Ovenstones new fishing vessel MV Geo-Searcher makes its w3ay from Poland to South Africa.

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MV Geo-Searcher departs Poland for Cape Town

Report and Photos from Ovenstones Managing Director Andrew James

MV Geo-Searcher departing Gdańsk on 6th December 2016

The new fishing vessel due to enter service around the Tristan da Cunha Islands in 2017 left the Gdańsk shipyard in Poland bound for Cape Town on 6th December. The journey, from the Baltic Sea, via the North Sea, English Channel and Atlantic Ocean is expected to take a month, with an expected arrival in Cape Town on 5 January. She will undergo some final refit work in Cape Town before undertaking her maiden voyage to Tristan, planned to be in March 2017.

MV Geo-Searcher departing Gdańsk on 6th December 2016.

The vessel here is navigating the Motlawa River, proceeding to the Leniwka, a branch in the delta of the nearby Vistula River which connects with the Baltic Sea.

On 23rd December MV Geo-Searcher was sailing approximately 300kms off Sierra Leone at  7° N 15.7° W, and on schedule to arrive on time.