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Thanks Jollyrog...The large seal around on the deck opening of the main hatch is white on mine - and pretty thick. It appears in good condition, except for one area in that corner scupper area which I just dried, cleaned, and reattached. After closer inspection today, I noticed that most of the water congregating is near the starboard scupper, however, because of the congregation it seeps back into the rear starboard main hatch and downward. I got up underneath that scupper and noticed that when I pulled down tightly on the starboard scupper hose, water flowed downward as intended. That caused me to abandoned the one so-called fix (drilling installing a lateral thru-hull to the motor-well, etc.). I'm now going to use a couple of thick zip ties rounded over the hose and screw them down into an inner wall to tension the scupper hose downward. Installing a small lateral thru-hull into the motor-well may get rid of some water, but isn't low enough to fix the standing water problem in that area like mentioned in other posts. Further, I assessed and tightened all my hatch levers as all were loose and had not been adjusted in a long time. Seals won't work if the doors are not tensioned correctly. I tightened mine so that you have to stand on top of the area and use your body weight & effort to release them.
Questioned. Is there a better large hatch seal folks use other than the factory one? Also, the inner seal on the main hatch lid was wide, but darn near flat. I removed it and attached a white Home Depot Frost King sealed that was at least 2.5 times thicker. It allowed me to tension the hatch handles to what appears to be an acceptable level.
Myself and two others are running 60 miles to jump & stab Bluefin - I know real quick if my fixes helped!!!