One of a series of ten new trawlers designed by Nautic Rus for fishing and processing group Norebo, the 81-metre Kapitan Breichmann has emerged from the construction hall at the Northern (Severnaya Verf) Shipyard in St Petersburg, ready to be floated off in the next few weeks.
This is the third trawler in the series, or which six are being built to operate in northern waters and four in the Far East, so the yard crew knew exactly what to do and moved the part-built factory trawler from the construction hall to the slipway outside without any mishaps during a three-hour operation.
Kapitan Breichmann and its sister vessels joining the Norebo fleet are built to an innovative design with an Enduro Bow inverted bow arrangement that is expected to provide better seakeeping capabilities, and which allows for a greater hull volume in the forward section of the vessel.
This month the yard will fit the wheelhouse, masts, stern gantry, three deck cranes, outfit the lower hull sections with transducers for the fishfinders on board, and finish painting the hull ahead of the launch at the end of May.
