47 Embarkation
As principal dancer, Amy rehearses four performances in a performance section, three at night and one during the day. According to her request, the daytime performance at the end of the schedule is always scheduled at the end of the schedule.
After the show, and with a beautiful massage and hot bath, Amy returned to her apartment on Riverside Street to begin her nearly week-and-a-half-week vacation when she received a call from Lin Yilong.
Lin Yilong didn't say much, just said that he wanted to get a yacht with Amy to cruise the Irish Sea, and let her come to Cardiff to board the ship.
Amy didn't hesitate too much and soon headed to Paddington Station, arriving at Cardiff Central Station at about half past ten in the evening.
"To Port Cardiff!" Amy told the driver as she stepped into a taxi in front of the train station.
"What are you doing in Cardiff Harbour?" the driver asked with concern. Unlike a harbour, the port facilities do not allow access to other unrelated persons.
In addition, the port follows the opening hours of the locks, which usually means that there is no one there in the middle of the night, and the Welshman can't help but worry a little about the safety of the beautiful Asian girl in front of him.
"My boyfriend asked me to go there to see the stars. Amy said.
That being said, it wasn't a great time to "stargaze" by the sea, even though it was magically rainless.
Seeing that he could not convince the girl, the driver then started the car and approached the side of Cardiff Bay.
It should be said that although it is a very sheltered bay, Cardiff Bay is not an ideal port of loading due to the Taffe River, and most of the cargo passing through Cardiff generally goes to the dedicated cargo terminal in Cardiff Bay - which is certainly not Amy's destination.
Amy's destination is a nautical club outside the locks, very close to the marina.
At the entrance, the driver reminds Amy to get out of the car.
Having paid her £24 fare, Amy walked to the Sailing Club near the marina, and even though she was far away, she saw a huge yacht with a swarthy appearance, and probably knew her destination.
The dock of the Sailing Club was unmanned, only a porter who doubled as a security guard for the club and an electronic iron gate separated from the street, and Amy called Lin Yilong to ask him to come out and pick her up.
Someone did open the door for her, but the person who came was not Lin Yilong, she had already seen it, and her name was called Katie's "old woman".
The two didn't even greet each other after they met, they just looked at each other, and acted tacitly after confirming each other's identities with their eyes.
Following Katie, Amy finally knew what Lin Yilong meant by "little yacht".
What a spectacular yacht it was, Amy thought it was only slightly larger than a small sailing yacht, but she didn't expect the yacht in front of her to be 108 meters long and about 6 stories high - no, maybe not a yacht, it would be more accurate to call it a cruise ship or a large passenger boat.
The beach balcony at the back of the yacht then opens to let in the light.
Katie walked to the beach balcony, took off her shoes, and walked barefoot on the gangway connecting the yacht to the marina.
Amy, who did as the locals did, flipped over the beach balcony and slowly closed.
Lin Yilong was waiting for Amy at the entrance.
"Such a big ship, just five of us?" Seeing that it was Lin Yilong who greeted him in person, and knowing that there were no other service personnel on this ship, Amy was a little surprised.
This spring, Amy accompanied Lin Yilong on the "Voyager" of the Gimhae cruise ship, which is 197 meters long and can carry 384 tourists and 295 crew members, but as for this yacht, the number of operators with only five people seems to be a little small.
"Yes, just the five of us. Lin Yilong replied, "Because the rest of the stuff is an integrated avionics system controlled by a central computer, and it doesn't even need to be operated by humans." ”
"Isn't there any danger?"
"Of course not. Lin Yilong replied, "This is the technology demonstration ship of the Nadia factory, and it is very good overall."
"Both the hull and hull structure have been proven to meet the icebreaking Class 1A hull standard. The superstructure uses almost the same scheme, and if it comes with a water tank, the entire ship can even be transformed into a submarine. Of course, fluid mechanics did not support the ship to sail at particularly high speeds underwater.
"The hull was set up on a small submarine, a motorboat, two high-speed yachts for landing, and a few other small parts, and an enclosed helicopter hangar on the upper hangar. In the event of a shipwreck, you can abandon ship at any time.
In addition to the 11 cabins and corresponding facilities, the ship also carries a freshwater swimming pool that is 25 meters long and one meter wide.
"With so much on board, the ship can reach speeds of up to 32 knots, which is faster than some destroyers.
"If it is used in the military, it can also be redesigned to make the program immune to the frequency bands of military radars. If the marine radar on it is retracted and the radio silence is implemented, they will not be able to find us unless they can see us with the naked eye.
Like a marketing consultant, Lin Yilong began to brag about himself, smashing Amy with a lot of technical parameters and terms she had never heard of, and smashing her into a daze.
"Five people can move?" Amy asked.
"It only takes one person to correct. Everyone, including Amy, is a passenger and not a crew member. The whole system is so simple that I only need to select the route and target, and the rest of the things can be done by the automatic navigation system. Lin Yilong replied confidently.
"Don't you need the qualifications?" asked Amy.
"Originally, it was needed, but we only had 12 people registered, so it was still what I told Amy about as a 'small yacht'. Lin Yilong explained.
According to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (IMO) established in 1957 [author's note: SOLAS is called the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea in China], ships carrying less than 12 passengers for private leisure purposes are not classified as "passenger ships", but follow the preparation requirements of general cargo ships (all are classified as cargo ships except passenger ships);
Since the yacht does not need to comply with any of the safety requirements of the Convention, there is no need to apply for a large number of operating qualifications that require the relevant safety licenses. Operating a small yacht in Europe does not require other qualification procedures.
In other words, as long as Lin Yilong has completed the ship registration and insurance procedures, and the ship he is driving with less than 12 passengers, he can sail the sea very freely, whether he is operating a two-meter motorboat or a 13-meter "fishing boat", without interference from others.
Judging from the definition of legal documents, the 108-meter-long "Qunxing" that Nadia commissioned to build for Lin Yilong can indeed be classified as a "small yacht" in a sense.