Page 8: of Maritime Reporter Magazine (August 1980)

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Peterson Delivers Big Tuna

Seiner, Launches Another

Tuna seiner Captain Frank Medina was delivered recently by Peterson Builders.

Vessel is owned by Capt. and Mrs. Joe Medina Jr. of San Diego.

A large contingent of the San

Diego and San Pedro tuna fishing industry gathered in Sturgeon

Bay, Wis., recently to witness the christening and delivery' of the tuna seiner Captain Frank Me- dina, built for Capt. and Mrs. Joe

Medina Jr. of San Diego; and the launching of the Jane for Vena- tun, S.A. of Caracas, Venezuela.

Sponsor of the Captain Frank

Medina was Miss Deborah Ann

Medina, daughter of the owners, assisted by Mrs. Mary Ann Me- dina, wife of Steve Medina, Cap- tain Joe's son who will be navi- gator onboard the vessel. The boat was named for Captain Joe's uncle, a pioneer San Diego tuna fisherman.

The Jane was named for and sponsored by Mrs. Jane Real, wife of John Real, president of Star-

Kist Foods Inc. of San Pedro,

Calif. She was assisted by Senora

Concepcion Aramburu Villaneuva of San Sebastian, Spain. The sein- ers will fish for StarKist and are being built under a contract signed in July 1978 between Peterson

Builders, Inc., and Ocean Blazer,

Inc.

The Captain Frank Medina de- parted Sturgeon Bay on her di- livery trip to Panama via the St.

Lawrence Seaway. A high point of the trip was a stopover in

Toronto where Captain Medina and the boat's namesake, Capt.

Frank Medina, had the opportu- nity to display it to the sizeable

Portugese community there, which includes relatives of the

Medinas.

The Captain Frank Medina rep- resents Peterson's latest develop- ment of a design prepared by Ivo

Zaninovich of San Diego. She is 225 feet by 41 feet by 19 feet, and will pack 1,200 tons of tuna in 17 refrigerated wells. Her GM-

Electro-Motive Division 20645E7 engine permits the craft to achieve speeds of up to 16 knots.

Electrical power is supplied by three Caterpillar D353 engines driving Kato 300-kw/480-volt gen- erators. The Schottel 48-inch bow thruster is driven by a Detroit

Diesel 12V-71N engine rated 400 bhp at 2,100 rpm. The bow thrust- er is interfaced with the Sperry autopilot system to permit auto- matic heading keeping with the main engine shut down.

The deck machinery hydraulic system was designed and fur- nished by MARCO Seattle, and is powered by a dedicated Caterpil- lar D353E engine rated 470 bhp at 1,225 rpm. A standby main hy- draulic pump drive is installed on the forward end of the port aux- iliary generator, while an 80-hp electric motor/pump unit pro- vides power for the anchor wind- lass, forward deck Husky crane and speedboat davits. A MARCO

WS444 Superseine winch and 54- inch power block with power grip are principal features of the deck machinery complement.

The refrigeration system was furnished by Vilter Manufactur- ing Company of Milwaukee, and includes four eight-cylinder com- pressors circulating ammonia through approximately 26,000 feet of galvanized pipe coils in the wells.

The electronic complement is unusually complete and includes two Sperry MK126E radars, a

Furuno 850B scanning sonar,

Baymar recording depth indicator with Paragon digital readout,

Taiyo marine band ADF and VHF automatic direction finders, two

Hull single-sideband radios (one with Northern N541 1-kw linear amplifier), a Morrow model SSB- 150 emergency SSB radio with programmable scanner and emer- gency tone generator, a King K195 aircraft band radio, two Kenwood two-meter VHF radios, two Hy- gain model 655 VHF-FM-radios, a

Magnavox 1242 satellite receiver,

Furuno weather facsimile receiv- er/printer, Yaesu all-band receiv- er, Regency VHF scanner, and a complete ham radio installation in the navigator's stateroom. The radio installation was engineered by Honor Marine Communica- tions Inc. of San Diego and in- stalled by Peterson Builders' technicians.

The craft is equipped to carry a Hughes 300 turbine-powered helicopter, which joined the ship en route. Twelve thousand gal- lons of turbine fuel is carried in double bottom tanks for the heli- copter, and filtration and pumping is provided to supply the fuel to the helicopter deck.

Peterson Builders fabricated the two speedboat davits and bridge deck speedboat crane that permit rapid launching of all five aluminum chaseboats. They are equipped with Volvo Aquamatic inboard/outboard units. Three thousand nine hundred gallons of fuel is carried for the chaseboats.

Special care was taken with the interior and accommodations of the vessel, which represent a new standard in habitability. Mrs.

Carolyn Medina took a personal interest in and directed the in- terior decorations and appoint- ments, working with Peterson

Builders' design staff and car- penters.

Other major equipment in- stalled on the vessel includes two

Westphalia model OTA7B fuel oil centrifuges, Pacific Pumping brine circulating, transfer, bilge, con- denser cooling and general serv- ice pumps; Buffalo Forge fans;

Red Fox sewage treatment plant;

Federal Pacific switchboard; Cut- ler Hammer controllers; Wau- kesha stern bearings and seals;

Coolidge five-blade, stainless-steel propeller; Star Machinery elec- tric cargo hoists; Crosby blocks and wire rope rigging and Marlite doors and paneling throughout.

The vessel was painted with epoxy and urethane paints applied using a system developed and supplied by Pro-Line Inc. of San Diego.

The Jane will join the fleet of

Venatun, Inc. in the fall of 1980, joining the highly successful

Peterson-built Napoleon, which began fishing at the end of De- cember 1979.

Peterson Builders' general man- ager Joe Gagnon announced that construction had begun on a se- ries of three boats for delivery in 1981 to an undisclosed owner, af- firming Peterson's establishment as a respected top-quality builder of tuna purse seiners. A formal announcement of the new contract is expected shortly. Venatun S.A. of Caracas, Venezuela, is owner of tuna seiner Jane, launched recently at Peterson yard. She will be delivered in the fall of 1980. 10 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News