You don't have enough money to steal. So you're safe.
On Jeremy's Yampa trip there was a cool ski shop couple who had a decked Boulder Boat Works boat. Seemed like a good boat. The hull was maybe a bit floppy. But still a good boat.
It had kayak spray skirt like compression lids. Round ones about 36" inches in diameter. They weren't wide enough. You had to tip coolers sideways to get them in and then scoot them around with your foot. But the idea is sound.
I've been thinking about a double ender hull. But the tombstone transom has two purposes: A) for some people it's a place to put and outboard and B) it makes the rear end of the boat bigger. I'm not sure I want to make my 18' panels pull back to not much bigger than my 16' foot panels with a transom.
I suppose I could have made 20' foot panels. But I didn't. And my shop isn't big enough. I'm running out of room with the 17' footer