Dave,

I'm glad you cleared this up. I didn't do a good job explaning the porous gel coat issue. My point was to dissuade people from leaving thier boat in the water for extended (months or seasons) periods of time to prevent exactly what you said would happen. The foam core gets waterlogged and you can't dry it out.

It seems that my not being more explicit in my post and the addition of the camping/gear storage topic let this get out of hand.