Soon's I get a day of uninterrupted bliss I'll start early, remove it, prep the areas, seal with epoxy and let cure to tacky, moosh the deck surface areas with thickened epoxy, reset. With a little luck I can do it without creating way more mess than I can handle.

I'll do all the cutting and shaping and boring for drainage holes after it's on. I had thought to cut drainage(s) before installation as I've done before but then worried that the weaker spots would fracture due to the curves both up and down and around the deck line. Also, I prefer to have the deck/rubrail seam fully glued over. I'll leave mebbe 3/32" of mahogany to seal the seam and that'll let a bit of water lie on the deck but not enough to worry about.

It's my intent to fabricate the line chocks from 2" purple heart..on hand for too long..and let them into the toe rail once installed. Also I'm thinking I might have enough of it for the anchor sprit/roller. I need to get my seam seal across the bow/bow rubrail done up against the sprit.

Time will tell...as always. Usually I say I'm slow..but I'm unreliable. Lately for various reasons I've been very slow and extremely unreliable.