After Father Ye saw the fresh harvesting boat from a distance, he quickly closed the net in advance.
After collecting the goods, he stopped the fishing boat and came to the deck to wait. When he heard that they didn't care about picking the goods, he stood up and discussed it.
"The sea is so big. Although there is a position, it will take time to search on the sea, and there may be ships contacting them. It is possible to search from near to far according to the position."
Seeing that the other party was constantly waving flags to remind them that the fishing boat was approaching, he casually told people to go to the fish warehouse and move the goods out one after another.
Fortunately, the cargo collected was not too much, just a thousand pounds, and the fishing nets had only been put down for an hour, so there was still room on the deck.
After the fresh harvest boat waved its flag to warn them that they were about to get closer, it arrived in front of them in an instant, and then immediately swung its hook and brought the two boats together.
Indeed, as he visually estimated, it was only about 30 meters long. The two-story helm building was located in the middle and rear of the deck. The helm building was also larger than his.
There is no fishing equipment on the ship, and there are no mast crane slides. Instead, there are a large number of large oxygen bottles, salt water warehouses, fresh water warehouses, fish warehouses, ice storage rooms and other equipment and spaces.
The crabs they caught these days were all thrown back into the sea except for eating themselves, so the only ones on the boat were fish, shrimp and shellfish. Shellfish are not easy to die and are easy to feed, so they are basically raised in seawater.
Swimming crabs are difficult to raise. They need to add salt and oxygen after landing. At the same time, they need to rely on ice to keep the water temperature at 11 to 14 degrees Celsius, so as to simulate the seawater environment to the maximum extent. Even so, there will be 30% to 40% natural hazards during transportation.
Loss rate.
Therefore, no one will take the risk to collect them. Basically no one wants them, and they will be thrown back into the sea together with the groceries. Moreover, people nowadays don’t like to eat this kind of shelled ones, they only like to eat fish and shrimps, except of course blue crabs and green crabs.
Very popular, but blue crabs do not live in deep water.
After the two ships came together, the other party boarded the Dongsheng's ship to inspect the cargo.
There is not just one harvest boat on the sea, there are many, but this one is familiar to Uncle Pei on the Harvest and has known it for a long time.
One harvesting boat can dock with several fishing boats, collect all their catches, and transport them to the shore together. Therefore, it usually takes two or three days for a harvesting boat to dock when it goes to sea.
Ye Yaodong thought that if he had several fishing boats operating in one place at the same time, it would save a lot of trouble. He could collect all the goods once every two days and return immediately without having to stay at sea for two or three days.
, you can dock it.
If there are a lot of groceries, you can collect them every other day, collect the groceries in one trip and send them back, and collect the groceries that can be sold in one trip to the city's water plant wholesale market, or it would be easier to sell them directly on the shore.
While he was thinking about it, the fresh-picking ship had already looked at all the goods, and with the consultation of Father Ye, all prices were quoted.
None of these items are particularly valuable. The most valuable items are prawns and small-tube red fish, which can be bought in half or at a 40% discount per pound, for a fee of one to two cents, or two to three cents.
As they expected, the toad fish only cost two cents. The day before, they sold it for 3 cents and 6 cents, which was really a good sign.
The cheaper the goods, the lower the profit, but the quantity is also large, which means the quality is not good, so the quantity must be made up.
Basically, the prices of these large quantities of cheap goods do not fluctuate much, while the quantity of goods that cost a few cents is not large. As for the price, you don't have to negotiate if you want to, and it is basically others who have the final say whether you want to sell it or not.
It can be considered a domineering clause. On the sea, you can only sell it to the harvest ship, and you can get as much as you say.
Therefore, when there are a lot of valuable goods, they usually choose to sell them onshore.
After the price was quoted, they were weighed immediately, and then a horizontal ladder similar to a slide was set up between the two ships. The baskets of goods slid directly to the other ship through the horizontal ladder, and then poured into the super large barrel on the other ship.
After all the goods of one type have been passed, take all the baskets and weigh them, and then calculate the remaining net weight after deducting the weight.
The largest number of toad fish will go through first, and then the other items will go through. The total weight will be calculated after each item has passed through.
No one was talking nonsense. Ye's father directed the boatmen to carry it back and forth, while Ye Yaodong kept staring at the scale and the cargo list.
During this period, the Harvest also collected the fishing nets, and slowly came over, waiting to be weighed at the edge.
After the scale was almost the same on his side, he asked the person who received the goods.
"How many trawlers does your harvesting boat dock with?"
"Six or seven. Originally there were only four or five. No, there are two more of you this year."
"Then how often do you dock?"
"It depends on the situation. Once the warehouse and deck are full, we will dock, basically two days apart. Sometimes there are fewer fishing boats out to sea, or if the harvest is small, it will only take three days, and it will basically not exceed four days. If the harvest is large,
It’s available the next day too.”
“What kind of goods are more popular these days?”
"Toad fish, Balang fish, Spanish Mackerel."
"Your boat looks quite old. How many years has it been harvesting seafood?"
"In a few years, in the past five or six years, wasn't it all taken away by fishing companies earlier? It was then that the production team was disbanded, and we had the opportunity to buy a boat."
"Oh, then your ship was later converted into a fresh-harvesting ship."
"That's the case. Today's harvesting boats are all modified from trawlers... Okay, your account has been calculated. The total is 1,286 yuan, 7 cents and 2 cents. Do you need to add fresh water, diesel and ice cubes? Yes.
If so, we’ll figure it out together later.”
"Yes... I need diesel, fresh water, and ice cubes..."
Ye Yaodong added diesel oil and ice cubes and fresh water for two more days, which cost another 750 yuan in total. He couldn't just add it for two days, he had to add more to prevent him from accidentally working for half a day or more. He came out deliberately.
Add a little more and keep it for later use.
His boat consumes about 18 liters of fuel per hour, and one liter of diesel costs 67 cents. The price of shore gasoline is only the same, which is equivalent to more than 12 yuan per hour, which costs 576 in 48 hours.
It is simply a gold-eating beast, what it eats is not oil at all, but money.
This oil is not cheap in any era.
After balancing the account, I got about 536 yuan.
Ye Yaodong took a handful of money, shook it in his hand, and twitched the corner of his mouth.
A few days ago, I sold a handful of goods for just over 4,000 yuan. Even after deducting the expenses for preparing supplies when landing, I still made a net profit of 3,000 yuan.
The gap instantly widened.
Sure enough, that boat was worth a week's harvest.
If the delay is included, the net profit is 3,000 yuan in two days. Here, the net profit in two days is 536 yuan.
Think about it, usually the Harvest account is out for five or six days, six or seven days, and the net profit is about one thousand or two thousand, one share is divided into one or two hundred, and his three shares are divided into five or six hundred, it seems to be about the same, not too big
gap.
Thinking about it this way, he was not very disappointed.
Sure enough, everything depends on comparison. Without comparison, there will be no harm. Without comparison, there will be no pride.
Disappointment goes as quickly as it comes.
Seeing that people were still waiting there, he immediately salivated and counted the coins in his hand.
After there was no problem, I thanked him and sent him to the harvest boat next to him.
Father Ye endured it for a long time, and after waiting for the people to leave, he immediately said with disgust: "It's so little, I only made more than 500 for two and a half days of goods."
"I bought more diesel, otherwise I wouldn't have lost half of it."
"Fortunately, we sold a lot in the past few days, so if we put it all together, it seems that we have gained more this time."
"The price difference is almost half, and all the money has been lost by the fresh-carrying ship."
"Yes, all the money has been made by the fresh harvest ship."
Neither father nor son thought about it. The load-bearing capacity of the fresh-carrying boat must be more than 20 yuan per hour, and sailing on the sea for a day and night would cost 500 to 600 yuan. In addition to the boatmen on the ship, the day's expenses would also be 100 yuan.
More than six hundred yuan.
If there is no 40% to 50% profit for them, who will do it? There will still be a period of time for landing, transportation and shipment.
But if there are many fishing boats docked, it will certainly make a lot of money.
Ye Yaodong took the money and thought more and more about building a fresh-harvesting boat. Anyway, the law is not perfect now, so anyone can build a fresh-harvest boat. If it is perfected in the future, just get the required documents.
The first batch is always easier, but the later you go, the more complicated and difficult the procedures will be.
Of course, the prerequisite for getting a fresh harvest boat is that he must have several trawlers on hand, so that it is cost-effective. Otherwise, except for the Harvest and Dongsheng, where can he find fishing boats for docking?
Originally, it was a pity for the discarded goods, so I thought of building a fresh-collecting ship, which could sell my own goods, and also transport the garbage back for recycling, thus making more money.
"I'll collect the money first, and you can go sail the boat. After sailing for a while, you can continue to launch the net."
Ye Yaodong took the money on hand and walked to the cabin, and made a decision in his mind. When he got home, he would discuss with Ah Qing and order two more trawlers and a fresh harvesting boat.
You can order a fishing boat first. After all, when the fishing boat is obtained, the boat joined by his eldest and second brother will definitely be launched for fishing. There are three fishing boats docking, which is not bad.
At that time, we can give them some extra money for those junk goods, and treat them as subsidized labor costs. They will pick them up every other day, and the small amount of goods will not consume much more gas.
It didn't matter that the seven ships were ordered, they wouldn't make a loss anyway, they were all rented out, and there was also a younger brother at home who was dedicated to receiving the goods. Ah Qing only had to go to Ah Cai to reconcile the accounts every few days and collect the money.
Thinking about it this way, Ah Qing is simply his strongest supporter.
He was responsible for opening up territories and sailing on the sea, while she was responsible for guarding his rear at home, handling all the chores and accounts, and managing all the people in the workshop.
Thinking this, he smiled unconsciously.
After locking the money into the iron box under the bed board, he took out a photo that was not posted on the wall from under the pillow and kissed his wife.
Although he worked hard at sea, it was not easy for her at home. It was not easy to take care of the rear. She also had to take care of several children and the elderly at home.
After the fishing boat started sailing, it began to rock and bump again.
He held on to the bed board and stabilized his body before walking out of the cabin again.
The fishing boat has sailed a long distance, and all the fishing nets have been lowered, just waiting to be pulled up after eating under the seabed.
The two fishing boats in the distance were still docking and weighing cargo, and the Dongsheng did not dare to go too far. It just drove back and forth in the nearby waters to avoid disappearing from the Harvest's sight and not being able to keep up by then.
It is not good for the fishing boats to scatter.
It wasn't until more than an hour later that they saw the Harvest slowly moving and pulling away from the fresh-harvesting boat. After a while, the fresh-harvesting boat also started to move.
Three fish boats are sailing separately on the sea.
It didn't take long for the fresh-harvest boat to disappear from their sight.
Their fishing boats also continued fishing step by step.
It was expected to dock on the 16th, and they slowly drove back that night after selling out, continuing to fish while driving. This way, when they docked on the 16th day of the lunar calendar, they could also shorten the distance of the voyage and save fuel costs.
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And early the next morning, on the 15th day of the lunar calendar, the wind also picked up, and the fishing boat shook and bumped violently. Fortunately, their fishing boat had a slightly stronger wind resistance, although the waves from the bow of the boat were sometimes stronger than the tip of the boat.
The location is high, but it doesn't matter.
His father had been keeping in communication with Uncle Pei, talking about the wind and waves, and said that if the wind and waves got bigger, he would go back with all his strength. If the wind and waves were still like this, he would stay one more day and return tomorrow.
Anyway, the fishing boats are still trawling slowly in the back direction, trying to catch as much as possible without wasting a trip to sea.
But, something amazing happened.
It was just dark at six o'clock in the evening, and when the faint lights of two boats on the sea came on, they unexpectedly discovered that the lights of two more fishing boats appeared in their sight.
The lights kept moving, and they were just surprised. After all, in the past few nights, apart from the light of their two boats, there was only moonlight on the sea, and the surroundings were pitch black.
The two lights were not like their two ships, working slowly on the sea, but they were sailing at a very fast speed, passing quickly, with the two ships in one east and one south.
At this time, when they were having dinner, they were all standing on the deck holding their rice bowls, looking at the sea, talking about two boats that suddenly appeared.
"It's unprecedented. Apart from us, there were other ships seen tonight."
"Yeah, I almost thought our two boats were the only ones fishing in the entire sea."
Ye Yaodong also smiled and said: "I thought the sea belonged to my family..."
"Those two boats must be on their way, they are going so fast."
"Maybe I'm almost out and ready to go back to the shore, so I'm going as fast as I can."
"Probably, otherwise if you catch a good product, you just rush back to the shore and sell it."
"Well, we will go back tomorrow too. We will sell goods on the shore before dark. Then we will rest for a day or two. If the weather is still good, we can continue..."
"Hey? Why did the fishing boat over there suddenly stop and stop..."
"Ah!!! Damn it! I bumped into it!"
"Crash!!!"
"Crashed into it?!!"
"Two boats collided!!"
"Ah! What happened? How did the two ships collide?"
Everyone was holding rice bowls, and some of them were so surprised that they didn’t even swallow the food in their mouths!
It was already 11 o'clock when I arrived at the station yesterday, and it was already past 12 o'clock when I got home for a midnight snack. I waited until I woke up naturally today to start packing my luggage. I went there for most of the day. At night, I thought about the next plot.
Updated relatively late.
I made some arrangements today. I invited two aunts to clean the house tomorrow to celebrate the New Year. I made an appointment for a dental implant on the afternoon of the 1st the day after tomorrow, and I’m going to have a friend’s moving drink at noon on the 2nd. The schedule is full, and it’s really relatively good.
I'm busy. I'll be updating in the evening these days.
Chapter completed!