Originally there was an in-deck fishbox about 8" deep between the seats - I think thats what you are talking about, but it looks like someone added a pie hatch in the bottom of that. It looks like the pie hatch is about where a wood stringer-to-stringer cross brace supporting the box was. Originally there were also 1" drain holes in the bottom of the fish box in each aft corner - It really sucked getting fish guts into the bilge though. That may be my least favorite design feature of the Sceptre. Looks like it was an I/O (maybe twin?) before being converted to OB on a bracket but some of the aft hatches look different. Hard to tell what other mods from the photos till you get it cleaned up a bit; the first layer of needles n junk shouldn't be too bad to get out.
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