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POLARIS HIGHWAY
199 metres of car carrier · 9 years on the water
2nd of 4 · 09:53 · 27 December 2024+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best07:37Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time09:05Median of 15 archive runs
Daily race record4–10–1Wins – losses – ties · 15 starts
Stare-down record8–9Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- POLARIS HIGHWAY
- MMSI
- 356874000
- IMO
- 9728095
- Call sign
- 3EMP4
- Flag
- PA
- Type
- car carrier (from its name)
- Class
- car carrier
- Built
- 2017 · 9 years old
- Length
- 199 m
- Beam
- 38 m
- Gross tonnage
- 76,299
- Deadweight
- 20,494 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
- 07:37 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +1.3
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
- 15.8 kn · 4 May 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.