Varðin’s new pelagic vessel Finnur Friði is expected to dock in its home port of Gøta in the Faroe Islands at the weekend, as the final details of the new purser-trawler are being completed at the Karstensen yard in Skagen.
Originally due to be completed earlier this year, there was a delay in the delivery of the partially outfitted hull from the yard in Poland, which has put back completion by some months.
The 88-metre, 17-metre breadth Finnur Friði is the product of the yard’s own in-house design tream, in collaboration with the owners. The relationship between Karstensens Skibsværft and Varðin goes back several decades, and the company’s vessels have been regular callers at the Skagen yard.
The overall ship concept has been analysed as part of the design process, taking in the expected operational profile – with fisheries for herring, mackerel, blue whiting and capelin – and Varðin’s stated aim is the fish with the minimum possible emissions of Nox and CO2 per kilo of fish landed.
Finnur Friði has a Wärtsilä 31 main engine with a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) unit for emissions abatement, as well as a two-speed gearbox, shaft generator, controllable pitch propeller (CPP) and shaftline, and has Wärtsilä’s ProTouch propulsion control system. The new vessels’s trawl winches are an electric system from Norwegian company Evotec.
The new vessel comes with an estimated price tag of DKK350 million, and was initially expected to replace the older vessel of the same name. Instead, Varðin opted to sell Tróndur í Gøtu to new owners in Norway, and the pervious Finnur Friði now takes the Tróndur í Gøtu name.
This new Finnur Fríði is Varðin’s fourth newbuild since the company was established in 1985.
