At 3,905 gross tons, Bourbon Surf is the 48,262nd largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT, so this hull is about 1.5 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 27,553rd by tonnage — larger than 45% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.
Norway is the country of registry for 3,032 vessels in this directory, of which Bourbon Surf is the 1,117th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (2,126 ships), and the median vessel measures 3,102 GT. Browse every ship flagged Norway.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 2,126 vessels this registry holds no type classification for flying the Norway flag, of which 781 are larger by tonnage.
Bourbon Surf was built in 2003, making it 23 years old. It is one of 1,383 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 11,954 GT; within it this ship is the 868th largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 74 vessels to Langsten Slip & Båtbyggeri, with a median tonnage of 4,797 GT, delivered between 1967 and 2023. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 87.0 m overall, Bourbon Surf is 28.0 m shorter than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9272412 this registry holds 46 other vessels, whose median build year is 2004 and which range from 2002 to 2008. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2003.
Its IMO number, 9272412, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 2×6 + 7×5 + 2×4 + 4×3 + 1×2 = 132 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 2. It does, so this number is well formed.
