My baby is on there too

 

I Don't know what is going on with the tracking. The marinetraffic.com site appears to be the best of the two. Sailwx.info had the early morning position which may have been from enhanced propagation in the early morning hours over the water. After the reports ended at 11:33 UTC the guys at work they were telling me the ship sank! Thanks guys. The system both use is based on VHF radio. MarineTraffic started to show it at the mouth of the bay around 5:30 EDT. Anyway the trip is nearing an end. Anyway by morning the ship will be at the dock. With any luck there is a truck waiting to pick them up. Not sure if mine will make Cincinnati by the weekend but at least by early next week I should have it.

Mike

 

Good news indeed...bon voyage



-Steven

 

Great news guys! So happy to read the kids are making the journey across the pond

 

It is great news, after sitting at the port for eleven days. This morning shows me going from "booked" to "loaded" on the ship. Looks like this is finally happening


-Steven

 

So go back to the web site. Click on the red number and it will bring up another screen that shows the spec of the ship. In the lower left hand corner is a "MAP/ LIST" If you click on the list is will show the complete schedule of the voyage..

 

Yup, got it! Thank you

Sailing past the Isle Of Wight at 7:33...

-Steven

 

My ship (TAIKO) docked in Baltimore sometime before dawn this morning. The ship has left port mid day so my Mini is now in the USA. My MA is out of the office on Wednesday but by Thursday she may have information if it is on a truck heading this way. My guess is I will have it a week from today.

Mike

 

Ahoy, shipmate. Just checked, and looks like Tomar is about halfway across the Atlantic. I'm going to go crazy waiting for my Roadster to show up.

 

Sweet, always better to travel with company.. I havent been tracking since it hasnt updated in awhile. How are you able to get information?

Alan

 

This link should work for you:

http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/def...ate=lastknown#

 

Nice! I am such a dork. Thanks

 

Thanks Coldstream, that is a very cool site. Here is the Tamesis headed our way Thanks again!




-Steven

 

Anymore updates on the Tamesis????? I can't seem to find any - our "kids" ship is either having too good of a time to check in or it has "sank"

MsBrit

 

The tracking system on both the marinetraffic and sailWX.info site are the same. They use VHF radio to send the GPS data to ground based receivers along the coast. Once the ship is beyond the radio horizon you won't get any tracking data until it gets to the other side. I had better luck with the MarineTraffic website. I set the map to the destination area then watched for the ship to show up. It took a week but one morning I spotted the ship still well out to sea. Being VHF there is some early morning propagation enhancement that allowed one of the coastal receivers to pick them up over 100 miles out. Later that morning the ship disappeared as the propagation vanished before showing up again late afternoon closer to shore.

My Mini is now on a truck somewhere between Baltimore and Cincinnati.

Mike

 

^ What he said....thanks Telegraph We'll start looking again on or around the 26th, when the Tamesis is expected in Baltimore.


-Steven

 

The tracking system must have changed as I was able to pinpoint my previous four MINI's ship every day - the printouts are in their "baby book"-

MsBrit

 

I wish that were still possible, it would be very cool. Not to mention giving us something to do while we wait


-Steven

 

Looks like we will have a lot of new Roadsters hitting American soil shortly!

 

I thought SailWX.info used a satellite based communication system but looking at the technical specs it appears they are using AIS the same as marinetraffic.com

http://sailwx.info/info/aisinformation.html

 

Received an email from my MA this morning. She expects the truck to arrive Monday. The long journey is almost over.

Mike

 

With any luck, Tomar will be showing up on the tracker again soon. Looks like it's heading through the Panama Canal on 4/24 at 6pm, and is expected at Port Hueneme on 5/2.

This thread is going to be great during the wait:

https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...-7-2012-a.html

 

Still nothing yet. I figured the canal is surrounded by land and with it being less than 36 hours from going through, the elusive TOMAR would reappear.

Alan

 

Unfortunately for us, it turns out that Tomar is in fact a submarine auto-transporter, and will only appear on radar once it resurfaces off the coast of California.

 

Doh!