Reborn As a Pirate

Flying like lightning, traveling thousands of miles a day!

Standing on the high-spirited bow of the rented Bermuda sloop, Lorraine opened her arms against the wind, shouting to the boundless sea and sky as if venting.

Bermuda sailboat is a new type of ship that has gradually matured in recent years. There are single-masted and multi-masted sailboats. It generally refers to special sailboats that should adopt new Bermuda sails and focus on American-style high-speed ships in design.

This type of design is a treasure conceived by British and American ancestry. It first appeared during the British African colonial period. It is 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 a high oil content, and is not easy to deform. Although it is not suitable for warships because of its brittleness, it is very suitable for merchant ships.

Thus began the Bermuda shipbuilding industry.

Later, due to the large population of Bermuda, immigrants from the North American continent, especially Virginia. Full of whimsy and speed, the Chesapeake Bay shipwrights quickly incorporated Baltimore's high-speed design into it, forming a unique Bermuda style.

The lower freeboard brings a deeper draft, and the raked back mast increases the mast height, allowing it to exceed the length of the ship, and also allows the center of gravity of the hull to move aft and tilt the bow.

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

In terms of sailing, Bermuda ships mainly use vertical sails, which combine the characteristics of Arabian triangular sails and oriental hard sails.

This design makes the sailboat open to the wind, flexible, can find a suitable cutting angle regardless of the wind and headwind, and even run super speed exceeding the wind speed in the suitable wind direction.

All of this culminates in the fastest ship in the world today, the Bermuda Galleon.

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 two-masted mixed-sail type has also reached 16 knots, and it is now the well-deserved king of high speed.

Due to its active performance, the Bermuda sailing ship has rapidly become popular in the field of light merchant ships in the world, 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. Among them, the sloop is used as a communication aid, and the two-masted mixed sail and square sail have replaced part of the Brigantine and Brig. Outstanding performance.

It's a pity that although the Bermuda sailing ship is famous, Lorraine didn't experience her charm for the first time until today.

From Lorraine's professional perspective, this special ship type with a length-to-width ratio of more than 5 to 1, a long mast and an obvious backward tilt obviously has outstanding advantages and disadvantages.

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

The Charon is a single-masted Sroop schooner, and the Butterfly was a standard Brigantine back then. The average speed of the two ships is less than 6 knots, which is not at the same level as the Bermuda ship with the same sail.

But the Charon can be equipped with up to 6 nine-pound broadside guns, the Butterfly has 20 guns, and the Brig can have a 12-pound main gun and 28 gun ports. These data are beyond the expectations of Bermuda ships. .

Like the single-masted ship at the foot of Lorraine, it is only equipped with two civilian four-pound guns, which are mainly used to drive away and threaten large marine life.

The standard ship equipment of the two-masted ships included in the army will not exceed 16 guns, and even if they are designed with double sails, the caliber of the main guns is limited to nine pounds.

If you get it quickly, you will lose its stability. It is very restrictive to be used as an armed merchant ship, but in some purposes, it has huge advantages that traditional ship types cannot match.

Lorraine came up with the idea of ​​a Bermuda ship...

Hina, ask the boat owner, is his boat for sale?

Hai Na froze for a moment: You can't get used to other people's boats?

Uh... I just think that the Charon is too slow to use as a means of transportation, and I kind of want to change it...

Soon, the Weilan Water Pearl, the Bermuda single stern ship at the foot of Lorraine, became Lorraine's asset at a price of 260 pounds.

The specific procedure will be handled by the chamber of commerce personnel in Hamilton, and when Leonard arrives, the crew will be replaced by someone Lorraine can trust.

After two days like this...

In the afternoon, the Orchid Water Bead glides over Cape Comishina in Northern Ireland against the setting sun, cuts south into Harrington Bay, and enjoys the spectacular scenery of the Royal Navy Dockyard all the way, under the guidance of Townhill Lighthouse Enter Great Bay in flat water.

The eastern head of Great Bay is where Hamilton, the capital of Bermuda, is located.

The Weilan Water Pearl slowly berthed into the vacant pier, and Lorraine stood on the boat, silent for a long time.

Haina wore a moon-white smock and hired Tingting to walk to Lorraine, gently holding his arm.

Are you worried that Bell's information is false?

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

Um?

The smuggling hadn't even started when he came to me, so he couldn't have been a premeditated military undercover agent, at worst he was an eyeliner sent by Shaq to my side.

But your brother is the admiral of the Continental Squadron.

It's two different things. Lorraine smiled. Shaq and I have a private matter. The so-called family scandal 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 family, this family cannot bear the notoriety of the descendants collaborating with the enemy.

So, the worst outcome is that Shaq will do whatever it takes to sink me, and he needs to be in charge in person to avoid accidents during the process, such as my being captured alive or surrendering.

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

It won't last long. Lorraine shook his head, No matter how willful he is, at most he will advance and retreat with the Lion. This means that as long as the Lion is not around, our environmental risks will not have the additional risks of Shaq and Bell.

Besides...what if what Bell said is true?

Hana thought for a long time relying on Lorraine, and finally admitted that Lorraine's inference was reasonable.

The biggest crisis in the Bell incident, that is, the conditions for the exposure of Lorraine's collaboration with the enemy are not sufficient? Bell was either innocent, or a vehicle for the Drake brothers to confront, and whatever it was, the risk of smuggling couldn't have been higher.

In this way, Bell's position became much simpler.

If he is on Lorraine's side, the information is true, the chamber of commerce will be helped, and everyone will be happy.

He stood on Shaq's side, so the information was false, and Lorraine would definitely pack up his bed, but there was no need to splatter five steps of blood.

When Bell left, Lorraine would either urgently find a suitable navigator, or tie himself to smuggling and give up the business of the chamber of commerce.

Arms smuggling, a business with huge returns, has been downgraded from possible and impossible to smooth and unfavorable. This downgrading itself is a huge benefit.

I just hope for the best results...

Haina was thinking in her heart, but the words came to her lips: I have seen you restless all the way, since there is nothing serious about Bell, then...

Lorraine raised his finger to the northwest.

The Royal Navy Dockyard...the fortified military port that we passed by when we came here is where Shaq is stationed.

Hana's expression darkened: If you want to go and see...

I'm not interested. Lorraine smiled inexplicably, I'm not interested in seeing that aristocratic lord look so proud. If Bell really belongs to him, just return him and attach a thank you letter.

Thank you letter?

Yes, thank you letter. [Helena's son's head is on the Jackdaw. If you like it, please ride a lion to get it], how about it?

I feel very good.