"If you laugh at me again, I'll take Vanessa home and continue to be a pirate! Let's go, go buy an aluminum ship!" Hong Tao also felt a bit like a fool.

If he had been speaking in a Microsoft conference room that day, and he had told the technicians that he could hold a palm-sized computer and make phone calls, play games, surf the Internet, and watch romantic action movies at the same time, those researchers would have thrown themselves out. People lack inspiration but there is no shortage of fantasists who brag about x, and they have the kung fu to listen to Hong Tao's nonsense, and it is not better to find a science fiction novel than anything. Therefore, things and ideas that are too advanced will not only not be appreciated, but are easy to be misunderstood.

"Do you want a monohull or a catamaran? The monohull is more exciting, the catamaran is faster and has more space, but it has a fatal flaw, once it rolls over, you have to abandon the ship, you can't re-righte it with the strength of a few people, and the monohull doesn't have this problem. This time, Elisa didn't wait for Hong Tao to ask, and directly told the advantages and disadvantages of these two hulls.

"No, you're wrong, the monohull should be faster, right?" Hong Tao's brain quickly figured out something that didn't fit the logic of his thinking.

"This is not the case with sailboats, where the boat has the same size, sail-to-weight ratio (the ratio of sail area to hull weight), and wetting ratio (the area in contact between the hull and the water), the longer the waterline, the faster the boat. Did you know that there is a law called Hull velocity?" Eliza began to look at Hong Tao with a foolish look again, and dragged on some formulas, laws, and other things.

"What is Hull speed?" But this time Hong Tao was really dumbfounded, although he was okay with mathematics and physics, but he couldn't think of any book that wrote this formula or definition in his head. What the hell is this Nima?

"Hmph, I knew you didn't. This is not something that can be talked about in ordinary textbooks, it is a formula for calculating the speed of a ship when it is built. Let me take a train as an example. If it takes one horsepower to push one carriage, then ten carriages connected together, although the length and weight are increased tenfold, but it does not really take ten times the strength to make these ten carriages run, can you understand?" Eliza bent down and picked up a small pebble on the ground, and simply drew a schematic diagram of Hong Tao on the bottom of the boat.

"Nonsense, I don't understand this anymore! Can I still be a Hongtaostan? I'll give you an example. The geese fly in formation, and the geese that follow behind will always save some effort than the first goose, isn't this the principle?" Hong Tao probably understood what Eliza meant, and he also used his own understanding as an example for Eliza to judge.

"You're really smarter than I thought, it took me more than a month to understand this thing......" Elisa was very entangled, she didn't want to praise Hongtao, but she couldn't talk nonsense with her eyes open.

"Hurry up and say the conclusion, it's been more than half an hour, and I haven't even seen my own boat hair!" Hong Tao felt that it was not worth boasting about defeating Eliza in his head. This is a matter of course.

"The formula for how to calculate exactly how much force is needed to pull these ten carriages is called Hull speed. In fact, we don't have to do the math ourselves, you just need to understand that the longer the waterline of the ship. Compared to a ship in the same condition, it is possible to run faster. The catamaran has two hulls and the natural waterline length is much longer than that of a monohull. So it's going to run faster. Coupled with the fact that the catamaran does not have an outer keel, it does not need to add weight to maintain hull balance. It has two hulls and is not too inclined at all. It had to run faster than a monohull and have a much shallower draft. You see, this is a 26-foot catamaran, and its draft is only more than one meter, while a monohull of the same size needs to have at least two meters of draft. After pulling Hong Tao around the two boats, Eliza stopped in front of a sailboat with a pale yellow hull, and pointed to the hull of the ship for Hong Tao to see.

"Then I choose a catamaran, which is stable and fast, the cabin space is still large, and the draft is still shallow, in addition to the disadvantage of capsizing and finishing, are there any other shortcomings?" Hong Tao saw clearly this time, the bottom of this ship does not have that kind of high keel, it is so comfortable to look at, he likes it very much.

"It lacks the leaning feel of driving a sailboat, it's too smooth, but it has another advantage that you didn't expect, come with me...... See? It has one engine on each hull, and it doesn't matter if one of them breaks, double backup. Eliza is very fair, she doesn't hide anything from Hong Tao, as long as she can think of anything, she will tell Sù Hong Tao.

"That's the catamaran, the aluminum! catamaran! I think that's it...... Boom Boom Boom ...... Listen, it seems to be really an aluminum alloy! 26 feet, isn't it just right? It's better to come early than to come by chance, just this one!" "Hong Tao's old mistake is again, he operates according to his own understanding of everything, and sometimes because he is lazy, he doesn't delve into deeper things, and always feels that he understands, but in fact he doesn't really understand.

“…… If you have this attitude, then I would rather let you tear down my house than be your instructor! Sailing is a very strict thing, and the slightest mistake will cost you and your companions the lives of you, you are too unserious!" Eliza was really angry this time, she could tolerate poverty, wilting, and mischief, but she could not tolerate Hong Tao's habit of not caring too much about anything.

"OK!OK! I apologize, formally apologize. You go on, what else needs to be chosen?" Hong Tao also felt that he was a little too casual, and he didn't understand the fart and was not humble. It may be that his current development is too smooth, so he has further fueled this vice of himself, since Eliza reminded herself in time, it should be noted that this is a good thing, and it doesn't matter if you have a face or not, this is another benefit of being thick-skinned.

"We're buying a sailboat, not a yacht, just the hull, the cabin, the engine? This engine is only used when there is no wind or when it enters the port, it doesn't have enough horsepower, it can't carry much fuel, most of the power comes from the sails, you look up, are the sails of this ship suitable?" Eliza is no longer kind to Hong Tao, he has a hippie smile on your face, but if you give him a little good face, he will start tossing.

"Sail...... Isn't this good?" Hong Tao looked up for a long time, and he didn't see anything wrong with the sails of this ship, they were neatly rolled up on the mast, and they were cleaned up, as for whether there were holes in it, he couldn't see it, and Eliza shouldn't be able to see it!

"This is a brig, I think it would be more appropriate for us to buy a sloop!Let's go, go over there and have a look......" Eliza didn't ask Hong Tao's opinion this time, and left the ship directly, and continued to walk forward.

"Oh, hey, slow down, I'm still holding the baby...... You're empty-handed...... What's wrong with the brig? It's more expensive than the sloop? I think it's good, it's more expensive, if one of the masts breaks, isn't there another one, safe!" Hong Tao is not afraid of Eliza's straight face, in fact, he is not afraid of anyone, but he is not afraid of the other party.

"I'll tell you the reason later, anyway, I'm the coach, I just want a dhow!" Eliza also played a little temper, didn't pay attention to Hong Tao at all, and continued to wander around the dock area here, checking one after another, and had to choose a dhow aluminum alloy sailboat.

It's a pity that the sky doesn't fulfill people's wishes, or her luck is not as good as Hong Tao. After turning around for more than two hours, I looked at several ships, either the hull material was not suitable, or the ship type was not suitable, or the size was not suitable.

"Alas...... You're my nemesis! If you're willing to want this old man's ship, then let it be, anyway, I'll let you lose my face in the hockey league, and there's nothing left to lose when you go to the sea. "The price of the 26-foot two-foot two-masted aluminum schooner is very fair, at less than $40,000.

After reading all the paperwork and registration formalities for the ship, Eliza finally gave in, he could fight Hong Tao, but she couldn't fight fate. The boat is basically new, it has only been bought for less than 2 years, there is very little sailing record, and maintenance is carried out on a nice private dock. As for why the superior owner wanted to sell such a good ship, the staff here replied very simply, its owner died, died of illness, just two months ago.

"As long as it's not sick and dying on the ship, I don't care!" Hong Tao is the more he looks at it, the more he feels that this ship is pleasing to the eye, what dead people are not dead, we are materialists! Of course, when you soak a girl, you can become any ism, which has to be switched instantly with different needs.

"Do you know why it can't be sold for more than a month when it's such a good ship, and the price is so low!" Eliza pulled Hong Tao aside, and whispered viciously to Hong Tao.

"Why? Don't you think it's unlucky for you to die?" Hong Tao was still pondering about the death of the ship's owner.

"He's 76 years old, what's so bad about dying of illness? It's an old man's boat! We call the two-masted boat an old man's boat here. Its mast is lower than a single mast and it runs smoothly, but it has no pleasure in sailing, and only the elderly buy this kind of boat!" Eliza was still trying to convince Hong Tao not to buy the boat, lest she be too embarrassed as a trainer.

"Does a low mast mean a low center of gravity? As long as the sail area does not shrink, it does not affect the speed? Don't forget, I am a novice! Vanessa is also a novice! A little smoothness helps to improve the self-confidence of both of us, and more importantly, it does not frighten Vanessa. As a mother, don't think about your pleasure everywhere, you have to think more about your children! How can you be so selfish? Okay, just buy this, and when I become a qualified sailor, the next big ship will not listen to you? When the time comes, let's buy a monohull with the highest mast in North America, and the bottom will be fine!" (To be continued......)

ps: ps: I didn't say anything...... R1292