Photo: U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice Leonard Adams · Public domain
ARCTIC
229 metres of tanker · 33 years on the water
1st of 1 · 07:45 · 17 December 2025+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best07:45Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time09:33Median of 6 archive runs
Daily race record2–4Wins – losses · 6 starts
Stare-down record3–1–1Wins – losses – ties · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- ARCTIC
- MMSI
- 338995000
- IMO
- 8644034
- Call sign
- NCLS
- Flag
- US
- Type
- tanker (from its documentation class)
- Class
- Tankers
- Built
- 1993 · 33 years old
- Length
- 229 m
- Beam
- 32 m
- AIS ship type
- 90
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
- 07:45 · 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
- 15.2 kn · 17 Dec 2025 · 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.