Chapter 168: Fishing competition on the Intrepid (1)

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Sailing in ancient sailboats was a boring and tedious job, but very technical.
European navigators or captains of this era generally consider the influence of ocean currents in addition to wind and climate when traveling between Europe and the New World, such as the Canary Cold Current, the North Equatorial Warm Current, and the Gulf Stream of Mexico. Wait!
Over time, these summed up experience gradually formed several fixed routes, and the captain or navigator on the ship needs to sail along these fixed routes in order to be the most economical. Save time and effort! The pirates in the Caribbean Sea frequently haunt these important routes.
Sailboats in this era do not have engines or propellers. In fact, sailboats in this era still rely on sea breeze to sail, whether it is downwind, headwind or crosswind. When there is no wind, you can use the hard oars if you are really anxious!
It’s just that generally large sailing sailboats, especially those of ocean-going sailing ships like Galen, are generally not equipped with oars. When there is no wind and no ocean currents, they can only drift slowly. Anyway, the ocean’s climate is changeable, and wind will come in at most three or five days of drifting. These things are already commonplace for crew members who have lived in the sea for many years.
However, this kind of extreme windless and no ocean current situation usually occurs only when exploring new routes or crossing the equatorial windless zone. Otherwise, it must be the captain or the navigator who is negligent. Without losing the course, there will never be too many accidents on the route that has been explored by European navigators, of course, except for pirates!
Today is the second day that Annie goes to sea. After a dusk and night sailing, what follows is a boring life on a boat.
At this time, the Intrepid is crossing the equatorial windless zone. Its sails are only lowered on one side, and the other sails are still closed. However, under Anne’s constant strong wind magic, the Intrepid can still be a ship with one side. The sail ran out at a speed of about ten knots! The speed of more than ten knots is already the highest speed that the original Intrepid could reach before the magic change. On this road, their sails can also run out of high speed, which is not scary. Broken the merchant ships encountered.
At the rudder on the bridge, only a helmsman of the original navy was controlling the Intrepid, while Annie, Bassabo, Norrington and Jack Sparrow were all sitting on the stern terrace, still nervous. They looked at each other, and from time to time looked at the sea below the stern.
Behind them, there was also a group of sailors watching the excitement, making noise from time to time!
It turned out that Little Annie was holding a fishing competition with the three of them. In order to make the fishing competition go smoothly, she also ordered the sailors to put away most of the sails, and Little Annie also took her Tibe up for the first time. Sie threw it into the space pocket, and the province scared the fish away!
The two sisters Cecilia and Christina are standing next to Annie nervously, helping her prepare fishing rods and other fishing tackle. Now the second round of fishing competition is ready to start. The rules of the competition are simple: Each person is only allowed to fish once, and finally compare the weight of each other's fish, and the heaviest person wins.
Originally in the morning, it was only the very boring Annie and the idler Jack Sparrow that were engaged in a fishing competition, but the happy Bassabo took the helmsman's job and gave this article a magic The ship's Dreadnought was at the helm, and Norrington spent time drinking in the sailor's room to pass the boring life at sea and the aggrieved half-captive life.
In the morning, the first round of the fishing competition undoubtedly ended with the victory of Captain Jack Sparrow. Because he actually caught a tuna weighing 120 pounds! And what about Little Annie? Only a small flying fish was caught, and the flying fish jumped up after being alarmed by the ship, and accidentally jumped into Annie's fish frame. As a result, it was barely a reward for her, and it would not end empty-handed.
After losing the game, Little Annie generously provided Jack Sparrow’s telescope with an eagle eye technique so that it can be used no matter when and in what weather, even in dark or invisible fog at night. , Can see farther with it! Moreover, even under normal circumstances, it can be more than three times more visible than the best and most exquisite marine telescope.
At this moment, it can be regarded as alarming Bassabo and Norrington. After enchanting, this ordinary telescope immediately became a nautical treasure to be seen!
For a captain, it is simply a priceless existence! Not only can you see farther and clearer, but you can also ignore day and night or bad weather. This is simply a treasure that exists specifically for sailing! How could they not jealous?
Therefore, in the second fishing contest in the afternoon, the captains all participated in the game!
"Although I don't fish very often, but believe me, a wild road like you will never understand what kind of existence can be called a master fishing master!"
The first to play was Brigadier General Norrington, who looked very confident. He took out his luxurious special boom and used a specially customized special bait.
When he finished taunting the two pirates, he picked up his exquisite fishing rod, and then gracefully flicked it directly onto the surface of the sea, and then waited for the fish to take the bait in peace.
"Just be optimistic, I used thick thread and big fish hook, I will definitely catch a big guy!"
According to the regulations before the start of the competition, everyone has only half an hour of fishing time. Even if the first fish caught is the final result, it will be transferred to the next person soon!
And if there is no bait for more than half an hour, the score will be zero! Of course, in order to prevent the witch from cheating, they also agreed not to use any magic or magic-related things!
Although he hasn't fished for a long time, he may be a little bit handy. However, Norrington did not worry much. According to his usual fishing experience, when he used the bait soaked in special materials, the big guy near this sea area , In ten to twenty minutes, he will definitely come back to eat the bait!
When he was still a captain, he had already tried countless times when he sailed around the world on a boat, and he had never had a big accident!
So, with strong confidence, after setting up the fishing rod, he leisurely sat down and waited. He had already begun to think, if he wins later, what prizes should he ask for from the witch? Is it a magic sail? Or a telescope?
"Hey! Barbosa, do you think this Norrington, will he catch a big fish?"
After Jack Sparrow saw Norrington’s luxurious fishing gear and special fishing bait, he said that it’s impossible not to be nervous! At first glance, that set of things seemed to be very advanced, and he was a little panicked.
"Fish, I should be able to catch it! It's just that I don't know how big it is... Anyway, it must not be bigger than what I will catch. I am very confident about this!"
Barbossa looked at Norrington's fishing gear indifferently, curled his lips disdainfully. He has just seen the fishing gear of the three of them, and now he has the confidence to win. As long as the witch does not cheat, he believes that no one will be bigger and heavier than the big fish that Captain Barbossa brought up!
"Why do you think so? Is anyone unlucky knocking on the door?"
Jack Sparrow was shocked again after hearing what Barbosa said. Now it seems that this old guy is not easy. Does the other party have any secrets? Therefore, while retorting uncomfortably, he twisted his waist and walked to the side of the opponent, trying to find out some useful information.
"Hmm! Wait a minute, you will know! Don't worry, soon! Jack, are you right? Hahaha..."
Captain Barbossa ignored Jack's temptation and teased himself with the monkey named Jack on his shoulder, and started to smirk proudly!
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Very good, then wait and see! The great Captain Jack Sparrow believed that this trivial matter of fishing should not be difficult for him.
After thinking suspiciously for a while, Jack Sparrow looked at Brigadier General Norrington, who was waiting leisurely for the fish to get the bait, and then at the confident look of Barcelona behind him. He gritted his teeth and thought about it. , I immediately changed my fishing rod to a larger hook and thicker fishing line!
However, this alone still felt unsafe, so he took advantage of other people's attention to the sea and no one noticed himself, and moved in small steps behind Norrington.
"Okay! Just watch, now, a fish is hooked!"
Norrington saw that the fishing float on the sea began to twist violently, and the fishing line began to tighten. After he got up, he immediately stood up, grabbed the fishing rod, and turned the pulley to slowly retract the fishing line. His experience Tell him, he must be a big guy!
"Ha! Have you seen it? This is the highest level of fishing!"
Norrington nodded in satisfaction as soon as he put the fishing rod on his hands. This is indeed a big guy!
After a part of the fishing line was slowly taken up, the water began to vigorously agitated. Through the stretched fishing line and the huge fins occasionally coming out of the water, a group of onlookers began to noisy after seeing it.
They also noticed it, and it looked like it was indeed a big fish below!
"Who will help?"
After more than ten minutes of wrestling, the exhausted big fish of UU reading www.uukanshu.com was finally pulled on the deck by Norrington and the sailors. After weighing, it was finally confirmed that it was a piece of one that weighed one. A hundred and fifty-six pound swordfish!
Sure enough, it is a big guy. It seems that their brigadier general has already won? So the sailors began to cheer loudly.
"thank you very much!"
Norrington gracefully bowed to everyone. In his opinion, the 156-pound swordfish is already a sure win. He now needs a little time to think about it. Later, what will happen? What kind of prizes should I ask for from Little Witch Annie?
"Wow!"
Annie squatted next to the swordfish, kicked the pointed and long sword-like muzzle on the swordfish’s mouth with her round-toed leather shoes, and then sighed a little dejectedly. It seems that her game this time, If you can't cheat, you seem to lose again?
"It's not fun at all!"