Osprey was launched on the 6th March 2020 in Whitby just before the UK went into lockdown. She is a 19 Metre Vivier Crabber built for Holborn Fishing Company Ltd and and will be fishing out of her home port of Scrabster with a crew of 8 men.
The boat is a steel hulled motor fishing vessel, of double double chine, transom stern, bulbous bow, soft nose stem and with full length shelter, arranged for static gear creel fishing, fitted with a vivier tank and dry hold, and manned by a crew of 8 men.
Below deck is subdivided by four watertight bulkheads into: aft accommodation with steering gear, engine room, vivier, hold and forepeak.
The main deck has a aft steel galley, mess and washroom casing. Creel hauling position at starboard, forward. The shelter is non-weathertight, aluminium. Aluminium, aft wheelhouse, and fore mast on shelter.
Photo credit: Mike Upton