(minor retcon, landing the whole yacht [so pretty much disregard half of what Adria did and... yeah there's enough crew-seats in the yacht's 'pit])

With clearance granted to depart the starbase, Isaac gently eased the Heavy Hand out of its temporary docking-cradle quickly made for an intercept I orbit around where he believed would get Mutan as quickly to her father's island as physically possible without getting killed (can travel MUCH faster in space).

Arriving about 150 km directly over their destination, Isaac nodded to Adria and they cut the engines. The ship went into freefall and Adria turned-off the grav and inertial-dampers so Isaac could 'feel' how the ship was reacting... the ship was shaking rather violently as the atmosphere grew thicker, and a tiny sense of gravity returned despite being in essentially an express-elevator freefall from space.

At 75 km up, Adria spooled-up the engines again as Isaac checked his surroundings for anything to help get his bearings.

[i]"Land, ho."[/i] Issac bellowed as he spiraled the massive 200-ton interstellar-boat around the Godie family's private island to make a terrific splashdown and cruise up towards a nearby anchorage, where Adria could see people already expecting them.

After landing, Adria set to moving the ship's boat (and the rec-room it contained) topside and fastening it down, where it could be accessed either by a set of stairs through a hole left in the hangar-bay doors, or the ladder affixed just outside the airlock.