As a boat owner there is nothing more frustrating than having a component failure right when you're ready to spend some time on the water. Yet, that is exactly what happened to me a few weeks ago. There we were with "Sea Y'all" all loaded up, engines running and ready to pull out of the …
Galvanic Corrosion and Your Boat
According to Wikipedia, "Galvanic corrosion (also called bimetallic corrosion) is an electro-chemical process in which one metal corrodes preferentially when it is in electrical contact with another, in the presence of an electrolyte. A similar galvanic reaction is exploited in primary cells to generate a useful electrical voltage to power portable devices."What does this mean to …