Somewhere along the line one of the previous owners intalled deck scuppers. At least I believe one of the POs did it because I've never seen nor read anything about them on any other Ariels. I like the idea of ridding the decks of trapped water but I loath the big, ugly water stain on the topsides. Placement is questioable too. I have leveled the boat by the boot stripe and when it rains(or worse yet snow melts) water pools aft of the scuppers! If you notice they located them forward enough to go through the cored section of the side decks. Everything seems solid there but locating them aft alittle further would have made more sense to me. When I look at this pic I see three things I'd like to change. We're open to ideas and criticism(gulp)-Tony G.