I've been doing some rewiring - of which more anon - and had disconnected the electric bilge-pump.
As I struggled with a torch and screwdriver in an awkward place, I heard a trickle of water. At first I thought it must be coming from outside the boat. Then I looked in the bilges ...
It didn't take me long to find its source. The cooling water feed to the engine has a take-off in it - a t-piece - to supply the salt-water tap at the kitchen sink. The little barbed insert was obviously brass, and had rotted away.
I always close all the seacocks when I leave the boat for any length of time. Sometimes it seems excessive.
Sometimes it seems like exactly the right thing to do.
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