Midwater Trawls

4 Bridle 1000' Headline

The Diamond Wing Midwater Trawl was developed in order to take advantage of the resiliency and efficiency of a hexagonal mesh front end while eliminating overly large mesh sizes at the very front of the trawl.

It is a four bridle trawl which incorporates an hexagonal section in the mid part of the front end. The wings are completed with diamond meshes.

Cantrawl used extensive computer modelling (with DynamiT) to tune the trawl design. The result is the inclusion of a unique section of variable length meshes which results in more balanced loads throughout the trawl.

VS1000DW (Kited)

Doors: Thyb Type 15 9 sq m

Trawler speed: 2.90 knots

Warp: 400m

Otter boards opening: 205.1 m (673 ft)

Top Wingspread: 164.4 m (539 ft)

Horizontal opening: 148.2 m (486 ft)

Vertical opening (kited): 35.9 m (20 fathoms)

Warp tension / total towing traction Z (kgF) : 5712.6 5719.4 / 9253.1

4 Bridle 450' Headline

VS450

Doors: Type 15 6.5 sq m

Trawler speed: 2.90 knots

Warp: 320m

Otter boards opening: 140.0 m (459 ft)

Horizontal opening at top wing tip: 92.0 m (302 ft)

Horizontal opening: 75.5 m (247 ft)

Vertical opening: 27.4 m (15 fathoms)

Warp tension / total towing traction Z (kgF) : 3909.6 3909.4 / 6658.1

6 Bridle 300' Headline

OR300

Doors: Nets 4.0 sq m

Trawler speed: 2.90 knots

Warp: 320m

Otter boards opening: 98.0 m (321 ft)

Top Wing Spread: 54.8 m (180 ft)

Bottom Wing Spread: 54.4 m

Horizontal opening (middle wingtips): 70.4 m (231 ft)

Wing Vertical Opening: 24.5 m

Vertical opening: 22.4 m (12 fathoms)

Warp tension / total towing traction Z (kgF) : 2958.8 2958.2 / 5233.0