Friendship's Little Boat Capsized in an Instant

At the end of July, when Luo Chong's boat fleet reached the fork in the middle reaches of the Liuyang River, he decided to visit the Three Commanderies of Hong Lake Grassland first. His first stop would be Kaiyuan Commandery, followed by inspections of Zhangwu Commandery and Binhai Commandery.

Meanwhile, the Xin Tribe of Bamboo Island had finally bought the Single-Masted Small Boat and Single-Masted Sailboat they had wanted from the Emissary Group. As for the Two-Masted Sailboat, because Luo Chong had instructed them to delay for a while longer, Beast Tooth told them that there were currently no idle vessels available for sale and that they could only wait for one to be transferred from Liuyang Commandery. Naturally, that transfer would take at least two or three months.

However, the Xin Tribe's leaders, who had already obtained the Single-Masted Sailboat, were unwilling to sit around. They were already impatient to try out their newly acquired sailboat.

The Single-Masted Sailboat sold by the Han Tribe was, in fact, the same kind of small, flat-bottomed inland river vessel that the merchant caravan had used a few days earlier.

This vessel was fifteen meters long and four meters wide, with a length-to-width ratio of around 3.8. It had a shallow draft, but excellent passageability, high speed, and a large carrying capacity. It did not require a proper dock and could even pull directly up to shore where no dock existed. It had originally been designed for inland waters. Obviously, however, the Xin Tribe did not understand the differences between these sailboats. They believed that as long as a vessel had a mast with a sail hanging from it, all such boats were the same.

Thus, in order to quickly understand the special features of this kind of boat, Elder of Technology, under