Thanks everyone for the ideas - keep 'em coming if you have more.

To respond to a few posts all at once and clarify a few things:

-- I will be attempting to fix the leak but not until end of season (Mid
October?)


-- This is a plywood, not planked hull, so there are no "seems" to be
calked.
Except possibly where the last plank meats the keel. This is what I will
check out in the fall.

-- We did scrape all old paint of the bottom and repaint.

-- The boat is stored under a tarp in summer & inside in winter.

-- My thinking is that even if stored in a dry place, it takes days for the
bilge to completely dry. And by then it's the next weekend and we
get it all wet again. So it's in a perpetual state of dampness...which
could lead to rot.

-- There is no current rot (that I know of) because we fixed all that
during our just completed renovation.

Gary