At 3:37am this morning the Palembang moored at Ensenada, Mexico about 5 hours behind schedule. As far as we know, the only operations as this port will be to offload yachts.
We’ll
see how long that takes; hopefully they will be underway within 24 hours.
This morning as I sat down to have a couple pieces of toast
and some orange juice, I checked on VesselTracker.com and sure enough, there
was the M/V Palembang just arriving at the Port of Manzanillo, Mexico. As I
watch in real time, the boat maneuvered into its slip arriving just before 8am.
As far as we have been informed, it is to offload some number of yachts and then proceeded to Ensenada, its last stop in Mexico before heading to Victoria.
Fast forward to 11:27pm tonight when I received an automated message from VesselTracker that the Palembang
has left its berth and changed its destination at region Mexico : Old: Manzanillo, New: Ensenada (ETA: Sat Feb 18 19:00:00 CET 2012).
Only 11.5 hours in port, that’s a record for this journey.
My estimate of travel time to Ensenada agrees with what the Palembang has posted on its AIS, so that’s good.