Photo: Ein Dahmer · CC BY-SA 4.0
DONALD M JAMES
229 metres of cargo ship · 8 years on the water
2nd of 3 · 08:28 · 9 October 2026+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best08:28Window timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time09:38Median of 6 archive runs
Daily race record1–7Wins – losses · 8 starts
Stare-down record2–7Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- DONALD M JAMES
- MMSI
- 311000779
- IMO
- 9770555
- Call sign
- C6DT6
- Flag
- BS
- Type
- cargo ship (from its AIS ship-type code)
- Class
- cargo
- Built
- 2018 · 8 years old
- Length
- 229 m
- Beam
- 33 m
- 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
- 08:28 · Window timing, since 29 September 2026
- Archive best
- 09:05 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- +0.2
- Best race score, archive
- +0.2
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
- 13.0 kn · 17 Nov 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.