Araho specifications

Owner/Operator: O’Hara Corp., Rockland, Maine
Designer/Builder: Skipsteknisk AS, Aalesund, Norway/Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Panama City, Fla.
Dimensions: L: 194’ B: 49’ D: 19’4”
Mission: U.S.-flagged factory trawler
Crew size: 54 including vessel and processing crew

Hull: Ice-strengthened steel monohull

Propulsion:

  • EMD 16-710G7 Tier 3 diesel engine, 4,000 hp at 900 rpm, provided by Valley Power Systems of Seattle
  • Lufkin VSQ4134HG-K-PTO gear, 7.20:1 reduction ratio
  • Brunvoll 350-kW electric tunnel bow thruster
  • ABB shaft generator, 1,700 kW at 1,200 rpm
  • (2) Caterpillar C18 Tier 3 550-kW gensets
  • Caterpillar C4.4 Tier 3 95-kW emergency generator

Capacities:

  • Fuel: 116,000 gallons
  • Potable water: 10,500 gallons
  • Technical fresh water (forepeak): 18,500 gallons
  • Freezer cargo hold: 38,500 cubic feet
  • Carton store on main deck: 5,000 cubic feet
  • Lube oil storage tank: 4,000 gallons

Deck equipment:

  • (2) Rapp Marine TWS-22030E/S6 trawl winches
  • (2) Rapp Marine GW-4000BE Gilson winches
  • (2) Rapp Marine NDD-4500BE split net drums
  • (3) Rapp Marine electric cod end/outhaul winches
  • Rapp Marine SOW-502E/S6 electric net sounder winch
  • Rapp Marine NDD-4500BE single net drum (stern)
  • (2) Rapp Marine AWW-4000 hydraulic anchor winches 
  • Rapp Marine 5-ton hydraulic capstan
  • (3) Alaska Marine Crane 360-degree deck cranes

Navigation/operations:

  • JRC JMA-5322 25-kw X-band radar
  • JRC JMA-5312 10-kW X-band radar
  • Fusion Marine Technology AMP-10-DDS data distribution system
  • Simrad GC80 gyrocompass
  • Furuno SC-30 satellite compass
  • (2) JRC JLR-7800 GPS
  • JRC JHS-183 AIS
  • E-nav software
  • (2) Simrad AP80 autopilots
  • JRC NCR-333 Navtex receiver
  • Gill anemometer
  • JRC JFE-380 echosounder
  • (2) Simrad ES80 echosounders
  • JRC JLN-205 speed log
  • Furuno CI-68 Doppler current indicator
  • Simrad FX80 trawl camera system
  • Scanmar 40-kHz wireless net monitoring system
  • 32-camera IP video system

Communications:

  • (2) Icom M506 VHF radios
  • (2) Icom IC-2300 radios
  • Cobham SAILOR 3606 VMS
  • JRC NWZ-5340 BNWAS
  • Cobham SAILOR satellite communications
  • Cobham SAILOR 6301 GMDSS
  • Vingtor-Stentofon integrated public address/general alarm system
  • Vingtor-Stentofon AlphaCom Exchange interior telephone system
  • Vingtor-Stentofon sound-powered phone system
  • Vingtor-Stentofon sound reception system

Accommodations:

  • Two-man and one-man staterooms for 54 crew
  • Hospital
  • Lounge

Classifications:

  • Det Norske Veritas (DNV) +1A1, Stern Trawler, E0 notation for hull and DNV ICE 1B 
By Professional Mariner Staff