"Fast and electric, travel thousands of miles every day!"

Standing on the high bow of the rented Bermuda dhow, Lorraine opened his arms against the wind, venting as if shouting at the boundless sea and sky.

Bermuda sailing is a new type of ship that has only gradually matured in recent years. It can be divided into single-masted and multi-masted. It generally refers to a special sailing ship that should adopt a new type of Bermuda sail and is designed with an American-style high-speed ship.

This type of design is a gem bred by both British and American descent. It began in the British African colonial period and was a light high-speed schooner built with Kenyan redwood as the main material.

Later, the British found a more suitable alternative ship material, Bermuda cypress.

This kind of wood is light, hard, has high oil content, and is not easily deformed. Although it is not suitable for warships due to its brittleness, it is extremely suitable for merchant ships.

The shipbuilding industry in Bermuda thus emerged.

Later, because the Bermuda area has a large population of immigrants from the North American continent, especially the Virginia area. Full of whimsical ideas, the Chesapeake Bay craftsmen who advocating speed in their bones quickly incorporated the Baltimore high-speed design into it, which formed the unique Bermuda style.

The lower freeboard brings a deeper draft, and the backward-inclined mast increases the height of the mast so that it can exceed the length of the ship, and it can also shift the center of gravity of the ship back and raise the bow.

The shape of the sword, bow, shield and stern is a consistent feature of Baltimore ships. They boldly expanded the aspect ratio to make the hull more slender and improve the ability to break waves.

In terms of sail installation, Bermuda boats are mainly rigging sails, combining the characteristics of Arabian spinnakers and eastern hard sails. For the first time, the western-style soft sails have been added with sail bones to form a unique Bermuda sail.

This design makes the sailing surface wide open and flexible. It can find a suitable cutting angle no matter whether it is downwind or upwind, and it can even run at a super speed exceeding the wind speed in a suitable wind direction.

All of this resulted in the formation of the fastest ship in the world today, the Bermuda Yacht.

Its sloop has maintained the world's fastest speed of 18 knots and the world's fastest average speed of 12 knots.

The top speed of the double-masted mixed-sail type has also reached 16 knots, and it is now the king of high speeds.

Because of its active performance, Bermuda sailing has rapidly become popular in the world of light commercial shipping, and even maritime powers have begun to explore the possibility of its military use.

The Royal Navy has ordered a batch of Bermuda ships in recent years. The single-masted schooner is used as a communication aid, and the double-masted and cross-sail have replaced Brigentin and Brig. Outstanding performance.

It's a pity that, despite the reputation of Bermuda sailing boats, Lorraine has not experienced her charm for the first time until today.

From the professional point of view of Lorraine, this special ship type with a length-to-width ratio of more than 5 to 1, with a long mast and an obvious rearward tilt is obviously outstanding in terms of its advantages and disadvantages.

Needless to say, the advantages are fast and extremely fast.

The Charon was a sloop Slope schooner, while the Pansy was the standard Brigentine. The average speed of the two ships was less than 6 knots, and the type of Bermuda ship with the same sail was not in the same order of magnitude.

However, the Charon can be equipped with up to 6 nine-pound side cannons, the Pansy has 20 firepower, the Brig-type main gun can reach 12 pounds, and the gun ports are 28. These data are not expected by the Bermuda ship type. .

The single-masted ship at the foot of Lorraine is equipped with only two civilian four-pounder guns, which are mainly used to expel and terrorize large marine creatures.

The standard equipment of the brigs included in the military will not exceed 16 doors. Even with the double-sail design, the caliber of the main gun is limited to nine pounds.

If it is fast, it will lose its stability. It has great restrictions on its use as an armed merchant ship. However, for some purposes, it has huge advantages that traditional ship types cannot match.

Lorraine had the idea of ​​a Bermuda ship...

"Henna, go and ask the owner, is his boat sold?"

Hina was stunned for a moment: "You can't get used to other people's boats?"

"Uh... I just feel that the Charon is too slow for transportation, and I want to change to another..."

Soon, the Azure Waterdrop, that is, the Bermuda single column at the feet of Lorraine, became an asset of Lorraine at a price of 260 pounds. The specific procedures waited for Hamilton to be handled by the Chamber of Commerce staff, and Leonard arrived. , The crew will also be replaced by someone Lorraine can trust.

So flicked for two days...

In the afternoon, the Cerulean Water Bead greeted the sunset over Cape Comishina on the island of Northern Ireland, cutting south into Harrington Bay, admiring the spectacular scenery of the Royal Naval Dockyard, guided by the Tonhill Lighthouse Enter the deep water of the Great Bay.

The eastern tip of Great Bay is the location of Hamilton, the capital of Bermuda.

The Weilan Water Drop slowly berthed into the vacant dock, and Lorraine stood on the ship, silent for a long time.

Henna put on a moon-white overall and hired Tingting to walk to Lorraine and gently took his arm.

"Worrying that Bell's intelligence is false?"

Lorraine shook his head: "Actually, I don't worry much about Bell anymore."

"Um?"

"The smuggling didn't even start when he came to me, so he can't be a premeditated military undercover agent. The worst is the eyeliner Shaq sent to me."

"But your brother is the admiral of the Continental Squadron."

"It's two different things." Lorraine smiled. "Shaq and I are private. The so-called family ugliness should not be publicized. Even if my smuggling matter falls into his ears, he will not make it public."

"After all, my surname is Drake. Even if I am expelled from the house, this family cannot afford the notoriety of collaborating with the enemy."

"So, the worst result is that Shaq will sink me at all costs, and he needs to sit down in person to avoid accidents in the process, such as being captured or surrendered."

"But, Admiral Tangtang, how long can the helm of the entire squadron stay at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay without doing business?"

"It won't be long." Lorraine shook his head, "Even if he is willful, at best he will advance and retreat with the Lion. This means that as long as the Lion is not there, there will be no additional risks of Shaq and Bell in our environmental risks~ lightnovelpub.net~Furthermore...what if Bell is telling the truth?"

Henna leaned on Lorraine for a long time, and finally admitted that Lorraine's inference was reasonable.

The biggest crisis in the Bell incident is that the conditions for the exposure of Lorraine's collaborating with the enemy are not sufficient? Either Bell is innocent, or the medium for the Drake brothers to confront, no matter what, the risk of smuggling will not be higher.

As a result, Bell's position became much simpler.

He stood on Lorraine's side, and the information was true, and the Chamber of Commerce received a good help, and everyone was very happy.

He stood on Shaq's side, the information was false, Lorraine must roll up his bedclothes, but there was no need to splash five steps of blood.

When Bell is gone, Lorraine will either urgently find a suitable navigator or tie herself to the smuggling and give up the business of the Chamber of Commerce.

Arms smuggling, this highly rewarding business has been degraded from acceptable or unacceptable to smooth or unsatisfactory, and this downgrading itself is a huge benefit.

Just hope for the most perfect result...

Hannah thought to her heart, but when she reached her lips, she said, "I see you feeling restless along the way. Since Bell has nothing to do, then..."

Lorraine raised his hand to the northwest.

"The Royal Naval Dockyard... the formidable military port that passed by when we came is Shaq's station."

Henna looked sad: "If you want to see..."

"Not interested." Lorraine smiled inexplicably, "I'm not interested in seeing that aristocratic master's arrogant appearance. If Bell is really his person, return it to him with a letter of thanks."

"Thank you letter?"

"Yes, thank you letter. [The head of the son of Helena is on the Jackdaw, if you like, please ride on a lion], how?"

"I feel very good."