Observed lakes vessel
Aurora
No fleet affiliation on record · Pleasure Craft · 255 m. Range: Lakes only. 10 recorded passages across 4 chokepoints.
Last recorded passage
downbound at Welland Canal (Thorold)
16 Sep 2025, 09:02 EDT — ±15 min · see the September 2025 log
This is an archive, not a tracker. The passage record runs January 2024 to December 2025 and ends at 31 Dec 2025. The public AIS archive arrives in quarterly batches and currently runs nine months behind. Nothing on this page tells you where Aurora is today. Her last recorded passage was 106 days before the archive ends, and that gap is about the record, not necessarily about the ship.
FreighterLog is the record, not the map. For where Aurora is right now, see BoatNerd's live AIS map, which runs on their own receivers on the lakes, or VesselFinder.
Follow by RSS. Every crossing Aurora makes goes into a feed of her own, added when the next batch of the public AIS archive is processed. It is a file on this domain: no account, no email address, and nothing that reports back. Aurora feed · all chokepoints
Specification
| Name (AIS) | AURORA |
|---|---|
| MMSI | 368331920 |
| IMO | — |
| Call sign | WDN9966 |
| Length overall | 255 m (837 ft) |
| Beam | 31 m (102 ft) |
| AIS vessel type | Pleasure Craft |
| Hull type | — |
| Operator | No fleet match (salty, unaffiliated hull, or an AIS spelling this roster has not yet folded in) |
| Flag | — |
Passage record
- 10 Passages January 2024 – December 2025
- 4 Chokepoints of 7 monitored
- 14 Jul 2024 First in archive UTC date
- 16 Sep 2025 Last in archive UTC date
Where she was recorded
Season passage log
Local time at each chokepoint · grouped by month (UTC buckets)
Times are interpolated from AIS track samples, good to about fifteen minutes, and shown in each chokepoint's local time. A passage is a track crossing our gate line, not an official lock record.
2025 season
September 2025 4 passages
| Date | Local time | Chokepoint | Direction |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 Sep 2025 | 09:02 EDT | Welland Canal (Thorold) | downbound |
| 15 Sep 2025 | 08:27 EDT | Detroit River / Ambassador Bridge | downbound |
| 14 Sep 2025 | 17:49 EDT | Port Huron / Blue Water Bridge | downbound |
| 13 Sep 2025 | 17:47 EDT | Straits of Mackinac | eastbound |
June 2025 2 passages
| Date | Local time | Chokepoint | Direction |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 Jun 2025 | 06:07 EDT | Straits of Mackinac | westbound |
| 23 Jun 2025 | 12:44 EDT | Straits of Mackinac | eastbound |
2024 season
July 2024 4 passages
| Date | Local time | Chokepoint | Direction |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Jul 2024 | 09:47 EDT | Straits of Mackinac | westbound |
| 18 Jul 2024 | 02:53 EDT | Port Huron / Blue Water Bridge | upbound |
| 17 Jul 2024 | 14:57 EDT | Detroit River / Ambassador Bridge | upbound |
| 14 Jul 2024 | 16:43 EDT | Welland Canal (Thorold) | upbound |