At 5,556 gross tons, Le Grand Bleu is the 42,991st largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 311 yachts held here, it ranks 29th by tonnage — larger than 90% of that group. Their median tonnage is 1,352 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 5,565 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Cayman Islands (101 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Lürssen, with 27 hulls on record.
Bermuda is the country of registry for 177 vessels in this directory, of which Le Grand Bleu is the 153rd largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (80 ships), and the median vessel measures 77,277 GT. Browse every ship flagged Bermuda.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 5 yachts flying the Bermuda flag, of which 1 is larger by tonnage.
Le Grand Bleu was built in 2000, making it 26 years old. It is one of 1,296 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,737 GT; within it this ship is the 706th 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 129 vessels to Bremer Vulkan, with a median tonnage of 18,037 GT, delivered between 1909 and 2000. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 112.8 m overall, Le Grand Bleu is 47.6 m longer than the 65.2 m median for yachts on record, with a beam of 17.1 m and a draft of 5.0 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 1006829 this registry holds 49 other vessels, whose median build year is 2001 and which range from 1954 to 2007. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2000.
Its IMO number, 1006829, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 1×7 + 0×6 + 0×5 + 6×4 + 8×3 + 2×2 = 59 — and the last digit of that total, 9, must equal the seventh digit, 9. It does, so this number is well formed.
