Well that's not good......

Alright so while I was looking at the boat before I even bought it I noticed that there was standing water in the bilge (the lowest part of the boat....designed for collecting water really) and the engine compartment.  I figured it was just excess that has trickled in through the main hatch in the time it had been up on land. The cabin sole (floor) was a bit unsteady, but I had planned on replacing that anyway so it would be solid and level.  After I took delivery I bailed out the areas with water and made sure that all of the drain holes were clear.  All seemed to be going well, and the engine compartment is drying out nicely.  The problem I have run into is that water is collecting in the bilge again.  It hasn't rained, and there isn't water stored anywhere else on board that I can see.  Great, the boat isn't even in the sea and it's already taking on water!  So I bailed it out again, and watched.  There is a small, almost imperceptible, trickle of water that issues from the port side of the bilge wall (looks like foam covered in fiberglass).  So as far as I can tell, water was sitting down there for so long that it soaked into the fiberglass, or the foam behind it, and is now draining.  The scary thing is that it is now a race against time.  Temperatures in Wisconsin drop rapidly, and if I can't get the thing bone dry before winter hits then the moisture will freeze, expand, and break something.  I've been checking it every day, and it seems to be about a pint of water every 24 hours.  I've opened up some vents, and left the bilge hatch open to allow better ventilation.  Tonight I'm going to leave some newspaper sticking up out of the bilge to hopefully wick the moisture up and away so there will be no water sitting in there. 
Online some say it could be the end of the world, and others say that their bilge is always wet and causes no problems.  On the one hand, it's been like this for a while, and any damage should already been done.  ON the other hand... I hope it's not bad.  Any ideas or suggestions would be great.