Photo: Alf van Beem · Public domain
BOW SUN
182 metres of tanker · 23 years on the water
1st of 2 · 08:39 · 12 July 2024+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best08:17Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time08:28Median of 2 archive runs
Daily race record1–0–1Wins – losses – ties · 2 starts
Stare-down record2–0Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- BOW SUN
- MMSI
- 257892000
- IMO
- 9197284
- Call sign
- LAPP8
- Flag
- NO
- Type
- tanker (from its AIS ship-type code)
- Class
- Tankers
- Built
- 2003 · 23 years old
- Length
- 182 m
- Beam
- 32 m
- Gross tonnage
- 30,008
- Deadweight
- 49,466 t
- AIS ship type
- 82
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
- 08:17 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +1.4
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
- 14.7 kn · 10 Jul 2024 · 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.