[Gerry Zagorski]

Good question Duff.... If it's like most Sea Rays that are designed for cruising, the deck scuppers usually drain into the bilge. And this particular boat being a bow rider and having an open bow is cause for some additional concern... If you take one over the bow, the bilge pump could have a difficult time dealing with all that water.

Had this happen to me once... We had a cresting wave break right on our bow on Romer Shoal.. Pretty stupid but that's another story in itself... Our boat was a cuddy but the force of the wave blew in the eisgn glass above the windshield and we had a foot and a half of water in the cockpit.

Luckily we had a self bailing cock pit and once we got the boat under power and the stern squatting, everything drained out of the scuppers.