Alan, I didn't have the boxes either and wish I had. It would have been nice to have that extra storage and its hard to get everybody to move to get into that floor hatch. If I were to do it over I'd split that hatch in half and have two ways to get in it. I don't know if I'd do two seat boxes (because of the offset between the port and stbd seats) but one under the port seat would have really helped.
Dave