The final leg of the delivery

[scubaman]

Yes, in Hanko now. Very poor visibility, hope it clears as the winds pick up...

 

[kcrane]

Now north of Gaddfjarden it appears, heading east...

 

[scubaman]

Going faster again. Almost hit a ship a while ago...

 

[DTIM]

Going faster again. Almost hit a ship a while ago...

You dont want to be doing that! it could spoil things. Good luck with the rest of the trip.

 

[Trundlebug]

Looks like he's getting lighter on fuel now, doing 24kn was 22-23

 

[Hardmy]

Going faster again. Almost hit a ship a while ago...

Was ist MS Brahe? I think I've seen her in Savonlinna, in summer 2008.

Interesting history for a "cruise ship", she was built in 1943 for the US Navy!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Brahe
http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/shipdetails.aspx?mmsi=230197000&header=true

 

[scubaman]

Was ist MS Brahe? I think I've seen her in Savonlinna, in summer 2008.

Interesting history for a "cruise ship", she was built in 1943 for the US Navy!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Brahe
http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/shipdetails.aspx?mmsi=230197000&header=true

Indeed she was in savonlinna. That was the ship I nearly hi

 

[Harpsden]

I can see Aida on the ships list, but not on the map, and not in the drop-down list on the search box on the map page ... any pointers on how to find her please?

Cheers
Jimmy

Jimmy

Sorry for the delay in replying but have been out all day. Just got back in to check on progress.

I'm using Chrome as my browser. On the main screen entered Aida in ship's name and and got the drop down list of possible matches. Chose Aida Fi and the map came up centred on her with details of progress. Clicked to turn track on and in business.

This is the latest screenshot I've just taken showing progress, the purple track heading East.
What a great passage Scubaman is going.





Harpsden

 

[Erik C]

24.2 knts 99 degrees, heading for a gap between islands.

 

[z1ppy]

Guess you must have pretty well 20 hours of daylight up there at the moment so no worries about getting in during daylight hours!!

 

[petriexpert]

Nice leg

Very interesting thread to follow here in Finland. It has been very foggy in the evening and tomorrow the wind is rising. Good luck you are almost in Kotka.

 

[vas]

congrats, first leg completed seemingly OK.

I guess AIDA now is part of a dozen or so fleets
so how many miles in total and how many litres of diesel

looking forward to the second installment tomorrow

cheers

V.

 

[scubaman]

Woohoo, twelwe hours at sea and we've made it to Kotka! Everything has worked fine so far.

The fog has been slowing our progress at times but no problems otherwise. Had a few close calls along the way but no contact

Pics are all grey unfortunately...

Now for a steak and a pint!

Thank you for following and for the good wishes!

To be continued

 

[Erik C]

Underway I saw you slow down to below ten knots for quite a while, any special reason?

 

[scubaman]

Covered 194 miles with an average speed of 15 knots. Had to slow down on a couple of occations to go through some tricky parts. It also started raining quite heavily on the last stretches so had to helm from below and put the canopies up. So no problems.

F7 forecasted for tomorrow

 

[Erik C]

F7 forecasted for tomorrow

No problem for us in our armchairs.

 

[jimmy_the_builder]

Very well done! Great to follow your progress online. Enjoy the well-earned steak dinner.

Cheers
Jimmy

 

[AndieMac]

i have found easiest way to track ships on the site is to register for free, go to "my fleet", add vessel and use the MMSI number given (or search for name) and add to fleet. then you can go to fleet list and it will give you position and link onto the map

Thanks for that

 

[scubaman]

A pic from yesterday

Today a lot clearer but quite windy. Plan is to go the border contron at Santio and see what the conditions look like. Wind should turn to north later which would be good for us.

 

[AndieMac]

Today a lot clearer but quite windy. Plan is to go the border contron at Santio and see what the conditions look like. Wind should turn to north later which would be good for us.

I'll check out marine traffic and follow your movements