Also Sprach RichG :
Of course, you are correct...the water that got in that time was rainwater
and IT wasn't salty.

I guess I was thinking about the times that I have had sal****er splash in
and it proceeded to rust everything. No connection between the two except
my foggy brain this morning. Thanks for pointing it out. RichG TX

Not a thing. I had a bronze thru-hull corrode through due to an
electrolysis problem. What a mess... ended up rewiring the whole
boat. Probably ended up being a good thing overall, as I got rid of a
few decades worth of crufty wiring, but not the way I wanted to spend
several weeks in the summer boating season.

Dan

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