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  1. 23-10-2009, 03:39 PM #1
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    Help --- The Toscana (with my car) is lost at sea

    I followed it on the tracking sites from Southampton to Le Havre then saw it moor up in the Channel. It then headed south west of France for South Africa then disappeared off the tracking sites

    Any ideas ?


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    I'm pretty sure that Somali Pirate guy's got it by now...
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    Quote Originally Posted by kgbAgent View Post
    I followed it on the tracking sites from Southampton to Le Havre then saw it moor up in the Channel. It then headed south west of France for South Africa then disappeared off the tracking sites

    Any ideas ?
    yep. stop worrying about it. you can't do anything to speed it up .

    it'll drive you nuts!
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  4. 23-10-2009, 04:11 PM #4
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    Quote Originally Posted by Golf Houso View Post
    I'm pretty sure that Somali Pirate guy's got it by now...

    LOL that's what I was thinking...
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    Nah, they look like biscay blue ones on the deck, not icelandic grey...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Swallowtail View Post
    Nah, they look like biscay blue ones on the deck, not icelandic grey...
    Yep ... makes sense to leave the voodoo ugly blues ones exposed on deck


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    Same thing happened with the Otello on the http://aprs.fi tracking site. It's only become visible again in the last day, having stalled between Southampton and Santander for a few weeks. I was off from work with swine flu for a few days and obsessively watched it go from Bremerhaven (?) to Zeebrugge and then Southampton. When there were no updates for a few days I was convinced it had sunk or (of course) been captured by Somali pirates. I could just imagine them driving happily through the streets of Mogadishu in my new wagon, enjoying the heated seats....
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  10. 25-10-2009, 09:22 PM #10
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    The aprs site isn't consistent in its update frequency. I tracked the Glorious Leader recently, and between Africa and Australia, the ship location did not update for over a week. After it reached Australian waters though, it updated almost daily.
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