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WORKBOAT CONSTRUCTION “Fishermen can build a boat that costs $30 million dollars or more, knowing full well, as does the ? nancing institution, that there is an ability to pay back based on a guaranteed quota. It’s a system that allows design engineering ? rms like Jensen to offer modern vessel designs and for our customers to ? nance and construct new vessels.” – Jonathan Platt, Manager, Jensen Business Development

Design, Finance & Build Amenities, Safety & Ef? ciencies, too

Jonathan Platt, Manager, business development, for Jen- Accommodations on Araho include 26 wet units (head, sen says the allotted quota system allows for ? nancing the toilet, shower) to share between 54 people, and the HVAC costs of these technically-advanced ships. “Fishermen can system will help with continuous clean air being circulated build a boat that costs $30 million dollars or more, know- on the vessel. “Having a bigger boat with more space and ing full well, as does the ? nancing institution, that there state-of-the art equipment will allow this boat to do more is an ability to pay back based on a guaranteed quota. It’s with less people,” says Vice President Frank O’Hara Jr. a system that allows design engineering ? rms like Jensen “We’re hoping to make 21 to 24 trips a year versus 31 to to offer modern vessel designs and for our customers to 35 a year for two boats.” ? nance and construct new vessels.” O’Hara expects to move the crew from Enterprise and

Currently under construction slated for delivery in the Defender to the Araho in 2016 and continue to ? sh with spring 2016 is the 194-foot, DNV-classed catcher-processor the two vessels in order to help pay down the investment.

F/V Araho, a newbuild for Rockland, Maine-headquartered “Araho needs almost the same amount of crew, so no one

O’Hara Corporation being built at Florida’s Eastern Ship- will be losing their job.” Also on the books for delivery in building Group, Inc. The design is by Skipsteknisk, AS of 2016 is another Skipsteknisk design. Blue North, a $36

Aalesund, Norway. The vessel’s tech- nology is far and above that of two of company’s current Alaska ? shing ves- sels – F/T Enterprise and F/T Defend- er - which were converted to catcher- processors in the 1990s. Araho’s main engine is a Tier-3 EMD 16-710G7 with two Caterpillar main C18 550kW

Generators. The vessel is also out? tted with an extensive electrical winch sys- tem supplied by Rapp Marine.

Designed to annually catch ap- proximately 25,000 metric tons of ? sh, such as rock sole, yellow ? n sole, cod? sh, ? ounder and turbot, Araho has automated plate freezers supplied by Optimar – another Norwegian design that requires only one person to do the job – automated head and gutting machines and three custom- made Marel Belt Graders that help accurately measure and grade the ? sh.

Image: Jensen

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