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OPAL ACE
199 metres of car carrier · 15 years on the water
1st of 6 · 08:38 · 12 May 2023+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best08:38Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time09:38Median of 6 archive runs
Daily race record1–5Wins – losses · 6 starts
Stare-down record5–1Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- OPAL ACE
- MMSI
- 319058000
- IMO
- 9539183
- Call sign
- ZGBY9
- Flag
- KY
- Type
- car carrier (from its name)
- Class
- car carrier
- Built
- 2011 · 15 years old
- Length
- 199 m
- Beam
- 32 m
- Gross tonnage
- 60,131
- Deadweight
- 18,507 t
- 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
- 08:38 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +0.8
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
- 14.1 kn · 12 May 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.