You can be too punctilious about oil changes. I sailed with one owner who, when motoring in a calm in mid-Atlantic, stopped the engine as the hour meter hit the specified number of hours. We rolled in the swell for a couple of hours while the engine cooled, changed the oil and started up again. Any sane person would have waited till the next port but not him. He also kept a couple of rolls in the genoa whatever the weather - in case the bolt rope pulled out of the groove. He also insisted on washing the stainless deck fittings with fresh water every day on passage, even when the watermaker broke down and water was rationed.
You can be too punctilious about oil changes. I sailed with one owner who, when motoring in a calm in mid-Atlantic, stopped the engine as the hour meter hit the specified number of hours. We rolled in the swell for a couple of hours while the engine cooled, changed the oil and started up again. Any sane person would have waited till the next port but not him. He also kept a couple of rolls in the genoa whatever the weather - in case the bolt rope pulled out of the groove. He also insisted on washing the stainless deck fittings with fresh water every day on passage, even when the watermaker broke down and water was rationed.
