Chapter 82 The first flight of the town

8days ago Xuanhuan Novels 9
As the only professional with experience in going out to sea, Lightning has no choice but to serve as a navigator.

In fact, she was also interested in this barge with quirky shapes and strange materials.

Although it looks extremely crude, as a ship, she has all the components that it should have. As for whether it can move, she can't figure it out.

After all, she was mostly just a bystander when she was at sea, and her father always refused her request to take the helm or raise the sail herself.

According to the tradition of the new ship, lightning smashed a can of ale on the bow and ordered the sail to rise.

As the commander, Carter naturally did not want the little girl to take the position, so after she finished calling, the Knight would always add the same order.

The sails of the town are sewn with animal skins, with cowhide and sheepskin accounting for most of them. They also have some specialties in border towns, such as wolf-skin and bear skin.

Therefore, the colors look different in shades, brown, white and gray, like a patched rag.

The sail is trapezoidal, separated by four wooden sticks as beams in the middle, and the cable passes through the iron ring at the top of the mast and hangs on the deck.

Just pull the cable and you can raise the entire sail.

To make the operation as simple as possible, the two sails in front and rear of the town are single sails, parallel to each other and perpendicular to the center line.

If a general brig is set up in this way, it will cause one side of the sail to eat very little, which is almost equivalent to losing its effect.

However, with Wendy's wind control ability, such a design will make the power evenly distributed on both sides of the center line, making it more convenient for the helmsman to operate.

Seeing that the sail was lifted, the lightning commanded the workers on the land to untie the hemp rope.The weather was pretty good at this time, with occasional snowflakes falling in the sky. Driven by the light breeze and the current of water, the boat slowly left the shore.

The little girl landed beside Brian and shouted: Right full rudder!

Carter also shouted: Right full rudder!

Uh, what does the right rudder mean?Brian scratched his head and turned right a few times?

No, turn left to the bottom, Lightning held his forehead with his hands, forget it, let me do it.

She forgot that these people were manipulating schooners for the first time and didn't even understand the basic instructions.

If it were a standard brig, I'm afraid that the sails would not even be laid out now.

With less than ten people, the Shibo was able to keep the Shibo offshore smoothly. It can only be said that the design of the Town is indeed unique.

She held the handle of the steering wheel that was taller than herself, and her feet were off the ground, and the huge transverse steering wheel was very heavy for ordinary women. Without mechanical help, she was equivalent to overcoming the resistance of water and doing work, and pulling the entire iron rudder surface under the bottom of the ship.

But all this is not a problem for the flying lightning.

She noticed that there was a blocking piece set up below the tiller to prevent turning her head, and she couldn't help but be curious. She heard that this ship was designed by His Highness the Prince, why did he even know such details?

You should know that even sailors who stay at sea all year round may not be clear about the structure of each part of the ship.

Sister Wendy, let’s get the wind.

Wendy stood on the roof and couldn't help laughing and crying. It turned out that His Highness asked if he had a fear of heights because of this.

Use yourself to push the sailboat?

Thinking of the work I usually do, such as drying pieces of meat, blowing clothes, etc., a subtle contrast suddenly arises.

She opened her hands and entered a state of practice on weekdays, allowing the wind to blow evenly from under her feet and above her head, so that the wind on both sides of the sails was equal as much as possible.

To be honest, Wendy didn't expect that this seemingly simple requirement would be so difficult to operate.

Although awakened as a witch fifteen years ago, she never tried to understand and control her own power.

Whether it is summoning a rapid airflow to wrap stones to attack the enemy, or summoning a strong wind to sweep the enemy away, it releases a lot of magic at once.

When handling chores in the camp, the wind is also high and low, as long as the goal can be achieved.

Now that I remembered Anna's serious appearance when she was practicing, Wendy suddenly felt a little ashamed.

The first thing you have to do is to practice your abilities repeatedly until you fully master it, just like Anna.

It turns out that this is not a cliché.

Then start from now on... She took a deep breath and focused all her attention on the sensation of the wind.

Although the wind was not completely balanced, the sails were still swelling, and the continuous thrust made the mast creak and the bow began to swing to the right.

It actually moved, Carter sighed.

His Highness made the stone into a ship and let it float on the water. Tigu touched the rut and said with a smile, "Is there anything else he can't do?"

The township is getting farther and farther away from the river bank, and gradually traveling in the middle of the river.

Wendy can only generate wind out of thin air, but she cannot let the already-existing north wind disappear. Under the action of the two wind forces, the direction of the hull is not a straight line, and it must be adjusted by turning the rudder.

This lightning cannot be explained clearly, so Brian can only experience it personally.

In order to let him master this feeling as soon as possible, the little girl first directed him to undergo several large rudder surface changes, felt the relationship between the rotation angle of the rudder wheel and the swing amplitude of the bow, and then made further subtle adjustments.

After sailing on the Chishui River for more than half an hour, Wendy couldn't hold on first.

It’s not that the magic power is exhausted, but that the body has reached its limit.

Even if you wrap your body in the shape of a rice dumpling, you cannot completely resist the invasion of the cold wind.

A thin layer of snowflakes had accumulated on her cotton hat, and her hands and feet were almost unconscious, and she stood on the roof and was shaking.

If Lightning hadn't discovered something strange while cruising in the air, she might have persisted until she was unconscious.

The lightning flew quickly to Wendy, grabbing her body while shouting to let Bryan dock.

The latter beat the rudder to the right and slowly deflected the bow to the left.

Lightning also flew down with Wendy. Although only one sail could blow on the deck, it could at least temporarily avoid the wind and cold to prevent the body temperature from dropping too quickly.

Moreover, lightning dared not leave the docking job that requires careful regulation to a newcomer who has just learned to take the helm to operate, although she also has nowhere to go.

After some trouble, the town finally landed, and everyone's hearts were raised when they collided with the river bank.

The hull made a dull sound when it hit, but fortunately it didn't look serious.

The group quickly gathered the sails and set up a springboard to go ashore.

Fortunately, during the trial voyage, everyone did not choose to go straight to the end, but turned around and practiced back and forth in the spacious river, so the town did not leave the starting point too far.

Lightning flew directly towards the castle with Wendy on his back. Carter looked at the stone ship and sighed. Without the help of the witch, they would not have thought of driving the ship back to the dock.