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Roger and Todd,

Before I start cutting holes in my boat, I want to make sure I understand the full process, so please let me know if I am misunderstanding anything.

The original chainplate is bent in an L-shape and screwed to plywood inside the ceiling of the cabin with one or two wood screws.  To remove the old chainplate, you need to open a hole in the ceiling liner.  In Todd's case, he also needed to open some of adjacent sidewall of the cabin to gain sufficient clearance to extract the old chainplate.  Roger, did you need to do that also, or did you use a different approach?

In any event, the hole in the ceiling needs to be repaired afterwards.  Was there much difficulty in achieving a clean repair of the ceiling liner?

A second hole of the correct size for the deckplate inspection port is drilled in the inside sidewall liner below the chainplate opening.  A backing plate (1/4" plywood?) is epoxied inside of the outer layer of the cabin sidewall.  The new chainplate is through-bolted to the backing plate. Finally, the deckplate is installed to the inside liner of the cabin as an inspection port.

Is the above description correct?

Thanks,

Mike

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