I LIKE BIG BOATSCHARLESTON · THE SPRINT SERIESSign in
VESSEL FILE / GRAND CHOICE3.7 KM COURSE · 4 RUNS ON FILE
← Back to race resultsTHE FLEET / 357247000
Portrait wanted

GRAND CHOICE

179 metres of cargo ship · 27 years on the water

1st of 3 · 06:54 · 1 September 2023+ Follow this boat
Personal best06:54Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time08:11Median of 4 archive runs
Daily race record2–2Wins – losses · 4 starts
Stare-down record0–1Wins – losses · all opponents
Particulars

Everything on file.

Official name
GRAND CHOICE
MMSI
357247000
IMO
9169316
Call sign
3FDW9
Flag
PA
Type
cargo ship (from its AIS ship-type code)
Class
cargo
Built
1999 · 27 years old
Length
179 m
Beam
32 m
Gross tonnage
50,309
Deadweight
16,669 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.

Her best, by register

Two measurements, kept apart.

Window best
none
Archive best
06:54 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
Best race score, window
none
Best race score, archive
+1.5

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.

Records held

What she holds.

None.

Observed extremes

How fast she’s gone.

Observed top speed
17.0 kn · 1 Sept 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.