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Message: <blockquote data-quote="onthewater102" data-source="post: 418707" data-attributes="member: 13702">^^^^ that's all I've come up with thus far & it'll be time consuming to nest cut pieces of PVC over top of the channels stamped in the bottom of the boat but I don't see much alternative.Borrowing a pic from <a href="https://www.tinboats.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=12901&hilit=Tracker+III" target="_blank">jdrautoworks thread</a> this is what I'll be looking at when I get it opened up. <img src="https://i.imgur.com/JsGeZC4.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The area between the rib closest to the livewell & the livewell will not have decking over it & was where I was planning on sealing the seams so that water landing on the deck will have to shed to there & from there can flow back to the bilge.Topping the channels will still let water that gets into the compartments I install up front make its way rearward, but on my 1436 that I decked 2 years ago the floor deck was attached to the topside of the ribs and the spaces between filled with expanding foam. It was that foam I drilled into and found to be saturated, so I'm trying to come up with a way of avoiding that same outcome on the Tracker III build.</blockquote>