Originally Posted by samc99us
Boat was bone dry after 2 days of sailing at Tradewinds, light air. Clearly water will come in through broken port holes.

We use a refractometer for testing salinity and confirm water local with a spectrophotometer. $5K in portable instrumentation to do the same thing as a finger and a tongue wink


I have a refractometer for testing the salinity in artifacts that I've got in electolysis. paid about $40 for it though.

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If a man is to be obsessed by something.... I suppose a boat is as good as anything... perhaps a bit better than most.
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