Sorted out...

...for the time beeing :-). And - in France in the midst of THE holiday, the celebration of the national day, 14 of July. We almost don't believe that we got everything arranged and sorted out, ie yacht transport, crane in Port-sur-Saone, rent a car and got the telephone number for a taxi to Velous. This had not been possible without the help from the fantastic tourist officer here in Gray! She helped us to phone all the right people, encouraged us to not give up and did all the talking in French for us! She must have used half her day helping us! Many thanks Claudine!
So - what we are going to do now is that to tomorrow we will conitue upstream Saone for two days to Port-sur-Saone. There we will be met by a truck. The crane in the harbour will lift Circe up on the truck and she will be driven to Travemunde where we will arrive almost at the same time. We will take a taxi to Vesoul and from there we have rented a car that we will drive with to Travemunde.
In Travemunde we will continu our journey after we have put the mast on again and also one of the solar panels that we need to dismantle for the transport.
Yesterday we also met with a family we joined for a day on the river a week ago at a broken lock. They also went back from further north since they got the information that Canal des Vosges will not be reopen for boats that stick more then 1,40 until October. They have more time then us so they will try to make it via a couple of other canals. That will mean more than 100 additional locks for them. Something that was impossible for us to do without approaching our jobs for extension of the holiday which we both felt would be a mission impossible...
Life is really up and down, but you learn a lot and we have met people that we never had met if it wasn't for the closing of the canal. So - bad things usually also brings good things. :-)
We will be back again with photos when we reach Travemunde.