Ok, I officially need help!!

Minibird was loaded today (6/19/07) onto the Undine. Then, as crazy as it sounds, the Undine departed the Southampton, UK dock bound for NY an hour later. Minibird is on his way to, oddly enough, Southampton, NY at Mini of the Hamptons.

I know it's hard to beleive, but I've provided pictures depicting the entire unbelievable story below. First you see a live webcam shot of the "Undine" docked in Southampton getting loaded with my mini this afternoon. Then, there is a shot of the tracking info as updated on the W&W shipping site, showing Minibird as onboard the Undine just a few minutes later. Then, miraculously, a picture of the same dock, EMPTY. THEN, via radar, you can see the Undine traveling down the channel toward the sea.... I know, I know, I too found it hard to believe, unless I saw it all with my own eyes I would not have believed it either.

If I am mistaken, please let me know, but as far as I can tell, it's a miracle!!!!! See for yourself:

Here is the Undine at the dock today:


Here is the ship tracking site saying Minibird is now loaded on Undine:


Now, here is the dock EMPTY tonight, just a few hours later:


Then, some radar of Minibird traveling down the channel in the Undine:

 

wowow....that's a lot of tracking! you got it bad , glad i know someone worse than me ...

 

I'm speechless!!!!!

 

The Undine is a fine ship. She brought my mini into port on May 26th. And I picked her up on June 4th.

 

That will be a nice record to have for your cars history book.

 

Good job Birdman! I'm like you. I watched cameras, checked tracking, etc. You'll treasure having these for your "scrap book" or should I say Minibird's "baby book"?

Jake was not on a WW ship so there were a lot less options for catching glimpses of the journey.

This doesn't apply to east coast folks, but the cameras at the Panama Canal are amazing. Was able to see the Auto Banner cross with my MINI.

Hang in there. Minibird is almost home!

 

Wow! Very detailed information, and tracking. Good for you.

Start the MINI baby book

 

Great Job Birdman! I'm (almost) as happy as you to see that ship work its way down the Channel!

Any updates on the radar of callsign "SHJC" (That is the Undine, is it not)? I checked, but the latest update was from over a week ago (June 8, I think)...

 

The question is, should I check myself in somewhere?? ;-)

No updates on wx tracking yet. I don't think they turn on the WX tracking stuff until they are well offshore. hopefully sometime today it will start "pinging" weather data. Hope it's nice and calm out there.

If anyone is interested, I'll be taking my boat out about 30 miles off of Long Island (to the shipping channel) next week to watch the Undine "motor" by with Minibird!!

 

Reminds me of Eddie Izzard's bit about the pilgrims landing at Plymouth Rock.

"This is Plymouth?! But we've just come from Plymouth!"

 

http://www.sailwx.info/shiptrack/shi...html?call=SHJC

She's moving right along, 10% across, or is it, ONLY 90% left???

Dan,
Glad to see the Undine has a "mini hospitable" past!!

 

You need help alright, but not a kind I can give you. :impatient

Man, I'm glad I wasn't all computer savvy and obsessed when I was waiting for my MINI. I put in my order and waited. Stopped by the dealer every now and then to visit the cars and chat with my MA.

 

2 days down, 7 to go!!!! Moving right along. Water temp = 18.3c, wind = 35 knots out of the North-West.

http://www.sailwx.info/shiptrack/shi...html?call=SHJC

 

2 and 1/2 days down, 6 1/2 to go!!!

http://www.sailwx.info/shiptrack/shi...html?call=SHJC

But who's counting!!!

 

Go Minibird, GOOOOO!!!!!

 

hang in there....

 

Dare I say it, Birdman: we're 1/3 of the way across the pond!

I'll be honest, I'm surprised I beat you to the punch!

 

WOW, I am slipping!!! I had better get on on it, I'm barely paying attention!!!!

T minus 6 days!!! 3 down, 6 to go.

Just about 1/2 way across now!!!
http://www.sailwx.info/shiptrack/shi...html?call=SHJC

But really, WHO's counting????

 

3.5 down, 3.5 to go!

I've never been so excited at the sight of a little line of red dots.

I think the wait gets touger in a few days - once our bairns are offloaded into the abyss of our respective VDC's

Have you received any changes to your "expected delivery date"? Or any type of indication of when to expect delivery?

 

Nope. Last I checked the online ask mini thing(a day or two ago), it still said "In production" or somethng like that....

You meant 5.5 to go!!! ;-)

And, for those interested, the Undine is averaging 17.6 miles per hour. The water temperature is a nice warm 68 degree's, which is perfect for Tuna. I should have told Minibird to bring along some trolling gear, there are probably some nice Yellowfin tuna aroudn the boat!!

 

Actually I'm being dropped off in Halifax, which gets into port on Tuesday!!

Thats interesting, because I think the drive to NY is shorter than the Halifax. I guess its a wash with the extra 1 or 2 days it takes to get to NY from halifax by boat, plus any delays I would run into at customs, etc.

 

Oh that's right, gotcha. The car might have to be delivered in the country it will be sold/deliveried. I image it will be "inspected" at the VDC to be sure it meets all the standards for that particular county (Canada). ;-)

 

Reading the threads about Prod Week, Setting Sail, and Tracking makes me smile and giggle every time. Y'all are too cute.

 

You think that's cute? You should see me with my shirt off - that's a new level of cute: "pilsbury doughboy" cute...

 

My wife's not findng "cute", the constant question being mumbled "Where's my mini?", OR the hours I spend stairing at the screen of the Undine tracking site waiting for an update!

My wife will probably be the only person on the planet happier than me, when my car comes in. ;-)