During the bollard pull test of the Icebreaker “Viktor Chernomyrdyn” (LOA 146 m), she meets Tugboat “Mikhail Salnikov” (LOA 26 m). Both vessels have Fluidmecanica winches. In comparison with the brake pull of the Fluidmecanica’s winch at “Mikhail Salnikov” 97 ton, the rated 360-ton brake pull of Fluidmecanica’s winch at Icebreaker “Viktor Chernomyrdyn” seems big. But both crews are equally satisfied with the equipment supplied by Fluidmecanica.

Bollard pull test of the Icebreaker “Viktor Chernomyrdyn” was performed at Primorsk (Russia Federation) on October 20.

Characteristics of the winch are:

• Cascade type electrical winch with automatic render recovery.
• Pull 1200 kN at 5 m/min
• Brake pull 3600 kN
• 2 drums with capacity of 700 m of wire rope Ø70 mm
• Driven by two electric motors 110 kW each.