You are on a voyage from New York, NY, to San Francisco, CA. The distance from pilot to pilot is 5132 miles. The speed of advance is 13.5 knots. You estimate 32 hours for bunkering at Colon, and 14 hours for the Panama Canal transit. If you take departure at 0600 hours (ZD +4), 16 May, what is your ETA (ZD +7) at San Francisco?

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Option B: 2109, 2 June. Calculate total steaming time by dividing distance by speed. Add the 32-hour bunkering and 14-hour transit delays. Convert the total elapsed time to the destination time zone (ZD +7). Adding this duration to the departure time of 0600 on 16 May results in an ETA of 2109 on 2 June.