Joined the ship 07/07/09. Supposwed to saiil the following morning. When we tried to run up the port steering gear it wouldn't start. Big problem. Sailing put pack. Spent hours swapping arround components with spares and parts off the other side but couldn't find the problem. Called in the local hydraulic guys. By 17.00 they had run out of ideas. called an a company from Southampton. By 02.30 they had given up as well. The only thing left to test was the main hydraulic block wich is basically a large cube of steel drilled with holes that give passages for the hydraulic oil. They took the block away and showed it to further specialists who couldn't find anything wrong with it other than findin an old seal floating about. That arrived back onboard and we reluctantly
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