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GOPHER STATE
186 metres of cargo ship · 54 years on the water
1st of 1 · 08:20 · 23 July 2024+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best08:20Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time09:14Median of 2 archive runs
Daily race record1–1Wins – losses · 2 starts
Stare-down record0–1Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- GOPHER STATE
- MMSI
- 366575000
- IMO
- 7226689
- Call sign
- WCJV
- Flag
- US
- Type
- cargo ship (from its AIS ship-type code)
- Class
- cargo
- Built
- 1972 · 54 years old
- Length
- 186 m
- Beam
- 24 m
- Operator
- GRAHAM OFFSHORE INC
- 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
- 08:20 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +0.4
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
- 14.3 kn · 23 Jul 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.