23 Self-bailing deck history ?

[sogilmore]

Regarding the possibility of raising the floor. When I redid my Tsunami, I had the deck lifted off and had the stringers inspected, we looked at installing cross beams down the length of the boat to raise the floor up 2". I thought I could hide the increase and keep the beautiful sheer lines of the 23 with a wider rubrail design. It was a killer job that beat me in the end. We could not get it correct, so we just pulled the plug on the idea, Put the deck back on in original config, and put it back together again. But someone better at it than me, could pull it off. 2" is all you need, and the rubrail can easily handle that distraction. I do not like those boats with a lot of hull above the rub rail, but this 2" did not really show.

I did replace the original extruded alum, rubrail with same, expensive ($900.-Taco), but the older clean lines of the solid alum. rail looked better in my opin than the later plastic or rubber ones.

Has anyone with a 23' closed the verticle drains and ran scuppers out the aft end? Maybe that is what was desribed above, but I did not catch that from the product name mentioned? I was also thinking that if they were moved aft, that also inward would be better as there is less distance from the center of pivot, the outside always drops deeper than the center, am I making sense with this?

Need the feed back.

-sean