"Brother Li, you really know how to ask questions. You always get right to the point."
As for this question, I can make you a promise. If you are willing to come to our company, I can guarantee that within three months at most, I can make you a real second mate and have your own fishing boat.
"It's only been three months. You can go out to sea with the Yuxue fishing boat first to get used to the feeling of going to the open ocean. Learn from the second mate on the current ship. When the new ship arrives, you can get started smoothly."
Bai Yu also gave Brother Li a detailed explanation of his question.
This three-month period wasn't something Bai Yu made up; it was the answer he received from the shipyard after asking them.
Of course, three months is not enough time for a shipyard to build a fishing boat from scratch, nor is it enough to sell them a second-hand fishing boat, but a brand new one.
It's worth noting that even the Yuxue fishing boat took the shipyard more than half a year to build.
There's a reason why the shipyard dared to guarantee Baiyu a brand-new, 75-meter-long fishing boat within three months.
Well, the reason for this is also due to the pandemic. The pandemic broke out at the end of last year, followed by a nationwide lockdown, which was then followed by a nationwide economic downturn, making it difficult for many companies to conduct their business.
As a result, many of these companies eventually went bankrupt.
The shipyard had received a shipbuilding order before the Lunar New Year, with the client ordering three large fishing boats from the shipyard in one go, and then the epidemic broke out.
When the pandemic broke out, the shipyard had already started building the third fishing boat. The hull was already finished when they received news of the other party's bankruptcy. The first two fishing boats had already been taken away by creditors to pay off debts.
Fortunately, the payments for the first two fishing boats have been settled, and only the final payment for the third boat remains outstanding.
But now the other company is gone, and the ship is not finished. Who do you think they should ask for the final payment? Should the ship still be built?
Then Bai Yu called the other party. The ship whose hull had already been built was still sitting in their shipyard. If Bai Yu really wanted it later, the shipyard could start construction immediately and guarantee that the new ship could be launched in three months.
Not only is it fast, but it's also much cheaper.
This isn't a discount offered by the shipyard to white fishermen; rather, the pandemic isn't truly over yet, and the entire industry has been hit by it, including shipyards.
Therefore, in order to secure enough orders for the shipyard, they naturally have to forgo some profits and offer significant discounts.
Bai Yu would naturally not miss such a good deal. Since the shipyard could still make money after the price drop, he would naturally buy more ships.
Before Bai Yu came to Haikou to find Brother Li, he had already called Manager Zhang of the shipyard and asked him to reserve the half-built ship for him, as he wanted it.
After some discussion between Bai Yu and Brother Li, they reached a consensus before lunch: Brother Li agreed to work at their company.
After recruiting a second mate for his company, that wasn't the end of it. Brother Li introduced him to seven or eight more people, mostly crew members he knew, who were generally considered to be of good character.
These people had different skills, and one of them even had a shipboard officer's certificate. Although he was only a third engineer, he was still considered a junior officer on the ship.
Bai Yu naturally wouldn't miss out on such an unexpected treat, and instead asked Brother Li to tell them that they would have dinner together tonight.
Then, during dinner, he and Wang Hai met with four or five more people, had a brief chat with them, and tried to see if they were interested in changing jobs.
Poaching talent ultimately requires the talent to switch jobs; Bai Yu can't force others to switch.
Finally, Bai Yu spent a day in Haikou selecting three crew members: an engineer and a second mate.
I also gave a phone number to the others, telling them to contact Yuxue Shipping Company so they could go on a sea trip next time and experience it. If they liked it, they could then complete the onboarding process.
If they feel it's not feasible, they will still be paid for this voyage, and their round-trip travel expenses will be reimbursed, so they don't need to worry about that.
As for Brother Li, he went back to Sanya with Bai Yu.
Before returning to Sanya, Bai Yu planned to go out to sea in Haikou to fish and enjoy Brother Li's last service.
As for Bai Yu and his group, their timing was not ideal, as the fishing boat did not have enough people to go out to sea.
This was no problem for Bai Yu. He simply made a phone call and summoned Hu Tao and a few other people he knew in Haikou to come and take them out to sea.
Brother Li's fishing boat can take twenty anglers out to sea, but the minimum number is fifteen or sixteen, otherwise the fishing boat won't even make back the fuel costs.
When Bai Yu arrived in Haikou, only eight anglers had signed up for this fishing trip, which was far from the minimum of fifteen or sixteen people or the maximum of twenty.
However, Bai Yu made a phone call and immediately summoned eight people. Together with him and Wang Hai, that made ten people, bringing the total to eighteen, which met the minimum number of people required for the sea voyage.
As for the people Bai Yu called over, Bai Yu naturally paid for their boat fare, and the fishing fee wasn't too high either; for ten people combined, it was only 50,000 yuan.
Their trip to sea this time lasted five days, and the boat fare was five thousand yuan per person. Naturally, the price would be higher for fishing in the open sea.
As November 15th arrived, at six o'clock that afternoon, Bai Yu and Wang Hai arrived at the dock early.
They waited by the fishing boat belonging to Brother Li's company.
The acquaintances Bai Yu invited were naturally people he knew from Ocean University. Among them, two were his classmates, and the rest were former members of the track and field team.
After all, Bai Yu spent four years at Ocean University. Apart from the time he wasn't on campus, he spent more time on the track and field team than in the classroom.
So it seems reasonable that he knows more members of the track and field team and has better relationships with them.
Bai Yu and her companion didn't have to wait long at the dock. Soon, Hu Tao arrived at the dock first and greeted them.
Bai Yu looked at Hu Tao, whose figure had become severely out of shape, and sighed deeply.
"Cousin, I remember you only retired a year ago, how did you get so fat? You must weigh 200 pounds now, you can't go on like this, you don't look like a national champion at all now?"
Hu Tao, Bai Yu's distant cousin, is also a student at Ocean University of China and a member and captain of the university's track and field team. However, he is three years older than Bai Yu and is already twenty-seven years old this year. His best achievement is the national 100-meter track and field championship.
His athletic career was short; he retired last year due to injury. Bai Yu even attended Hu Tao's retirement ceremony, which was held at the provincial team headquarters in Hainan Province.
At the time, Hu Tao looked very energetic. He wasn't exactly muscular, but he had a very low body fat percentage and explosive muscle definition.
But just one year later, Hu Tao has completely changed. He has become a 200-pound fat man, and his muscles have long since disappeared.
Forget about muscles, you can barely see his neck anymore, and his double chin is layered on top of layer.
The main issue is that Hu Tao isn't very tall, only about 1.7 meters, and weighs 200 kilograms. Anyone who saw him wouldn't think he was an athlete.
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