Company: ONEW
Filing Date: 2025-01-10
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001772921-25-000007
Chunk: 19

Company: OneWater Marine Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-01-10
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 19
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 the shares present in person or represented by proxy at the Annual Meeting and entitled to vote on the matter. As a result, abstentions will have the same effect as a vote “against” this proposal and broker non-votes will have no effect on the vote outcome.

Holders of proxies solicited by this proxy statement will vote the proxies received by them as directed on the proxy card or, if no direction is given, then FOR the approval of the resolution to approve the compensation of our Named Executive Officers.

THE BOARD RECOMMENDS A VOTE “FOR” THE APPROVAL OF, ON AN ADVISORY (NON-BINDING) BASIS, THE COMPENSATION OF OUR NAMED EXECUTIVE OFFICERS.

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<div align='center'>PROPOSAL 3 - RATIFICATION OF APPOINTMENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM</div>

### Background
Our audit committee has appointed Grant Thornton LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025 and has further recommended to the Board that we submit the selection of Grant Thornton LLP for ratification by our stockholders at the Annual Meeting.

We are not required to submit the appointment of our independent registered public accounting firm for stockholder approval, but we are submitting the appointment of Grant Thornton LLP for stockholder ratification as a matter of good corporate governance. If the stockholders do not ratify this appointment, the audit committee will reconsider its appointment of Grant Thornton LLP. Even if the appointment is ratified, our audit committee may direct the appointment of a different independent registered public accounting firm at any time during the year if the audit committee determines that the change would be in the best interests of the Company.

The audit committee reviews and pre-approves all audit and non-audit services performed by its independent registered public accounting firm, except to the extent the chairman of the audit committee exercises his delegated authority to pre-approve audit and non-audit services. The audit committee pre-approved all services described below rendered by Grant Thornton LLP in the fiscal year ended September 30, 2024, in accordance with these policies.

In its pre-approval review of non-audit services, the audit committee considers, among other things, the possible impact of the performance of such services on the independent registered public accounting firm’s independence. There were no non-audit services performed by Grant Thornton LLP in the fiscal year ended September 30, 2024. Additional information concerning the audit committee and its activities can be found in the