As for this resort, Hong Tao is regarded as a long-term investment, regardless of whether Garcia and himself have children, investing in real estate is Hong Tao's favorite. This thing is worry-free, it doesn't require any technology, just put it there and wait for the appreciation, at most you can entrust a real estate management company to help manage it. You can't put that money in the stock market forever, sooner or later you have to cash out and run away, and where the money goes after that is also a big problem. This is not a million, tens of millions, hundreds of millions, or even tens of millions of dollars, and it is also a big problem to put this money in your pocket reasonably and legally from under the nose of the US Financial Authority.

Investing in real estate around the world is a good way to transfer assets, Hong Tao only needs to own enough real estate, and then sell it to his right hand at a relatively high price, so that he can transfer his assets from the United States reasonably and legally, which can not only exempt a part of the tax, but also get out of the financial supervision of the US government. Although Hong Tao didn't plan to use some money to do anything illegal, he was willing to be more free, and he didn't want to be known by others what he spent every penny he was spending.

In addition, these commercial properties can also generate profits for themselves, and Hong Tao does not have much luxury, as long as they can earn back the losses of transaction tax, property tax, maintenance fees and inflation, they can buy it for themselves. As for whether he has this business vision, whether he can accurately judge which real estate will appreciate in value, and which real estate is a money-losing product, Hong Tao thinks he can experiment slowly.

When you don't have the money, you have to listen to someone else's experience, because you don't have the opportunity to experiment yourself. You can't tell whether what others teach you is right or not. But it's different when you have money. You can do it according to your own ideas, and you can experiment with whatever you want. Even playing with the space shuttle is fine. As long as you bear the consequences of your mistakes, you will learn what you want to learn very quickly and correctly in these practical operations, and you will be closer to the truth than any scholar, professor, or expert.

The first stop Hong Tao felt that it was a success, and it was a good start to the second round-the-world voyage, although he tossed for most of the night plus a morning, but still according to the plan made by the Rada in advance, climbed on the sailboat, and set sail on time. Make a beeline for the next stop, Salina Cruz.

With the addition of Heard and Orange Color, the Crazy Mouse III can finally be considered to be able to sail day and night, although the speed at night is only 5 or 6 knots, but walking is faster than stopping, it was originally planned to arrive in 5 days, but now it will arrive in 4 days, this is still the result of Hong Tao's lazy child, and played a half-day jet ski chase with four girls in the middle. Otherwise, it will be there in a little more than three days.

Salina Cruz is a free port in southern Mexico that houses oil pipelines through which oil from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec is exported. As an oil-exporting port, it has little tourist value. It can't stir up Hongtao's investment. However, they still rested here for a day before setting off, for the simple reason that the next leg of the voyage would be difficult. Instead of stopping for supplies after a few days of walking like the previous two sections, you need to drive from the port of Salina Cruz in southern Mexico to the port of Lima, the capital of Peru. The range is more than 3500 kilometers.

According to Hong Tao's character, he is definitely unwilling to do this kind of long-distance voyage. Whenever he could, he had to dock. But this time he didn't dare to stop, because when he was studying the route, he consulted many people with sailing experience, and everyone told him in unison that he should be especially careful when sailing in the waters of Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, and Ecuador in Central America, and not let strangers' ships approach. When calling at the ports of these countries, it is also necessary to guard against extortion by thieves and unscrupulous government officials.

Since everyone says that the sea area in this area is not safe, except that pirates are thieves and extortion, then Hong Tao will definitely not join in the fun, and the only way to avoid this sea area is to change the route. Originally, the route planned for the Lada was to sail from Salina Cruz to the Colón Islands (Galapagos Islands), which was only a little more than 1,000 kilometers, and from the Colón Islands to Lima, it was also more than 1,000 kilometers.

But if people are unlucky, they will stuff their teeth with cold water, and these days there has been an earthquake in the Coron Islands, and all the ports are closed, and ships are not allowed to dock. Now there is really no way, if you want to avoid this sea, you can only sail hard. This voyage is really a long voyage, as long as you leave the port of Salina Cruz, the farther south you will be from the mainland, the front and back are the vast sea, the nearest port is also hundreds of kilometers away, once you encounter any accidents, there is no other way except to send signals and other rescues.

And in the Pacific Ocean between North and South America, there are still the most sharks in the world, and the closer you get to the equator, the more sharks there are. When it comes to the equator, Hong Tao is still a little excited, being able to sail across the equator by himself is already a feat for him, as for the shark or not, he doesn't have much fear. That animal is not a king in the sea, but it is just that it is more fearful to be advertised. In the previous life plus this life, there are not a hundred but fifty sharks that died in their hands, as long as you want to, you can kill them in minutes.

Three days later, the Mad Mouse III crossed the 5th parallel and truly entered the equatorial seas. Although there are no two lines on the sea, the 5th parallel and the equator, Hong Tao feels as if he has really crossed a threshold, and the feeling outside the door is very different from the inside of the door. North of the 5th parallel, there are also north-east trade winds blowing from behind the boat's port side, allowing the sailboat to maintain cruising speed if the sails are raised. But as soon as you step into the 5th parallel, it is as if someone has closed the door behind you, and when the wind is gone, the sail directly deflats, like a broken balloon that has been deflated, hanging on the mast, not moving at all.

"Lada, what does the weather forecast say? When will it be windy?" It had been overnight before the 5th parallel, and the sailboat had been grinding south for less than 20 nautical miles. This morning, the mainsail and the nose spinnaker have not been blown up by the wind once, and the slightest wind blows blindly from the southeast and northwest, and before you can judge the direction of the wind, it disappears.

"The wind is still nothing, just that there is a thunderstorm in the afternoon, I guess there should be wind if there is rain......" Rada listened to the weather forecast intently like a telegrapher, with a pair of big headphones on his head.

"You're wrong, it's a windless zone, and I've heard people say that it's windless all day except for a little wind at night. Instead of standing stupidly in the bridge, why don't you put some sunscreen on me, the sun here is so good that maybe I can get the same complexion as your navigator. "Although Hield has no experience in sailing alone, she has been in the club for more than three years, and she has never seen or heard of it, so she should be the most knowledgeable. She was lying on the hot aft deck in the sun, with only a pair of sunglasses except for a pair of narrow swimming trunks.

"There's no wind...... There is no wind belt, there is really no wind at all! Okay, Lada, you want to help me keep an eye on it, every hour shifts, everyone is free to move. "Hong Tao has learned this thing without wind, but he has never seen it, this time it is considered to be a matter of hearing and seeing is believing. For this gift of nature, he can't think of it, just go on, Heard is right, rather than standing there stupid and waiting, it is better to have some fun.

The equatorial windless belt is a belt that runs through the equatorial region of the world, and the general range is between 5 degrees north latitude and 5 degrees south latitude. Due to the direct sunlight and the interaction of various high-pressure and low-pressure zones, many extreme weather conditions can occur in this area. If it is on land, it is high temperature and little rain, and when it comes to the ocean, it is high temperature and no wind accompanied by thunderstorms.

The term windless belt, before the advent of steam-powered ships, was a nightmare for any captain. At that time, the sea routes were mainly concentrated in the trade wind belt and the westerly wind belt between latitude 5 and 60, as long as there was wind, whether it was downwind, crosswind or headwind, sailing ships had a way to move normally, the only fear was that there was no wind. If a boat that runs on sails has no wind, it is equivalent to a car running out of gas, and it is not as good as a bicycle. Once you fall into this windless belt while crossing the northern and southern hemispheres, you are likely to be trapped alive by the sea and roasted alive by the sun. For sailboats, the biggest enemy is not the wind and waves, but this windless belt that looks like a mirror, the wind and the sun.

So how wide is this windless zone? Theoretically, you don't need to look at any scale, and here's a very simple way to do it, which is to count the latitude. On the earth, one latitude is about 111 kilometers, why is it about equal, because the earth is not a perfect sphere, its north and south poles are a little inwardly concave, just like oranges, so the further you go to the north and south ends, the greater the length of one latitude. However, if you don't want to map or pinpoint it, you can just count it according to the number of 111 kilometers at latitude.

In this way, from 5 degrees north latitude to 5 degrees south latitude, the width of this windless zone is 10 degrees latitude, which is about 1,110 kilometers. According to the average speed of the Crazy Mouse III, it only takes more than 2 days to get out, but now the Crazy Mouse III is no longer crazy, there is no wind it is a rat that has eaten poison, it can only climb south slowly, even 100 kilometers a day is laborious, and it will take at least 10 days to sail out of this windless belt. (To be continued......)