While all you finicky souls have been pumping your sumps, your bilges, your tanks and generally evaporating moisture into the air of your mostly closed in boat; the fungus has been searching high and low for a foothold in your pristine environment. These creatures have no mercy and while you're ignorance is in a state of blissfulness, they are infesting every crevice, crack and dark place they can find. You may wake up some day and find them holding the high ground instead of you. This is WAR and it is mostly a losing battle. Where you fight and they gain ground. This may seem a bit pessimistic but when you wake up some morning and you can smell them, you won't be nearly so catatonic. Every source of moisture is a place to be attacked. Every place where moisture can accumulate is a place to be eliminated by evaporation and then ventilation to the outside. You may be complacent now, but give it 5 to 10 years and you see the results of inattention and you won't be sitting around waiting for THEM. Old sailors don't die, they just get encrusted with fungus and look that way. Regards, Mike Capt. Mike Maurice Wilsonville, Oregon (Portland).