Although there were no exciting slogans, Hong Tao's speech was still very popular with everyone, and there were even private contacts with Hong Tao in the advertising business, including this club. They wanted to put the club's name on the hull and sails of the Hongtao boat to show that they were in the air, but they paid for a full set of satellite communication equipment. Hong Tao didn't ask for their communication equipment, he didn't lack the money, but he agreed to their request, and just changed the conditions. Hong Tao hopes that in the future, they can provide them with personnel and technical support to help them establish a similar nautical club in China, regardless of whether it is a joint venture or a sole proprietorship.

To this end, Hong Tao also had a cordial exchange of views with the chairman of the club during lunch, and did his best to tell him that China will be a huge potential luxury market in the next few years. In the end, he was able to convince the chairman himself, but this kind of management decision was not enough for him alone, and he had to hold a meeting with the directors to discuss it. However, he promised that he would try his best to help Hong Tao persuade other directors on the board of directors, which is enough, the operation of this kind of club is very standardized, and it is not standardized, and none of those members are instigated, all of them are elites in various industries, if you make a slight mistake, people can see it immediately.

The donation reception was a success, and a group of people who had never known each other generously donated to Hong Tao, raising a total of more than $20,000. Don't be too little, this is just a meaning, if people donate more, it is an insult to you, the same rich people, who can't afford to play a sailboat, with your help to pay for it? And this money Hongtao can't get it, it has to be managed by the club, only for the expenses of sailing voyages, you can take the account from this money, and the accounts have to be made public.

However, what happened next caught Hong Tao a little off guard, and from the next day, the club's front desk phone became his personal phone, and some people even came from Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego to meet him for an interview, with only one topic. Business Sponsorship!

At this time, Hong Tao finally saw what it means to be well-connected, although those rich people did not donate much money to him, but the news that spread through their mouths was extremely golden. The main customer base of the sailing yacht manufacturers is these rich and middle class, and now there is a rich man who is going to sail around the world. If he can use his company's products, it will be a living advertisement, much more effective than asking a hundred beautiful women to stand on a boat and scratch their heads.

"Mr. Phil, you said that if I had to hold a press conference from the beginning, I would hype up my voyage. Isn't there no need to buy this ship? The sponsorship projects they proposed are enough for me to sail several times!" Hong Tao looked at the letters of intent given to him by those manufacturers in his hand, and regretted it a little, this is all free money!

"But then you're probably going to have no place to draw your big rat's head, do you prefer to sail with your own sailboat, or would you rather sail with an advertisement? As far as I know, these sponsors are not philanthropists, and they ask for all kinds of sponsorship. For example, the city you stop into, the date of your stop, you can't use the products of competing manufacturers, etc., isn't that very boring?" Phil really deserves to be a psychiatrist, and he has a good grasp of Hong Tao's character.

"That's right! I'm still going on a trip with my rat head. Thanks for your help this time, and if possible, I think you can keep an eye on a stock called Netscape Communications in the summer, which will most likely be listed at that time. As long as you invest enough money, it is likely that you will not have to worry about money for the rest of your life. "Hong Tao is really grateful to this Mr. Phil, he has nothing to do with him, but he came to Ventura twice, and it was the club he helped him contact. Without his assistance, he would not have received much attention in the club, and this is the energy of the head snake. For those who sincerely make friends with him, Hong Tao has never been stingy.

"Hahaha, don't worry, I've been following this company for a long time. Because I am also a shareholder of Crystal Orchid Capital, Caroline also has my share in the investment. But I still want to thank you for your advice, I will consider buying more Netscape shares, who cares about more money? I greatly admire your ability in this regard, and if possible, I hope you can give me a chance to have a long talk with you. This has been very helpful for my profession. Phil smiled very proudly, and Hong Tao could also hear from his words that the personal relationship between him and Caroline was more than just friends.

In the end, Hong Tao still rejected most of the sponsors' cooperation intentions, because there was really not so much spare space on his ship to spray too many logos, and the huge rat head on both sides of the ship and on the mainsail would not shrink, so there was not much room left for advertising. Still, he accepted a 600W hydroelectric generator from Watt&Sea, a maritime satellite phone from Motorola, a set of reinforced sails made by Hunter, and a yacht club called Wind, which they promised in principle to provide Hong Tao with some necessary technical support in the future.

It's a pity that there is no GPS manufacturer to talk to Hong Tao about cooperation, and what he wants most is not a generator, a maritime satellite phone and reinforced sails, but a set of GPS satellite positioning system that can be used for civilian use. With this thing, he can accurately locate the position of his ship on the chart, which is very helpful for formulating and confirming the route. Suffice it to say, sailing with a GPS system is not the same thing as sailing without a GPS system. The former can be tried by an ordinary sailing enthusiast with sailing experience, while the latter can only be done by a veteran sailor with a lot of sailing experience and good luck.

At present, only a small part of the GPS system is used for civilian use in North America, and the vast majority of it is still military. The military system Hong Tao will definitely not be able to buy, and people will not sell it for how much money it gives, and the civilian system is extremely expensive, and a set of system hardware plus registration fees is almost the same price as Hong Tao's sailboat. No matter how expensive it is, you have to buy it! I want to take risks, but I want to take risks when the danger is minimized, not to take risks for the sake of taking risks, so even if this set of equipment is expensive, Hong Tao will not hesitate to buy it and install it, without a GPS system, he simply does not have the courage to go on a long voyage.

In addition, Hong Tao signed an exclusive reporting agreement with ESPN, according to his route, the sports broadcaster will send two photographers to board the ship and shoot at the pier and two stages of the voyage in five cities, during which Hong Tao will also have to attend two events arranged by ESPN. Originally, Hong Tao was reluctant to sign such an agreement, but he needed the help of a global organization like ESPN to help him with visa issues along the way.

Since Hong Tao himself holds a Chinese passport, he cannot go ashore in the ports of most countries in the world, and although his ship is registered in the United States, it can only ensure that his ship can dock at the port, and he himself cannot go ashore and wander around. Originally, Hong Tao planned not to go shopping, anyway, Rada has a temporary Canadian passport, and Carroll also has an American passport, so let them buy whatever they want. But after going around the world and finally seeing that it was all docks, it was too depressing, so Hong Tao still chose to cooperate with ESPN, without a penny of payment, and the only requirement was to let them help him solve the visa problem.

Everything is ready, only the east wind is owed!

No, it's not that you owe Dongfeng, but you can't get this qualification, and if you can't get this qualification, the previous sponsorship and agreement will be invalidated, and you are not even qualified to drive a boat to sea, and people still sponsor you, so you can't encourage this kind of unlicensed driving. So Hong Tao threw the refit of the sailboat to Radha and Carol, and followed the beautiful instructor to her ship for intensive training. His own boat had been towed to the docks, and in addition to installing a hydroelectric generator and a satellite communication antenna, he had to do a final inspection of the boat to make sure it was safe, and then clean the bottom of the boat and apply a new layer of oyster paint to it in the best condition.

The 39-year-old captain used to be a sailor, but after retiring from the sport, she bought a small sailboat and started a sightseeing tour and training business. It is not an exaggeration to say that she is a beauty, although she is a little older now, but judging from her face and figure, she must have been a big beauty when she was young. However, this big beauty's temper is more irritable than Eliza's, and she doesn't take care of Hong Tao at all, stupid, idiot, and garbage have become Hong Tao's code names, sometimes Hong Tao feels that he has done a good job, but he still gets criticism and sarcasm. It seems that people who engage in sports are not very good-tempered, and they will not be considerate of other people's difficulties, at least in the professional fields they are familiar with, because they also came here like this in the first place, so they feel that it is normal to treat others like this.

In the midst of the scolding of this beautiful coach, Hong Tao spent the hardest five days since he came into contact with sailing, and then he felt that Eliza was so tolerant and generous, how gentle and considerate she was to him, compared to this coach, Eliza was simply an angel! It's a pity that it's too late to regret it, and Hong Tao doesn't have the time to seduce this beautiful coach again, on the one hand, because she doesn't have a good impression of Hong Tao and doesn't want to have any contact with him in private; more importantly, she has a husband who plays American football, although he is also retired, but Hong Tao is not sure that he can beat him, if he is cheating with someone else's wife and is broken by someone else's gun, Donima is wronged! Not to mention being a half-old, even the young and beautiful British princess Hong Tao feels that it is not worth it...... The problem is that English princesses don't seem to be young and beautiful either!(To be continued.) )xh118R1052