When I finally saw IT I thought: Well, I hope they have written down which part was where. Because otherwise they are never going to get this back together. Our main generator engine "Wärtsilä" is in pieces! Where there was once a beautiful living engine now there are only dead metal parts, sorted in lines on the ground. But chief engineer Mannes says it had to be.

Again it's all about safety. With her five years Wärtsilä is still a young engine-lady. But every 16 000 hours of running she has to be generally maintained, says the Esperanza's classification society - otherwise we lose our insurance covering. Normally the maintenance is done by Wärtsilä staff. But our engineers can do it by themselves, because chief engineer Bent used to work for Wärtsilä.

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To put her back together the engineers follow a plan. "It looks a bit like drawing after numbers", says Mannes, and reckons even I could probably build the Wärtsila with that plan. Only that it is not sure she would work, too - so we better leave that to Bent. Because the Wärtsilä definitely has to run the next time we get into port: She provides the power for the thrusters.

But I have full trust in our engine department to have her ready in time. The Wärtsilä will be prettier than ever - and will provide all of us with new power for our next tasks.