Absent any better data, I've decided to take comfort in the fact that both the Port of Hueneme and Wallenius sites still show September 9th as the Boheme's arrival date.
But I gotta tell ya, my wife is eager for me to get the MINI so we can stop sharing our (her) one car.

 

The arrival date is accurate, the cost of owning these RO/RO ships, they do well at keeping them on schedules. If anything she would arrive early rather than later. The wait from the canal to Port Hueneme can seem longer than the rest of the trek, but be assured, she will be showing up on AISfree soon, I estimate within the next 24 hours or so.

 

There was such an abundance of information available and numerous milestones in the process to keep me distracted that the lack of news since the Canal passage is painful. Thanks for the encouragement.

 

Apparently the AIS signal is really for collision avoidance and the ship's transmitter is just supposed to have a 25 mile range. Which isn't far! I think we got spoiled with the long, narrow harbor in England and then the narrow english channel... I think we may only be able to track the ship for a couple hours before docking. (Unless the captain decides to transmit weather data.)

But on the bright side, the ship should be here within 2 days!!

 

This is from the site at :

http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/enav/ais/default.htm

What is the Automatic Identification System (AIS)?

Picture a shipboard radar display, with overlaid electronic chart data, that includes a mark for every significant ship within radio range, each as desired with a velocity vector (indicating speed and heading). Each ship "mark" could reflect the actual size of the ship, with position to GPS or differential GPS accuracy. By "clicking" on a ship mark, you could learn the ship name, course and speed, classification, call sign, registration number, MMSI, and other information. Maneuvering information, closest point of approach (CPA), time to closest point of approach (TCPA) and other navigation information, more accurate and more timely than information available from an automatic radar plotting aid, could also be available. Display information previously available only to modern Vessel Traffic Service operations centers could now be available to every AIS-equipped ship.
With this information, you could call any ship over VHF radiotelephone by name, rather than by "ship off my port bow" or some other imprecise means. Or you could dial it up directly using GMDSS equipment. Or you could send to the ship, or receive from it, short safety-related email messages.
The AIS is a shipboard broadcast system that acts like a transponder, operating in the VHF maritime band, that is capable of handling well over 4,500 reports per minute and updates as often as every two seconds. It uses Self-Organizing Time Division Multiple Access (SOTDMA) technology to meet this high broadcast rate and ensure reliable ship-to-ship operation.

 

Boheme just showed up on AISfree, off the coast of Baja roughly.

http://aisfree.aislive.com/Influx.as...Coast%20Mexico

 

woohoo she's alive!

 

 

It's getting closer to being real and not just a dream!

 

Good spot, you guys!!! I've been looking too, but I didn't notice it there. Guess I can't read! woohoo! Our babies are getting so close!

 

It is typical of AISfree, the map was not showing her at all, then she appears, did not show her moving up the coast at all.

 

Peek-a-boo Yep - I definitely think they're playing with us!!

 

Well it looks like AISfree is having the same issues as it did last week with Tagus. Boheme has been green which means she is underway, and has been in the same postion for way to long.
If it continues like last week, by the time the map updates, she could very well be docked. So just a word of caution, don't trust the map to much at this point.

 

Thanks for posting the AIS ping. I too missed it and am relieved to know our MINIs are getting closer.
In the meantime I'm trying to convince my wife I need some roof art.

 

AISFree intentionally posts delayed and incomplete info on their public sites, probably to encourage people to buy their real-time AISLive service. I think we're lucky to be seeing the BOHEME at all on the public site.

gl

 

I suppose you assumption could be correct. But from my perspective it is more likely that the added coverage and zoom views that have been added in the last two weeks in the updated version has a few bugs.

 

Tharkun, is that your license plate?.. sweeeeet!

 

Still waiting for it to arrive at DMV for pick up.

 

Eek! Rereading my post, I realize I came off sounding a little too sure of myself. Didn't mean to.

For this trip, it had seemed that AISFree was somewhat unreliable, so I'd been following sailwx and oceanweather. I hadn't realized AISFree/AISLive was being updated. Sounds like they should be more reliable once they get the kinks worked out for the changes.

gl

 

I kinda ordered some fancy graphics behind my wife's back. She was shocked when I told her how much. I sure hope she likes it.

gl

 

OK - so I know that AIS Live is kind of messed up now - and I learned earlier that Yellow means anchored or docked and green means go - what does red mean? I hope not sunk

 

Well, I know AIS is messed up and there's no way of knowing if this is accurate or not - could be hours old, but at least we're not showing as 'sunk' anymore!

 

Mornin Holls - that's a much better picture to wake up to
I don't know my CA coast that well - do you know how far up the port is? I'm sure it will get there without my obsessing but when some describe you as a control freak (their problem I'm sure) you feel like you should be doing SOMETHING

 

Boheme has showed up on the shinemicro.com maps, and this site is a bit better as it actually shows Port Hueneme.

http://www.shinemicro.com/Live.asp?r...est%20Overview

 

Thanks Tharkun again for feeding our obsession