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[alt_frank]

right.

dorcas and me went to dacorum and talked to linda toulson about losing ten people. tonks and me have been there twice, once to give her a wand and once to pass on a button. linda's a good sort, and we'd talked to her before about funneling people out, so she had a fair idea of what to do.

it'll take a few days to get everyone together, but she's kept a few people in mind since we'd talked last, and has already started some of the paperwork to transfer them out. we'll be able to get them on wednesday, and they can stay with sherwood until the solstice trip.

she figures we can do ten people at a time just this once before things get sticky for her, but she said we might be able to funnel people out one at a time spaced out over the year now that we've got a place they could stay that could feed them. it's worth talking to moxon about too. if we set up a steady stream from two or three camps and take them to France twice a year, we could shift a hundred a year easy. all we'd be limited by are how many aldrich can to take on, and the size of our boat.

and we can always get a bigger boat.

it's something to think about, yeah?

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[alt_justin]

Mr Longbottom,

Pardon me, but what exactly would be involved in obtaining another boat?

Thank you,

-Justin Finch-Fletchley

[alt_frank]

well, depends.

we usually find a boat and try to fix it up best we can. better than building a brand new one. we're by the coast, so it's not too hard to find fishing boats and the like.

vic and danny are both handy with engines, and it takes a lot less time if we use a motor for most of the way, so if it's got an engine that tends to be useful. even if it's just fitted for an outboard motor, we can find one and attach it. elektricity doesn't work too well closer to the wards, so we need oars or a sail for the last bit.

[alt_frank]

we've got the chum bucket, which is a rowboat we use for short-range fishing, the hopeful, which is our smaller motor boat, and the tide turner, which the players helped us build a few years back. the tide turner's a bit bigger, and fits more people, but if we're taking twenty, we'll probably put a dozen or so on the tide turner, and the rest on the hopeful.

[alt_evelyn]

Might we fly up and down the coast a bit and see what we could find?

If we make a flying party out of it, and bring a picnic, I don't think it'd look too suspicious.

[alt_alice]

That might work, love.

There's no immediate rush, but it's a thought for later this summer.

[alt_sirius]

I suspect we'll need some of Davidson's people to help side-along them to the coast. Maybe even for the escape, if you and Danny are skippering the two boats.

If we're going to try for a larger boat, it might be better to find one that's already further down the coast, maybe even maintain it somewhere away from Moddey, under cover somehow. Just in case the island is ever compromised.

[alt_alice]

That sounds like a good plan.

And moving such a large boat to Moddey for repairs without being seen would be difficult.