Thursday, January 11, 2018

Still in port

So we moved about 10 minutes and are now in another Houston area port.  The next port is supposed to be Freeport and then Panama, but I’ve been wrong like 5 times before on this so we’ll see.  We had a firedrill and an abandon ship drill infront of some inspectors, and we greased the steering gear a couple days ago.  Today we opened a couple lube oil tanks for the auxiliary engines to inspect them.  They were rusty inside; the engineers were not pleased.  We also were involved in an inspection of the cylinder oil pumps for the main engine, so we were able to look inside the cylinders.  The second engineer pointed out some cold end corrosion which is fun.  Tomorrow we’re going to open a couple fuel tanks; HFO is very exciting.  Thats all for now; I’ll post soon.  Hopefully, I’ll be at sea then.