Hermine acquired a 16 m. long pilot cutter, Atalante, in Groix and Ella fitted it out for their trans-Atlantic journey in Lorient.
"With such a plan so nearly ripe, the humdrum life around us did not matter during the next winter." - 'Gypsy Afloat', Ella Maillart, 1942
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