Chapter 888: Princess Belle
Tang Feng spent time with his wife, daughter, and family on Gravina Island, while keeping a close eye on the climate in the Pacific Northwest. However, it was not until the end of July, as ocean temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere warmed, that the first tropical depression formed over the northwest Pacific. It's just that this tropical depression has a very short lifespan, and it only lasts for five or six days before dissipating.
This situation also made Tang Feng's heart start to move after waiting for more than a month, and he knew that with the beginning of the typhoon season, slowly, individual tropical storms and even typhoons would begin to form in the northwest Pacific Ocean, a slightly higher latitude.
"It's time to set off for the waters near the Great Tamu Volcano!"
With this in mind, Tang Feng boarded the large yacht that had just been delivered by the famous British yacht builder "Shengxi" on Gravina Island, and began a long sea journey with more than 20 retired captains and corresponding equipment and equipment.
In the sea area where the Great Tamu Volcano is located, the closest island to the Great Tamu Volcano is Nanniao Island, but even Nantori Island is more than 500 kilometers away from the Great Tamu Volcano, and Nantori Island is an extremely important island for the government, and it is really difficult to climb this island as Tang Feng.
After all, Tang Feng's identity is not that kind of marine geology expert, and the foreigners who can now land on Nanniao Island are all those famous marine geology experts, and this government simply refuses ordinary people to land on Nanniao Island.
And in order to land on the island formed by the Great Tamu Volcano for the first time, Tang Feng must get close to that sea area, so a ship that can sail close to that sea area is a must.
Exactly two and a half years ago, Tang placed an order for Shengxi Yachts, which was a 70-foot medium-sized yacht and a 190-foot large yacht.
As a result, an Italian real estate developer who also placed an order at Sunseeker Yacht went bankrupt, and the 70-foot yacht customized by the Italian real estate developer was transferred to Tang Feng. It took Tang Feng four months to harvest his first medium-sized yacht. However, if the large yacht was to follow the normal procedure, the construction period alone would have taken more than two years, but under Tang Fengke's hard work, the yacht was delivered in one year and two months.
Previously, Tang Feng wanted this large yacht to be delivered as soon as possible, mainly for the birth of Little Belle. Tang Feng wanted to give this yacht to his daughter, but Xiao Belle hadn't used it yet, and Tang Feng, who was a father, used it first.
However, Tang Feng has already named the yacht "Princess Belle".
Compared with the 544-foot (166-meter) "Eclipse" superyacht of Russian oil tycoon Abu, and the Saudi prince Ai, who is known as the "Buffett of the Middle East". Barred spent 400 million pounds (about 3.65 billion yuan) to build the 590-foot (about 180 meters) long "Azam" the world's largest superyacht, Tang's "Belle Princess" is simply not worth mentioning, whether it is size or luxury, "Belle Princess" and those two famous superyachts have a huge gap.
Tang Feng wants to build a superyacht for his daughter, but this thing often has a three-to-five-year construction cycle, and Tang Feng doesn't have that time even if he has money.
But since Sophia got pregnant last year. Tang Feng has already placed an order with the STX shipyard in Saint-Nazaire, France, to build a super private yacht for his daughter Don Bell.
The reason why the French STX shipyard was chosen is because the year before last, this shipyard had just launched the world's largest super cruise ship "Ocean Harmony", which is larger than the world's largest super cruise ship "Ocean Oasis", and is currently the world's first super cruise ship worthy of the name. Moreover, this shipyard also produced the "Mistral-class" amphibious assault ships, and the shipbuilding technology is extremely advanced.
Tang's order for a super-private yacht for STX Shipyard alone cost $900 million. That's about 627 million pounds, which is more than twice as high as the "Sophia Sweetheart" belonging to Tang. The reason why it costs so much money. That's because the real "Princess Belle" superyacht that Tang wants to build is more appropriate than a yacht and a cruise ship.
According to the famous ship design expert Italian Antonio. This superyacht designed by Pique is 754 feet (about 230 meters) long! Not to mention, the length of this yacht alone is about the same size as an ordinary cruiser, and it is far away from the "Azam", which is currently ranked first in the world, eight streets away.
Compared to the "Azam", which has a full displacement of 14,000 tons. With a full displacement of 19,000 tons, the "Princess Belle" under construction will immediately become the world's largest displacement superprivate yacht once it is completed and launched.
As for endurance and maximum speed, this superyacht is built with state-of-the-art and even military technology, and has a super range of 13,000 nautical miles/25 knots. Its top speed can be as high as 34 knots.
To put it bluntly, once this super private yacht is launched, it is a cruiser with the name of a private yacht
In terms of Tang Feng's financial resources, it is nothing to build such a super private yacht that makes most of the other rich people despair, as the richest man in the world, such a superyacht is also worthy of Tang Feng's net worth.
Of course, if Tang Feng is not willing to make a fuss, with Tang Feng's financial resources, it is only a piece of cake to build a super cruise ship larger than the "Harmony of the Seas" as a private yacht.
However, the simplified version of the "Princess Belle" that Tang Feng is riding on now is not good, although this yacht also belongs to the category of luxury yachts, but whether it is endurance or others, it is not enough to support it to sail directly from Gravina Island to the sea area of the Grand Tamu Volcano.
The distance from Gravina Island to the sea where the Grand Tamu volcano is located is almost 9,000 kilometers in a straight line, so the "Princess Belle" needs to make a stop halfway through to replenish supplies before it can reach that area.
Therefore, Tang's first stop was Honolulu in the Hawaiian Islands. After departing from Gravina Island's private marina and heading southwest, the Princess Belle arrived at Honolulu Harbor on Oahu in the Hawaiian Islands six days later.
After a two-day stay in the capital city of Hawaii, the only archipelago in the United States, Tang and his men set sail again, this time targeting Wake Island, the closest U.S. overseas territory to Mount Tamu.
Wake Island is still 3,700 kilometers from Honolulu, and it took Princess Belle about four days to reach this small island, known as the "stepping stone of the Pacific". (To be continued.) )