Rory Pitsch, one of the owners of Strongback Metal Boats, has grown up with the boats being built at his father’s workshops and, plus several years as a crewman on a Bristol Bay gillnetter. Both experiences are central to his thinking while building another gillnet boat at the Sedro Woolley, Washington yard.
When the new trawler docked in Akureyri a few days ago after a 4000-nautical mile, 15-day delivery trip from the Cemre Shipyard in Turkey, it was Icelandic fishing company Samherji's first newbuilt vessel to join its fleet for seventeen years.
Technology group Wärtsilä has been awarded the contract to provide the propulsion machinery for a new purse seiner/pelagic trawler ordered by Strand Senior AS, a subsidiary of Strand Havfiske AS based in Norway. The order was placed last month and the new vessel will be built at the Karstensens Skibsvaerft shipyard in Denmark.
Havyard Ship Technology in Norway has signed a contract for a new pelagic trawler to be built for French company France Pélagique, with an option for a second vessel.
HB Grandi’s new fresher trawler Engey RE-91 was formally christened at a ceremony in Reykjavík yesterday and the ship is open to the public today (Saturday) from 1300 to 1600.
Norwegian fishing company H Østervold AS is reported to have signed a contract for a new 80.30 metre LOA by 17 metre beam pelagic vessel to be built at the Western Marine Shipyard Ltd in Bangladesh.
Icelandic fishing company HB Grandi is inviting bids for the construction of a new factory freezer trawler.
Stadyard at Måløy I Norway has signed a contract with Kenfish II AS in Averøy for a new combined gillnetter/autoliner. The new vessel is a 20.99m overall, 10m beam Seacon design, the yard’s newbuild no 40, and is due for delivery in June next year.
Karstensens Skibsværft in Skagen has announced the order of a new pelagic vessel for owners in Norway to be delivered in February 2019, with the Polish-built hull to be delivered to the yard in mid-2018 for fitting out.
A new multi-purpose fishing vessel built at Stadyard in Norway is probably the biggest small boat you’re ever likely to see. The 15m overall by 8m beam TA Senior is built for seine netting, purse seining and gillnetting.
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