As I quoted Sterling Hayden in my first post:
I woke up this morning and started the engine and the oil alarm went off. Half the oil I put in during the oil change yesterday is in the oil pan mixed with seawater. It isn't leaking from the oil filter seal. I haven't found the source yet.
Whatever the source, I can't afford to pull, rebuild, or replace this engine without going back to work. The boat needs to be hauled anyway for zinc replacement so my agenda now is finding the best place to have her pulled and stored.
My TowboatUS insurance will probably only give me the option of having her taken to the yard in Reedville. I can probably get her further, possibly to Oxford where I have friends and support, by having someone bring me a couple jugs of oil and pouring them through the engine as I go. However, the fact that the oil alarm was going off while the dipstick was still showing only a couple quarts down is pretty ominous and that might be killing the engine.
I would appreciate any local advice about where to take the boat or have it towed.
I said that I had that covered and I've undertaken this trip with the same perspective as you have to have on the forces of nature and chance that can suddenly take your vessel, and even your life from you.[FONT="]Every true voyage must rest on a firm foundation of financial uncertainty.[/FONT]
I woke up this morning and started the engine and the oil alarm went off. Half the oil I put in during the oil change yesterday is in the oil pan mixed with seawater. It isn't leaking from the oil filter seal. I haven't found the source yet.
Whatever the source, I can't afford to pull, rebuild, or replace this engine without going back to work. The boat needs to be hauled anyway for zinc replacement so my agenda now is finding the best place to have her pulled and stored.
My TowboatUS insurance will probably only give me the option of having her taken to the yard in Reedville. I can probably get her further, possibly to Oxford where I have friends and support, by having someone bring me a couple jugs of oil and pouring them through the engine as I go. However, the fact that the oil alarm was going off while the dipstick was still showing only a couple quarts down is pretty ominous and that might be killing the engine.
I would appreciate any local advice about where to take the boat or have it towed.