"Bob" wrote in message
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I'm not a real sailor but I would like to be
someday......................... So you are telling me that nobody does
an hourly visual look to the bilge to see what lurking down there? I
guess that is probably to nast of a job for real saliors.

If you must do an hourly inspection of the bilge, you would have to be quite
unfamiliar with your boat. Daily is sufficient, if you know what condition
the packing glad is in, not to mention that most bilges have automatic pumps
which will alert you to an incoming water problem should one occur. Only
the highly paranoid would do an hourly inspection, once familiar with the
boat.

Here is a question I will give 10 points to anybody who knows the
correct answe

"Columbus discovered America in ____absentia______________."

Max