Release that Witch

82. Chapter 82 HMS Little Town Initial Flight

    Lightning is the only professional with experience in the sea and is the unshirkable conductor.

    In fact, she is also interested in this quirky and strange barge. Although it looks rough, but as a ship, the parts are all available. As for whether or not it can move, she is not sure. After all, she was mostly a bystander at sea, and her father always refused her request to take the helm or sail.

    In accordance with the tradition of the new ship sailing, Lightning smashed a can of ale on the bow and ordered the sail. Carter, as a conductor, naturally refused to let the little girl take the position, so after she shouted, Knight would always follow the same order.

    The sails of HMS Little Town are sewn with animal skins. The cow hide and sheepskin account for the majority, and some Border Town specialties, such as wolf skins, are also mixed. So it looks like the color is different, brown and white, like a patch full of rags. The sail is trapezoidal, with four wooden sticks in the middle as beams, and the cable passes through the iron ring at the top of the mast and hangs down on the deck. As long as the cable is pulled, the entire sail can be raised.

    To make the operation as simple as possible, the HMS Little Town front and rear sails are single sails that are parallel to each other and perpendicular to the centerline. If the general brig is set up like this, it will cause a sail to eat very little, almost equivalent to losing its effect. But with Wendy’s wind control capability, this design will evenly distribute the power on both sides of the centerline, making it easier for the helmsman to operate.

    Lightning saw the completion of the sail and commanded the workers on the land to untie the hemp rope. The weather at this time was not bad. The sky occasionally had snowflakes falling. Under the light wind and water flow, the boat slowly left the shore.

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

    Carter also shouted: “Right full rudder!”

    “Hey, right full rudder is What does it mean?”Brian scratched his head, “A few turns to the right?”

    “No, turn left to the bottom,” Lightning said, holding the forehead. “Forget it, let me come.”

    She forgot that these people were the first to maneuver the sailboat, and even the basic instructions did not understand. If it is a standard catamaran, I am afraid that even the sails are not rolled out. It’s just that ten people are not there, and the stone ship can be made offshore. It can only be said that the design of HMS Little Town is really unique.

    She holds the steering wheel handle higher than herself, her feet off the ground, and rotates to one side – the huge transverse steering wheel is very heavy for ordinary women, and it is equivalent to overcoming the resistance of water in the case without mechanical assistance. , pull the entire piece of iron rudder surface under the bottom of the ship. But all this is not a problem for Lightning. She noticed that there was a blocking piece under the tiller to prevent turning over the head. I couldn’t help but be curious. I heard that this ship was designed by the Prince Hall. Why did he even know this detail? Be aware that even sailors who stay at sea all year round are not necessarily aware of the structure of the various parts of the ship.

    “Wendy sister, get off the wind.”

    Wendy stood at the top of the shed and laughed and laughed. The original Highness asked if he had a fear of heights because of this reason. Use yourself to promote sailing? Thinking of the activities that I usually do, such as drying the meat, blowing the robes, etc., suddenly produced a subtle contrast. She opened the both hands and entered the state of practice on weekdays, letting the wind blow evenly from under her feet and overhead, as much as possible to make the wind on both sides of the sail equal.

    To be honest, Wendy didn’t expect this seemingly simple request to be so difficult to operate.

    Although she was awakened to witch 15 years ago, she never tried to understand and control her power. Whether it’s summoning a rapid airflow to wrap a stone to attack an enemy, or summoning a gust of wind to take away an enemy, it releases a large amount of magic power at once. When the camp handles chores, the wind is also big and small, as long as it can achieve the goal then it will be alright. Now that I remembered the serious look of Anna’s practice, Wendy suddenly felt a little ashamed.

    “The first thing you have to do is to practice your abilities repeatedly until you have mastered it completely – just like Anna.”

    It turned out that this is not a set of words.

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

    Although the wind was not completely balanced, the sails still swelled, and the constant thrust caused the mast to creak and the bow began to swing to the right.

    “It’s really moving,” Carter exclaimed.

    “His Highness made the stone a boat and let it float on the water,” Tigu said, smiling at Hu. “What else can he not do?”

    HMS Little Town is getting farther and farther from the river bank and gradually moving in the middle of the river.

    Wendy can only generate wind from the air, but can not let the original north wind disappear. Under the action of two winds, the direction of the hull is not a straight line and must be adjusted by the rudder. Lightning can’t tell this clearly, only Brian can personally understand. In order to let him grasp this feeling as soon as possible, the little girl first commanded him to carry out several major rudder changes, and felt the relationship between the angle of rotation of the steering wheel and the swinging amplitude of the bow, and then made further fine adjustments.

    After sailing on the Scarlet Water River for more than half an hour, Wendy couldn’t hold it anymore.

    Not the magic power is exhausted, but the body reaches its limit.

    Even if you pack your body into a braid, you can’t completely resist the cold wind. She had a thin layer of snow on her cotton cap, and her hands and feet were frozen and unconscious, standing on the ceiling and crumbling. If it wasn’t for Lightning who found a strange air cruise, maybe she would stick to the coma.

    Lightning quickly flew to Wendy, grabbed 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 with Wendy. Although he could only boast a sail on the deck, he could at least avoid the cold, so that the body temperature could not be lost too fast. And beaching this kind of fine-tuning work, Lightning does not dare to hand over to a newcomer who just learned to take the helm – even though she is not in the same place.

    After some tossing, HMS Little Town finally docked, and everyone’s heart was raised at the moment of collision with the river bank. The hull made a dull sound when it hit, but it didn’t look bad. The group quickly gathered the sails and set off the board.

    Fortunately fortunately, during the test, everyone did not choose a straight line to go to the end, but turned around and practiced in the spacious section of the river, so HMS Little Town did not leave the set off too far.

    Lightning was carrying Wendy’s direct toward the castle. Carter looked at the stone ship and sighed. Without the help of the witch, they didn’t want to drive the boat back to the dock.