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Saturday, December 25, 2010 at 11:53AM Dec 25, 2010 1115
The tug America and Kittiwake are 13 miles off the coast of Grand Cayman with an ETA into George Town in 2 hours. (1315)
Look to the NW to see her coming on the horizon, they can see the North West Coast of Grand Cayman now, we can see her now.
Saturday, December 25, 2010 at 10:12AM Day 9, Dec 25, 2010 0840
The tug America and Kittiwake are 30 miles off the coast of Grand Cayman with an ETA into the general area around 1300. They will slow down to retrieve their tow line and make preparations to enter the Port.
They are anticipating arrival to the Port around 1400. West Indian Marine will be taking over at this point, providing direction and meeting the Tug with their pilot boat.
They are in range and picking up VHF radio chatter from Grand Cayman.
At 0900 lat 19 35.4 / long -81 48.8 W
Will post photos of her arrival later- photo team going up in the helicopter at 1:30pm
Friday, December 24, 2010 at 5:55PM Day 8, Dec 24, 2010 1400, Capt's Report
The tug America and Kittiwake are towing well with a good current pushing them. They are averaging 9kt and are currently 175 km from the Port of George Town. This makes the projected ETA around 2:00pm on Dec 25, 2010.
Their current position is:
N 21.01 W 83.540
The seas are coming off the forward beam 4-5 foot
Winds are NE 10 - 15 knots
ETA: 24 hours into Georgetown, Grand Cayman
Thursday, December 23, 2010 at 5:47PM
Day 7, Dec 23, 2010 1100, Capt Report
The Tug America and the Kittiwake are currently about 3 miles North of Cuba at
23 27.6N -83 17.4W.
They are across the gulf stream/straits of Florida and making excellent time with a good current behind them.
They are travelling at 8.5 - 9kn at present and assuming they maintain approximately this speed, they could arrive in George Town, Grand Cayman on Christmas Day, Dec 25.
They are 400 nm from George Town.
Winds are NW 10-15
Sea are 2-3' swells
Wednesday, December 22, 2010 at 10:00PM Day 6, Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 4:57 PM - Report from the Capt.
Frank just sent us wind and weather charts from weather routing, looks great woo hoo. We are excited to get there, we are continuing to run close to 9 knots, there is a bit of weather behind us but we expect to be well ahead of it. Captain Alan says he is fine and wants to stay onboard, so we will have Kyle check him out again in an hour and if he is not looking good we will send him off for help and continue without him.
