Klaas van den Berg and his family have taken delivery of the new Hendrika Jacoba GY-127, the latest in an ongoing series of fly-shooter/twin-riggers coming from the Padmos yard in Stellendam.
In the fishing company’s forty-year history, this is the first newbuild, and the 24.95 metre overall, 8.50 metre breadth Hendrika Jacoba replaces a 40-metre former beamer built in 1982 as GO-38, and which was initially converted to work as a twin-rigger before a subsequent refit added fly-shooting capacity.
Due to coronavirus restrictions, the new vessel was formally handed over at a modest event at the yard in Stellendam.
Yard director Leon Padmos commented in his speech that the yard and the Urk-based fishing company have been in touch for more than thirty years in a relationship that goes back to one of his first assignments, when he sold van den Berg a 16-cylinder Mitsubishi engine for a previous GY-127.
The new vessel is 15 metres shorter than the former beamer it replaces, and is a significantly more sophisticated vessel, and the reduced length also places it in an operating bracket with more available options.
Hendrika Jacoba GY-127 has been built with Padmos acting as the main contractor, scheduling the hull construction not far away at CSR, and the design work has been carried out by C-Job and Marin.
The main and auxiliary engines are Mitsubishi units, with a Reintjes gearbox and a Promarin propeller and nozzle.
Scheepstimmerijbedrijf IJtama completed the carpentry for the accommodation and wheelhouse, and de Boer Marine supplied the full suite of electronics. The electrical systems on board are fitted by Wetec.
The catch handling system is from VCU and Reoleveld supplied the chiller system and icemakers.
The deck is laid out with split netdrums mounted in the aft gantry and the seine/trawl winches are controlled by a Marelec trawl computer with options for automatic modes.
