bilge water

Hello all, I have been a passive follower of this forum for about a year now (and joined in a few moths ago) , the time it took me to finally find and buy a 2004 Hunter 260 in great shape. This beauty is now sleeping beside my house. So, let me first thank every contributor on this forum. Your...

I am the original owner of a 7.3 meter s2 sailboat with shoal draft. The boat has always had a dry bilge and there has never been water in the boat. A couple of weeks ago, the cabin floor was wet, I looked everywhere to find a leak, none found. Upon further investigation, I found water in the...

I purchased a 1991 Hunter 28 three years ago, and I always had a little bit of water in my bilge (just up to the bolts that are visible where my pump is). Problem is the automatic bilge pump runs every five minutes or so. I assumed it was normal, but then the Hunter owner next to me said I...

Every time I go out, I come back with about an inch of salt water in the bilge. All the throughhulls are dry. The dripless packing gland shows some salt rimming. I've wrapped the thing in paper towels filled with SaltAway, wrapped in plastic bags tied off for an hour to melt salt crystals away...