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How heavy is the Thousand Sunny?

2,000 t4,410,000 lb

The Thousand Sunny weighs about 2,000 tonnes (roughly 4.4 million lb) by our estimate. One Piece gives its size but never its weight: the official Vivre Card lists it at 39 m long and 56 m tall. 2,000 t is a generous figure, in line with wooden warships whose masts are as tall as the Sunny’s.

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Estimates for the Thousand Sunny’s weight

Our estimateIn line with the 2,200 ton USS Constitution, whose masts are about as tall2,000 t4,410,000 lb
Scaled from the theme park replicaThe 30 m, 430 ton Huis Ten Bosch Sunny, scaled up to 39 m950 t2,090,000 lb
Scaled from a real frigate by lengthThe 63 m USS Constitution, scaled down to 39 m520 t1,150,000 lb

Where the 2,000 tonnes comes from

Eiichiro Oda has never published a weight for the Sunny. The Vivre Card data book gives its size: 39 m (128 ft) long and 56 m (184 ft) tall. The volume 46 SBS has a full set of blueprints, but no tonnage. So any weight, including ours, is an estimate.

We went by height. The Sunny is drawn short, deep and round, with masts reaching 56 m, which is the size class of big wooden warships. The Swedish Vasa stands 52.5 m from keel to mainmast top and displaces 1,210 t. The USS Constitution’s foremast is 60 m (198 ft) and the ship displaces 2,200 tons. We put the Sunny near the top of that range, at 2,000 t.

Scaled by length alone, the number drops a lot. A ship weighs roughly in proportion to the cube of its length, and 39 m is 0.62 times the Constitution’s 63 m, so the same build would weigh 0.62 × 0.62 × 0.62 × 2,200, about 520 t. Our 2,000 t assumes a much fuller hull than a real sailing ship of its length.

Three times the Going Merry

The crew’s first ship, the Going Merry, is listed on its Vivre Card at 13 m long and 11 m tall. The Sunny is exactly three times as long. With the same proportions, three times the length means 27 times the weight, so a Merry built like our Sunny would come to about 74 t.

Franky built the Sunny in Water 7 with help from Iceburg and other Galley-La shipwrights. It is a brigantine, a two-masted rig, and it carries a lawn deck, an aquarium bar, a library, a bath, sixteen cannons and the Soldier Dock System, a turntable of six bays holding vehicles such as the Mini Merry II and the Shark Submerge III.

Adam wood and a flying ship

The Sunny is built from Adam wood, cut from the Treasure Tree Adam on Elbaph and called the strongest wood in the world. Franky bought it on the black market for 200 million berries. The only other known ship made of it is Gol D. Roger’s Oro Jackson. No source says how dense Adam wood is, so it does not change our estimate.

The story often throws all that weight around. The Coup de Burst fires three barrels of cola out of the stern to launch the whole ship about 1 km through the air, and the Adam wood lets the hull take the blast without damage. On the way up from Fish-Man Island, three huge deep sea fish caught by Luffy, Zoro and Usopp were heavy enough to start dragging it down.

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Questions

How much does the Thousand Sunny weigh in pounds?

About 4.4 million lb, by our estimate of 2,000 tonnes. There is no official weight in any unit.

How big is the Thousand Sunny?

39 m (128 ft) long and 56 m (184 ft) tall, according to its official Vivre Card. The height includes the masts.

Is the Thousand Sunny bigger than the Going Merry?

Much bigger. The Going Merry is 13 m long and 11 m tall, so the Sunny is three times its length and five times its height. Built the same way, that would make it about 27 times heavier.

What is the Thousand Sunny made of?

Adam wood, from the giant Treasure Tree Adam in Elbaph. It is the toughest wood in One Piece and shrugs off cannonballs, and Franky paid 200 million berries for it.

Is there a real Thousand Sunny?

Yes. The Huis Ten Bosch theme park in Sasebo, Japan, launched a 30 m replica in April 2011. Anime News Network reported it weighs 430 tons and carries 250 people on short cruises around Omura Bay.

Sources

  1. Thousand Sunny, One Piece Wiki (citing Vivre Card 0012 and the volume 46 SBS)
  2. Going Merry, One Piece Wiki (citing Vivre Card 0011)
  3. Treasure Tree Adam, One Piece Wiki
  4. Theme Park Builds One Piece’s Thousand Sunny Ship, Anime News Network
  5. USS Constitution, Wikipedia
  6. Vasa (ship), Wikipedia

Last checked October 2, 2026.

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