After Taniria was loaded with sugar and tobacco, the Skuo was sailing towards Venetta through waves. Her bow stirred up huge splashes. The waves separated the side of the ship, leaving a faint trace at the stern. It seemed that only this lonely ship was left in the world.

The entire hull of the Skua sways left and right with the rhythm of the sea. The higher the level, the greater the magnitude of the swaying. At the top of the mast, the magnitude of the swaying even exceeds the width of the hull.

Winters looked up at the sailor who had asked him for wine a few days ago and climbed up the mast with no protection on his body, but he was as quick and easy as a monkey. He climbed to the top of the sailor in a few strokes.

"It seems that I don't have the talent to work on the boat, and I can't do this job." Andre said in a terrified manner as he looked at the sailor working at altitude.

"I don't have the ability either." Winters felt his hands and feet numb when he watched the sailor climb to such a high: "What are you going to do when you go up?"

"Tie all the sails, we will walk in the wind for the next route, only the spinnade and the inclined sail." The chief mate of the Skuo enthusiastically promoted Andre and Winters' knowledge of navigation.

Because the west side of the Senas Gulf is embraced by land and the east side of the Tani Islands, it is gentle and usually has no strong winds and waves.

The terrain of the entire Union is high in the west and low in the east. The rivers flowing down from the western highlands enter the sea from then on, forming many flat and fertile estuary deltas on the coastline. Guitu City and Hailan City are both located on typical alluvial plains.

Therefore, in order to be able to sail into shallow seas and estuaries, ships sailing in this area generally have no deep draft.

The Skuo is neither an ocean ship nor an offshore ship. It is a "hybrid" variety. It takes whatever design is easy to use and is a typical pragmatic product.

Although the bottom of the skuo is as shallow and flat as the offshore ship, it is laid with keels that can resist wind and waves. In order to pursue speed, the skuo has installed three masts on a small ship, and greedily equipped the square cross sail and the triangular sail at the same time.

"When the wind means we want to walk against the wind?" While there was a navigation expert by the side, Winters happened to have a question and kept asking.

"There is no mention of the wind or the wind is not good on the boat. We call this situation a wind, and we have to walk in the wind next." The first mate reminded the language taboos on the boat.

"Okay, in the wind. But I don't understand why the boat can walk in the wind?" This question puzzled Winters.

"It's actually very simple." The first mate rode for Wintersby: "Put the boat diagonally to the wind, and the sails diagonally to the wind, and the boat walked forward diagonally."

"Then why can we move forward with the boat and sail diagonally facing the wind?" This is the question Winters really wants to know.

"Uh..." The first mate really stopped asking: "I don't know this... this, I just know that I can walk slanted against the wind when doing this, but I really don't know why, and I haven't thought about it."

"It seems you are also a spellcaster," Winters said with a smile. "You can also use a power that you cannot explain yourself."

The passengers who took the boat from Keito to Haelan were also breathable on the deck, and they stood behind Winters. When they heard what Winters said, one of the men secretly looked Winters up and down.

"What is a spellcaster?"

"It's the magician."

"Haha, if I were a magician, I would create the gold that I would never spend in my life."

"If gold can be transformed into gold at will, gold will not be worth much."

A rapid bell interrupted the chat between the two people, and the lookout at the top of the mast loudly announced, "Forty degrees on the port side! Sails! Forty degrees on the port side! Sails!"

When the first mate heard a boat on the port side, he quickly ran to the forecastle, and Winters followed.

"I saw nothing." Winters narrowed his eyes and saw only the sea and the sky.

"When the lookout on the mast can see the other person's mast, we can't see anything at this position. We have to wait until the lookout can see the hull before we can see the other person's mast." The first mate added: "It is a good thing that cannot see, it means that the other person has also walked around us."

The captain of the Skuo also arrived at the forecastle at this time. The captain was a rich middle-aged man. It was rare for a man on the sea to have such a round face.

"The port side is forty degrees, and the lookout saw the sail." The first mate briefly reported the situation.

"The other party occupied the upper hand." The fat captain did not hesitate at all and immediately ordered the helmsman: "Turn with the wind! Adjust the sail!"

The helmsman immediately ruddered to the right, and the hull began to tilt to the left, and the hull made a crunching sound of wood being pressed. A curved trail was left on the water surface, and the skuo also turned to a smooth sailing.

"We give up a little bit of position first, then return to the original course, and keep a little distance from the other party." The fat captain respected these army officers more respected. Seeing that Winters and Andre were unclear, he explained casually: "If the other party is not malicious, they will also worry about our intentions and keep a distance from us."

These words made Winters and Andre look at him.

"With malicious intentions? Are there pirates in the inner sea?" Andre felt unbelievable. The Bay of Senas can be said to be the bathtub, fish pond, and back garden of the alliance, commonly known as the "inland sea". Will there be pirates in such places?

"It's not necessarily a pirate, after all, this is a very busy route." The fat captain's tone sounded quite relaxed: "But there are pirates at all times, and there are still many pirates because of the prosperity of inland shipping."

He smiled: "Besides, wasn't the Alliance Navy a group of pirates at the beginning? If you help me rob other people's ships, the Skuo would be a pirate ship."

"Does anyone rob small boats like the Skuo?"

"The Skuo is not small, and even smaller ships are robbed by people, and pirates are robbed by light ships. There are many sailors in large ships, so it is safer to pirates."

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "But there must be naval warships patrolling the inland sea, right?"

"The Navy does not have a few pure warships, all of them are famous merchant ships like the Skuo. You have to pay for your shipbuilding!" The fat captain began to tell business information to Winters and Andre: "Only when a ship is earned back the cost of shipbuilding, the shipowner will not lose. It also has to be deducted wages and the net profit of maintenance. The money after the cost is paid is the real money that the shipowner earns. Build warships that do not transport goods is pure investment and a loss-making business like a iron plate."

"Don't the Navy suppress pirates?" In Winters' view, if there are bandits, is it all over? There are not many standing troops in the Army, but it does not delay the Army's attack on organized robbery gangs.

"There are weapons on merchant ships. Armed merchant ships have evil thoughts, and honestly running boats are merchants, and they cannot be clean." The fat captain likes these young men who are just starting out and explains tirelessly: "If you want to completely eliminate pirates, you must start by selling stolen goods, and the alliance cannot control it."

"The alliance also lets pirates sell stolen goods in the local area?" The news is really explosive.

"It's not in the alliance, it's in Taniria. The pirates robbed things and sold stolen goods in Taniria. This is a very mature process." The fat captain showed a meaningful smile: "I might have stolen goods in this ship cargo, who knows? Only with pirates can there be cheap sources of goods, right?

"Then...what if you are robbed?" Fat Captain's concept of mutual benefit and symbiosis with pirates made Winters and Andre dumbfounded.

The fat captain calmly replied: "Just not be robbed. Don't worry too much, it's not easy to encounter pirates."

"Bo!Bo!Bo!" The lookout rings the death-hunting bell again, and he announces at the top of his lungs: "The direction of the stern! Hun!"
Chapter completed!