Xiang Yang nodded, "I always trust you to do things."
Then Xiang Yang asked again: "Where is my cousin? Is he comfortable with you as the first mate?"
Chen Qingsheng smiled bitterly and shook his head. "For now, he and I get along fairly well, but as you know, boss, he is still some distance away from being a truly qualified first mate."
Xiang Yang nodded and said, "Thank you for your hard work. There are many people in the fleet who understand technology, but there are not many who can really take charge on their own. Master Chen, please train them more."
Xiang Yang actually knew that Chen Qingsheng wanted to bring Chen Fusheng to the new ship.
But Zhou Wang was actually not good at doing the job of a first mate. Even with Xia Pengjie's assistance, the two of them together could not do the job that Chen Qingsheng used to do alone.
Xiang Yang currently still needs Chen Fusheng, the boatswain, to help manage things on deck.
"Don't worry about going out to sea. I have discussed it with Boss Wu. In a few days, we will go out to sea together to fish with a purse seine," said Xiang Yang.
After hearing this, Chen Qingsheng nodded and said, "This is a good idea. I will invite Lao He to come to my boat as a guest. With his help, we will definitely be able to complete the fishing mission smoothly. Once we have worked together once or twice and have gained real experience, it will be easier in the future."
Xiang Yang nodded. Although there were few crew members on the fleet now, most of them had truly experienced storms.
If an emergency really happens, everyone knows how to deal with it.
Two days later, Xiang Yang's fleet, together with Wu Shiwen, set out to sea for the first time in the true sense.
Xiang Yang was lying on the observation deck of the ocean-going processing mothership, feeling quite proud.
The fleet that can mobilize three large fishing boats to go out to sea is unique in Yanlong Village, not to mention the entire Huhai Town. Even in the entire Liancheng, there are only a handful of such large fleets.
"Brother Yang, are we going to dive and fish this time?" Fang Youqun on the side asked Xiang Yang nervously.
Although Xiang Yang did not let Fang Youqun be the first mate on the ship, and gave the second mate position to Xia Pengjie, he also gave Fang Youqun the position of third mate, asking him to work with Xia Pengjie to assist Zhou Wang in completing tasks on the deck.
Xiang Yang glanced at Fang Youqun and asked, "Why are you so nervous? Is this your first time going out to sea?"
Fang Youqun sweatdropped. "Of course this is not my first time to go out to sea, but this is my first time to go out to sea as a manager. I said I didn't want to be the third mate, but you forced me to be one. Now I feel uncertain."
Xiang Yang rolled his eyes, "Did you ever say you didn't want to be the leader? If you don't want to be the leader, there are plenty of people who want to be the leader."
Fang Youqun smiled awkwardly, "Isn't this just to ease the atmosphere?"
"Our main purpose this time is to coordinate multiple fishing boats for fishing. The harvest is actually secondary. We mainly come out to exercise. There is no need to worry about the catch, let alone whether to dive and fish. Even if we don't catch anything this time, I won't blame you. Besides, we may not really catch nothing." Xiang Yang said softly.
Xiang Yang had an idea.
He wanted to make everyone in the fleet as familiar with team fishing as possible during these two months.
Then, two months later, he invited Wu Shiwen to go to the Arctic Ocean or even to the Arctic Circle to fish.
Fang Youqun calmed down and then said, "Brother Yang, when are we going to cast the net? Is it a single or double cast?"
Xiang Yang shook his head. "We won't cast the net today. From now on, the ship I'm on will be our fleet's ocean-going processing mothership, responsible for processing the catch. Unless we encounter a large school of fish, we will no longer participate in fishing. How to fish later will depend on Chen Qingsheng and Wu Shiwen."
There is nothing we can do about it.
At present, there are only about forty people on this ocean-going fishing vessel. The various equipment on the ship and the driving cabin occupy more than thirty people. There are less than ten people left on the deck. Even if they cast the net, they have no way to clean the catch.
Xiang Yang planned to use this ocean-going fishing vessel exclusively as a production vessel and a survey vessel in the future.
When the fleet expands again in the future, Xiang Yang even wants to dismantle the winch on this ship and purchase a more advanced fish finding equipment.
"Look, they're casting their nets." Xiang Yang said suddenly.
Fang Youqun followed the direction indicated by Xiang Yang and soon saw that the two drift-net fishing boats not far behind him lowered a huge fishing net toward the seabed.
"Double trawl?"
I saw the double net hanging at the stern of the two fishing boats, blocking a large area of sea and catching all the fish in that large area of sea.
"Why are you casting the net so soon? What kind of fish can there be in this kind of sea?" Fang Youqun asked anxiously.
Xiang Yang glanced at Fang Youqun and said, "You go to the deck, we will cast the net as well."
"What? We are casting nets too? Isn't this a waste of oil? There are no fish in this sea area at all." Fang Youqun said anxiously.
Xiang Yang shook his head. "I told you, we came out this time mainly to familiarize ourselves with the fleet's fishing operation mode, not to really catch any fish."
After hearing this, Fang Youqun walked towards the bottom of the boat unwillingly.
Xiang Yang stood up from the recliner, walked to the bulletproof glass of the observation deck and looked behind the fishing boat.
The two drift net fishing vessels used a double trawl together, seemingly in perfect coordination, but in fact, the two vessels were very close to each other and the fishing net was not fully pulled.
A double tug fishing boat operates with two boats in parallel towing a net together. The maximum distance between the two boats can reach 600 meters. The net is opened by relying on the distance between the two boats, the pulling force of the towing line and the gravity of the float.
The two drift net fishing boats behind were less than fifty meters apart.
The fishing net was completely sunk under the water, and the floats did not work at all. The entire fishing net was completely towed by the steel tugs of two fishing boats, which not only consumed a lot of fuel, but also caused huge damage to the steel tugs of the fishing boats.
Not only that, their speed is also very slow. Xiang Yang roughly estimated that it might be only seven or eight knots.
However, Xiang Yang was already very satisfied. After all, this was the first time the fleet worked as a team to fish.
Although Xiang Yang and Wu Shiwen had previously teamed up to go to Antarctica together, they actually fished separately during that trip and had never worked as a team.
Strictly speaking, this was Xiang Yang's first time to go team fishing.
Xiang Yang silently estimated the time, then took out a microphone that looked like a cell phone and shouted, "No need to delay any longer, just close the net."
"Boss, the net has just been put down." Soon, Chen Qingsheng's voice came from the microphone. (To be continued)