Post-95 sailor's sea growth log
The 24-year-old Zheng Yi has a face that "looks 42 years old". In a 12-second short video: 33 close-up selfies record his skin from black to dark. At first, there were chromatic aberrations on the face of this national character, which was blocked by sunglasses. Gradually, the eye area was also occupied by black. The skin of the cheeks became more and more visible to the naked eye. The hair that had not been washed for a long time became a bunch of branches. ——This is the appearance of a sailor, who is dressed in the sea, scorching sun, clouds and invisible wind in the background of the photo.
As an ambassador for the Clipper Race Qingdao, Zheng Yi's round-the-world voyage started from London, England in September last year. After six months of drifting, he ended the ninth stage of the voyage in Subic Bay, Philippines in March this year. At that time, Qingdao was 20 points ahead of second place in the overall standings.
According to plan, Zheng Yi will celebrate his 24th birthday twice when the sailing boat crosses the international date line. However, in view of the global spread of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the next three stages of the race have been postponed, and his birthday will be moved from the Pacific Ocean. "In the isolated hotel in Laixi, Qingdao. He missed the days floating on the sea almost every day, because that red sailing boat not only allowed him to continue writing about the world voyages of Chinese captains such as Guo Chuan and Song Kun, but also allowed him to know how to reshape himself.
Life at sea is not "bragged"
In 2006, Zheng Yi, who followed his father to the Qingdao Olympic Sailing Center Wharf, saw a sailing boat for the first time. The Qingdao ship participating in the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race sailed out of the wharf amidst the cheers of the crowd. This scene has been planted in his heart since he was 10 years old. . In the second year, "Sailing into the campus" made Zheng Yi's dream come true. He "planned" the future in an unconstrained manner, including participating in world-class sailing competitions, but in the eyes of his classmates, this was his "braggering" performance .
At the age of 15, Zheng Yi entered the professional team and began to spend time with the wind and waves. The wishes that were once regarded as "bringing" have gradually come true, including sailing Qingdao to the world on behalf of the Chinese crew.
In a relatively calm sea, Zheng Yi would be more "excited" when the storm came. The ship was pushed around by the waves like a leaf. As the helmsman, he had to face the challenge. "The heavy rain hits like a barrier, and it feels like a magnetic storm moving towards the player in a two-dimensional game. With the wind and the speed of the ship, the rain drops on the face like pebbles and it hurts, and the helm can't see the front clearly. "Zheng Yi remembers every frame of the turbulent wind and rain. For example, in the state of continuous wind, the bow of the ship will rise up to two meters high when it encounters a wave, and then it will fall down vertically, and the people sleeping in the cabin will be affected by this. Waking up, "It's like sitting in a high-speed car and suddenly encountering a sudden stop." When the height is tilted, the kitchen is also crackling, pots and pans flying together, making the cooks overwhelmed, and sometimes splashed with hot water , The cooked food fell to the ground.
When the sea temperature is low, you have to wear soft shell jackets, fleece jackets, jumpsuits, close-fitting windproof vests, wool underwear, etc. under the cold-proof clothing. Even so, the hands wearing seal leather gloves are still frozen. Zheng Yi was worried that the inside of the gloves would get wet, so he added a rubber glove for washing dishes. The cabin is also uncomfortable. Because the temperature outside the cabin is extremely low, the heat from people’s breathing and discharge makes the cabin like a curtain hole, dripping water continuously. Zheng Yi recorded the experience on the social platform, “Drop on the face while sleeping. I wake up, this feeling is not to mention uncomfortable."
When sailing across the ocean, on this 70-foot-long (about 23-meter) large sailboat, the most basic eating and drinking Lazards will also be a sharp blade to spur emotional nerves.
There are 20 people on board but only 10 beds. In the case of 4 or 6-hour shifts, two people share one bed. When the boat is shaking, it is difficult to make a fire to cook. I occasionally have the opportunity to cook egg fried rice. Because the only stove has a very small fire, the rice needs to be steamed and put in the oven to dry before entering the fried rice step. "It takes 4 hours to prepare. ". Usually, foreign crew members are used to making oatmeal with milk, but Zheng Yi, who is an "authentic Chinese stomach", finds it difficult to adapt. He packed 40 bags of instant noodles and a dozen bottles of Laoganma in his luggage with a weight limit of 20 kg. I immediately used my mobile phone to search Chinese restaurants and Chinese supermarkets in the city. Sometimes, the crew will deliberately eat less, "because going to the toilet is also very painful." During the quarantine period, Zheng Yi shared the days on the boat via live broadcast. “When the wind is upwind, the boat tilts so much that the water in the toilet will overflow. It takes 20 minutes to go to the toilet and 40 minutes to drain.”
In this race, the most "worst" thing is that the water machine on the boat is broken and fresh water is instantly scarce. "It's broken, there is no water to eat instant noodles." Zheng Yi remembered that he almost scolded the water maker in his heart. At that time, the ship was traveling in the Southern Ocean and it took about 14 days to sail before the end. The 20 people on board only had more than 400 liters of water, which meant that "each person can only drink one liter per day." Zheng Yi said that some teammates would take 500ml each time with a measuring cup for distribution, and everyone consciously abide by it. The collected rainwater is mixed with Shanghai water for cooking rice or pasta, all pots and bowls are washed with sea water, and coffee and tea services are not served.
The less water he drank, the more thirsty he felt. Zheng Yi licked his lips while holding the helm, but the more he licked, the more drier he licked. After the seawater was filtered, the water tasted like gasoline, which became precious. The lack of water caused many people on the ship to become ill, but due to the emergency, they reached the finish line a day earlier than the second place.
These fate exchange experiences made Zheng Yi unable to stop as soon as he opened his mouth, but in the hearts of grandma and grandma, these are all reasons to "chain you up and not let you go out". But Zheng Yi’s father used to be a navy when he was young, and he couldn’t help but look forward to his son’s experience and choices in addition to support. “My dad often said that the wind and waves he encountered at sea were bigger than I encountered. In fact, he I also know that it is not necessarily." Zheng Yi could feel the pride of his father, "His WeChat profile picture and Moments cover are all me."
The most tortuous route may be the fastest
The average age of the 20 crew members of the "Qingdao" is around 40 years old and comes from all walks of life. "Many young people find it difficult to spend a year to complete the world." The only person on the ship who was the same age as Zheng Yi was a British girl. She has been sailing since she was 6 years old. Many players from the United Kingdom, Australia, the United States, and Canada have been exposed to sailing early like her. Most of them are enthusiasts. Our Chinese players are basically professional athletes."
Zheng Yi participated in part of the Clipper Race in 2017. At that time, he was shy, his foreign language was short-board, and he lacked voyage experience, but the comparison from his peers touched him, and he found a fast-growing route for him.
One year before the competition, Zheng Yi served as a coach for sailing summer camps for students from Tsinghua University and Peking University. The students were talking about the mountains in the distance. Someone said, "Looking at the mountains and running dead horses." This made Zheng Yi, who has been training in professional teams for a long time, inexplicably touched: "They are all the same age. They can get in touch with sailing after their studies, but I can't produce anything decent except for sailing boats." The repositioning of life was caught off guard. At that time, Zheng Yi had a good impression of a girl from the National People's Congress in the team. When he wanted to speak to her, he found that the girl was communicating with foreign coaches in English. "At that time, when Korean students were talking to me, I could only twitch and smile. "Respond", reminding Zheng Yi of that embarrassing moment, "I want to change."
Zheng Yi made great efforts to learn English and prepared for the Clipper Race in all directions, but after he got on the boat, he found that his vocabulary was "used up in less than a week." His unconfidence expression magnified his sensitivity. Sometimes he didn't know how to continue when he was half talking, and the foreign team members would nodded and use "OK" to change the subject and even turned away, "It feels very perfunctory and ignored. I am ignored. I decided not to speak." For about three or four days on the way from Liverpool to Uruguay, the silent Zheng Yi felt like he was sailing alone, "very lonely."
The idea of retiring is like a wave. After being unable to take a bath for a long time, plus salt water soaking, Zheng Yi appeared to fester in some parts of his body. When his teammates greeted him to go to the front deck, he was afraid that the wind and waves would aggravate the fester. He got a packet of almonds from his compatriots. He was already disgusted with boat meals and shed tears while eating almonds. "The big teardrops of beans, without feelings, are a physiological reaction." It took him a long time to realize that he cried, "What am I going through? Too torture."
He thought of "The Fantastic Drifting of Youth Pie", and felt that the separation between Pie and the tiger was too real. "The reason why Pie can persist on land is because of the company of the tiger." He took the diary as a tiger and wrote down his grievances and loneliness. , Hardship and a little pleasure. This period of time had to pass. He remembered seeing the scene where the five-star red flag was opened from the main sail, and told himself that, as a very small number of Chinese faces, they at least behaved a little bit like during the process, "I represent It’s not just me.”
When he returned to land, Zheng Yi would often think of the days at sea, like an unbearable itching when he was scarred, completely covering up his painful memories, and his inadvertent growth encouraged him to set sail again. This time, he decided to go around the world. The space for clothes in his luggage was replaced by drones and other shooting equipment. He wanted to upgrade the "tiger", "I want to record what I saw and heard, not to vent my emotions, but to make things better. Many people know about sailing boats and the sea."
For the second time in the competition, Zheng Yi's English level has improved a lot, and he has been able to take the initiative to provide help to other members, and his confidence has also been built up. The most important thing is that with the possibility of communication, people who he once "cannot understand and dislike" also have brilliance. On the boat, the 69-year-old Bertrand once made Zheng Yi a bit resentful. Every time he stepped on him or kicked him, he always "stretched away", but slowly, he found that Bertrand was not easy to move. His physical condition is not suitable for such a cruel competition. Zheng Yi remembers that when he was in Portugal, Bertrand asked him: "Frankie, are you from Qingdao? I can't wait to tell you why I want to participate in this competition. This is related to my wife." It was said that a crew member came to sail with his wife's ashes, and he thought that he would never live with him. As a result, this crew member was Bertrand who slept in his bunk.
Bertrand’s wife likes Chinese culture and belongs to the dragon. He had seen the dragon on the Qingdao ship before his wife died. Therefore, after the death of his wife, Bertrand chose Qingdao when participating in voyages around the world in order to fulfill his wife's dream. He undertook all the sewing work on the ship, ranging from patching sheets to patching spinners. Zheng Yi found that sometimes he would take pictures with his mobile phone in front of the sun in order to find a small green spot. "When he set out for the competition, he took a family portrait. At that time, a green spot appeared on the photo because of the backlight. At first glance, he thought it was the soul of his wife. From then on, he believed it."
On the small sailboat, there were countless people who wandered with stories like Burrant, and their stories helped Zheng Yi understand the different aspects of life. "From point A to point B, there are countless kinds of paths. You can walk in a straight line, and the wind and waves are calm, but it takes a long time; you can walk back and forth and experience huge waves, but the blessing of wind and waves will also make the arrival time the fastest. Which one to choose The route is in your own hands."
On the eighth day of the race, the ship slowly approached the equator. The past of crossing the equator in the first stage two years ago lingered in Zheng Yi's mind. The pain at the time was still clear, but this time he had become an "old fritters" and faced other players' questions: "Is it hot to cross the equator?" Was it cold in the storm?" Wait, he responded: "You will know." He told them the story of crying in the bed and not daring to go to the front deck, "because Only by comparing the past can I see a person’s changes, but I won’t have the same problem again.” The team member told Zheng Yi after seeing the photo: “Two years ago you were a boy, and now you are a man.”
China Youth Daily·China Youth Daily reporter Liang Xuan Source: China Youth Daily