I think "bilge-water" mark would be a more accurate description.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poll: Obama Takes Narrow Lead In Virginia] Reference

Some bilge-water lubber has changed the update button to call this a Captain's Log.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tuesday roadkill report] Reference

Some a little weaker, some with more bilge-water in it, or a trifle of a dash from the midden.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Anerley] Reference

Nautica found him, inverted and full of emotion, fishing about in the bilge-water for the lost piece.    From Wordnik.com.  [Virginia: the Old Dominion] Reference

This resembled the old bilge-water of a ship for foulness, but both men and oxen drank of it with avidity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Moffat The Missionary Hero of Kuruman] Reference

But when with chisel and saw I had removed a square yard of planking and revealed only the bilge-water that had backed up from the pump well, he brightened.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mutineers] Reference

Furthermore, gregarious fishes, if fish washings or bilge-water be thrown overboard, are observed to scud off to a distance, from apparent dislike of the smell.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Animals] Reference

A second washing-down decks followed, to efface the traces of the nasty bilge-water; and then, Captain Miles looked about for another task to keep the hands busy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea] Reference

In our little cabin in the stern the smell of bilge-water was almost overpowering, and every silver thing we had about us turned black with the sulphureous vapours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Arabia] Reference

"I suppose it is the bilge-water, Sir," replied Ingram.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Privateer's-Man One hundred Years Ago] Reference

"There are worse smells than bilge-water," replied the captain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2] Reference

The foul bilge-water made the hold stifling as a charnel-house.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Victor of Salamis] Reference

"The smell of this vile bilge-water breeds a nausea, and, whew, 'tis worse than ever.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackbeard: Buccaneer] Reference

His head was splitting with pain, his tongue was furry, and his mouth tasted like bilge-water.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plastic Age] Reference

The cabin floor had been torn up to get at the ballast, and rusty bilge-water swashed and splashed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 15] Reference

The bilge-water reeked and rotted in the bilges, filling the whole ship with its indescribable stench.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.] Reference

But in the place we were now in, I had to take his word for it, for it was all as black as bilge-water.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912 — Volume 1] Reference

As the bilge-water jets from a ketch when the hold is surcharged, so did the Marquess jet his expletives.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay] Reference

But the rocking of the ship every moment became more violent, and the smell of the bilge-water more nauseous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Tar] Reference

''Tis true, father, what you say,' he observed: 'my brains will turn to bilge-water if I think of her much longer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trumpet-Major] Reference

I pitied the poor fellows confined to the narrow limits of her dark hold, redolent of bilge-water and other foul odours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of the Sea And of our Jack Tars] Reference

It smells of bilge-water and greens to the exclusion of all other scents; no ordinary sea air can hope to head against it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Men on the Bummel] Reference

It was a cloudy morning; mist was rolling across the lagoons; there was a smell of bilge-water, damp wood, fish, and fruit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Casanova's Homecoming] Reference

As a consequence of all the intervals between the timbers being filled up, there is no room for bilge-water under the lining.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912 — Volume 2] Reference

It might procure sustenance in the bilge-water, or in the ballast rubbish, or perhaps, like the chameleon, crabs could exist on air?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Tar] Reference

So it is without, and within, there is miserable sea-sickness, bilge-water, and all the unavoidable disagreeables of a small packet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in Mexico] Reference

This mutilated shape of humanity was lying half submerged in the bilge-water contained in the boat, and which looked more like blood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea] Reference

There they were, five huge, square-built seamen, drinking away together in the dismal cabin, which reeked of fish-pickle and bilge-water.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Iceland Fisherman] Reference

O 'bedbugs and bilge-water, and they want their grog.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea] Reference

Now, I’m not a-going to chaw my own bilge-water, not for no man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference

"'Tis not over sweet, Martin," says he, "but then bilge-water never is, you'll mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black Bartlemy's Treasure] Reference

Pride and bilge-water go well together! "which said he brought me to a dark unlovely hole abaft the mizzen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black Bartlemy's Treasure] Reference

"Go for'ard and tell 'em to chop down both masts, and then bore some holes in the bottom to let out the bilge-water.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul] Reference