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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DaleH" data-source="post: 499461" data-attributes="member: 15636">If in for days only ... a good rinse should do it. It can take years of constant immersion for the salt to destroy a tin boat, but it surely will and once corrosion starts (chloride precipitate attack) it is like a cancer that doesn't stop!Now my tins boats are out at a dock 24/7, so besides 'tin safe' anti-fouling paint, I put a anode on the hull to minimize or prevent electrolysis See here: [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.tinboats.net/threads/diy-adding-a-zinc-anode-to-a-wood-cored-transom.36471/[/URL]But again, if only in for days at a time, you won't need this, but perhaps this info will benefit other tin brothers of the salt ...</blockquote>