[spn]

Originally Posted by methodtim

Just take a screenshot, open it through mspaint and save that as a jpg.

http://www.wikihow.com/Take-a-Screen...rosoft-Windows

Did you figure out which ship your car is on?

[methodtim]

Originally Posted by spn

Did you figure out which ship your car is on?

Yup!

http://www.e90post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=171916

[sdslayer]

Originally Posted by spn

Where are you getting this info?

aislive

Attached is a photo a few hrs ago, heading into port. Im too lazy to figure out how to strip off the whitespace. This is why I didn't want to prtsc in the first place, Im lazy

[sdslayer]

just now..

[spn]

Originally Posted by sdslayer

aislive

Good job! Not easy to do these days.

[rdsport323]

Originally Posted by spn

Good job! Not easy to do these days.

Wow spn is still around??.. don't tell me you are tracking a new car that you bought?... lucky you!

[spn]

Originally Posted by rdsport323

Wow spn is still around??.. don't tell me you are tracking a new car that you bought?... lucky you!

Hey, rdsport! Good to hear from you! I almost had another car on Hojin (Again! What are the chances!), but it didn't make it in time. My beautiful SL is having transmission failure and it has 10 more days on the lemon clock and that clock will probably run out before they get it fixed. I might have another SL on its way. I have my eye on it in Germany and I am ready to track when they give me the word. (That is the decision I am waiting on and they keep changing their minds). So, I am hanging around in the background and I might be tracking another SL in a couple weeks! That was a fun group we had, though!

This thread just got AIS (amazing), so they are in great shape!

[ILLCOMM]

Originally Posted by spn

Hey, rdsport! My beautiful SL is having transmission failure and it has 10 more days on the lemon clock and that clock will probably run out before they get it fixed.!

what constitutes transmission failure?

[spn]

Originally Posted by ILLCOMM

what constitutes transmission failure?

That is shorthand for it doesn't shift gears and it is a long story. . .

[ILLCOMM]

Originally Posted by spn

That is shorthand for it doesn't shift gears and it is a long story. . .

Sorry about that buddy - must be incredibly frustrating.

[spn]

I don't know if you guys have seen this, but Hojin is stopping in San Diego on Oct 3 to unload Porsches and VWs:

http://www.sdmis.org/schedule/

And, it is stopping in Long Beach, too, to unload Mercedes. So, it will be stopping in all three SoCal ports.

It is still on the schedule for PH on Oct 5.

http://www.portofhueneme.org/documen...0922162359.pdf

[sdslayer]

Schedule for the canal has slipped a day:

M/V Hojin 2000/26/Sep Not booked # 12 AM28th

(1st date is arrival, 2nd is transit)

Aislive lists ETA for the canal as the 27th. Maybe the guys in Traviata will pass us up?


Depending on arrival & departure to SD, I can walk to the bay with my 400mm lens and try to snap some shots.

[spn]

Originally Posted by sdslayer

Depending on arrival & departure to SD, I can walk to the bay with my 400mm lens and try to snap some shots.

Yes, last springtime a couple guys did go down to the port and snap some great photos of their ships. It was on two different ship threads. I will have to dig around the threads to find them. I think one thread might have been Hojin, but I know one of the good vantage points was across the bay from the port where these ships dock. Also, the port does have a web cam.

http://www.sdmis.org/view/24thcam.phtml

Sometimes the ship sits directly in view of the web cam and sometimes it is out of view to the right, but you can see the parking lot where they park the cars as they come off the ship. Actually, today I can see the camera is switching angles automatically. Sometimes it does that and sometimes it is focused on one spot.

Also, I will have to dig around for the link, but there is a great web cam of the entire SD bay (it is mounted on a high-rise building), and with the web cam you can see the entrance of the bay all the way down to where they dock these ships. You can actually change the views of the camera online yourself and follow one of these ships in and out of the bay by moving the camera view up and down the bay. This high-tech stuff is great!

[spn]

Here is the camera of the SD Bay that you can manipulate online.

http://live6.truelook.com/face/newfa.../San+Diego+Bay

[spn]

Originally Posted by sdslayer

Depending on arrival & departure to SD, I can walk to the bay with my 400mm lens and try to snap some shots.

Look at post #184 here:

http://www.e90post.com/forums/showth...t=hojin&page=9

This was Hojin docked in San Diego in April. Great view!

[sdslayer]

Originally Posted by spn

Look at post #184 here:

http://www.e90post.com/forums/showth...t=hojin&page=9

This was Hojin docked in San Diego in April. Great view!

Yeah, I read that whole thread and a bunch of others while my car was at the port. Thanks for all your information!

maybe I could go sailing at get real close..

[ILLCOMM]

Originally Posted by sdslayer

Schedule for the canal has slipped a day:

M/V Hojin 2000/26/Sep Not booked # 12 AM28th

(1st date is arrival, 2nd is transit)

Aislive lists ETA for the canal as the 27th. Maybe the guys in Traviata will pass us up?


Depending on arrival & departure to SD, I can walk to the bay with my 400mm lens and try to snap some shots.

That's annoying!

[methodtim]

Originally Posted by sdslayer

Schedule for the canal has slipped a day:

M/V Hojin 2000/26/Sep Not booked # 12 AM28th

(1st date is arrival, 2nd is transit)

Aislive lists ETA for the canal as the 27th. Maybe the guys in Traviata will pass us up?


Depending on arrival & departure to SD, I can walk to the bay with my 400mm lens and try to snap some shots.

Go, go, Traviata!

[spn]

Originally Posted by sdslayer

Schedule for the canal has slipped a day:

These dates oftentimes change around by a day or so, probably depending on whether in the Atlantic. They usually transit before the transit date listed, though. sdslayer needs to keep an eye on radar, as she could appear on the Atlantic side any day now. Normally, they arrive in the Atlantic anchorage and park in the bay overnight, then they will transit early that next morning. But, of course, that is not always the case. It depends on the traffic in the PanCanal. I have seen ships sit for four or five days in Atlantic Anchorage because something in the canal is broken, or they are doing maintenance, and they are limiting passages. That is rare, though. sdslayer will be extremely helpful as he can see radar and know exactly where Hojin is located throughout the whole PanCanal region.

These ships are so huge that PanCanal pilots board the ship the morning of transit and guide the ship through all 50 miles of the canal. They like to do this in daylight, because the ships take up every inch of lock space and they don't want to damage the ship or locks, so they start very early in the morning, and hopefully, finish before dark. Sometimes the journey gets delayed as they are making the passage and they do end up coming out the Pacific side in the dark.

[spn]

Originally Posted by sdslayer

maybe I could go sailing at get real close..

And maybe shot, too! :-)

[ILLCOMM]

Originally Posted by methodtim

Go, go, Traviata!

nooooooooooooooo!

[ILLCOMM]

Originally Posted by methodtim

Go, go, Traviata!

M/V Hojin 0730/27/Sep Not booked # 11 AM28th
M/V Traviata 1700/27/Sep Not booked # 6 AM29th

Phew. Looks like we still get out first