I take it this never materialized.

My sailboat made it but we were intercepted by some eco team pretending to stalk japanese fishermen poaching using a research vessel disguise and had us try to take their transponder and fool the Japanese vessel into following us not them.

You won't be met by the military in uniform if you try to reach it, it will be an ever ascending set of excuses and circumstances that conveniently pop up once you get to certain points.

We really need more boats.