Obviously, Gu Jin was not worried about the Pride's storm-resistant ability, not only because he was confident in the students' sailing skills, but also because he also knew the Pride's hull layout and various storm-resistant designs very well.

Before the crossing, Anna had carefully explained to him that the Pride not only has an excellent anti-wind and wave hull structure and anti-sinking seal cabin design, but also has an excellent anti-capsizing design, which is fully capable of resisting a level 10 super ocean storm.

Of course, at the cost of losing the speed and stability of the Pride---- the ship was not sinkable, but it was very undulating and bumpy, and the hull swayed and tossed in the wind and waves, and the inclination was sometimes as large as thirty or forty degrees. As a result, everything in the cabin that is not fixed will also roll around in the cabin because of this bump, including people.

Therefore, it is perfectly possible to imagine what the cadets experienced on board when the Pride sailed in the storm, and in the various duty posts, especially the people on deck, in such a situation if they did not tie themselves to the mast or railing, they were likely to be thrown directly into the sea.

What is it like to think that there are still people tied to the lookout at this time? Anyway, it's much more exciting than the roller coaster pirate ship in the Old World amusement park......

Of course, there are also many strange people who enjoy this process, such as Xu Zhi, Zhu Beiguo, Peng Qiang and Hu Xiaolin, etc., but more people will be terrified in the face of all this, such as Wei @ Hong, Ren Ke Ai Lush, Zhou Rui, Yue Chu and others.

This is one of the reasons why the latter group eventually abandoned seafaring and turned their interest to the Army.

Indeed, although there are many advantages to a flying clipper sailing ship like the Pride, if you encounter a storm during the voyage, even if it is a low-level ocean storm, it is better to stay on a Galen galleon in this era, and the cabins are relatively small and the various living facilities are not comfortable, for many people, this is simply not a place to stay.

As for the speed, the Pride has a maximum of about 15 knots in full sail crosswinds, while the economy cruise speed is only 8 to 10 knots.

Although this ship has so many complaints, Gu Jin is very grateful to Anna in his heart - practice has proved that Anna's trade-off in the performance of the Pride is very professional and very wise, although the Pride (including its sister ships that need to DIY later) sacrificed speed and comfort in the design, but in exchange for a great improvement in safety, Gu Jin, who has experienced major accidents in navigation, believes that safety should be the first priority for this group of newcomers to sailing no matter what.

Safety first has been deeply rooted in the bone marrow of the captain, which is also reflected in his later process of piloting the Nicole, he can immediately return to the harbor to find shelter from the wind and waves because the weather radar predicts a potential fog or storm ahead.

Therefore, on the sea, he never took the slightest risk, even if the business and transportation tasks that awaited him in front of him, he was still unmoved.

Well, let's not go afar, in short, from late January to mid-February 1657, in less than a month, the Pride made a total of six voyages, which had a very significant effect on the training of the cadets, and in addition to sailing training, it also achieved fruitful results in the exploration and mapping of the surrounding islands and the coastline of the mainland.

In less than a month, the trainees traveled to more than 30 islands, large and small, in the north and south groups of the Wellesley Islands, and all of them were landed and explored in the field.

They collected a large number of ore samples, mapped out more than a dozen sites where wharves could be built, and surveyed more than a dozen large and small rivers on these islands.

In addition to their exploration work, the crew of the Pride landed on a desert island to collect a variety of animal and plant specimens, especially bird eggs.

This archipelago has long been a no-man's land, many islands are breeding grounds for birds, and it is often the case that as soon as everyone rows a small boat to the shoreline, they find that the eggs on the ground are densely packed and scattered, and a few steps on the shore are trampled on a nest of eggs.

The trainees once set a record of collecting 3,000 bird eggs from the beach in just over an hour, and most of them were brought back to the Red Mansion to be a delicacy on the table.

Of course, in addition to these, there were also unexpected gains in the process of gathering, during a certain landing operation, several people brought back more than 20 strange large bird eggs while exploring the interior of the South Island, the shell of this bird egg is actually green, and the color that has never been seen before makes everyone very curious.

Knock it with your hand, the eggshell is very thick, take out the hand scale and weigh it,! It's more than a pound! So instead of boiling and eating these eggs on the spot, everyone took them back to the Red House and handed them over to animal husbandry expert Zhu for identification.

Sure enough, Lao Zhu was overjoyed when he saw it and said that this is a good thing! Leave it to me to hatch!

When everyone asked what this is, Lao Zhu replied, this is an emu egg, the hatched emu has grown up bigger than the ostrich, but it will not fly, probably similar to the bamboo chicken, this is a special product of the Australian continent, is a wild bird that can be raised, not only the meat is edible, the egg production is also large, has a high economic value.

Sure enough, after a few years, after Lao Zhu's hard work, this emu breeding was finally developed into a large-scale and highly economical industry, which was the successor to Merino sheep, Limousin cattle and Arabia

It is the fourth largest pillar industry of Australian animal husbandry after the Mongolian half-blooded horse.

This...... Is...... More on that later.

During the month that the Pride was away, the construction on Mornington Island did not stop, and although more than 30 of the 93 people went to sea, the remaining nearly 60 people, minus women and children, still had more than 40 people who could go to work on the construction site and in the fields.

Nowadays, in addition to some daily field management and the production of cement factory brick and tile factory, there are two main construction projects in front of us: one is the preliminary preparation of the Moon River Hydropower Station. The second is the construction of Sydney Island Ranch.

Under the leadership of Lao Zhu, the exploration team composed of four people, including Ren Ke ** Airush, comprehensively surveyed Sydney Island, and the cement wharf project of Sydney Island began long before the Pride sailed for the first time, and the construction site preparation of the Moon River Hydropower Station was officially launched in the following days.

These two projects were not smooth at the beginning, especially the construction site preparation of the Moon River Hydropower Station, the construction progress of the storage yard of raw materials, the shed and the construction road of the construction site was greatly affected by the weather, and now it is still the rainy season, hurricanes frequently pass through, and often heavy rain pours, the weather not only makes the open-air field construction work have a lot of inconvenience, even the production of semi-open-air cement factories and brick and tile factories will be affected.

During this period, there were also emergencies from Lao Wang's side from time to time, and everyone often had to put down their work to work in the farmland, including emergency drainage of the field, renovation of the blistered land, and a variety of finishing and care for various crops, etc., so these two projects have been stop-and-go, and the progress has been slow.

But in order to hurry, everyone is still insisting on construction, and even to disrupt the work and rest time, sometimes set off at three o'clock in the morning, work until noon, and go home when the storm comes, so in these days, everyone's work and rest is almost completely with the weather, so it may not rest on Sunday, no way, in the last days of the rainy season, the weather changes frequently, God will not be on people's daily schedule, in short, everyone is often doing a dry stop and a stop for a while, When the storm passed, he stayed in the Red Building, and when the weather improved, he immediately went out to work.

Everyone found that it didn't seem too tiring to do it like this, but everyone would feel that it made people panic like this, and they always felt that they were wasting their time - this was all used to the super-intensive work a while ago, but this was forced by God, and there was no way to do it.