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Seacon TA

Senior Innovation

FAR LEFT: An LNG-fueled concept, the

Roaldsnes.

The Seacon SC 34 Breivik Junior and the Seacon T.A. Senior.

Biggest in class: Kleven’s Gitte

Henning newbuild.

(Illustration: Handout) ics delivered the capstan and winches. Fantastic Plastic

For the crew of 16, Maritime Moniter- Norway has been good, mostly, for ing put in the cabin furnishings. With the Icelandic builder and designer Seigla, all-important winter season and ? sheries deliverer of over 120 boats, 30 of them to a wholly-owned subsidiary of Steel Dynamics, Inc. talks in London underway, all four Sma- Norway. Seigla’s vacuum formed plastic ragd captains were out at sea or occupied designs are selling. The traditional Nor- and could not be reached for comment. wegian and Icelandic sjark (say shark) has been made by Seigla into a high-

Rise of Seacon speed (if desired) custom-build.

The 90-foot MS Stokke Senior being Two Seigur T1100-Liberty auto-liners built for a similarly named owner is a will be delivered to Norwegian ? eet combi-boat for coastal waters and part owners in Bodo in 2016. Three sjarker purse seiner, side hauler and trawler. The are on order for coastal ? shermen. “2015 build at Yaroslav Shipyard in Russia will was a fantastic year. 2014 was very good include Stadt-built diesel-electric and year,” says Dutch expat Sander Nieuws-

U.S.A. producer of

Heimdal propellers; Triplex cranes and tad. “We are working now on 2017 and a wide variety of standard beams and channels,

SMV Hydraulic winches. This SC 90 — ? ve large auto-liners for Norway and third of its type — will process pelagic Iceland.” and custom steel shapes and white? sh, cooled in tanks or kept Nieuwstad claims skippers have been

Now serving the water-related vessel industry live in wells. calling the T1100 and related designs

Recent oversized catches of mackerel, “catch machines” that use up every cen- herring and cod have topped what Lekve timeter of space while providing over- says has been 10 years of stable earnings. head cover for the work of ? shing.

Bulb Flats

The savings are now being reinvested. Seigla celebrated 25 years this year by

Attracting that investment is Nordfjord’s introducing the S XWL 1500 Liberty,

Range 140 mm—240 mm *

Seacon and nearby Stadyard, builder of “14.99 m and 6.5 m wide” and featuring the Seacon SC 15 (emphasis on “15 m”), six single cabins or — “to increase the

ABS Grades A, B, D, E, and AH36 the yard’s 39th new-build and a combined size of the hold” — four cabins of two *Sizes 260 mm and larger purse- and side-seiner. A Polish yard will bunks. Cargo holds range from 70 m3 to are under development. build the hull, with its 8 m beam, for Sea- 90 m3. Autoline systems of up to 40,000 con’s 15th sale in Norway. Seacon says hooks are handled by the Liberty’s Mus- the new-build T.A. Senior will “replace” tad Autoline system. In response to Class a 2001 version of the same name (now and the authorities, Seigla has adjusted quayside and laden with ? sh). the ballast and, it is understood, the keel.

Seacon’s SC34, at 34 m, is also hitting One skipper reported in the Norwegian the mark with metal hulls and ? ttings press had his ? rst Seigla-made vessel pieced together in Russia, Romania and catch ? re at harbour. He said he had no

For inquiries, call 1-800-828-6848

Turkey for customers in northern Nor- qualms about ordering another.

or email [email protected] way. Build No. 10, the coastal seiner “I called (Seigla) the same day (the 1-800-828-6848 or email [email protected]

MS Breivik Junior for Breivik AS, will vessel was destroyed) and ordered a new www.swvainc.com deliver in the fall of 2016 from VARD’s one,” owner Benn Joeren Jenssen was

Website: www.swvainc.com

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