Loaloat Al Behar

At 4,633 gross tons, Loaloat Al Behar is the 45,618th 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 1.3 times smaller than the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 311 yachts held here, it ranks 39th by tonnage — larger than 86% 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.

Loaloat Al Behar was built in 1982, making it 44 years old. It is one of 1,706 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 3,592 GT; within it this ship is the 737th largest. Across the whole of the 1980s the registry holds 13,213 vessels, median 3,004 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 9 vessels to Perini Navi, with a median tonnage of 548 GT, delivered between 1982 and 2014. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 103.8 m overall, Loaloat Al Behar is 38.6 m longer than the 65.2 m median for yachts on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 7908433 this registry holds 51 other vessels, whose median build year is 1980 and which range from 1978 to 1983. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1982.

Its IMO number, 7908433, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 7×7 + 9×6 + 0×5 + 8×4 + 4×3 + 3×2 = 153 — and the last digit of that total, 3, must equal the seventh digit, 3. It does, so this number is well formed.