The original name of Talport Port is not Talport Harbor, it was originally a small village called Malgham in County of Glamorgan, because of its very convenient location, low land prices and nearby coal resources, the members of the Talport family bought the estuary land as a facility for importing and exporting coal. In addition to the port facilities, the Talbot family also invested in what would become the largest steel mill in Wales and the UK.

The steelworkers and coal workers who lived in the villages of Malgham, Abraven, and Baghlan were naturally grateful to the factory owner, Talpot, and merged the villages into a huge town, which was named Port Talport.

Although the name has the word "port" in it, the town does not have any modern port facilities, the original facilities have fallen into disrepair, and the port business has long been crumbling by the nearby port of Swansea, which can accommodate more ships, and has instead become a loading port for Talbot Steel to import cheap coal from overseas, so that the town can be considered "worthy of its name".

Since a large part of the steel mill was to be converted from a hot rolling mill to a chemical plant for the production of carbon fiber, the amount of coal used was no higher than that of the nearby Baghlan power plant, and the cost of maintaining a port was no less than that of coal imported from Cardiff or Pembroke Harbour, and in order to silence the guild, Nadia sold part of the port to the newly established "Talport Special Ships" factory to build some special ships, such as the first yacht conceived by Lin Yilong, the "Stars".

To accompany the ship on its maiden voyage, Katie returned to Wales to witness the ship's launch.

The propagation of the launching ceremony always has a short "baptism ceremony": because navigation was boring and dangerous in history, the crew always superstitiously asked God for spiritual comfort, and in order to cater to this "superstition" of the crew, the shipwright's practice was to turn the ship into a "believer", which also had to be baptized—usually a woman read a prayer for God's blessing, and then struggled to smash a bottle of overflowing champagne on the hull to achieve the purpose of "baptism".

Nadia, Vera, and Katie all want to be the ship's godmother, but the ship's godmother isn't any of them: Lin Yilong gives the honor to his own mother, even though she doesn't believe in any religion.

"I name you the 'Stars', and I hope you and your crew will always be safe on this voyage!" Mother Lin used a short axe to cut the rope that pulled the champagne bottle up, and the champagne bottle quickly fell down and then shattered into pieces.

By the way, despite the high hardness of the carbon fiber hull, considering that the use of new materials is also quite malleable, after several drills, ordinary champagne bottles cannot be broken on the hull, and the wine bottles used by Lin Mu are made of special thin glass.

"What?" Mother Lin was taken aback when she heard Lin Yilong and Father Lin jokingly talk about the cost of champagne bottles.

"Obviously, it can withstand the horizontal pull, but as long as you apply a little force to the vertical plane, it will break. Lin Yilong explained the reason for Lin's mother, "This is actually very similar to the principle of 'Rupert's tears'. ”

"You don't have to tell me the rest, I don't understand it anyway. Lin Mu said impatiently, "You can master it yourself." ”

Lin Yilong then learned how to sail with Katie in the harbor of Talbot Harbour, which can be regarded as fulfilling Lin Yilong's previous promise to Katie - she will be the only companion on board with Lin Yilong during the yacht sea trials.

"If we want to disappear, I'm sure no military radar will be able to find us. Nadia gave Katie an introduction on the comms, "And given the ship's gray-black livery, it's hard to spot visually as long as there are clouds over the sea." As for the new Zumwalt-class destroyer developed by the United States, it cannot reach the level of this yacht in terms of stealth effect. “

"Is this a warship or a yacht?" asked Katie.

"We define a yacht as a civilian vessel with a capacity of 12 people. Lin Yilong said with a smile, "Even if this ship is 108 meters long and has a displacement of 7,500 tons, it is still limited to only 12 people, which still belongs to the specifications of the yacht." ”

"This ......," Katie sighed, "in other words, no one can find this ship in the deep sea unless they actually see it?"

"This is not so much our yacht as the first 'technology demonstration vessel' of the Port Talport shipyard. "If there are discerning buyers, they will not be disappointed, and the preparation of the hull carbon fiber alone is worth hundreds of millions of pounds." ”

"What?" Katie looked similar to the one she had when Mother Lin learned about the cost of the champagne bottle, and it took a moment to regain her senses, "What else do I need to know about this yacht?"

"There will be two helicopters, two receivers, two mini-submarines, and some trivial toys that don't need to be mentioned. Lin Yilong fiddled with his fingers, trying to recall the amount of equipment on it, "Considering the strength and tightness of the entire hull, this ship even has the potential to transform into a submarine, unfortunately that's all I know, as for the rest of the decoration and living quarters are really plain, there is nothing to say." ”

"This ......" Katie was dumbfounded by Lin Yilong's introduction.

Therefore, because the relevant shipbuilding design concept is not yet mature, there is such a technology demonstration ship. Lin Yilong deliberately bit the words "immature design concept" very hard, "If you can't sell it, you will keep it for yourself." ”

"That's what I paid for the design of the ship in London...... What does it look like now?" asked Katie.

"Pretty much. Lin Yilong nodded, "Even this yacht is a little too extravagant and wasteful, all the furniture, furnishings and daily necessities such as dinner plates, except for the occasions where the functionality must be metal, others, such as all the small toys mentioned before are copies of the carbon fiber materials produced by this chemical factory, but the extra displacement of nearly 2,000 tons is wasted." I can even have a 50-metre standard freshwater pool at the bottom of the cabin if I want, and I can also leave more than enough for an additional 500 tonnes of oil area. ”

"There's really money left to spend. Katie sighed, "I want to ask how much this ship will cost?"

"I don't know what the market price is, but it's generally around 250 million. Lin Yilong talked about the price a little bitterly, "Because at the beginning, Talbot Shipbuilding did not have any work experience in this area, and everyone was learning and building, so the cost was relatively high, and my expenditure was about 45 million pounds? ”

"Is it so cheap?" asked Katie, "even the engine?"

"That's right. Lin Yilong replied, "The port area next to the shipyard is the exclusive dock of this ship, and I don't need any other service personnel, just a navigator and a pilot to fully control this ship - so, even if it is running, I only allow my family to be on the ship, and the privacy and security are very high." ”