"Well, that's all it takes...... Thank you. Hong Tao felt that the bearded man had a point, and he couldn't go to the French shipyard to pull the ship back for reconstruction.

"Sir, I also have a built-in, if the waves are too big, don't use that soft top, it will probably not be able to withstand the impact of the waves, it will be torn apart. "The bearded man is really a serious man, and he has to say anything that he looks at problematic, regardless of whether it will cause the shipowner to be unhappy.

"Of course, I'll value your advice, but is there anything else I need to be reminded of? Hong Tao scolded in his heart, it was worth it Jon, these flashes of inspiration were all like goods, and when he really went to a place where the sea conditions were not good, it was all Nima's burden. It seems that the layman really can't interfere with the insider in the future, and those French designers must have reminded Jon at the beginning, but it didn't work.

"Nothing else, the boat is fantastic, and I think the price is fantastic...... By the way, you didn't take good enough care of it, and it hurts my heart. Its aluminum hull has been affected by electrolysis, and I guess you parked it with the steel hull, so don't do that in the future. Seawater, aluminum, and steel are put together, and there will be electrolysis, and the hull of your ship will become thinner and thinner, and the shell of the iron ship will become brighter and brighter, because it is plated with a layer of electrolytic aluminum. I've put a few sacrificial anode rods on the deck, and if you have to park very close to the iron ship, put these anode rods in the water, which can relieve a lot, and this kind of thing is usually sold on the docks, and you can replenish it as you like. The bearded man said no, but he asked another question that made Hong Tao stunned. That's a big problem, if he doesn't say it. Hong Tao didn't know it at all, and it wasn't written in the book. Eliza hadn't told him either, and I guess she didn't know. Okay. If there is no reminder from this beard, Hong Tao will find that his hull is leaking one day, and he doesn't know why.

Now Hong Tao was not in a hurry to set off, and dragged the bearded man to the bar next to the dock, and poured all kinds of small wines to his death, so that he had to squeeze some more boat problems out of his mouth. It's a pity that the bearded man really said all about the ship, but Hong Tao didn't invite this wine in vain, and the bearded man told him some basic knowledge of crossing Cape Horn. For example, how to judge the distance of the lighthouse under different weather conditions, after finding the Cape Horn Lighthouse. Be sure to adjust your heading to the south for tips like that. Don't look at these things as a sentence or two, but for Hong Tao, a person who has never seen He'en Jiao, it is a cheats plus a customs clearance strategy, which is very valuable.

On June 11th, the Mad Rat III set off from Puerto Montt and headed south along the bay, with winds of only 15 knots and no waves. Hong Tao stood behind the steering wheel with four seat belts strapped to his body. If he hadn't had to operate the steering wheel with two arms, he could have tied two more. Rada and Carol also tied Hong Tao like zongzi, one on the port side and the other on the starboard side. Always ready to help the waves lower the sails. In order to prevent strong winds, Hong Tao only raised the mainsail, and did not even dare to raise the front spinnaker. He planned to get used to the westerly wind belt first, and then decide on the next move. Slow is not afraid. Within two months they could cross Cape Horn, and they would not die of hunger.

After more than 5 hours of sailing. The sailboat finally emerged from the bay and entered the Pacific Ocean. As soon as he drove more than 20 nautical miles to the south, the gale came, and the hull of the ship instantly tilted to the left more than 20 degrees, Hong Tao felt that his head was about to plunge into the sea, and the waves that pounced up from the port side slapped on the windshield one after another, and he couldn't see what was in front of him. Carol on the port side is like a stake in the sea, constantly impacted by the waves, Lada on the starboard side is fine, but she has become a trapeze, when Hong Tao looks at her, she is hanging above her head and kicking her legs.

"Come back, Carol, you're at the helm!Lada, you watch her on the right, I'll be the sailman!" Although Hong Tao is a tyrant, he is not so shameless in this situation, hiding in the bridge himself and letting the two women on the deck steer the sails against the big waves. Gentlemen can usually rely on, can be lazy, and must dare to stand up at critical moments in order to be said to be old men.

"The wind speed is 30 knots, you pay attention......! Carroll took the steering wheel and shouted half a sentence at Hong Tao's back, and the second half of the sentence made a big wave suffocate back.

"......" Hong Tao just shook his hand behind him, he couldn't speak at all, as long as he dared to open his mouth, it must be a mouthful of bitter seawater. And he didn't have time to chat, the four safety belts were enough for him to be busy, and he had to change the lock position one by one after walking a few steps, even if it was so troublesome, Hong Tao didn't dare to buckle one less, if he didn't have these safety belts, he dared to guarantee that after the next big wave swept across the deck, he would be gone.

Only then did he understand why Eliza's first requirement when she first started training him was to wear a life jacket and a safety belt on board, even when the wind was dry, she would ask Hong Tao to do so. This is the cultivation of a habit, and only by developing this habit can we pay attention to these details at all times. If you don't have this habit, the climate at sea is changing rapidly, and you are likely to be in danger in a matter of seconds.

In such sea conditions, once he fell into the water, Hong Tao felt that even if McHarrison came, he would still die! The sea surface could no longer be seen dozens of meters away, and it was full of big waves half a mast high, and the tips of the waves were blown by the wind with white hair. This nearly 20-meter-long sailboat usually feels quite big, but compared to those waves, it is like a fallen leaf in Kunming Lake, sometimes thrown into the air, and instantly plunged into the bottom.

"Lower the sail halfway!" finally moved to the port side, fixed himself, and a wave rushed up, Hong Tao felt as if he had hit a wall, and was directly pushed to the rear, and was immediately pulled back by the seat belt, and the balls were almost strangled. He felt that the waves were so big that it had something to do with the speed of the boat, and he tried to shout to the back.

"Descend again...... Bah...... Drop again!Drop to a third!" The mainsail was lowered, but Hong Tao did not feel that the sailboat slowed down in the slightest, so he shouted again, and was filled with seawater.

"Is it okay at 17 knots?" said Rada, glancing at his speedometer.

"That's it!" The sailboat has no sails, it is equivalent to losing power, the more bad the sea conditions, the more you can't lose power, otherwise it will become a wave by wave, which is more dangerous, you can't turn around, you are really photographed sideways by a big wave, maybe it will capsize.

Sailors! Hong Tao admired this profession very much at this time, they were all strongmen! Sailors in the Age of Discovery were even stronger among strongmen! Living in this environment 24 hours a day, once they went to sea for half a year and a year, thinking about it would make people's hearts tremble. But if you don't come here to experience it, you can't imagine how much of a life is full of fear and fighting spirit.

Some people will bow their heads under pressure, some people will collapse under pressure, some people will give up under pressure, and some people will resist under pressure. Fear is a physiological response, and anyone can be afraid of something that he is not familiar with, so why is someone not afraid because he is used to it. Human habits are such a wonderful thing, once formed, can completely change a person. The question is whether you have the will to develop this habit, and most people don't have this will, and the human brain will always find a whole bunch of very reasonable reasons to convince itself not to suffer this sin. If it's too dangerous, just go around, it's a sense of self-preservation, which has succeeded in allowing humanity to reproduce to this day, but it also limits some of humanity's potential.

Hong Tao is trying to get used to this sense of fear at this time, if he is not used to it, he will not succeed, there is no place to run, no wonder they all say that sailing a boat is a game of the brave, where is this brave, this is the game of the Mongolian doctor, evil governance! Carol and Rada's faces have turned pale, I am afraid they did not expect the westerly wind belt to be like this, if Hong Tao does not stand up to boost morale, once their hearts are occupied by fear, then this voyage may really become a journey of death.

"Ah...... Bah...... Ahh

"He's really a madman...... The waves would break his neck. Carroll looked at the back in front of her left, sometimes engulfed by the waves, and then exposed, closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She was really scared just now, both legs were shaking, and the longer she lived by the sea, the more she understood the power of the sea. Hong Tao's practice was like welding a light bulb and sawing a detonator, but one big wave after another didn't knock him down, and he was still there with his teeth and claws.

"He should be a soldier, my instructor once said that good pilots are all crazy...... I'll go take his place for a while, he won't last long. Rada wiped the seawater from his face, opened the locking device on his seat belt, and climbed out of the bridge.

With communication and laughter, the fear will be forgotten for a while, and then people can enter the stage of slowly getting used to it, because they will find that it is not as scary as they imagined. Although the waves were big and the waves were so bad, the ship still used its bow to split any wave that dared to pounce on it, and ran over its corpse. (To be continued......)