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Polar Bear on the Equator
POLAR ECUADOR
230 metres of container ship · 9 years on the water
2nd of 2 · 09:54 · 22 July 2025+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best06:37Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time08:36Median of 70 archive runs
Daily race record40–30Wins – losses · 70 starts
Stare-down record46–23–1Wins – losses – ties · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- POLAR ECUADOR
- Nickname
- Polar Bear on the Equator
- MMSI
- 563050500
- IMO
- 9786774
- Call sign
- 9V8896
- Flag
- SG
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2017 · 9 years old
- Length
- 230 m
- Beam
- 37 m
- Gross tonnage
- 43,628
- Deadweight
- 52,056 t
- Capacity
- 3,884 TEU
- AIS ship type
- 71
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
- 06:37 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- none
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
- 06:59 · Other big ships, Inbound, open season, Archive
How fast she’s gone.
- Observed top speed
- 17.7 kn · 7 May 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.