Left the marina on Sunday for a cruise only to discover no steering as I cleared the slip into heavy dinghy/cruiser traffic in a good breeze. Wiggled around the marina with the engines for a bit and eventually got tied back up. Added some steering fluid and bled the lines. Good to go except I twisted off one of the purge valve nuts on the hynautic reservoir and sheered the bolt off. Luckily it is still operable for now and managed a beauty cruise up to Beausoleil island a classic Georgian Bay sunset. Any leads on finding a new purge valve appreciated. I believe it needs to be rated for 550 psi. The reservoir is a RV 50 or RV 57. May be time to switch to sea star but I just rebuilt both helms last year and in the process accumulated a bunch of spare parts and fittings. Would like to keep it going if I could now that I have a solid knowledge of the system.
Thanks