I like it when a plan comes together! I think you're right that we could have the best of both worlds! I'll send you a PM with my contact details.
Rowana is a Macwester Rowan 8 meter. I bought her about 3 years ago on the Clyde and sailed her home to Peterhead via the Crinan & Cale canals. I did have someone else as crew on that trip. There is a bit of a story attached to her, which I'll tell you sometime.
Here's a photo taken this year in Helmsdale -
There's a few of us in Peterhead that club together for the hire of a crane to get us back into the water, so it's usually a date sometime in April/May that suits everybody.
Are you not frightned you get hijacked in Nigeria? I was in Lagos many years ago when I was in the Merchant Navy. Not a place I'd ever want to go back to !