The decision to board the ship was announced by Captain Gu at a regular plenary meeting on a Sunday in early December.

As soon as Captain Gu finished announcing it, the young people in the venue were extremely excited, because it meant that everyone's hard primary training had been completed.

The happiest thing for the young people is that Gu Jin also repeated his previous promise again: after the training is completed, he will strive to go to sea in the first half of next year, and he will be able to go to sea to a certain port in the South Seas, such as Holo Port in Sulu to do business.

In short, Captain Gu's words made this group of young people become enthusiastic, and also made the atmosphere of the meeting suddenly become warm due to fatigue, and the most excited were those high school students, who had trained hard for so long, and finally could get on the boat, and the young people in the conference room were talking loudly, as lively as a vegetable market.

"Out to sea! Sea! ”

"What's going on with the waves?"

"Riding the waves, chasing the waves, and racing the ......"

"Proud of the tide, there will be a wife in the end!"

"Huh?"

"It seems a bit nonsensical......"

In any case, the fantastic thing of sailing around the world can be realized in your own life, and that kind of challenge and excitement is definitely the ultimate romance for men, and it is not too cool!

Obviously, none of the students wanted to control the Nicole, because that was the exclusive domain of Captain Gu.

And Captain Gu's words also aroused a lot of imagination among everyone, and many people began to make up for it, a few months later, when we suddenly appeared outside a port in the South Seas on the Nicole, it caused a sensation to the local area, and then there were all kinds of pretenses, and then ...... And then naturally, the locals treat us obediently as guests, and the girls are whatever our buddies choose......

However, not everyone in the crowd felt that things were so simple, such as Zhu Beiguo and Xu Zhi, these two brothers used to play sailing in the old world, and they had some perceptual understanding of sailing, and their speeches poured cold water on everyone's fiery hearts.

Zhu Beiguo said that at present, the vast majority of ports in the world, because of the problem of water depth, the Nicole cannot dock at all, let's not talk about the Nicole, like the Pride, a large sailing ship with a displacement of 1,000 tons, most ports in the new world are estimated to be unable to directly dock, especially in the South China Seas, because the largest sailing ships in this era are generally in Europe, and there are some ports where large sailing ships can be docked, after all, there is demand for construction.

But on the other hand, the Nanyang region itself is a sea area with canoes as the main means of marine transportation for the people, and the ships there are also small and medium-sized pulp discharge ships as the main body, and the general displacement is dozens of tons, 100 tons to 200 tons, although there are 3 or 400 tons, but it is not much, in other words, the draft of most ships usually does not exceed two meters, therefore, the water depth of the port is almost like this, and our Pride even if it is half loaded, the draft is already close to two meters, if it is fully loaded, I'm afraid I can't rely on most ports in the South China Sea at all.

As for what the port of Holo is like, although we have not visited it on the spot, Sulu is a small country after all, an archipelago country with a population of hundreds of thousands, and although the port has a long history, the port facilities are estimated to be no better.

Therefore, your mind is completely in the wrong direction, and you should first make up the following scenario: due to the lack of water depth near the dock, the Nicole can only anchor a few kilometers away from the port, or even run aground!

So it's impossible to get into the port, let alone get to the dock! Of course, Nicole's presence will definitely cause a visual sensation to the locals, that's for sure, but that's about it, because the two sides will end up looking at each other like this from a distance.

So, the question then arises: how do we get ashore? By a boat? Well, if a person can be brought ashore by a small boat, what about the cargo? Small shipments can be transported by small boats, but what about large shipments in the future?

Don't forget, in this era, those ports don't have any dock hoisting facilities such as tower cranes, and bulk goods are all carried on the shoulder!

So Zhu Beiguo finally said:

"In this era, the handling of goods at the dock depends on manpower and boarding, and the Nicole can't get close to the dock, so the cargo transfer is very troublesome, not to mention whether you can find labor to move it, even if you find a porter and a connecting ship, the cargo is not only costly, but also delays time......"

Looking at the people who were looking at each other, Dr. Zhu continued to play and said, This is still under the condition that the two sides live in peace, just now someone said that our cannons can reach people, relying on strong ships and cannons to deter the natives, we can pretend to be forced to slap the face in front of the world, okay, if we really want to do that, let's not even think about going ashore peacefully.

Once the war starts, the small boats that connect us will not come, what do you say about this business? Where can I buy it?

In the end, the Nicole may be just a curious sight to the locals.

And then what? If the time is delayed for a long time, there will be problems with our provisions, and in the end we may be forced to leave in disgrace because of the lack of fresh water vegetables, and even fuel......

Well, Brother Zhu's words stunned everyone, and the conference room was suddenly cold for a while, and no one responded.

Then Xu Zhi continued to say, so, we still have to take the Pride as the main training goal, although the draft of the Pride is not shallow, but it is not to the point where it runs aground a few kilometers away from the dock, so our sailing practical training should not only be based on sailboats, but also go to sea for trade, and I am afraid that in the future, we will also focus on ships of this level as Pride, as for Nicole, you can go to sea, but I'm afraid the threshold is not low, right?

Later facts proved that Zhu Xu and the others were right, in the subsequent nautical practical training process, Gu Jin was indeed based on the Pride, and most of the training courses for sailing at sea were also on the Pride rather than on the Nicole.

Of course, Gu Jin agrees with Zhu Xu and the others, he has long reminded everyone about the problem of the Nicole in this regard, in a word, the ship has great difficulties, and personnel training is still secondary, because personnel training can make the conditions available through their own efforts, but the dock situation in the outside world and the trade volume of a mature route cannot be available for a while, in short, from the perspective of trade volume and port facilities, Nicole must not be able to go to sea casually.

For this, everyone finally had to face the reality, the main means of transportation for overseas trade must be sailboats, that is, the Pride flying scissor hybrid armed sailboat in front of you.

Although the Nicole is magnificent and a giant at sea, when it comes to doing business, I'm sorry, the Nicole is really not suitable. At least, that's the case in the early days of our development.

At this time, Engineer Wang Xuewang reminded everyone in time, so the Pride class sister ships waiting to be assembled by everyone in the cave are the main force on our future trade routes.

Of course, as we all know, this does not shake the position of the Nicole, because in this era of great exploration, once on the high seas, basically the law of the jungle must be followed, the departure of the Nicole will undoubtedly deter those forces with bad intentions towards us. Therefore, the practical training on the Nicole must also be carried out, and it must also be done carefully.

Everyone nodded after hearing this, saying that Wang Gong is high-minded, which is also the consensus of Captain Gu and all of us.

Later, when Captain Gu and the trainees really drove the Nicole out for sea trials, people really felt that the reason why the Nicole could not be used as the main training ship was more in terms of economic benefits.

First of all, there was a shortage of fuel, and after the trainees began to practice on board, from early to late December, the Nicole sailed for only nine hours in 20 days, in other words, the three training teams, each of which only did three hours of cruise, quickly returned to the Red Pier.

Captain Gu just let everyone have a preliminary experience of driving and operating a big ship, and then let the Nicole continue to lie on the Red Pier and drive the trainees to learn sailing knowledge on the Pride.

Although everyone is a little unsatisfied with the training of the Nicole, they also know that this is a helpless thing, this 10,000-ton giant ship only went to sea three times, and each time it only cruised for three hours, nearly ten tons of high-quality coal were consumed, Nima is indeed too painful.

In particular, the chemical team led by Mr. Zhao has been thinking about the 500 tons of high-quality coal brought by Nicole, and they believe that the best use of these coals is to conduct production experiments for their coal coke chemical industry, rather than just burning them in vain.