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1989 Outrage 18'

This whaler was used every summer in Orange Beach, AL until about 3 years ago. We purchased a pontoon boat (too many people in family for the whaler to carry), trailered the whaler, and it hasn't been in the water since. The whaler has been sitting uncovered for the last 3 years behind my in-laws house. I recently decided that I wanted to clean the boat up and get it on the water again. However, after looking at the boat a couple of days ago, I noticed about 2 inches of standing water inside the deck and water was slowly dripping from the hull. My question is, is this boat safe to put in the water? I've always known whalers to be unsinkable but if water is protruding inside the hull of the boat from the deck and there is obviously a crack on the bottom of the boat, could this boat sink? Could it sink either from water entering from the bottom or extra weight from the leaking rain water from the deck? Any advise would be greatly appreciated.