We Have Movement
After one delay after another, the Palembang left the Turning Basin Moorage area outside of Galveston, Texas at 2PM EDT today! I have had the website VesselTracker.com up on my computer everyday watching and waiting for the promised departure.
It remains amazing to me that we’ll get a very authoritative sounding update from YachtPath listing when the vessel will move down to the very hour, only to have that time and day come and go without movement or explanation.
No one has been able to explain the breakdown in communication. I have been tempted to call the bridge of the Palembang on their satellite phone many times to try to get the information “from the horse’s mouth”. We found the number on VesselTracker which has all the various ways you can communicate with the ship directly in their listings.
I’ll be curious to see what the next YachtPath update says. Will it reflect what we have witnessed in real-time?