dadams1598

Certainly they can shovel some more coal into the burners!!

LAGinz

Looks like the crew is celebrating Thanksgiving hanging outside entrance to Panama Canal😄

dadams1598

Looks like ship is doing doughnuts waiting for call to enter canal.

LAGinz

On it's way through the canal! For those of you guys who have never seen the Panama Canal, you should go down there and check it out some time. A truly amazing and fascinating engineering feat.

bronson7

Been there, it's quite amazing. Sad to think about all the people that died building it, it's a shame. Engineering feat it truly is.

jlanka

Nice.

bronson7

lonj

The last update of the Green Dale status showed next destination as US SAN, however it also showed arrival date as 12/7, two days later that original plan. The original plan must not have taken into consideration the near 24 hour layover in San Juan and a similar layover before going through the Panama Canal.

Porsche-Suchtig

Bummer. I wonder if they can make up any time on the way? (FWIW, I don't know jack about boats... so that may be a really dumb question.)

CodeRed

Given the ship lands in san diego, then the cars have to be off loaded, then trucked in an enclosed trailer 250 miles up to LA...what is a realistic date at this point, for delivery?

Porsche-Suchtig

In my experience the biggest issue isn't the distance (I'm only 25 miles away from the port) but how long it takes to process the cars at port and how long they have to wait for the enclosed trailer(s). Last year I had the longest wait I've had to date as it took two weeks to get an enclosed trailer to pick up my turbo. The problem was that the car arrived in mid-December and by the time the cars were processed a lot of people were on vacation. I'm hopeful that the first 7 days of Dec have better availability.

lonj

The green dale is off shore of southern Mexico and has made up some schedule see status below. ETA now noon on the 6th.

GREEN DALE AIS Data
Last report: In range Dec 02, 2014 14:12 UTC
Ship type: Vehicles Carrier
Flag: Flag of Marshall Islands Marshall Islands
Destination: PA CTB>>US SAN
ETA: Dec 06, 20:00
IMO number: 9181376
MMSI: 538005236
Callsign V7CB9
Lat/Lon: 16.30921 N / 99.96491 W
Course/Speed: 296.5 ° / 15.8 kn.
Current draught: 8.3 m

LAGinz

Woohoo!!

jcoles

Nice. Went by dealership today and the manager felt good about 12/5 being the day. Regardless, our wait is almost over.

Porsche-Suchtig

Did the dealer say when he thought the car might arrive at his dealership?