Am in the process of building a 20' Simmons Sea Skiff. I noticed that there are a few other builders of SSSs here and had a question about the working deck. It looks like Ellis Rowe built the 18' featured in WoodenBoat Mag w/ a sealed floor making the skiff basically self-bailing? The original plans call for fore/aft floorboards. I would prefer to build the deck more like the boat featured recently in WoodenBoat, but was curious what people's thoughts or experiences with this boat were regarding floors, e.g., will a 20' skiff be self-bailing. I understand that repairs would be more troublesome with the sealed deck versus the removable floorboards.
Sorry if this post was confusing.
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