[JW-Tex]

Boat is a project that had no transom when I bought it...one drain fitting on the deck is on the port side of the rear storage hatch leads into the bilge but not sure where the original thru hull was. So ping pong ball stopers are not an option at this point because the boat has never been in the water. The large thru hull scuppers I mention would be above the deck and above the waterline with a safety margin (not necesarily 2 inches...could be less). I have no hatches in my deck at all so the deck should be fairly water tight. Again the floor of the boat will reamin dry only if I take water onto the deck from a wave should the deck have a large amount of water on it. In the case of taking a wave would immediatley get under way raise the bow and drain through the thru hulls and bilge pump in the below deck level well. I will also have 2 additonal bilge pumps in the bilge, one on a second battery as a reserve.