Congratulations to Dongara Marine for Baird Maritime Award

Western Australian premier boat builder, Dongara Marine has just been awarded "Best Lobster Boat" by Baird Maritime for 2020.

Congratulations to Dongara Marine for yet another excellent build of a Southerly Design vessel. We have worked hand in hand with both Southerly's and Dongara marine for quite some time now and are proud to have provided the full engine room ventilation system for local fisherman Dave Perham's new boat.

Most of you will know that Brad (our director) is a Geraldton native himself, so its always a little surreal to be designing and manufacturing engine room cooling and protection systems for fisherman from Brad's home town. It is always great to see such quality vessels come out of a smallish town such as Dongara.

Engine Room Ventilation System Info for Force Of Nature

This vessel is running a complete MAFI system including

Single stage air in and out grilles with protection bar to stop the cray pots damaging the vanes.
High volume AC 490 fans (line item 4 in this spec sheet). These fans are very power efficient and quiet. Running at 100% they are only 88 Decibels, eliminating the need for fan speed controllers.
316 Stainless steel Air dampers with 24v DC fail safe actuators.

The system was designed to have inward facing grilles which is unique to the cray fishing industry. This further protects the intake from wave action and allows the use of a single stage grille in the narrow confines of the bullwark.

Pics Of Force Of Nature's Engine Room Ventilation Equipment

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