18 ft Sea Craft self bailing

[Tashmoo2]

This is my second Sea Craft (1981 18ft. 1st was 23 ft, 1971 IO.

The 23 footer had excellent self bailing cockpit. The scuppers on the 18 footer are below the water line. I cannot understand logic of this. Anyway, I saw a Post on thehulltruth.com about restoration of 20 footer in which the cockpit deck was raised to permit self bailing. I searched this forum but was unable to find anything on subject.

Since my floor is spongy it has to be replaced. Should I raise the floor in the process and if so would you use plywood or a core to lighten the boat and raise it?

How can I tell who built this hull. All Sea crafts look beautiful to me. I never realized some are better built then others.

Thank you

Tashmoo

thanks