Photo: Alf van Beem · Public domain
BOW CLIPPER
184 metres of tanker · 31 years on the water
1st of 2 · 07:58 · 10 December 2022+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best07:58Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time08:31Median of 4 archive runs
Daily race record2–2Wins – losses · 4 starts
Stare-down record3–1Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- BOW CLIPPER
- MMSI
- 538009684
- IMO
- 9047518
- Call sign
- V7A5039
- Flag
- MH
- Type
- tanker (from its AIS ship-type code)
- Class
- Tankers
- Built
- 1995 · 31 years old
- Length
- 184 m
- Beam
- 33 m
- AIS ship type
- 81
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
- 07:58 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +1.1
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
- 14.8 kn · 10 Dec 2022 · 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.