[Miles Offshore]

Smoker, mine is a 78 and I do have a bulkhead. The thing gets leaves and all kinds of crap in there and turns the water brown. Then when I take off all that nasty water comes right down my nice clean deck [img]images/icons/mad.gif[/img] Rubrail sounds like it could be a culprit. Also I figured out the hard way that the big hatch up on the casting deck has a good size hole up high at the deck/hatch joint. I use this for a livewell all the time and kept wondering where the extra water in my bilge was coming from. Then I noticed I was only getting it when I had the well filled with water. Upon further investigation I found the cut-out, not sure why its there except maybe to run wiring of some sort. BTW- that hatch works great for live bait like mullet and medium sized bunker. I just hooked one of those suction cupped bubblers up and my bait stayed frisky all day. Just make sure you have one of those bait catching nets handy or you will get wet trying to catch em !!!

craig