: Little suckers have big bladders. Or more likely the paint, varnish, whatever
: has developed cracks where the skin makes sharp bends over the keel,
: gunwales, and chine stringers. Another place that I've noticed will leak
: is around the cockpit coaming, I think this is because the skin gets
: stressed in these places and the coating cracks. Don't totally discount
: the spiders, nasty creatures and they don't like to be disturbed.
: Bob
No spiders but I did discover about 50 praying mantises about 1/4" long living in my frame. I would guess they have bladders as big as a spider. I think they all moved out though.It was the craziest thing. One day I was touching up some lashing before skinning and looked up and saw six of the little things sitting on a deck beam and I swear they were all watching me.