Thread: Saltwater vs. fresh water boat....
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Default Sal****er vs. fresh water boat....
On Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:17:44 -0400, wrote:

On Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:54:52 -0700, Garth Almgren
wrote:

Around 5/30/2008 2:04 PM, JimH wrote:

Freshwater is always the best option.


Unless it's a wood boat.

To some extent.

In days of old, it was common practice to occasionally take whaling
ships and other large wooden vessels up a river to fresh water for a
period of time to kill salt water parasites.

The scourge of tropical waters and wood is the shipworm. Properly,
teredo. The have a rasplike head and can do as through a job as
termites.

Casady
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