Not only is the captain gone, but most of the crew comrades can't come. Yulia is building the prototype of Yahoo and is ready to wait for Netscape to go public, and immediately set out to make Yahoo go public as soon as possible. Ah Shan and Tan Jing definitely can't leave, not only do they have jobs, but they also have children to take care of. Hong Tao can be crazy about himself, but he can't take a child under the age of one to go crazy together, it's too irresponsible.

After all, only Lada and Wang Yonghong are the ones who can barely be drawn. It's a pity that Wang Yonghong doesn't train at all, and she doesn't want to play any galleons with Hong Tao, she is quite satisfied with her current life and is enjoying it, and Hong Tao is embarrassed to pull her to play crazy with herself. As a result, there is only one Rada left, and she is willing to conquer the four seas with Hong Tao, and it is estimated that the gypsy gene in her body has worked.

There is another person, that is, the Carol in the camp, although she is not very happy to follow Hong Tao to run blindly, but she is still very concerned about the car modification factory that Hong Tao promised her, as long as she can accompany Hong Tao to run around and come back, she can have her own modification shop and car dealership, which is fatal for a mechanical maniac. And Carol didn't believe that Hong Tao, a boy, could play a round-the-world voyage, she estimated that Hong Tao would at most say that if he really set off, he would have to run back before he reached Hawaii. Sailing is not only a test of courage, but also a test of human will.

"There were three of them! I was captain and boatswain, Rada was navigator, radio communication and sailor, Carol was mechanic and sailor...... It's perfect! Without your rotten eggs, uncle, I can still make trough cakes!" Hong Tao calculated the manpower in his hands and felt that he could use it. He very much minds that others look down on him when they play, you can despise me in serious matters, because I myself can't do anything, but you can't discriminate against me in the items you play, that's the biggest personality insult to waste, and waste is also a face-dripping!

So Hong Tao plans to earn some face for his waste, as for whether it is safe or not, dangerous or not, or whatever. He thinks that he has to believe in science! The statistics have been given to prove that sailing is safer than driving, and we can't stop driving for the rest of our lives, right?

But the biggest problem now is that he is not qualified to fly the 57-foot galleon, and neither Lada nor Carol have this Class A license. No matter how determined and courageous Hong Tao is, without this little document, people will have to detain your ship at any port you go to, and you will be fined a lot of money. People don't think about you, they are afraid that you will interfere with the normal operation of other ships.

Hong Tao has never been afraid of exams. Although he doesn't like rote memorization to cope with scores, he can overcome difficulties in order to play. I think that in order to play those Japanese games, I held a Chinese-Japanese dictionary all day long, and I almost learned Japanese. Later, in order to play the World of Warcraft in American clothes, I directly picked up English again, so I had the level of opening a travel company directly behind me and taking the group out by myself. This ability is all learned because of play, and now you need to take a sailing driver's license, is this difficulty a thing? I am not afraid of great difficulties, but I am afraid of people who have a heart! As long as the kung fu is deep, the iron pestle is sharpened into a needle!

"Take the test! Let's take the test ourselves! I don't believe that I can't get a broken sailboat license!" Hong Tao was ruthless this time. It's better to ask for others than for yourself, what's the big deal, others can pass the test themselves, and we are not much stupider than others?

If he had used half of this fighting spirit of not being afraid of hardship and not being afraid of death to study, what would he have to go to St. Lega College, Stanford University would have graduated in minutes! He would have to get a doctorate. Later, I will be alumni of Steven Chu, Zhiyuan Yang, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, and William Hewlett...... It's a pity that he's not interested in that, he's only willing to spend his energy on what he's passionate about, and that's play!

In order to prepare for your own exam subjects. Hong Tao transferred Rada back from Crystal Orchid Capital, plus a Carol, and began pre-exam training. The A-level sailing exam is different from the previous levels, and it focuses more on the candidate's practical ability. Except for a small part of the written test, more than half of the scores are all on-site practical assessments, which means that you have to really get on the boat to operate, and it doesn't work to just talk about it.

Due to the special nature of this kind of exam, it is not necessary to take the exam whenever you want, and it needs to be in accordance with the regulations of the United States Sailing Federation. Register on a specific day and take the exam on a specific day. Originally, there was such an exam in San Francisco in mid-March, but Hong Tao felt that the time was too tight and could not guarantee a pass, so he signed up for the exam in Los Angeles in April. The middle month or so is the time he spends training.

Since the beginning of March, Hong Tao has moved to live in Seal Rock Manor, accompanied by Lada. Every morning at 6 o'clock, a dark-haired Oriental man and a silver-haired Caucasian woman would appear on time to run on the beach below, not only running, but also running with weights, which was the beginning of improving the physical quality. After running and eating breakfast, I rested for an hour, and immediately started to get on the boat again, first according to the tutorial, step by step to check each equipment on the boat. Then untie the cables, use the standard procedure to sail the sailboat off the dock, and start training at sea, at which point there will be one more person on board, Carol.

Although Hong Tao did not have an A-class sailing license, he lied to Lindbergh, saying that he did, and that he had lied to Lindbergh when he was drinking with Lindbergh's Coast Guard friends in a bar. This kind of lie told a few more times, coupled with Hong Tao's eloquent mouth and bulging wallet, will soon become a habit, and naturally those in the Coast Guard will not think of checking the captain's license when they encounter Hong Tao's galleon again. Of course, Hong Tao didn't dare to drive far away, and once he got out of the waters of Santa Cruz, he would be dumbfounded if he ran into other coast guards.

But this is enough, now Hong Tao is just practicing the standard procedures of operating a sailboat, as well as calculating the route, planning the route, how to deal with emergencies, how to rationally allocate the work of the crew, how to use the radio to receive and send information, how to use the weather forecast to avoid extreme weather, how to first aid and self-rescue at sea and other subjects, and do not need to really go to the long voyage, a short round trip of more than ten nautical miles is enough to meet these training needs.

Eliza didn't completely leave Hong Tao alone, and every weekend, she would take her three children to Seal Rock Manor for two days, and by the way, she would also go out to sea with Hong Tao to show Hong Tao some correct sailing techniques. Sometimes you can't figure out a movement for several days, and someone who understands it will be able to do it for you, and that's what a coach does.

In early April, Hong Tao took Radha and Carroll on what he thought was a voyage from Seal Rock Pier to Ventura, along the way with a route he had calculated on his own charts. The result was not bad, I didn't meet the Coast Guard inspection, and I arrived at my destination safely. Hong Tao did not come to Ventura just to train, this time he came to the yacht club in Ventura to refit his sailboat, and he also asked Mr. Phil to hire a real instructor for him, where he would do a week of intensive training before going to Los Angeles to take the sailing captain's A exam.

Hong Tao's 57-foot galleon was originally designed for voyages, but its previous owner, Jon, did not really make targeted voyage modifications to this sailboat, and if you want to do a round-the-world voyage, you need to modify and add some special equipment. For example, it is necessary to change to a stronger sail, to install a set of hydroelectric power equipment, to install more powerful radio communication equipment, to calibrate an electronic compass, to buy a full set of nautical charts, and so on. Hong Tao also wanted to beautify the hull and sails, all of which were sprayed with the pattern of the big mouse's head, since it was called the Mad Mouse III, of course there must be an eye-catching logo.

The members of the club expressed a lot of enthusiasm for someone going around the world. Most of these rich people have Hong Tao's passionate heart, but they lack his courage to say that two hundred and five is two hundred and five, and they don't have so much free time for him. Most wealthy people also need to work, whether it is dealing with customers or business negotiations, you have to show up. So they couldn't make the trip, and when they saw that Hong Tao wanted to accomplish this feat for them, that was why they had money to contribute power.

People also knew that Hong Tao was not short of money, but they still held a small fundraising activity for Hong Tao in the club, and also held a donation party, so that Hong Tao had to come to the stage to say a few words. Let's talk about it, Hong Tao is never scared to speak, what he worries about is how to control his mouth, don't say too much, and don't go off-topic. Today's focus is on how to speak impassionedly, so that these rich people are willing to write checks, and they are not short of money, and they are not fools if they can get money for nothing.

"I am a Chinese! Although our country has a long coastline and a long history of seafaring, as we all know, in the Age of Discovery, there was no country of mine, so until now, the word sailing is far, far away from Chinese. When I first came into contact with a sailing boat, I was skeptical that such a gadget could sail around the world, but when I looked deeper, I realized that my ship was already quite large. My initiation coach is a very attractive woman, she always tells me that a man who dares to fight the sea is a real man, and I want to make up for this lesson. If I succeed, I want to bring this sport back to my home country and give my compatriots the opportunity to get in touch with it. Actually, I feel like I'm a real man because I have two sons...... Thank you!" Hong Tao said this is really true, he has no big ambitions on this round-the-world voyage, just for fun, and he didn't think about winning glory for the country and the Chinese at all. He doesn't think that doing a round-the-world voyage is to win glory, because this thing is about to be played badly by Westerners, and there is nothing to win glory in being the penultimate one. (To be continued.) )xh118R1052