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In the end, you settle on going through the intake. While the prospect of getting stuck in there is ... well, to be frank, it is real fucking terrifying, but after considering your other options, you are now certain that this is the best of the worst.
You slip the schematics back into the tube, and then without giving Horne a second glance, you start to punt yourself out of the cargo bay. On your way out though, it occurs to you that considering just how tight things are going to be in the intake, it would make sense to take what you have right now to the ferry - and maybe pick up some more wraps, on the off chance that this bulkhead pans out as well as you hope. However, if you were to do that, then you would have to decide now specifically what to do with the 'peeled' conduit - not later, when you had a better idea of the total. Or perhaps you could still end up deferring the decision by hiding the 'peeled' conduit somewhere safe - if such a place exists. If you just stash it somewhere, you are taking the risk that someone else finds it and takes it for their own. Even if you spend some time looking for a good spot, you aren't going to be able to completely mitigate away that risk.
The bigger issue that going to the ferry brings up is that there might be other wreckers either offloading onto the ferry or in sight of it. By going there to drop off your modest haul, you could end up leading another chiseller right to your worksite. But what is the alternative? You doubt that it is going to be easy going through that intake just with your suit and your tools hauled behind you - throw in wraps as well, and you might have an even worse time of it. You suppose that you could go to the intake, take a look and make a decision - but the more time you spend flitting around outside of the intake, the greater the odds are you are spotted.
