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MSC PILAR VI
279 metres of container ship · 23 years on the water
1st of 5 · 08:33 · 29 November 2025+ Follow this boatSign in to follow her and keep her in your corner.Personal best07:13Archive timing · 3.7 km course time
Typical course time08:26Median of 6 archive runs
Daily race record3–3Wins – losses · 6 starts
Stare-down record5–2Wins – losses · all opponents
Everything on file.
- Official name
- MSC PILAR VI
- MMSI
- 636023065
- IMO
- 9248148
- Call sign
- 5LLT8
- Flag
- LR
- Type
- container ship (from the liner schedule)
- Class
- container
- Built
- 2003 · 23 years old
- Length
- 279 m
- Beam
- 40 m
- Gross tonnage
- 65,918
- Deadweight
- 80,978 t
- Capacity
- 6,078 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
- 07:13 · Archive timing, 2021 to 2026
- Best race score, window
- none
- Best race score, archive
- +1.5
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
- 20.4 kn · 19 Jan 2026 · off Miami, FL · NOAA archive
- Fastest leg
- Houston, TX to Galveston, TX · 1 h 34 m · 26.4 kn average · 15 Jan 2026 · to the hour
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.