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BOW CARDINAL
183 metres of tanker · 29 years on the water
3rd of 3 · 09:41 · 7 February 2023+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best07:04Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time09:08Median of 4 archive runs
Daily race record1–3Wins – losses · 4 starts
Stare-down record1–4Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- BOW CARDINAL
- MMSI
- 538009779
- IMO
- 9114244
- Call sign
- V7A5151
- Flag
- MH
- Type
- tanker (from its AIS ship-type code)
- Class
- Tankers
- Built
- 1997 · 29 years old
- Length
- 183 m
- Beam
- 32 m
- Gross tonnage
- 23,220
- Deadweight
- 37,446 t
- AIS ship type
- 82
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
- 07:04 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +1.9
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.
- Fastest course time
- 07:04 · Tankers, Outbound, whale season, Archive
- Best race score
- +1.8 · Tankers, Outbound, whale season, Archive
How fast she’s gone.
- Observed top speed
- 16.7 kn · 7 Nov 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.