Listers - especially those who have replaced exterior handrails on a 30-1 :)
I'm hoping you can advise me on how to remove exterior handrails from a 30-1. Specifically, how to un-fasten the forward two bases of each handrail. I attempted to remove my exterior handrails today and was unsuccessful. There must be some screws into the forward two bases that I can't see from inside the boat (and there aren't bungs covering screw heads on the outside). Unscrewing the aft four bases of the exterior handrails was straightforward. Their screws are shared with or covered by the interior handrails. So I drilled out the bungs on the interior handrails and removed them. They're held on with four long screws that go all the way through into the outside handrails. Once the inside rails are off you can see holes in the cabin liner for two more screws per base of the exterior handrails. Those screws are shorter of course and came out easily enough, freeing the aft four bases of the exterior handrail. All those screws had #2 square recessed heads BTW. But the forward two bases are perplexing. On the port side, there were two chrome screw covers in the cabin liner above the head sink, and one immediately forward and immediately aft of the bulkhead separating the salon from the head. On the starboard side there were two chrome screw covers above the hanging locker / shelves, but only one immediately forward of the bulkhead (I don't see one aft of the bulkhead). I popped all those screw covers off, and removed the screws they were covering, but that was not sufficient to free the forward two bases of the exterior handrails. There seem to be more screws holding them on, whose heads are concealed. For those of you 30-1 owners who have replaced your handrails, how did you access the screws holding the forward two bases on? Did you cut a hole in your cabin liner? I'm OK with destructive removal of the old handrails, but worry about damaging the fiberglass around the screw holes. And I probably wouldn't be able to fasten the new handrails exactly the same way if I went the destructive removal route. I put some pictures at https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-NqAxQ6JxFTc093OExfMGRBX1E. I'm hoping somebody can tell me the magic answer :) Thanks In Advance, Randy Stafford S/V Grenadine C&C 30-1 #7 Ken Caryl, CO
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