Chapter 249: The First Whaling Hunt
(Happy Chinese New Year's Eve to everyone!)
Two days later, Minamino and Dennis' fleet finally joined up with Brandon's fleet. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoThe two sides haven't seen each other for a year, and after the meeting, they had a meal and chatted and farted. As for fishing, it will start tomorrow!
"Brother Nanye, you are really amazing, now you have opened two seafood processing factories and your own fishing company, envy!" Brandon and Chelsea and others were envious when they knew that this young man had become a fisherman and a big boss during the chat. Although they are currently in high positions, they still work for the British Fisheries Company. To put it bluntly, he is still a wage earner.
"It's just a small company, it's nothing. Shuichi Minamino said modestly. In fact, what he said is also the truth, at present, it is really a small business, and it basically can't make any waves. At least in the eyes of those large fishing companies, they belong to the existence of cats and dogs.
"Brother Minamino is really humble!"
"Don't say anything, I'm very envious of Nanye-kun now, every time he goes to sea, he has a group of women with him, and he is envious when he thinks about it!" He went to sea with Dark Night Shuichi. There were four women on his fishing boat, which he had seen, of course. One is more beautiful than the other!
"Shhh...... It's good to be your own boss, you can bring it as much as you want! We don't even bring it to us as a part-time worker, and if we are discovered, it will be a very serious matter. Chelsea said enviously. Besides, the days at sea are so hard, and those women don't want to go out with them. He actually wanted to bring his girlfriend to work, but his girlfriend heard that it would take half a year to go to sea, and she wouldn't come with him at all.
The days of fishing at sea are lonely, there are no women, there is no place for entertainment, like Dennis, they basically rely on their hands for entertainment, such days are really not people's lives.
So when Dennis heard that there were several women around Shuichi Minamino, he was envious, jealous and hateful, and even Chelsea wanted to discuss with Shuichi Minamino about borrowing a girl to use it, but Shuichi Minamino rolled his eyes and said: Get out!
Ami Inoue and Yukina Sakai are currently his own women, and as for the twin sisters who are also his own employees, how can he force his own employees?
"Ahem...... Just kidding, just kidding, don't be angry. Dennis grinned.
After changing the subject, a group of people continued to drink, blow water!
The next day, the fishing finally began, and the oil supply ships and transport ships were here. Several of their fleets were fishing for two weeks in the vicinity of several hundred nautical miles. We'll let you know when the time comes to change places.
What surprised Minamino the most was that the British Fisheries Company had three whaling vessels this time! One was 800 tonnage, and the other two were 1,000 tonnage. What surprised him the most was that the British Fisheries Company had also chartered a whale ship. As the name suggests, a whale craft is a fishing vessel used to process whales!
It's a tropical ocean, not very far from the equator but not very close.
Minamino has a total of eight fishing boats, and he sorts them into four teams, leading a 1,000-ton whaling vessel and a 500-ton trawler.
"Departure, what is the radio contact. Shuichi Minamino said to Ishida Yu and a few others, they are currently in charge of a fishing boat!
"Yes, President. ”
Shuichi Minamino first set off with one of his own whaling boats and a 500-ton trawler. He is a small follower, that is Miyashita Otaro. Now he has become a first mate.
In winter, there are many fish in tropical waters, so you can catch tuna and the like directly with longline. He doesn't need to lead an entire fleet to fish. Eight large fishing vessels acting together will reduce efficiency. It is better to divide them into several small teams to catch alone.
"The bumps felt by a 1,000-tonnage fishing boat are small. Shuichi Minamino muttered to himself while standing on this whaling fishing boat.
His whaling vessel has a tonnage of 1,000 tons and a maximum speed of about 20 knots.
A whaling ship is a type of ship that is used exclusively for whaling. His whaling vessel was slender and slender, with a speed of 20 knots, which was considered a higher fishing boat.
It has a large main engine, good rotation and maneuverability, a high head, a low tail, and good seakeeping.
There are whaling guns at the bow and stern and on the edge of the ship, and this fishing boat is a relatively advanced fishing boat, so it is equipped with a whale finder. However, there are no refrigerated warehouses, and most whaling fishing vessels do not have refrigeration and processing equipment!
Whales caught by whaling vessels are transported to a whale craft or base for processing. But it's too far from land, so the British Fisheries Company rented a whale boat, which is really thoughtful!
The general whaling fishing vessel has a displacement of about several hundred tons, a maximum speed of about 20 knots, and a self-sustaining force of 1-2 months. It can be divided into two categories: offshore vessels and ocean-going vessels. Offshore vessels are generally tens to 300 gross tons; Ocean-going ships are 500~800 gross tons. Because large whales can swim at speeds of more than 14 knots (26 kilometers per hour), the speed of the boat is generally not less than 14 knots, and the speed is about 18 knots.
Shuichi Minamino's fishing boat is definitely one of the top whaling fishing boats at the moment. It has good swing performance. Less noise. It can hunt under harsh climatic conditions and improve the hit rate of whaling guns, and the ship has good stability at large inclination angles, and the pitch and roll stress is small.
Single-deck type. The deck is equipped with a whaling winch and paired bollards, and the bulwark panels are made with paired trolling holes for towing the catch. The cabin is located in the middle aft. The cab is located in the front of the center. There is a mast at the front of the wheelhouse, and there is a lookout station on it for observing whale movements and directing hunting. There is a whaling battery at the bow of the ship, which is equipped with a whaling gun with an effective firing range of 50~60 meters.
"Whaling vessels of this tonnage believe that they will be able to catch whales if they encounter them. "He's very confident in his fishing boat! Speaking of which, he's fishing for whales for the first time so far, it's a little exciting to think about.
There are still a lot of whales in these years, and there is no cruelty or anything like that. This world is natural selection, and he thinks that if the number of whales decreases in the future, maybe he can still breed whales!
Although this is a bit fantastical, it is not impossible to realize the idea of becoming stronger as his fishing grounds expand.
Generally speaking, whales have a lot of commercial value, and how many cans of whale can be produced by a single whale?