Chapter 096: The Idea of a New Fishing Vessel
Where did Qi Yiming move many things, a total of a tow box and a small bag, and it was all clothes or something. Bei Hai said that it was better to go to help than to recognize the door.
The landlord in the house has already helped clean it, and it is very clean and directly checks in. The three of them don't need to be busy, as the landlord, Qi Yiming personally made a few dishes in his Xiaoxin home, although it was Chinese food, but it bypassed some things that Matt, the old beauty was not used to, and made a meal in line with the principle that you can enter the stomach with the entrance, no bones and no thorns.
Qi Yiming's cooking level is good, and Bei Hai is very energetic in eating, but Matt's appetite is not like this good, holding a shredded potato and eating it violently, because Old Matt can't stand the oil in the rest of the dishes.
"I will have a place to settle here in the future" Qi Yiming picked up the teacup in his hand and gestured to Bei Hai and Matt and said: "Because I am going to sea at night, I thank you two with tea instead of wine."
"You're welcome, you're welcome!" Bei Hai picked up the teacup in front of him and touched it lightly with Qi Yiming, and then chewed the Soviet revolutionary dish of beef stewed potatoes in his mouth.
Matt picked up the teacup and touched it with Qi Yiming as if he was alive: "Qi, you are very good, better than most children who grew up in Gloucester." Which of our young men in Gloucester's twenties had never been to sea? But not now, six out of ten children have never worked on a boat, and it would be nice to have one out of ten who can stick around like you on a boat......."
Matt came to the mouth for a while, and then counted down two sentences about his son, who wanted to go to the big city and didn't have the ability to get ahead, and he couldn't even pay the rent when he stayed there, and he had to stay there.
Bei Hai listened to old Matt's words and persuaded: "What young person doesn't yearn for a colorful big city life? Who wants to live a lifetime in such a small town at sunrise and sunset! Later, some of them will understand that a small city is better than a small city, and a big city is better than a big city."
It is also a normal phenomenon for young people to go to big cities to get together in the United States, and it is not a normal phenomenon in China, if it were not for the fact that Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou are always overcrowded, not all of them are troubled by this kind of thinking. Every young person thinks that they can make a career in the metropolis with their own skills, and who knows that most of them go to be a stepping stone for others.
Now you let Bei Hai go to New York or Los Angeles to settle Bei Hai will not do it, Bei Hai likes this leisurely life, although some tuna captains make Bei Hai hate, but for people who go to sea there is a saying called: What happens at sea, then stay at sea!
With this sentence, everyone is still harmonious on land. People like Crick who can go to the parking lot with people are a minority of the few.
Qi Yiming also smiled and nodded: "Then let's do it."
"It's done!" Beihai and Matt answered and drained the tea in their cups.
"Captain, when are you going to buy a ship?" Matt forked a few more shredded potatoes and put them in his mouth as he chewed as he looked at his captain, who was now eating the beef in a big gulp.
"Let's end the fishing season, once the fishing season is over, how much shipbuilding money can be squeezed out by my side will come out, and then I can order a big ship," Bei Hai said.
As soon as I heard that a new ship was ordered, both Matt and Qi Yiming came to the spirit.
Matt hurriedly asked: "It's okay to buy one from someone else, it's a big deal to transform and transform, so that it is not only fast, but also can produce benefits as much as possible."
Bei Hai understood what Matt meant, bought an old ship from someone else, and then repaired it for a maximum of a month before it was relaunched, and then he could start tourism.
The so-called tourism is that during the non-fishing season, some fishermen in Gloucester make a living, contract their boats to some city rookies who do not go out to sea during the holiday week to fish, and then charge a fee to subsidize their lives.
Where is Bei Hai interested in doing this! A fishing season will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, as for making yourself so hard, anyway, when Bei Hai decided to go to sea for a non-fishing season, he would go to sea to have fun if he wanted to, and if he didn't want to go to sea, he would stay at home and sleep a lot, who would have the mood to take others to sea for that money!
"Although the current Ripple is good, but I am not satisfied with many places" Bei Hai stretched out his fingers and began to count them one by one, having been the captain for such a long time, Bei Hai's fault with the Ripple was easy to say: "The cabin is too small, and the wind and wave resistance is basically not ......."
Matt said with a bitter face when he heard Bei Hai say this: "Captain, the Ripple is an offshore fiberglass fishing boat, which has no consideration for wind and wave resistance at all, and when it was designed, it was at most thought that the crew would stay at sea for three to five days, and the facilities were naturally not very perfect!" ”。
In Matt's opinion, you can't compare the Ripple to that, but there are recreation rooms, barber rooms, and so on on the aircraft carrier. This is the length of time you live at sea is different, what do you have to consider the comfort of being too good for a few days at sea, isn't it that you have money and nowhere to spend!
"Now there are fewer and fewer offshore fish, and they are getting smaller and smaller" Bei Hai has been thinking about this for a long time, can he not expect what Matt thought of? Here, Matt naturally replied: "At the beginning of the fishing season next year, we will not stay in the offshore water, and it will take at least a week and a half to two weeks to go to sea at a time, and we will go to the real Atlantic Ocean and go there to catch real Atlantic tuna!" I'm kind of fed up with these three to five hundred pound fish."
Qi Yiming smiled when he heard the music: "Then won't everyone's income be doubled again next year?" ”。
"Are you addicted to being a fisherman? Don't take the exam? When Bei Hai heard Qi Yiming say this, he immediately opened his mouth and asked. It's true that he doesn't have much culture, but Qi Yiming is a really good student, and he graduated from the top universities in China. Bei Hai thought that he was here to scatter the heart of a fishing season, and when he said this, it seemed that the next fishing season was still there, so what should he do about the exam?
"A year is more than three months of busy time, where to prepare for studies so much, besides, if I don't do it, where can I find such a lucrative job" Qi Yiming said to Bei Hai happily: "What's the matter, do you want to recruit others?" ”。
Bei Hai shook his head and said, "It's nothing!" It's just weird, I didn't expect you to continue to do it."
"Why don't you do it, it's only an hour's drive from Boston, and what kind of college do you want to go to Boston? Besides, I don't need money to go to school, even if I get in, it is estimated that it will be a year or two later, so let's make some money first. Maybe I'll buy a house in this little town, and I'll have my home here in the future."
After Qi Yiming finished speaking, he asked, "Tell me, what kind of boat are you going to order."
"First of all, the length and width should be increased by at least 100 feet, and the length and width of the longline boat should be this longline. The ship must have at least a seawater ice machine in the cabin, and the cabin should be larger, don't put five or six fish in it like a small sweet potato kiln like now......" Bei Hai said what he thought in his heart.
Matt, as an old fisherman, listened to Bei Hai list so many of them, if this boat is really built, where is it still a tuna fishing boat, let alone a tuna fishing boat, it is put into the longline fishing boat, it is a first-class big! A big ship has the advantage of a big ship, but when it comes to flexibility, a big ship is definitely not as good as a small boat, if it weren't for the fact that there would be no small boat to turn around, this matter is not only known to Chinese Lao Mei but also to all people who rely on the sea to make a living.
"What about flexibility? What about handling? In the process of getting rid of the diagram after the fish bites, the reflection of the fish boat's forward and backward should be fast enough, and the boat will not be too flexible! Matt said to his captain, if a tuna fishing boat is built according to his captain, what is the difference between it and a yacht in the eyes of Matt, the old fisherman?
"Rely on motivation!" Bei Hai said indifferently.
Matt's face was a little bitter when he heard this: "Even if it is caused by this price, it is not five or six hundred thousand that can be taken."
"I'm not prepared to take five or six hundred thousand yuan, this fishing season to earn a little money, if the plan is good, you can also borrow a little more, the total price of the budget is 1.5 million."
Belch! As soon as he heard the price, Matt gave up persuasion, and there was no difficulty at all to build a 100-foot fishing boat with 1.5 million dollars. If one flexible engine is not enough, then two engines, if two engines are not enough, then three engines, and three propellers at the bottom of the boat should be enough.
However, for fishing boats, they are generally single-oared, not to mention these two or three fishing boats in Gloucester, and the entire east coast is estimated to be a scorpion-poison (alone) share.
"When the money is in place, I will start looking for a shipyard to start," Bei Hai said.
Matt thought for a moment and asked, "Do you have $300,000 on hand now?" Looking at Bei Hai nodded and said: "If you really decide, one-fifth of the cost can let them design and start construction, as long as you can ensure that the follow-up payment is in place......."
Saying that, Matt popularized the knowledge of shipbuilding to Bei Hai, and Bei Hai understood that no one paid the full amount at one time for this shipbuilding, they were all repaid in batches, and after the ship was launched and accepted, there was still about five percent of the payment according to the contract, which could be postponed to a year later.
"Then I'll go to the shipyard in a while," Bei Hai said.
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