Trønderhav is equipped for both seining and purse seining. The two different fishing methods can be undertaken simultaneously as the necessary equipment for each is installed on board, and the crew can easily switch between the two even while out at sea.
Equipped with ice and bulk packaging facilities
The vessel also has a fish factory with equipment from Boatech and Optimar, four gutting machines from Carsoe, washing tanks and a packaging line. The catch can be kept in crates with ice or gutted and bled for bulk storage.
Also installed in this space are six RSW tanks with a combined capacity of 470 cubic metres (17,000 cubic feet), a PTG FrioNordica RSW plant, Lemvig Maskin and Køleteknikk ice machines that can produce up to 10 tonnes of ice per day, and a vacuum plant from IRAS.
The deck equipment includes a Triplex crane and a net winch, both supplied by MacGregor.
Vendelbo Woodworking was responsible for design work on the interior spaces, which include a mess and seven crew cabins with en suite toilets and showers.
Trønderhav replaces a slightly smaller vessel of the same name originally built in 1988 and acquired by the owner in 2015.
