My ’14 Puma’s bow drain looks like the one in Keymaster’s post on his 3rd link. I don’t see how water can get from the drain or cup holder into the rod box in mine. It’s dammed and directed and sloped to enter into the bilge channel.
I found the rod holder grommets to be too small for rods with bigger butt ends, both for the passenger, and inside the rod box. I did find some grommets that fit the existing holes in the boat with larger inside diameters to accommodate these rods.
Now, there are some things I don’t like on my boat like the cheap looking carpeted step box, the bushings for the seat posts which allows the seat posts to wobble, and not having a better integrated designed tool holder and rule holder. I am always fighting my trolling motor cables getting in the way of the pedal or graphs, I think due mostly to the forward trolling pedal design, which also limits dual graph mounting options. I think I would prefer more traditional shaped livewells that would allow for larger rear compartments, with larger lid openings. It’s hard to even fit some plano boxes in there. I don’t like the terminal block setup in the bilge with all the jumper wires, and would much prefer a more reliable bus bar. A master cutoff switch to cut power to the engine to eliminate its parasitic draw on the battery, and to be able to switch if needed to the trolling motor batteries to start the engine would be nice. I think some of these things have been addressed in the later models.
