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The boat is to be a steel hulled motor
fishing vessel, of double chine, transom stern, semi bulbous bow, soft
nose stem and with full length shelter, arranged for static gear creel
fishing, fitted with a vivier tank, dry hold, bait store and manned by a
crew of 5 men. |
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Accommodation module and fresh water tank under construction |
Frames now under construction |
Fuel tanks and engine beds under construction |
Vivier tank and forward hold under construction |
Accommodation and engine room bulkhead |
Deck plating under way on accommodation module |
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Aluminum, aft wheelhouse, and fore mast on shelter. |
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Steel arrives for new vivier crabber |
Bulbous nose under construction |
Welding up frames on Vivier tank and hold |
Keel laid awaiting modules |
Engine room&fuel tanks coming out of fabrication shed |
Final position |
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Vivier tank and hold module coming out of fabrication shed |
Lifting Vivier tank and hold |
Now in final position with engine room |
Lifting accommodation module |
Coming into final position |
Final adjustments |
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The main deck is to have an aft steel galley, mess and
washroom casing, to starboard. Pot hauling position at starboard,
forward. Pot shooting door in transom and in starboard side
bulwark. |
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Plating hull under way |
Bulbous nose fitted |
Skeg plating |
Flush hatch fitted |
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Fabricating forepeak bulkhead |
Plating hull nearing completipn |
Generators have arrived |
Hatches and doors have arrived |
Welding bulwarks |
Galley fitted |
Welding galley casing |
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Shelter to be non-weathertight, aluminum
forward, and have hatch cover over pot hauling area. |
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Main engine and gearbox arrives |
Welding final plates |
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One of two Auxiliary generators arrive |
Facing plates now fitted on gunwales |
Birds eye view |
Aperture cut out ready for stern tube |
Stern tube being fitted |
Rudder tube fitted |
Final welding on engine room plates |
Aluminium arrives for shelter deck |
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Below deck to be subdivided by four
watertight bulkheads into: aft accommodation with steering gear, engine
room, vivier, hold and forepeak. |
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Crab Chute fitted |
Lobster Chute being fitted |
Steering gear area in accommodation block now painted |
Construction of aluminum shelter deck now started |
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Mast and wheel house under construction |
Anchor windless now fitted |
Shelter deck complete and hatches fitted |
Anchor pocket in forepeak |
Aluminium wheel house under construction and in final position, with
doors fitted |
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Main
Dimensions |
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Length Overall |
14.95 metres
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| Welding escape door on galley casing |
Joiner fitting out in accommodation |
Length
Register |
14.15 metres |
Propeller now fitted |
Fitting bilge keel |
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Breadth
moulded |
5.90 metres
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Depth
moulded |
3.50 metres |
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Fuel
capacity (approx) |
8,900 litres
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| Fitting hand rails |
Fabrication of radar mast |
Fresh
water capacity |
2,500 litres
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Welding up in hold |
Fitting bow fin |
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Vivier gross volume (approx) |
28,000 litres |
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| Radar mast now fitted |
Fitting chine bars |
Engine ready for lifting |
In final position |
Auxilliary engines arrive |
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| Shower and toilet block under construction |
Cutting out for window in galley |
Main mast fitted |
Fitting round bar to bilge keels |
Lining up gear box with prop shaft |
Roller fitted on starboard side as part of pot
hauling gear |
Auxhillary engines in enging room ready for
instalation |
Vieier pump and pipe work |
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| Erecting scaffolding to take bad weather cover |
Pot hauling rollers and pot handling table now fitted |
Aluminium shooting door now fitted |
Keel coolers for auxiliary engines under construction |
Fitting pipe work for bilge and vivier tank |
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| Door casings and panelling now fitted in lobby |
Stainless steel exhausts being fitted |
Fitting pipe work to steering gear in accommodation
block |
Final welding on aluminium hand rails |
Final welding on aluminium shelter deck |
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| Rudder shaft now fitted |
Keel coolers now fitted |
Fitting stainless steel hydraulic pipes under shelter deck |
Fitting connectors to flexible hydraulic pipes |
Bull dog Co, sandblasting prior to painting |
Art work on wheel house started |
Alignment of engine being carried out |
Electriction fitting sockets and lights in
accommodation |
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| Sarens crane takes the strain on AQUILA
and lift off |
The christening |
Owners, Alasdair Maclean,Anne Maclean and son Callum Maclean |
Owners and family |
Sea eagle crest on AQUILA'S bow |
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Joiner prepareing polystone sheets for flooring vivier tank |
Joiners making oak doors and frames for galley |
Final painting under shelter deck |
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AQUILA in Whitby harbour |
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Vivier tank |
Joiner preparing for laying floor in vivier tank |
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AQUILA swinging compass in Whitby harbour |
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| Wheel house |
Crab handling area |
Owner Alasdair and son Callum, the skipper, before leaving Whitby |
Toilet and wash basin |
View of accommodation |
Galley area |
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Aquila leaving Whitby for home |
AQUILA AT SEA |
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