Friday, June 3: I’ve been watching the websites that show our ship’s position, as well as watching the Port Everglades schedule. I’m obsessed with watching. We sent our vessel specifics to our Loadmaster, and let him know where Island Girl currently sits, since she is at least 1.5 hours travel time away from the Port. That way if anything changes, he knows that we need at least two hours notice.
Our ship has left Savannah and is on her way to Port Everglades. YAY! But things are a bit inconsistent now. Boo! Port Everglades shows her arriving on 6/4 Saturday (TOMORROW!) at 20:00.
However, the ship’s AIS shows an ETA for Port Everglades at Monday, June 6 at 06:00. Uh oh? 🥴 We’re supposed to load on June 5? Let’s hope that the ship just hasn’t updated their AIS plan, since that was the old date? I hope? It’s just over 400 miles. At 12 knots, it’ll take 34+ hours. She could be there by midnight tomorrow night at that speed. I guess we’ll see what happens!
Most of the rain from the storm is in South Florida, so it would not be impacting travel today. And it’s mostly just rain – not significant wind on land…. but maybe not great on the ocean! The storm is moving to the northeast, so the ship will encounter some uglies, for sure!
Oh dear. I just have to stop looking, but I can’t! Our ship is now at anchor in the Savannah Anchorage. (3:00pm Friday). 😩 i don’t know what that means. We haven’t received anything new, and the P.E. schedule hasn’t changed. 🤷♀️ This is what it is like, watching and waiting, and no control.
5:00pm on Friday…… P.E.’s schedule has now changed and is the same as the ship’s AIS….. saying it’s ETA is now 6/6/22 at 0600. We haven’t received an official revision, but I went ahead and cancelled our Tuesday flight while we were still within the 24 hour full refund window. Drat! 🫣
An official e-mail arrived about 5:30.
And there we are. THIS says she’ll arrive in Port Everglades on Sunday 6/5, which is not what the ship or P.E. says. All we can do is wait…. and watch airfares go up for our return flight to Washington.
Well, in the meantime, I did make a reservation for the marina in Victoria BC. Since the ship was originally (who knows, now) scheduled to arrive on Saturday June 25, I wanted to make sure we have a spot reserved on the weekend. We can adjust it later, but at least we have a spot held for us for three nights. Let’s hope this doesn’t delay the arrival into the following weekend – July 1 – which is Canada Day. We’d never get a slip anywhere in B.C. on that weekend!!
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Saturday June 4… No movement of the ship. My hawk-eyes have been watching all the websites, and nothing.
By evening, we could see on the weather radar that most of the storm had moved to the east of Florida, and that the Fort Lauderdale airport received over 9” of rain over a 36 hour period. YIKES! That’s a lot of rain. I hope Island Girl is still floating!!
We received an e-mail update around 6:00pm that said our ship’s ETA was Monday June 6, PM. huh? 🤔 The ship and the Port have both been saying Monday June 6, at 0600, with is the MORNING. 🤨
Finally, around 9:00 this evening, the ship pulled anchor and was moving! YAY! The ship still says it’s ETA is 6/6 at 0600. That’s a lot of sixes….
Here is what I am hoping. The previous schedule, before the storm so rudely interrupted us, had the ship arriving at the port at 20:00 on Saturday 6/4. I figure they weren’t going to load any yachts after 8:00 in the evening of the ship’s arrival. We were scheduled to load at 18:30 on Sunday 6/5 – which was essentially day ONE, right? So now, the ship’s arrival is scheduled at 06:00 on Monday 6/6. That is day ONE. So maybe, just maybe, we’ll still get scheduled to load in the evening of day ONE? 🤷♀️ Kenny says I’m dreaming, fat chance. A girl can hope, right?