According to Le Shun’s plan, the Yugege Sweetheart needs to conduct seven to ten days of sea trials, and the main sea trial location is in the rough North Sea.
The North Sea in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean can be said to be one of the seas with the worst sea conditions in the world. I am afraid that except for the westerly drift belt in the southern hemisphere, the North Sea is the sea area with the worst sea conditions in the entire earth.
This sea area located between the British Isles, the Scandinavian Peninsula, the Jutland Peninsula and the Dutch-Belse Lowlands is not very large, with an area of less than 600,000 square kilometers, which is 200,000 square kilometers smaller than the East China Sea of China.
However, because this sea area is located at a high latitude, westerly winds prevail all year round. At the same time, the North Sea is located in a position where the polar front hovers north and south, so cyclone activities are frequent, especially in winter, when storms often occur and can form waves as high as several meters or even more than ten meters.
Therefore, the North Sea in winter is called the "Devil's Sea" by Europeans.
Although it is summer now, the sea conditions in the North Sea are still not very good. Strong winds and high waves are the characteristics here.
However, sea trials in such waters can expose all the shortcomings of a ship as much as possible. As the lyrics say, how can you see the rainbow without going through the wind and rain? This saying is still applicable to the sea trials of new ships.
However, the arrival of Yang Jing's family directly changed Le Shun's sea trial plan.
Yang Jing left Ludwig Muller speechless with just one sentence.
"Luther, are you confident in the yacht you built? If you are not confident, then the sea trial will continue. If you are confident, then do as I said and conduct the sea trial on my return trip!"
How could Ludwig Muller say that he had no confidence in the super yachts he produced? So he could only follow the plan Yang Jing said, that is, after sailing from Bremen Haven, he went south along the west coast of the European continent, then crossed the Mediterranean Sea, the Suez Canal, the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal, the Strait of Malacca, the South China Sea, the East China Sea, and the Yellow Sea, and finally arrived at the island city of Lu Province, China. The whole journey exceeded 13,000 nautical miles, or 21,000 kilometers!
This is definitely an ultra-long-distance sea trial!
At the cruising speed of 28 knots, it would take at least 20 days to complete the trip. Of course, if we count the time it takes to stop for supplies or if there are any problems with the ship, it would be hard to say how long it would take.
According to normal regulations, Yugege Sweetheart must undergo sea trials before it is officially delivered to the ship owner Yang Jing. But in fact, as one of the world's leading superyacht manufacturers, Leshun has almost never found any major problems with its superyachts during the sea trials.
After all, Le Shun used to build warships!
With the experience and technology that Le Shun has accumulated over hundreds of years in building large ships, even though Yugege Sweetheart is currently the world's largest superyacht, to be honest, the construction difficulty of this superyacht is not even as great as that of battleships or cruisers during World War I and World War II.
The difficulty of building the Yugege Sweetheart lies in its interior decoration. As for the structure of the ship, there is actually not much difference.
Therefore, although Ludwig did not dare to say that he could guarantee 100% that there would be no problems with the Yugege Sweetheart, he was more than 90% sure that there would be no problems with the ship.
As for Yang Jing, it was no problem at all. Even if this super yacht had some minor problems on the way to China, it was not a big deal. As long as the boat didn't sink, it wasn't a big problem.
And then again, even if there is a big problem with this super yacht, don't they have two helicopters and a submarine on board? And this ship will always sail within a hundred nautical miles of the coastline. Even if there is a big problem, the AW189 super medium helicopter alone can ensure the safety of the family.
So Yang Jing was not worried at all about any major problems while taking this ship.
So, under such circumstances, the Yugege Sweetheart, taking advantage of the incoming astronomical tide, carrying Yang Jing's family and Yang Jing's entourage, under the command of Captain Andre, began to slowly sail northward along the Weser River.
Because the Yugege Sweetheart has a relatively large draft, there is a special guide boat in front of this superyacht even when it catches the astronomical tide. This guide boat not only marks the best route for the Yugege Sweetheart in the Weser River, but also has the responsibility of testing the water depth.
Fortunately, this astronomical tide caused the water level of the Weser River to rise sharply, otherwise this big guy would not be able to sail out of the 50-kilometer-long river.
The Yugege Sweetheart moved slowly at a slow speed of five knots. It took five hours to sail out of the Weser River and finally into the embrace of the sea.
Of course, during the driving process, this super powerful super yacht also attracted a large number of residents and tourists on both sides of the Weser River. The 212-meter-long super yacht sailing in this river feels like a mammoth playing on a seesaw in a kindergarten...
After arriving in Bremerhaven, this super yacht also attracted a large number of onlookers. After all, this super yacht is too luxurious. Except for the blind and the stupid, everyone knows that this is a super expensive yacht.
After Yugege Sweetheart entered the North Sea, it was like fish returning to the sea and birds flying to the sky. The sea is the territory of this super yacht!
As soon as they entered the North Sea waterway, Captain Andre ordered the ship to increase its speed to the maximum.
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