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Aluminum is not a problem until other, more noble, metals get dropped into the bilge. One boat I know of that nearly sank did so because some one had dropped a small coin, a penny or dime from the size of the hole, into the bilge while working on the boat. It had an aluminum hull and the coin basically ate its way through the aluminum. The coin had probably sat in the bilge for a year or two, but it did a suprisingly good job of eating away the aluminum.
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Sailingdog
Telstar 28
New England
You know what the first rule of sailing is? ...Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse, but you take
a boat to the sea you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps
her going when she oughta fall down, tells you she's hurting 'fore she keens. Makes her a home.
—Cpt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity (edited)
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