I can see the ship from my bedroom window (if I stand on tip toes) and they’ve moved it from the Brambles Bank to a holding mooring just off Osbourne Bay. It’s still on its side, same angle, and now bow onto wind so not a great deal of movement. When it sat on the bank it was stationary, now it’s in deeper water and floating.
Reports down here suggest all the vehicles (JCB excepted) are chained down by 10 straps per car, 1/2ltr of fuel in each for embarking/disembarking and that’s it. All vehicles have those foam casings on (just like you see on the huge transporters) so they’re packed well and shouldn’t be damaged.
If you go to Dock Gate 4’where all the vehicles are loaded you can see them all covered in foam bumpers/bonnet covers/wing covers and those discs covering the wheels.
This suggests the vehicles, certainly the cars, will be fine. The busses and JCB’s and generators who knows, but they’re not loaded on the same floors as the cars.
It’s quite surreal, we went over to Calshot to take a peek and was surprised just how many other folks were there too, crowds of people, more than you get in the summer months. Now it’s moved its easier to see side on and still quite odd..