A post on the Sail Bahrain Web site, dated Nov. 25, said that the yacht and its crew were to arrive in Dubai the next day, and it made no mention of mechanical troubles on the yacht.
The tour company operating the Bulgaria had recently canceled trips because of mechanical troubles on the boat, and passengers from a previous outing had complained on a local Web site that the engines had broken down during their cruise.
The reliability of this system was also proved through its use without any mechanical trouble for more than 2 years.
The boat suffered mechanical troubles that caused one of two engines to break down, according to the Investigative Committee, which is examining possible criminal misconduct.
Sissoi Veliky remained in the Far East for another year; in December 1901 an accumulation of mechanical troubles that could not be fixed in Far Eastern docks compelled the fleet commander to send her back to the Baltic.
Investigators who rode the elevator experienced the same mechanical troubles, the police said.
Mechanical troubles, however, forced her to retire from the race after 27 laps.
Afterwards, all OBSs except one were recovered successfully, although two OBSs had some mechanical troubles with their recording system.
All the PFCs tiles were baked to 200 °C and the PFC system showed no vacuum leakage and other mechanical troubles.
Cavendish responded to Lefevere's comments by winning a major Belgian one-day race, Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne, and although mechanical trouble deprived him of his chance in Sunday's Milan-San Remo, he is clearly in strong form going into Wednesday's Dwars door Vlaanderen and Sunday's Gent-Wevelgem one-day races.
