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SPIRIT OF SYDNEY
254 metres of container ship · 19 years on the water
1st of 3 · 07:44 · 9 July 2023+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best06:56Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time09:00Median of 10 archive runs
Daily race record3–7Wins – losses · 10 starts
Stare-down record6–4Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- SPIRIT OF SYDNEY
- MMSI
- 232013525
- IMO
- 9391672
- Call sign
- MCMB8
- Flag
- IM
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2007 · 19 years old
- Length
- 254 m
- Beam
- 32 m
- Gross tonnage
- 41,483
- Deadweight
- 53,142 t
- Capacity
- 3,752 TEU
- AIS ship type
- 70
Particulars come from her AIS broadcast and the sourced facts ledger. A type decided from her name or her operator is a guess and is labelled as one.
Two measurements, kept apart.
- Window best
- none
- Archive best
- 06:56 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +1.6
The window receiver times a gate to about a second; the national archive carries one fix a minute, interpolated to about two. Her two bests are two different measurements and are never ranked against each other.
What she holds.
None.
How fast she’s gone.
- Observed top speed
- 16.8 kn · 5 Feb 2023 · off Charleston, SC · national archive 2021-25
From our own position archives, with reasonableness checks: a plausible top speed over a corroborated window, a direct leg between two named places. A bound carries no second fix to confirm it and is labelled as one.