, as did the engine room and the engines. Things looked auspicious for crossing the Indian Ocean ... of burnt rubber wafted through the engine room. Minutes later our speed dropped. The starboard propeller wasn’t turning, though the engine was running. The silicone rubber coupling joining the engine ...

for the intake louvers on the engine room blowers. In boisterous seas salt spray had squeezed in and coated the engines and generators. Using his Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineering past, Wilson bent ... compartments created by watertight bulkheads ran to the manifold in the engine room, but the chain locker ...