Before we moved onto the boat, I certainly attributed the water to the stuffing box and coming down the mast, etc. But after we moved onto the boat, I really started paying attention and investigating where any water was coming from. Also, we had just switched to a dripless stuffing box.
What really made me start wondering was when I tasted it, and it was salt water (very salty, not just a little). So, over months, I spent hours drying completely and watching. I identified two spots where water was beading up. One just behind the bilge area in front of the engine, and one in front of the mast just outside the head. That's when I came across Ganzie's a fore mentioned post. I'm positive that I had the same thing coming up through the hollow part of the keel causing the aft water.
The one forward of the mast is the head scratcher. Believe me, I wanted to think it was water trickling down from the anchor chain locker and picking up salt along the way. Or, water somehow coming from inside the boat getting under the bilge floor and reemerging where I saw it beading up and somehow salty.
In the end, I strongly believe it is water from the outside working it's way through voids in the epoxy slurry that surrounds the lead in the keel. The problem is that we couldn't identify exactly where the water was getting in, and the centerboard trunk is pretty inaccessible. So, we decided to grind the bottom of the keel and re glass as far as we could access to cover all the obvious voids. It looked pretty gnarly anyway. Hopefully the saga will end with me still having a little pocket change to buy rum and other essentials!