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In the Shipyard

Latest Deliveries, Contracts and Designs

Nabucco

Handsome and Versatile:

New Crab Boat from Gaspé ith the regulated catch quotas of contemporary ? sheries, design

Wversatility for a ? shing boat can

Photo courtesy Wallenius Wilhelmsen be important. A new 19.81 by 7.31-meter

Wallenius Wilhelmsen (65X24-foot) combination crab trap and celebrated the naming ground? sh trawler designed by NA- ceremony of the RoRo vessel

VANEX for building by Chantier Na-

MV Nabucco at the Port of val Forillon, both of Gaspé,

Gothenburg. The ship is the

Quebec, Canada is a ? ne ex- last in a line of four HERO ample of this. Owners, Lis- class sister ships. tuguj Mi’gmaq Government,

To signify the vessel’s sustainable features, and anticipate accepting delivery the company’s ambitious in April of 2022.

sustainability agenda, a

The steel-hulled vessel will bottle-shaped ice sculpture have a raised fo’c’sle de- was smashed against the sign with an aluminum pilot hull, the company added. house. When crab ? shing, the clear, aft deck will be capable of carrying up to 150 collaps- ible, 100-pound crab pots.

Photo courtesy Cummins

When rigged for trawling, a gantry will be mounted over with a proven SCR catalyst. The transmission the stern with two net drums. A pair to trawl is a Twin Disc MGX-5222 gear with 5.04:1 winches can be mounted on a platform aft reduction. This will turn a four-blade Rice of the raised fo’c’sle. The designers have in- Kaplan Skewed propeller with a 57-inch di- cluded features to make the vessel more com- ameter and a 67-inch pitch. The prop’s trust fortable for a crew of up to seven people. A is enhanced with a Rice Speed nozzle. This bulbous bow, in addition to improving fuel ef- system will give the vessel a cruising speed ? ciency, will help reduce pitching when work- of nine knots and a bollard pull of 8.2 metric ing gear into a swell. A pair of stabilizers will tons. A comprehensive set of deck equipment

The godparents, sustain- be mounted, following a design ? rst installed will include a Heila HLM 3-2S deck crane. able battery company, and by Chantier Naval Forillon on the trawler For crabbing there will be a crab hauler, crab

Wallenius Wilhemsen cus-

Fundy Leader that they built in 2006. A num- table, crab boom and crab block. For trawl- tomer, Northvolt, presented ber of these systems have since been ? tted to ing, in addition to the two trawl winches and

Captain Fredrik Krysén with other vessels. The stabilizer is a simple steel net drums, there will be a bag winch. The an- a battery to keep onboard as a reminder that both plate, hinged at the bottom on the bilge chine. chor winch is mounted so that the anchor will companies are committed to

It can be hydraulically raised ? at against the lower to the side of the bulbous bow. a decarbonized world.

hull or lowered to a horizontal position. The Auxiliary power includes a Cummins boat’s designer, Jean-Nil Morissette, explains QSB7-DM genset producing 65 kW and an that they function very well to dampen mo- additional QSM11-DM engine producing 355 tion both when travelling or when working hp at 1800 RPM. This engine will drive the gear. Propulsion power will be an IMO-com- vessel’s hydraulic pumps and a back-up 65 pliant tier III, Cummins QSK19 producing kW genset. Main and auxiliary engines were 750 hp at 1800 RPM. To meet the IMO tier III supplied by Cummins Sales and Service, emissions, the QSK19 main engine is ? tted Quebec East, Cummins Canada ULC.

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