Having the passenger seat on the side gave me slight trim problems. The boat would sit perfectly level with just one person at the helm, but add a person on the port side, and it would lean a bit. Not much, but enough to drive an anal retentive person like myself slightly nuts. Adding 60 pounds of kicker motor and bracket to the port side would only worsen things, so something had to be done. I decided to move the passenger seat to the center, and leave the port side open for a walk path. Instead of the top opening, I left the front open as a cubby, and put a base to put the pin style seat in. Having the old seat fixed forward was a pain.