Changing the Oil--Sounds Simple Enough

     Nothing is as simple as it seems when there is a deisel engine in the center of your living space.  Our 2GM Yanmar engine is walled in on all 4 sides, with access located in a narrow hallway, beneath the navigation station table top (a desktop large enough to accomodate nautical charts.)

The engine


You then stick a suction hose into the dipstick hole, pump and voila the old oil is removed--provided that the oil suction device works.  The one that came with the boat didn't work. The new oil sucker is in the foreground.