The process of tying a bamboo raft is very simple, just follow the step-by-step process.

First, on a section of the bamboo tube at the head of the bamboo, a pair of holes are drilled parallel to the left and right sides, and each piece of material is done to keep the hole in the same position.

Then the eleven bamboos that were all punched holes were strung together with an old bamboo with a thick forearm.

The old bamboo is roasted with fire at the junction at both ends, so that the junction can be bent, bend both ends to the deck, and then add a solid hardwood on top to withstand the main pulling force.

In this way, the whole bow of the ship is connected, and when I sail on the sea, no matter how strong the wind and waves, it is impossible to break up my bamboo raft.

Back to the tail of the raft, a solid hardwood is added every two meters, a total of five, in order to ensure the firmness of the whole raft, these parts do not need to be drilled, just fixed directly on the deck.

Then use bamboo strips to tie the hardwood and each bamboo material together to tie it strongly.

After the overall structure of the bamboo raft was made, the next step was to build the cabin.

My cousin and I have already made up our minds.

The 10.5-meter-long bamboo raft has a three-meter foredeck at the front and a two-meter back deck at the back. The remaining 5.5 meters will be all set up in the cabin!

In order to reduce wind resistance, the cabin should not be too high, we plan to build a height of about 1.8 meters.

At this height, women don't care, they can come and go at will. I'm bitter myself. Every time you go in and out, you have to bend down, otherwise you have to knock the heavenly spirit cover. My cousin is not very good, she is more than seven meters tall, although she can't touch it, but it's not much worse, and under the psychological effect, she doesn't dare to walk in with her chest up.

The end of the cabin cannot be closed and must be ventilated. Otherwise, when the ship is moving, the wind resistance is very large.

By the way, the fence walls on the left and right sides should not be too tightly beaten and need a certain amount of ventilation. I'm afraid that a gust of sea wind will blow across the horizon and turn the boat up.

After all, our bamboo is too light and easy to be plucked by the wind.

The strong wind from the sea, it is all grandfather, everyone does not see the strong typhoon, how many old trees have been uprooted. Of course, in this sea condition, we have usually docked the ship and gone ashore. But I'm not afraid of 10,000, I'm afraid of what if.

The width of the cabin is two meters, and 70 centimeters are left to make a pedestrian aisle around the side of the ship. That's what you need when you want to hang the sails at the stern.

In addition to hanging sails, the stern also has an important purpose, which is for human excretion. When sailing during the day, if someone is in a hurry, you can come here to solve it. It is impossible for us to deal with such a trivial matter at the shore. It is specially made out and discharged into the sea, which is also clean and hygienic.

The whole cabin is 2 meters wide and 5.5 meters long, and there is more than 10 square meters of space inside, which is enough for us to put anything.

I separated the front cabin by two meters, specially for people to rest and enjoy the coolness, this section of the fence wall, only made semi-closed, convenient for women to browse the scenery of the journey.

There are a few stools on the right to sit on people.

On the right, you can take a half-meter-wide wooden bed out, so you can lie down and rest in case someone gets tired or doesn't feel well during the journey. The space under the bed is not wasted, and you can put some pottery plates and pottery bowls.

The remaining 3.5 meters in the back compartment are used to store all kinds of large and heavy objects.

Once the cabin was built, it was followed by the pine stump where the two masts were installed.

After that came the ship's side railing.

Finally, there is the capping of the cabin.

March 27.

The whole sailboat, the parts are finally assembled.

Launched on the same day!

Because there are bamboo sleepers underneath, although the whole boat weighs one and a half tons, it is easy to pry into the water along the sleepers.

"Boom"!

We have spent a lot of effort to build the project for three whole months and paid countless sweats, and it is finally time for practical acceptance.

As the whole boat entered the water, a large wave was set off.

Several women also launched a burst of excited exclamations!

"Oh!

I put two big hard sails on the boat, took the large oars made of bamboo, hung the sails, and beckoned to the women, "Come on, try our new boat!"

The women climbed up excitedly.

Together, we rowed the boat out of the bay.

Find the sea breeze and sail with the wind!

Wind Hunt!

Scraped on our two big hard sails.

Riding the sea breeze, our boat was speeding on the surface of the sea at the speed of a bicycle in general.

That formation, of course, is much bigger than riding a bicycle.

The bow of the two-meter-seven-wide ship, separated from the left and right waves, the white waves, rolling and moving, seem to break through all difficulties and obstacles, making people feel extremely comfortable to see.

"Ah~~~" I yelled at the sea, spitting out the fatigue and hard work of these days!

A few women, either with their eyes closed, or with their arms open, enjoying or embracing the caress / touch of the sea breeze.

I laughed aloud and said, "On the first day of sailing today, do you want to give us a nice name for this galleon?"

"Of course!" several women responded.

But his heart was the most positive, and with a change of thought, he said: "I suggest that we might as well call it the Vostok! We came here on the Vostok, and now we are going back on the Vostok." ”

I reached out and tapped her on the head: "Phew, do you know if you're bad luck!"

More than 3,000 people died, and almost all the people on the ship died, and there were only a few of us left, and it was better to call the shit than the Vostok!

Several other women also felt that the name was unlucky.

So my cousin said: "The name is to please the head and place hopes, our purpose this time is mainly to go home, so it is better to call it 'Hometown', I hope that our Hometown Sailing Boat will carry us back to our hometown smoothly." ”

"This is good! This name is good!" Su Wutian Qiuqiu and several women listened and nodded in agreement.

It is indeed the wish of all of us to go home smoothly.

So this sailing ship was made famous.

……

"Brother Lele, what are you doing with two boards nailed to this place, and the hole in the middle?"

I smiled and said, "You squat down and try it to see if it fits." ”

Kexin said, "Why do you want to squat up?" Although curious, he still did as I said.

As a result, as soon as he squatted up, his face turned a little red: "You...... You're doing this for convenience?"

I said, "Of course." In a blink of an eye, he said to several other women who were watching together: "In the future, we will sail, board the ship in the morning, and if there is nothing to do, we will not go ashore again until the evening." In the middle, if you hold back, you can go to the stern of the boat to solve the problem. Big or small. Drain the hole and push it away with the water, so that it is safe and does not dirty our boat. How's it going, am I thoughtful for you?"

The women glared at me together: "Think about us, don't you need to do it yourself?"

I said, "Of course I don't have to bother. I'm a man, I can come standing up, just outside the side of the boat, and that's it. Why don't you try to stand on the side of the boat and try it?"

The women were not convinced: "Are you going to come when you are big, and you have to stand up?"

My face darkened: "This...... I'm going to have to be here, too. ”

(End of chapter)