Release that Witch Chapter 82: First flight of H.M.S. Little Town
Lightning, as the only professional with experience in going abroad, is indispensable as a pilot.
In fact, she is also interested in this quaint and exotic barge. Although it looks rough, she has all the necessary parts for a ship, and she can't figure out whether she can move. After all, she was mostly an onlooker when she was at sea, and her father always refused her requests to take the helm or sail herself.
In accordance with the tradition of sailing a new ship, Lightning smashed a can of ale on the bow and ordered sailing. As Carter, as a commander, naturally she did not want to let the little girl steal the position, so after she shouted, Knight would always follow the same command.
The sails of H.M.S. Little Town are sewn from animal skin. cow hide and sheepskin account for most of them, and some Border Town specialties are mixed, such as wolf skin and bear skin. So it looks different shades, brown, white and gray, like rags covered with patches. The sail is trapezoidal, separated by four wooden rods 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 to raise the entire sail.
In order to make the operation as simple as possible, both the front and rear pole sails of H.M.S. Little Town are single sail, parallel to each other and perpendicular to the center line. If a common brig is set up in this way, it will cause one side to sail with very little wind, which is almost equivalent to its failure. However, with the wind control capability of Wendy, such a design will evenly distribute the power on both sides of the centerline, making it easier for the helmsman to operate.
Lightning saw the sails completed and instructed the workers on the land to untie the twine. The weather was pretty good at this time, and occasionally snowflakes fell in the sky. With the breeze and current, the boat slowly left the shore.
The little girl landed beside Brian and shouted, "Right full rudder!"
Carter also shouted: "Right full rudder!"
"Uh, right full rudder is What does it mean?" Brian scratched his head, "How many turns to the right?"
"No, turn left to the bottom," Lightning held her forehead by hand, "Forget it, let me do it."
She forgot that all of them were operating the sailboat for the first time, and didn't understand the meaning of the basic instructions. If it were a standard brigantine, I am afraid that even the sails are not rolled out now. That's why less than ten people can make stone ship go offshore smoothly. It can only be said that the design of H.M.S. Little Town is unique.
She holds the handle of the steering wheel higher than herself, lifts her feet off the ground, and rotates the -- huge horizontal steering wheel to one side. It is very heavy for ordinary women. It is equivalent to overcome water without situation with mechanical assistance Resistance works, pulling the entire iron rudder under the bottom of the ship. But all this is not a problem for the flying Lightning. She noticed that a blocking piece was installed under the tiller to prevent her from turning her head. She was curious. I heard that the ship was designed by His Highness the Prince. Why did he know such details? You have to know that even a sailor who stays at sea all year round does not necessarily know the structure of each part of the ship.
"Sister Wendy, let's wind up."
Wendy stood on the top of the shed and couldn't help laughing and crying. His Highness asked him if he had fear of heights because of this. Use yourself to propel sailing? Thinking of the work I usually do, such as air-dried meat, blow-drying robes, etc., suddenly produced a subtle contrast. She opened both hands and entered a state of practice on weekdays, allowing the wind to blow evenly from her feet and overhead, so as to make the wind on both sides of the sail equal.
To be honest, Wendy didn't expect this seemingly simple requirement, it would be so difficult to operate.
Although she was awakened as witch 15 years ago, she never tried to understand and control her power. Whether it is summoning the rapid air to envelop the stones to attack the enemy, or summoning a strong wind to roll the enemy away, a large amount of magic power is released at one time. And when camp handles chores, the wind is also large and small, as long as it can achieve the purpose of then it will be alright. Now thinking of the serious look of Anna practice, Wendy suddenly felt a little ashamed.
"The first thing you have to do is practice your abilities repeatedly until you fully grasp it. -- is just like Anna."
It turns out this is not a cliché.
So let's do it now ... She take a deep breath focuses her attention on the induction of the wind.
Although the wind is not completely balanced, the sails still swell, the steady thrust makes the mast creak, and the bow starts to swing to the right.
"It really moved," Carter sighed.
"His Royal Highness made a boat out of stone and let it float on the water," Tigu laughed at Hu Zhe, "is there anything else he can't do?"
H.M.S. Little Town is getting farther and farther away from the river bank, gradually driving in the middle of the river.
Wendy can only generate wind power out of thin air, but cannot make the existing north wind disappear. Under the action of two wind forces, the direction of the ship's hull is not a straight line and must be adjusted by turning the rudder. This point Lightning has no way to tell clearly, only let Brian personally experience. In order to let him grasp this feeling as soon as possible, the little girl first instructed him to perform several large rudder surface changes, and felt the relationship between the steering wheel rotation angle and the bow swing amplitude before making further fine adjustments.
After sailing on Scarlet Water River for more than half an hour, Wendy couldn't hold it first.
It's not magic power exhaustion, but the body has reached its limit.
Even if you wrap your body in the shape of a mule, you can't fully resist the cold wind. A thin layer of snowflakes had accumulated on her cotton hat, her hands and feet were freezing and she lost her consciousness and stood on the ceiling crumbling. If it wasn't for Lightning's discovery of an abnormality during an air cruise, she might have persisted until she passed out.
Lightning quickly flew to Wendy, grasped her body, and shouted to let Brian land.
The latter killed the steering wheel to the right, and the bow slowly deflected to the left. Lightning also flew down with Wendy. Although only one sail can be blown on the deck, it can at least avoid the wind and cold, so as not to lose body temperature too quickly. In addition, Lightning dare not give it to a newcomer who has just learned to take the helm to operate --.
After some tossing down, H.M.S. Little Town finally landed, and everyone's heart lifted when they collided with the riverbank. The hull made a dull noise during the collision, but fortunately it didn't matter. The party quickly gathered the sails and set up a springboard.
Fortunately, during the sea trial, everyone did not choose a straight line to go to the end, but turned around to practice back and forth in the spacious river, so H.M.S. Little Town did not leave the set off too far.
Lightning flew with Wendy directly toward castle on his back. Carter sighed at stone ship. Without the help of witch, they didn't want to sail the boat back to dock.