[Conan the Librarian]

I got issues with this.

I live on a sailboat myself. It is usually very humid below decks even in the dry season.

I don’t see him drying out like that, unless he drifted from Alaska or something and mummified there.

[Charles Martel]

I live on a sailboat myself. It is usually very humid below decks even in the dry season.

Check out the photos - the boat had a lot of water sloshing around below decks. Perhaps the keel prevented it from capsizing.