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Darlene,

One thing you may have already figured out is that the compartment in the floor directly forward of the engine will fill with water off the deck if you take a wave over the bow or even while you are washing the boat. When I still had my 18' this was the single most frustrating aspect of that boat. I've spoken with people that have plumbed that compartment so they can pump the water out which would have been the next thing on my to-do list had I kept the boat. Some decent weather stripping may help but that "fish box" as I think it was called can be a real source of frustration when it comes to draining it. After years of scooping water out of that box while on my hands and knees, I made sure there were no compartments below the water line on my redone 20'.