"Oh my God...... You've bought almost $10,000 worth of accessories in the past few days, why are we using a desalination machine when we drive in the lake!? That thing is only needed for sailing ships, and the price is almost enough to buy half a small sailboat!" Eliza's gray hair is about to grow out, and she must be sure of Hong Tao's dedication and tireless learning attitude, but he can't agree with the problem that he wants to buy everything back and try it. He wanted to get a physical reference for everything, and he bought a lot of various pulleys and cable locks, and after disassembling them to see clearly, he installed them if he could install them, and piled them up in her garage if he couldn't install them.

"No, no, no, everything we are doing now is for the future of the ocean, so this kind of key equipment must be familiar with it in advance, so as not to break down when we have no water to drink and no bath to wash. More than 10,000 dollars is not too expensive compared to our lives, you don't want to attend my funeral after returning from the sea!" Hong Tao has his own reasoning, he has become more and more fascinated by the sailboat after these days of systematic study. Originally, he had only said in general terms what he wanted to sail around the world, and he hadn't even decided that he had to do such a dangerous thing, but now he really planned to try it.

One man, one boat, one world! This sentence made him agree very much. The sea seems to be a meeting room for communication between humans and nature, and you can come here to talk to nature if you dare. If it has any opinions, it will pass guò sea to sue you, and if you agree or disagree, you can also pass guò sea to sue sù it.

Whenever Hong Tao remembered that he was driving a small sailboat on the vast sea, and any small wave was higher than a mast, he wondered what state he was in at that time. Are you scared to pee your pants, or are you gritting your teeth and rushing to the next big wave?

Hong Tao didn't want to conquer the sea, it seemed that no one could conquer that thing. He just wants to conquer himself. Through this process, Hong Tao wanted to see if his thoughts could really be sublimated. People always say that experiencing life and death is a precious experience in life, and Hong Tao feels that if he doesn't die, he may not have much chance to experience the test of life and death in this life.

As for whether it will die. This thing can't be pondered carefully, and the more carefully you ponder, the more depressed it becomes. Some people have been cautious all their lives, and as a result, they are killed by a wine bottle falling from the upper floor, or run into a runaway car. Probability sometimes doesn't reflect the actual situation, so instead of worrying about it all day long, you can do whatever you want. So it's dead. Before he died, Hong Tao felt that he could convince himself: Lao Tzu is worth it! At least he didn't live in vain!

In fact, through the systematic study of guò these days, Hong Tao probably has a basic understanding of the sport of navigation. Danger cannot be said to be absent, but it is definitely not as dangerous as imagined. Compared to driving, flying airplanes, mountaineering and other sports, sailing is relatively safe, as long as it is not rash to sail. With a certain amount of nautical knowledge and equipment, the situation of never returning can be basically avoided.

Navigator killers such as storms, hurricanes, and extreme weather can all be avoided by technical means. According to the current technology and technical means, the weather forecast on the sea surface can be 100% accurate. This kind of weather forecast is not like a weather forecast on land, it is really unreasonable. Hong Tao often went out fishing in his previous life and has a personal experience in this regard. Don't believe the weather forecast when it says it's raining, don't believe it if it doesn't rain, what should you do, believe the weather forecast to death!

But this will not be the case on the sea. Because there is no terrain interference on the sea surface, and there is no disturbance of the urban microclimate, the air flow is very regular. So the predictions are basically accurate. As long as you keep an eye on the weather forecast, you won't be in big trouble. In fact, as long as they don't rush into the hurricane area, most sailing ships can move faster than the hurricane, yes, the wind speed of these hurricane masses refers to the speed of the air flow inside it, and its overall movement speed is about 10 knots. If the sailboat runs as hard as it can, it can get out of this sea area along the way.

However, Hong Tao also examined his Mad Mouse according to the knowledge mentioned in the book. It's true that you can't play long voyages. It's not that the hull is too small, it's not strong enough. This is also a factor in why it is cheaper. It's not that agents deceive, but here in Toronto, everyone plays in the lake, and no one buys that kind of ocean-going sailboat, and naturally no one sells it.

The Crazy Mouse has a stable dìng index of only 27, and the higher this index is, the more stable the hull is. The minimum STIX index requirement for ocean sailing vessels is 32, and anything below this is simply dangerous. In addition, according to American standards, the Crazy Mouse is a C-class sailing ship, which can withstand force 6 winds and significant wave heights of less than 2 meters. Generally, ocean-going sailing ships are required to be A-class standards, which can resist significant wave heights of more than 8 winds and more than 4 meters.

Significant wave heights here refer to the wave heights that extend beyond the hull of the ship, not from the surface of the sea. So a significant wave height of 4 meters can be a wave of 8 meters or a wave of 10 meters, depending on where the hull is in the wave. These requirements are only the minimum mandatory standards, and many shipyard-built ocean-going sailing vessels are above this standard.

In addition to these safety standards, there is an important formula to tell you what exactly your boat type is suitable for: hull weight / waterline length = hull weight / (waterline length * 0.01)3.

This value must be between 100-400, and this is only the only ship that the earthlings can build at the moment. The following rowing level below 110 is the most powerful, but unfortunately ordinary people can't play it. The 110-200 is called a cruising ship, which is a sailing ship suitable for the ocean. 200-300 is called a cruiser, yes, it is a cruiser, but it is not about the battleship but about the seaworthiness of the ship type. More than 300 are called heavy cruisers.

In Hong Tao's own understanding, the approximate meaning of these ship types is just a reference value. Just like an off-road vehicle, the Hummer is also an off-road vehicle, the Land Rover is also an off-road vehicle, the Overlord is also an off-road vehicle, and a racing car has an off-road vehicle. If you come across an obstacle, let's say an earthen wall. The Hummer crashed into it, and nothing happened, the Land Rover also crashed, and the steel plate was a little deflated, but it was still able to drive, the overbearing crashed and the water tank leaked, but it did not endanger the driver's life, and the car crashed over, and the engine and the driver flew. When sailing in the sea, the waves are very powerful. If the hull is not strong enough, the speed must not be too fast, otherwise a wave will crash down, and the hull may break. Therefore, it is unrealistic to just pursue speed, the hull strength is not enough, and if you don't install a high-horsepower engine, you are dying.

Hong Tao found the detailed parameters of his ship from the manual of the Crazy Mouse, and interpreted it against these materials, and then understood. The STIX level of this ship is C, because the hull is aluminum alloy, which is heavier than fiberglass, so the coefficient is 320, which is called in the vernacular: aluminum alloy double-hull and two-masted C-class heavy cruiser!

"I'm taking advantage of the heavy cruiser!" hahahaha...... "In the middle of the night, a shrill strange laughter suddenly broke out in a certain courtyard in the horse race villa area, and the birds perched in the woods were awakened and flew up.

On August 10, 1993, Hong Tao and Eliza officially boarded the Crazy Mouse, and set sail for the first time, aiming for the city of Rochester, 150 kilometers away.

The city is on the southern shore of Lake Ontario, and it's already an American city to be exact, but Eliza doesn't care. If Canada and the United States still have the necessary document checks on the land border, then there is basically no difference between them and a country in terms of water transportation, and few American patrol boats will intercept and inspect a normal Canadian sailing boat, and there will be no customs, immigration and other departments at the inland river terminals in the United States. Even many Canadian sailboats and yachts come here to rent a dock to dock, because the price in the United States is cheaper than in Canada.

The reason why I chose this day to set off is not to hit the day. Although Hong Tao didn't go to check the yellow calendar to worship God, he deliberately flipped through the history books and found a day that he thought was more auspicious, that is, August 10. More than 400 years ago, Magellan's fleet set off from Seville on this day to start its voyage around the world, and since Magellan had succeeded, Hong Tao also wanted to borrow his luck to see if he could become Hong Taolun or something.

"See? This is the side thruster control button of the boat, it is driven by the battery, when docking and offshore, you must first use the side thruster to push the hull away or close to the shore, and then put down the pool ball or put away the pool ball, make sure that there is no obstacle in front of you, and then start the engine. We have two Volvo 25 hp diesel engines, and generally only one is enough to start. Note ah, there is another problem here, Volvo's propeller blades can be put away, if you don't open the propeller blades first, the machine can only start but can not be put into gear, the green light on the tachometer is on, it means that the propellers are normal, and the red light is on, which means that the propellers are still in a retracted state. "Elisa was very good today, dressed short, although she didn't wear a bikini, but it was pretty much the same. After she got on the boat, she took Hong Tao to check all parts of the boat first, and also made a record in the logbook, and then officially taught Hong Tao how to let the sailboat leave the dock.

"I understand that the paddle blades can reduce the resistance by 5% when they are put away, these manuals say!" Hong Tao is dressed more stylishly today, with non-slip shoes, black short diving pants, a blue and white striped sea soul shirt, a white soft-brimmed captain's hat, and a golden anchor-shaped cockade pinned to the hat. If you have a pipe in your mouth, it's like a captain. But he's not idle, he's not used to smoking a pipe, he's drooling, so let's switch to a torpedo cigar, just like the one Churchill smoked, it's still the same brand, Upman!