![]() ![]() That was the problem – a pinhole in a small oil line. On closer inspection the only place that had any oil on it was one small oil line on the lower front of the engine. My first thought was a bearing seal was the culprit. Getting a diesel-engine-oiled-soaked spinnaker off the boat without everything getting oily was a task. Worst of all, it was on the spinnaker due to oil floating on top of the bulge water that had sloshed around the cabin sole. As we tied the boat up, I looked below to see oil everywhere. ![]() The intensely loud oil pressure warning horn never went off – which was fortunate for me because my nerves were pretty frazzled from the race. Well, in retrospect I was pretty luck to have made it back to the dock – not realizing the oil level was critically low. The engine had spilled the better part of all of its oil into the bilge at some point while motoring out and in from my first race. ![]() The scene down below on the cabin sole after my that first race was kind of disheartening. Then a small “catastrophic” engine component failure put the season’s racing on hold just when it was beginning to get fun. Sounded great, and got me out to my first regatta. The sailboat had been sitting for a few years before I acquired it and had a chance to start it for the first time. My recently acquired, 1984 Evelyn 26 “Skylark” came with a factory installed Yanmar 1GM10 engine.
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