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Congratulations to Dongara Marine for Baird Maritime Award

Feb 24, 2021

Brad Marsden

Director - Marine Air Flow International

35 Years Experience in the Marine Industry

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Dongara Marine has just been awarded Best Lobster Boat

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.


Another Marine Air Flow engine room ventilation system in the Force Of Nature, Geraldton fishing boat

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

The Engine Room Flow Plan

We design every single ventilation system to suit each vessel. The flow plan for this Dongara Marine built vessel is below. Please get in touch with any questions you might have about having a ventilation system designed for your vessel. 


Congratulations again to both Southerly Designs and Dongara Marine for such great recognition. 


Engine room flow plan for the Force Of Nature
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