Our Clubman is now booked on Medea it is supposed to make Port Hueneme by 10/12.

I am hoping it was be a great cruise with sight seeing in Panama. I hope there are few more West Coasters that will have their Minis on board.

 

Looks like we are ship mates. Just found out that we are booked on the Medea as well. I am so glad that I double checked the VIN number, ended up missing one number some how. Now we'll have to watch on the live ship tracking link to see when the Medea gets into Port.

 

I know how you guys feel. I tracked the Aida from Southampton to Port Hueneme and it was a blast! I hope you guys enjoy the same calm seas and kind weather that my ship did.

 

I am also crossing my fingers for good weather. It took about 40 times of putting in the VIN number, before it showed we were booked. I felt like we won something.

I am excited that we are not the NAM on the Medea.

 

I was so excited to find out that I was booked for the Medea. I just hope my Mini isn't in the bathroom when they call his/her name to board. That would not be good to miss this boat. As it is, I will be on vacation for most of the journey and not able to obsess over the journey too much. Good to be journeying with everyone else.


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Our Minis will be getting off the ship together in Port Hueneme, ours will stop in LV. The funny thing is we live about 20 minutes from Port Hueneme. But have to fly out to LV to pick up the Mini.

 

Boo-ya!! Medea - travel safely, swiftly and carefully!!

 

Ahoy shipmates! Our Clubbie is on board! I've been up since 7:30am this morning when my hub woke me up and told me we made it on the ship.

Here's a photo of the MEDEA and some info about it:
http://www.scheepvaartwest.be/pagina121.html

I just checked AIS tracking and found that the destination of the MEDEA now reads Manzanillo, Mexico, arriving there October 3. It will go through the Panama Canal and up to Port Hueneme, CA, and then to Tacoma, WA. This morning, the destination was still reading Southhampton. They must have filed their next destination at the port.

If you click on MEDEA's green dot in the port, you get additional info.
http://www.ais-live.co.uk/AIS%20Live...uthampton.html

I also found it listed on the Ship Movements page, under Departures:
http://www.ais-live.co.uk/Solent%20S...ementsabp.html
It says MEDEA is flying under the SWE flag and will depart the port at 21:00 hours on 9/21. This would be 9:00pm Southampton time, or 1:00pm Pacific Time (PDT).

After it leaves port, we'll have to take our chances trying to find it on the open seas.

Sandy
2009 MCCS, SS/BK, premium, and other stuff

 

Sandy this is great information. Thanks for posting all the links! I know that I will be sitting in front of the computer, trying to get a gimps of the Medea when she is heading our way.

 

Here's a more recent photo of MEDEA, supposedly taken on September 13, 2008 in Bremerhaven:
http://www.vesseltracker.com/en/Ship...a-8016550.html
And more photos:
http://www.vesseltracker.com/en/Gall...a-8016550.html

When it gets to the Canal, if you're lucky, you might see it pass through the locks via one of these cams:
http://www.pancanal.com/eng/photo/camera-java.html
But you'd have to be really lucky, or know somebody on the ship or in Panama to find out when it was passing through.

I'd better stop obsessing and go do some laundry, or I'll have nothing to wear to work tomorrow.

Sandy
2009 MCCS, SS/BK, premium, and other stuff

 

Do you know that you can listen to live radio from the Southampton VTS Portsmouth Port? Look under General and you'll see a link for live radio. Also found the live web cams further down. But it's to dark to see anything.

 

Hello all from NM! Any idea how long it takes to get to my area once it unloads in CA?

 

WOOHOO I've been loaded onto the ship!!! Can't wait to get under way and onto the high seas. Hope noone gets seasick.

 

You guys can track your ship through the Panama Canal. Just get a hold of the schedule of that shows it's booked passage through the canal, then monitor the webcams around the time it arrives at the Atlantic, then the Pacific sides.

Me and my shipmates tracked the course of the Aida over her three week voyage on this thread:

https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...d.php?t=149533

We only had two brief blackouts. The remainder of the journey was easily tracked. It really makes you feel better seeing your cars daily progress!

 

Not completely sure, but I would imagine 2 to 3 days at the VDC and then on to a truck to your desert destination...maybe a week-ish??? Maybe I'm just being optimistic.

 

OK, I think that I could possible be obsessed with this, but I am listing to the live radio from Southampton and they just said that the Medea is about 20 minutes delayed.

 

The Medea has left the Port and our Minis are on the home to all of us!!!!

 

Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I kind of feel like we're heading in to the home stretch - or at least we know we're going to be in the home stretch soon. Boo-ya!!!

 

Has anyone had success using sailwx.info? Every time I enter the ship's call sign-9VHL, I get a message stating 'no position report available'. If you have had success, please let me know how you did it. Even thought I told my hubby I would stop tracking once the ship got under way, I find I am unable to stop. Thanks for any help.

 

It has left port. But at 15 knots I am going to get impatient; just think how the MINIs feel.

The ETA at the Panama Canal port is 10/3 (bumped up a day)

 

I still think the arrival date is the same into Port Hueneme. I think it was great that the Medea left on 9/21 it was originally supposed to leave 9/22. Looks like there is only a handful of us NAMers on the boat. I hope our Clubman is sucking up some high octane drinks on the pleasure cruise through the Caribbean and heading north from the Panama Canal.

We are one step closer with the Medea at sea for us to get our Minis.

 

Luckily the wife and I are taking the day off tomorrow and working from home. So we do not have to worry about what to wear to work. Had a concert tonight at the Hollywood Bowl, wish we had our clubman to drive to the concert. It would have made the concert so much more incredible.

I need to go to sleep, my obsessing is not making the Clubman cruise across the pond any faster.

 

I've seen the MEDEA's call sign as either 9HVL or 9VHL, on a couple of sites, so I'm checking both of those numbers. However, nothing has come up for me on www.sailwx.com.

I did check the Auto Cargo schedule at Wallenius:
http://schedule.2wglobal.com/AppTracking/
and it says that MEDEA will go going through Manzanillo, Panama on 10/4 instead of 10/3, which is a change since yesterday.

I'll check around today and see if any better tracking info turns up.

Sandy
2009 MCCS, SS/BK, premium, and other stuff

 

I lost track of the ship. Is it still trackable?

 

Here is one link to to track the Medea
http://www.vesseltracker.com/en/Ship...a-8016550.html