We Arrive, We Depart Manzanillo

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.