Photo: Thilo Parg · CC BY-SA 3.0
CAPE KNOX
212 metres of government vessel · 48 years on the water
2nd of 2 · 08:36 · 29 March 2026+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best08:36Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time08:59Median of 3 archive runs
Daily race record0–3Wins – losses · 3 starts
Stare-down record1–3Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- CAPE KNOX
- MMSI
- 367801000
- IMO
- 7715290
- Call sign
- KAOP
- Flag
- US
- Type
- government vessel (from its operator)
- Class
- military gov
- Built
- 1978 · 48 years old
- Length
- 212 m
- Beam
- 32 m
- Operator
- MARITIME ADMINISTRATION
- 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
- 08:36 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +1.0
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
- 13.8 kn · 29 Mar 2026 · 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.