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wrote:
On Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:19:30 GMT, (Richard
Casady) wrote:

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

Yes, pretty much everybody who knows even a little about old wooden
ships knows this top secret piece of trivia, Dick.

Ahh...yet another rec.boats snarkmeister.