Week 36 ANIARA to arrive in a few hrs in Canada then NY first of the 2009 MINIS!

 

Hi deepcscuba, would you mind sharing which CU you are going with. I have checked in with the Boeing CU and their lowest rate is 5.24. Thanks!!!!

 

Booked on the Independence!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Hey guys - just checked and my MINI is scheduled for the INDEPENDENCE II! Strangely, the "BOOKED" date is 07.31.2008... you think they could have avoided the suspense and just told us a little earlier when our cars were going to leave the port!

It looks like the car didn't get to port until yesterday afternoon local time, so I imagine that was the suspense. I think they are producing a lot of cars right now, so maybe the transport trains were overloaded.

 

Ditto.

 

Booked on the Independence II as of this morning. Arrives in NY on the 22nd!!

 

HEY W36/09ers! Hoping you all see your MINIs very very soon...should just be a few more weeks!

Love,
A W36/06er

 

Thanks, Melissa!! The Caribbean Highway is off the north coast of the Isle of Wight and approaching Southampton. Anyone get a confirmed booking aboard her yet? My dealership's manager is the only one who can verify booking for my car, and he's off today; I could find out tomorrow. Here's hoping there's room in her for all the Charleston-bound MINIs who aren't on the Independence II!!!

 

Oh you lucky INDEPENDENCE II people!! My dear car is still waiting on the dock for the carrier to process her. I will most likely not be on INDY II since WW tracking still does not register my VIN. I am thinking K Line might be the carrier but someone might need to confirm that they DO NOT call at Brunswick, GA which will be my port of entry, 2 days after the Charleston call. Oh well..I guess at this point I have had a good run and might just have to be patient for now.

 

Just checked K LINE and now unless I am wrong, the car will be on a WW vessel since K Line do not call Brunswick

 

And now the Independence II has made her appearance; she's off the western coast of the Isle of Wight, about to enter the Solent. If my little guy doesn't make the Caribbean Highway, he may become a stowaway on the Indy II. Ya'll wouldn't tell on him, would you??

 

tancred,
The Indy II is at the dock (no, we won't tell!) and so is the Caribbean Highway!

 

The Caribbean Highway's departure has been delayed until 20:15 tonight (that's 3:15 EDT, I think); late last night it was still scheduled to leave at 16:00. Hey, all the more time to get those MINIs on board! The Indy II leaves at 23:00. It'll be fun to watch both cross the Atlantic, especially if we have cars on each! Here's the Shipping Movements schedule for Southampton.

The satellite picture on Southampton's aislive page is the very same one that elegantmini posted on Monday -- same ships, same cars in the same positions. (Well, it is from Google Earth.) But it is fun to look at the live positioning and see both ships's green dots at the docks. It refreshes every 60 seconds; once they get underway we can actually watch them move!

 

Hey everyone,

First let me thank everyone for the warm welcomes. Now for the update... I was scheduled to be a week 36, but obviously I got bumped. The good news is my Mini is now in production with an estimated completion date of Sept 16th. If that holds I hope to take delivery in early to mid Oct.

Could be wishful thinking on my part, but I'm hoping

 

I see that the Independence II is actually scheuled to arrive in New York at noon on Sept. 21.
Bonus! On the positioning map you can see the ship itself by zooming in on the satellite mode......not just green dots.

 

Herby,
Where are you looking? On the AIS-live site or something else?

 

Independence II is underway. Congrats to those on board. For those of us still clinging to hope (and possibly a life preserver, not to mention our sanity), the Caribbean Highway is off the western coast of the Isle of Wight near Benbridge. Toot toot!

 

The Aniara has jettisoned her cargo of MINIs in Jersey City, as of 2pm today. The first of the (non-JCW) '09s will be moving through the VDC and onto their owners in the coming week.

 

Congrats to all of you!

 

WW finally showed me as being on the Independence II, so it looks like Chester will be getting in to Charleston on the 27th. Great way to start a Sunday off, I'd say.

 

Hooray! Maybe a couple of others here will get the same good news today. Congrats!

 

I hate to sound whiny, but my car has been sitting on the docks at the port for 8 days now waiting for a boat. I see that other cars which completed build after mine are already steaming their way across the ocean. You'd think that Minis should be polite, well-mannered cars that line up in single file and don't cut in line in front of other Minis that have been waiting longer!

Mine completed build on 9/5; it was scheduled to finish 9/3, so maybe I've just got myself a slow one? I was hoping for delivery in time for nice fall motoring, but at this rate, we'll have snow before it arrives.

 

rjb5,
Which port are you going to?

 

depending on which port here in the US you are going to you might be waiting up to almost 2 weeks. Only WW ships seem to go to west coast. Mine has been completed on Sep 6th, at the port on the 8th but missed the ship that left for west coast on the 8th, so the closest ship that goes to West coast now is Traviata, that is scheduled to arrive/leave Southampton on Sep 15th. So my Clubby has been out in the rainy British weather for a whole week now as well. Can't wait for it to get here to the beautiful and sunny COLORADO
If you are going to west coast you should be getting on that ship as well.

 

Hey, don't feel too bad, I'm in the same boat as you
My car was completed on the 2nd and it's still sitting on the dock of the bay like Otis Redding.