Ever since Hannah was scared by the bear on Halloween night, she has often woken up from nightmares and is afraid to sleep alone. Even if he slept in Link's room, he was often woken up.

Link could only think of ways to make her forget about the bad things. It's just that her memory is much stronger than that of ordinary children, and if she wants to forget that incident, she can only rely on her own psychological self-protection to slowly forget those bad things as the doctor said. All he needed to do was stay by her side and make her feel safe.

Psychiatrists say that people have mechanisms for self-protection, both physically and psychologically. Children are more forgetful, and if they are happy all the time, they will naturally forget about those unhappy things. If you are unhappy all the time, even if you forget those things for a while, you will leave a psychological shadow, and even fall into autism because of it.

Now that Hannah is still young, Link doesn't dare to take it lightly. So he didn't go anywhere for a week, staying in his daughter's sight as much as possible. Try to make her happy.

Of the six fishing boats he ordered that day, two were delivered. The six fishing boats were built by the shipyard in the satellite city of Everett, Seattle. The shipyard is mainly engaged in the production and maintenance of fishing boats and small yachts. The shipbuilding capacity is not strong, but it is still no problem to build fishing boats.

The fishing boat that delivered this time did not need Link to receive it personally. And he didn't know much about ships, so it was useless to go. He handed over the matter of receiving the fishing boat to Tahra, who had always been obsessed with the fishing boat.

Tahra found a group of fishermen and took them to the shipyard to inspect the boats, and are now driving the boats back to the farm's docks. Tahra called him at sea and said that the fishing boat was almost in port and asked him if he wanted to see it.

After much thought, he finally decided to build the pier at the mouth of the Quileyut River. There was a community before that, and there was also a small artificial marina. Previously, the water depth at that pier would be affected by the tides, and at low tide, the fishing boats he ordered could not enter or leave the port at all. However, there is a large harbor basin and an artificial sand wall.

Transforming the port there is not only a small investment, but also a short construction period. A few months ago, he hired a specialist company to dig deep into the harbor basin and dredge the channel at the mouth of the river so that the river could maintain a water depth of six meters at all times. To do so, he would only need to dredge a river several hundred meters long. If the harbor were to be located near the Mora estate, it would have been more than five miles of dredging, and the river would have been easily silted.

He was thinking of refusing. However, he saw Hannah drawing on the table. She's been smiling a lot less these days, and she thinks maybe I should take her outside for a walk, maybe it would be better than staying at home all the time.

So he asked Hannah, "Hannah, shall we go to the beach and have fun?"

"By the sea?" Hannah asked, wide-eyed. "To the beach?" she remembered that the sea was blue.

Link nodded and said, "We can take a boat to the sea this time!

"Daddy is going to row on the sea?" Hannah hadn't been on a boat before. There are many rivers in Ozette, and there is a small boat moored in the river opposite the Mora estate. Link took Hannah through those rivers.

Seeing that she was interested, Link smiled and took the crayons off her hand, picked her up and said, "We're going to sail in a big boat this time." ”

Hannah's eyes widened and she asked, "How big?"

"It's bigger than Hannah's room!" he ordered a fishing boat not only for fishing, but also for the cultivation of kelp in the future, so the boat had a displacement of four hundred tons and a length of more than fifty meters.

As he spoke, he called William, the butler, and asked him to prepare the car. He wants to take his baby daughter out to sea to play.

There is no steel bridge near the mouth of the Quileyut River, and it is possible to drive from the north bank to the port on the south bank.

Opposite the mouth of the river is James Island. The size of the island is actually not small, it is seven or eight acres in size. Above is a forested hill. At low tide there are sandbars on the north shore that connect directly to the island.

However, now that the channel has been dredged, sediment has been deposited on the sandbar, and now even at high tide, the sandbar will be exposed to the water, and it has become a peninsula, which together with the sandbank protects the harbor from being washed by the wind and waves of the open sea.

Link stood at one end of the harbor with Hannah in his arms and watched as the two fishing boats sailed around the island and slowly into the harbor. These two brand-new gray-and-white fishing boats still look relatively beautiful.

There was no one on the dock to command, only the crew of the ship threw off the tires and slowly directed the ship to land.

After the boat docked, Tahra appeared from the inspection boat and greeted Link with a spring breeze on his face: "Boss, this fishing boat is amazing!"

Link watched as the crew was about to tie a cable to the dock. He asked Tahra: "Can fishing boats still go to sea?"

"Absolutely. In fact, when we were at sea, we did some tests. The ship is in very good condition. ”

New ships, of course, will perform well for the time being. Even if something goes wrong, you have to sail a certain distance to find out. They drove the ship back just over a hundred nautical miles, what problems could they find?

When he heard Tahra say this, he took Hannah aboard the ship and said, "Then go out to sea and take a circle!"

Tahera saw that it was still early, and he also wanted to test the performance of the fishing boat. Link's order was right in his hands.

The fishing boat is a fiberglass hull, and when Link got on board, he found that the blue deck paint was very beautiful, and all kinds of utensils were neatly arranged. It is unlikely that there will be any smell on the ship that I just bought.

As the ship slowly sailed out of port, he toured the crew's living spaces on board. Such a fishing boat can be operated with only five crew members.

He asked if there would be too few personnel. Tahera laughs, "I used to fly a 50-ton fishing boat on my own. It was a trawler. The ship is highly automated. Five people were a little nervous, but it was enough. ”

As soon as the fishing boat enters the sea, the speed begins to increase. The speed of fishing boats is generally not too fast. However, the fishing boat was able to sail at a top speed of 22 knots when empty.

There was not much wind and waves at sea today, but at such speeds, the wind on the deck was fierce. Link had no choice but to take Hannah into the cramped cockpit.

Tahera said with a smile as he drove the boat, "Boss, when we get to the deep sea, I'll drive the boat slower." ”

He was actually doing debugging and operation drills, and when he was driving the ship, he asked about the situation of various key parts of the ship through the walkie-talkie on the ship from time to time.

When the fishing boat drove to the deep water, the speed of the boat really dropped, and the speed was only seven or eight knots, which is the speed of fishing.

Link wrapped Hannah's clothes a little tighter and carried her to the deck.

It's the first time Hannah has been on the sea. Link lowered her to the deck, and she ran around on her short legs, looking out over the ship's side railing. It seems that this girl will not get seasick.

"Daddy, look, there are so many big birds!"

Hannah saw a flock of seagulls flying in the wind at the stern of the boat, and ran towards the stern of the boat. Link hurriedly chased after her and picked her up, saying, "Daddy will take you to see it!"

The trawling area at the stern of the ship is without guardrails. He didn't worry about her running over there to play.

Seagulls borrowed the wind so they wouldn't fly too high, and it was the first time Hannah had come so close to such a large seabird.

She stared at the flock of seagulls and exclaimed and laughed at the sight of the seagulls flying in a line in the air.

Link saw that she was happy, and suddenly thought that maybe he should buy a yacht sooner and take this girl out to sea to play when he had time. There's a lot to see on the sea. Such as sea lions, dolphins and whales.

After playing on the deck for almost an hour, Link watched Hannah's face blow red. Only then did he take her back to the wheelhouse and let Tahera return to the flight.

Tahra immediately turned the ship around and sailed back. On the way back, he asked Link, "Boss, when can we start fishing?"

"I'll ask about the results of the resource survey. ”

This area is a private area, although there are restrictions on fishing, such as the size of fish, the size of fishing gear, and the fishing restrictions of various biological breeding seasons. However, it is still much less restrictive than in the public waters.

Since he placed an order for fishing vessels, he has requested the relevant government departments to make statistics on the fishery resources in this area. As long as the statistical data comes out, he can apply for a certain catch.

He can apply for a certain percentage of the catch quota if he has investigated the resources in the area. As long as it does not violate other regulations, he can fish for a suitable time throughout the year.

Of course, in fact, the most economical way to do it is usually to wait for the catch to be the most fattening, and that is the most economical way. So even if someone owns a large area of the sea, they won't fish for a long time. Because the rest of the time may not be worth the loss.

By the time Link and Hannah return to Mora Manor, Jessica has already returned. Hannah happily talks to her about going to sea. Jessica saw that she was smiling so brightly for the first time in days, so she smiled and smiled at Link. She also hopes that this cute little girl can come out of the shadows as soon as possible and become the Hannah who likes to laugh again.

After Hannah finished dinner, she lay down on the small table made for her and painted: "I want to draw seagulls!"

Link and Jessica sat behind her and watched for a moment, telling her about their intention to buy a yacht.

Jessica listened, and said, "Are you going to buy a small one, or a large one?" Now he can afford to buy a giant cruise ship. But that's not unrealistic.

Link thought to himself that he couldn't buy something too small, and that it was okay for a family that was too small to go to sea. But a few more friends won't be enough. But it's not too big. It's too big for him to fit in that dock, and it's not convenient to go to Seattle's seaport if he goes to sea.

He estimated it and said, "I plan to have the shipyard design a hundred meters long according to my requirements." "That length can accommodate the necessary facilities, and it can be self-sustaining enough at sea, as long as the draft does not exceed six meters, regardless of the length or the draft, the pier can accommodate it.

"If you're going to buy a yacht that's about 100 meters long, you really need to make it. Jessica nodded. "There is hardly any yacht brand that has such a long hull. ”

If customized, it takes a long time and the price is high.