Geraldton-based David Perham, a highly experienced operator from Australia’s Western Rock Lobster fishery, took delivery of this new lobster boat from Dongara Marine. The crayboat has proven to have much lower fuel consumption than comparable vessels.
Completed in late April 2020, some 12 months after contracts were signed, Force of Nature is a 22.4 metre (74 foot) Southerly Designs monohull which, like other recent Dongara Marine fishing and pilot boat newbuilds, combines an aluminium hull with a composite superstructure.
Fuel consumption is about 20 per cent less than on other recent vessels with the same hullform.