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Yes, wooden ships leak pretty badly. The water that accumulates inside the ship is called bilge and needs to be pumped out regularly with a bilge pump.
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In the days of wooden ships there was a trade group known as caulkers who forced "oakum" or shredded hemp rope into the seams between the boards and then covered the fibers with pitch to make the vessels water tight. As a ship was used the boards would shift and the caulking had to repaired periodically. As this was a valuable service caulkers were well paid. One of the first signs that a vessel was being run poorly was that the seams were leaky as the captain or owner would not lay out money for caulking. Crew would know they'd have to spend a lot of effort and time pumping the bilges dry for the vessel to stay afloat.
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