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The Cursed Ship - Chapter 10

Published at 3rd of August 2022 07:01:47 AM


Chapter 10

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After completing the second transformation of the spirit boat, Zheng Yang lowered the anchor, walked from the bow to the stern, and looked at his new boat.

Look at the information of the spirit ship:

"basic information:

hull: first level spirit ship

status: complete

seal: scale beetle (larva)

Power Core: Moonlight shell

power reserve: 3100

basic speed: 10 knots

attack bonus: 5%

defense bonus: 5%

power bonus: 5%

..."

Equipment information:

main drive: Ball sail, single mast triangular sail

auxiliary drive: manual

bow image: scale beetle

bow skill: none

remarks: omitted "

After the second transformation, it was only eight o'clock. I didn't have dinner yet. I just tried to cook on board.

In terms of lighting, there was only one flashlight, which had to save electricity. On the full moon night, it was as bright as day. Zheng Yang took out a small firewood stove and various utensils from under the deck, and began to cook at the stern of the ship - fish, Chinese cabbage and corn.

This night, Zheng Yang hit the floor to sleep that call a comfortable, did not enter the ghost ship strange dream. The boat swayed gently, as if lying in a cradle.

After waking up in the morning, Zheng Yang found that he had been sleeping beside the front door and was already sleeping at the door of the washroom at the back door.

"The last heavy rain was very thorough. The weather is good these days. It's windy and sunny. It's suitable for going to sea!"

Zheng Yang stood on the bow deck for a while and then set sail decisively. Little Zheng Yang grew up on a small island. With his memory, Zheng Yang naturally knows how to predict the weather on the sea. As long as he doesn't encounter a small pressure cell that can change easily, the accuracy rate is almost 10%.

Unfortunately, against the wind, Zheng Yang needed to change his direction every time he walked, deviated from the positive direction by 45 degrees, and made a zigzag progress. However, in terms of speed alone, even with the existence of the front sail, this kind of dhow can run faster in the upwind than in the downwind.

Zheng Yangqing was lucky to have seen the principle of the dhow in his last life, which used the "Bernoulli effect".

The simple explanation is that when the wind blows from the front to the upwind, turn the sailboat to an angle of 45 degrees to slant forward. At this time, when the sea wind blows on the surface of the triangular sail, it will have the same effect as the wing of the aircraft because of the slant angle. The wind force is divided into two forces: lateral pushing and longitudinal advancing. Because the longitudinal section of the sailboat in the sea (from the bow to the stern with the stabilizer plate) is much larger than the maximum cross section (taking Zheng Yang's Lingchuan as an example, the maximum width is only 2.5 meters), the resistance of the sailboat in the sea is also much greater than that in the longitudinal direction. Therefore, under the action of the two forces decomposed by the sea breeze, instead of being pushed horizontally and obliquely to the rear, the sailboat will glide forward.

Because the speed of a sailboat is related to the pressure exerted on the sails, that is, to the size of the wind eating area, even if the wind speed is less than 3 meters per second, the speed of a triangular sailboat with a huge sail surface can exceed the wind speed, and it can run faster than the wind. But when the wind is downwind, even if the sail is raised, it will not be faster than the wind

In other words, Zheng Yang did not have satellite positioning when he crossed the sea. The compass and an old chart were his means of navigation.

This chart is also from the old Hans to, and seriously consult the use of the method. Even if today's fishing boats are generally equipped with satellite positioning systems, what if the equipment breaks down one day? So fishermen usually keep a chart and compass for use.

Zheng Yang didn't expect to reach yingjili harbor accurately on his first voyage. He set a small goal first, and even if he saw the coastline alive, he would succeed.

Soon after leaving the wreck, I saw the figure of a small fishing boat on the sea in the distance. Zheng Yang took a look through the telescope in front of his chest, ignored it, set the course, let the boat glide with the wind, and went back to wash and cook.

In addition to the sound of the sea breeze stirring the sails, the sailing boat is very quiet, without the roar of diesel engines and engines, gliding quietly and gracefully on the sea.

Zheng Yang likes this feeling very much, and he doesn't have such a strong idea about installing the engine. After dinner, he even climbed onto the roof of the cabin and lay on it to enjoy the sea view. Although he was tired of seeing the vast sea in his memory, it was different to see the sea on his own boat.

The huge sails cast a large shadow area. Zheng Yang was lying in the shadow area, listening to the clattering sound of the breaking waves at the bow of the boat. He could feel the fish swimming in the 6-meter radius underwater through the spirit boat, which was very pleasant.

After two major transformations, the rudder and several sail control cable trays of this sailing boat are on the bow deck. When it is necessary to adjust the direction, Zheng Yang doesn't go down to turn the rudder, and directly consumes 1 point of power to control the spirit boat to complete automatically. Anyway, the power reserve at this time is 100 points.

"If only there were no so-called curse and evil!"

"When you get to the harbor city, you need to find a way to collect knowledge about mysticism and find some ways to deal with evil and strange things. It's better to get a few holy things, and to find information about the upgrade of spirit ship evolution. "

Thinking of this, Zheng Yang got up, went back to the cabin, opened one of the decks, and took out a box of books from below to find out whether there was any information about mysticism.In fact, this box of books has already been thoroughly read by Zheng Yang. There are astronomy, geography, history, mathematics, chemistry, biology and medicine in it, but these are only basic books for teaching. Little Zheng Yang's father bought them in the harbor these years to broaden his knowledge. There are only three or five books in each subject.

In addition to these, some travel novels collected by his father over the years have long been read by Zheng Yang.

So before long, Zheng Yang gave up the idea of finding mystical information from these books. The only ancient travel book that records the information about the spirit boat is useless. In order to avoid people associating their boat with the spirit boat, Zheng Yang burned it as firewood when he made breakfast.

Along the zigzag route, the sailboat was heading eastward, with less wind and no speed. Zheng Yang estimated that there would be about four knots, because the zigzag route converted to a straight-line speed of less than three knots.

The whole journey was very quiet. It took eight hours to sail like this. At two o'clock at noon, the wind direction changed quietly and the wind increased significantly. But for Zheng Yang's mental state of "the unity of man and ship", he estimated that he would soon go astray.

The sea breeze turned to blow from the left rear side. Zheng Yang quickly adjusted the direction according to the chart and compass, raised the sail and sailed in a straight line. The forward speed of the spirit boat was twice as fast as that of an arrow.

Basically maintained the speed of more than 8 knots, and advanced for another two hours, the total journey has been more than half. Zheng Yang looks at the electronic watch. It's past four o'clock in the afternoon.

Zheng Yang observed the weather for a while and predicted that the sea breeze would be stronger in the evening. But by then, I'm not far from the coastline.

Thanks to the normal weather, Zheng Yang's first voyage across the sea has been very smooth so far. He feels that he has learned from old Hans the skills of using compass and chart to grasp the direction of navigation. He has integrated theory with practice, and his sailing skills have become as proficient as cheating because of his subtle control of the spirit boat.

After going on for half an hour, Zheng Yang was looking at the sea ahead with his telescope. He saw a small double deck yacht standing still about two nautical miles away, and someone was moving on the deck. Comparing the size, we can see that the length of the yacht is about 10 meters.

"It seems that they are really close to their destination. Are these people planning to go deep sea night fishing? This point is still here. "

In front of the yacht, several young people are struggling to wait for rescue, some people are still making satellite phone calls. Some people saw the approaching sailboat with sharp eyes. They yelled excitedly and kept waving to the sailboat.

"They seem very happy, saying hello to me. It's really nice to meet another ship on the vast sea

Zheng Yang thought so, because he was also very happy, so he adjusted the direction and drove the sailboat to the yacht, like a big fish approaching silently.

Without mechanical power, this kind of deceleration and parking near the target is a test of driving skills. We must fully grasp the inertia and make accurate prediction. Ten minutes later, Zheng Yang collected the ball and slowed down the sails. Fifteen minutes later, the distance between Zheng Yang and the yacht was within 100 meters, so Zheng Yang lowered the triangular sails and continued to slide with inertia.

Finally heard the cry on the yacht, Zheng Yang was surprised that they were asking for help.

This is a small double deck yacht, which can take less than ten people. There is only a sunshade on the second floor.

Zheng Yang's prediction was not very accurate. The sailboat glided four meters away from the yacht and stopped moving nearly ten meters ahead, which caused another shout on the yacht.

It's embarrassing.

Zheng Yang ran to the stern of the boat and waved first in response. See opposite quiet down, then said: "what's your situation?"

There were seven people on the yacht, three men and four women, all in their twenties. They were all dressed in casual and cool clothes. Men's beach pants and short sleeve shirts or T-shirts, women's long skirts and short skirt hot pants, and even a bikini.

Looking at the four beautiful young girls, Zheng Yang's heart is hot.

Any club model is more desirable than having a big boat of its own and taking a few beauties to sea!

Wild waves, wild waves, wild waves

Over there, all the people on the yacht looked at each other. One of the black guys exaggerated: "Hey, brother, please don't tell me you're driving this yacht alone!"

What a surprise. Just now I saw Zheng Yang busy working in the bow of the ship. I thought he was cooperating with the captain. Now when I saw Zheng Yang running from the front to the back to respond, it was clear that there was no one else in the cabin. They were surprised that Zheng Yang was the only one on the boat.

It's obviously just a young boy, how many years younger than them, sailing alone?

God, you're kidding me!

Others are still looking into the cabin of the sailboat. I can't believe it.

"Don't look, I'm alone!" Zheng Yang said, holding a pillar supporting the awning on the stern side of the ship.

"Oh, my God, it's amazing!"

The hot pants girl is petite and the youngest in the group. She is about sixteen or seventeen years old. She is very delicate and beautiful. At this time, she held her head in both hands and looked at Zheng Yang with her big blue eyes. She was shocked.The tall and beautiful girl in the gorgeous beach dress clapped her hands to attract everyone's attention and said, "I said, ladies and gentlemen, we should discuss how to go back now, instead of exclaiming here God, we're drifting. Do something, entes? "




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