Claimed sightings of Madeleine McCann

[slartibartfast]

Boats really.  It's a fairly close stop off for a boat to remain for a while.  Not sure whose boat, but a couple have been mentioned.

About 12 days at sea for the sort of boats previously mentioned.

[Eleanor]

About 12 days at sea for the sort of boats previously mentioned.

Would that get them to Malta?

[slartibartfast]

Would that get them to Malta?

Yes.

[Eleanor]

Yes.

Thanks.  It's something I have been mulling over for some time.  But Madeleine could have been taken anywhere after that.

[jassi]

Or maybe never taken out of Portugal.

[Anna]

About 12 days at sea for the sort of boats previously mentioned.

About 1400 miles, I believe(as the crow flies)  It would only take 2 days and 14 hrs by car.
It would be safer for an abductor to go by sea, though and easier to conceal her. Via Gibraltar ?

[Alice Purjorick]

And one set of his "runes" [I think that is what they are called, like special Tarot playing cards, I think] with every card it pointed to Malta or Gozo.

I didn't understand it until I had already identified Malta and especially Gozo as where I thiought thta she was  .... and her abductor.   Then after in-depth reading about Malta / Gozo, the cards fell into place.  I suddenly understood them.


Other runes also mean things to me, but I cant disclose them as they "confirm" the perp and backing group.

I aint about to expose them.

A bit Scandawegian are they. Usually stones.
See also Queequeg in Moby Dick. He cast the runes that showed his death.

[Alice Purjorick]

Or maybe never taken out of Portugal.

Which would seem more likely.

[slartibartfast]

Thanks.  It's something I have been mulling over for some time.  But Madeleine could have been taken anywhere after that.

Though 12 days on the open sea with no place to hide if anyone looked at that possibility is incredibly risky.

[mercury]

Though 12 days on the open sea with no place to hide if anyone looked at that possibility is incredibly risky.

Gerry tells us the abductor had a " high risk strategy" , so high risk abduction / time, high risk escape, high risk taken in parading the world's most sought after child splashed all over the media worldwide, through banks, airports, petrol stations, sitting in cafes waiting to be spotted,...as lucky as the scarlet pimpernel it seems

[Eleanor]

Though 12 days on the open sea with no place to hide if anyone looked at that possibility is incredibly risky.

Well, they couldn't use conventional transport, and they could have hidden her on a boat.

[slartibartfast]

Well, they couldn't use conventional transport, and they could have hidden her on a boat.

Doesn't add up to me. Not easy to hide a little girl on a small sailing boat.

[Eleanor]

Doesn't add up to me. Not easy to hide a little girl on a small sailing boat.

It is if she doesn't have much say in the matter.  I've sailed a few small yachts and i can think of a couple of places if no one is really searching the boat.

[John]

For me boats are far too unpredictable and most certainly extremely weather dependent.  If Madeleine was abducted more likely she was whisked away in a motor vehicle imo.  By the time the police got involved she could have been hundreds of miles away in another country.

[Anna]

I think a small boat would only be used to transport her to a larger vessel. Maybe moored in Lagos or Gibraltar.

The move would be from there.

Check out the boats that were in and out of Lagos to Gibraltar.

http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/BOATS.htm