Trip to Europe (and back) begins
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Here's Musetta's 0700 EDT position. They're headed to Marsh Harbour, planning to arrive Sunday or Monday.
So y'all should check if Elon Musk has a rocket ship coming back right now. Pretty sure it landed just off my starboard. The barg, Doug, and tow boat, Marmac 302, are about 3nm off to starboard. Will see how close they get, I'll try to get a photo when they are as close as possible. AIS is predicting about 1.3nm CPA. But it's notoriously inaccurate. They could also change course. Fun!
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Yes Indeed! The tug has SpaceEx written across it's boom on the back. They just went around our stern. Still pretty far away for photos but here's what I got.
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Ship landed last night. I was just talking with the ships engineer on Doug. Indeed it is SpaceEx, and they landed rather close to us last night, although too far away to see the landing or we weren't watching, dunno... But very cool!
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That is really cool. The company I work for makes the parachutes that bring the nose cone fairings back down. They land in the ocean and those ships pick them up.
www.mmist.ca
Space Recovery
Talking to the engineer on board was really cool. I was nervous at first thinking they are probably pretty busy. But he took the time - it was a very nice conversation. The tug has a hug crane on it - I'm sure what picks up the nose cone and likely does all the arranging in the barg. Amazing set-up!That is really cool. The company I work for makes the parachutes that bring the nose cone fairings back down. They land in the ocean and those ships pick them up.
Space Recovery
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p.s. this is the ship i talked to. https://space-offshore.com/doug/
The boats are named Bob and Doug 
Bob and Doug McKenzie had a skit on Second City TV. They were supposed to be the stereotypical Canadians.
Bob and Doug McKenzie had a skit on Second City TV. They were supposed to be the stereotypical Canadians.
Two SpaceX devices landed this week.
One with the Astronauts from the Space Station.
The other was the booster from this Beast , Landed in Gulf of Mexico.
Jim...
One with the Astronauts from the Space Station.
The other was the booster from this Beast , Landed in Gulf of Mexico.
Jim...
I don't know if you can call hitting the water at 600mph "landing in the gulf" but it was pretty spectacular to watch launch 3.
When flying becomes possible I may try that...
The South Man-O-War entrance was said to be the easiest to enter. It's a calm day so it didn't have breaking waves upon entering, which apparently it's known for. Easy entrance. But I still get nervous with "reefs to the left of me, rocks to the right, here i am, stick in the middle of the channel...."...sorry a sing is dancing through my head...
We are now anchored - let me pull up my coordinates:
26 33.331 N
077 03.304 W
Certainly not as a first run through. Looks like with local knowledge it could be doable most of the time. Bet it can get pretty feisty with breaking waves though.
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