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Thanks for the suggestions and encouragement. Here's the latest. I drilled 3 holes on the underside, between the bolt holes, at the worst site. The core material in all three looks dry and fresh. They let me do a little more core excavating too. The boat sat in the warm sun another day and again...

Here's an update. Once the rail was removed I used a razor blade scraper to take the old sealant off the hull. It ranged from very thin to nonexistent under each stanchion; certainly there was never enough to prevent water intrusion, and there was black mold under each of the 4 bases. Cleaned...

The pulpit is off. Black stains make it clear that water intruded under all 4 stainless base plates and, worse, down bolts and into the cabin in all 4 locations. While there is flexible white sealant on the fiberglass deck all the way around the attachment point in all 4 locations, it was too...

Thanks, Joe. Taking the pulpit off now. In for a penny, in for a pound. Maybe I won't have to redo all the holes; we'll see how well sealed they have been.

Rain has been leaking into the forward cabin of my 2007 22 cruiser. This is my first year with the boat. Yesterday I went out during a storm and found the source: a steady leak around the bolts for one bow pulpit stanchion. The pulpit will need to come off so I can inspect all the bolt holes...

I am looking for a swim step that mounts as yours does so it will clear my trim tabs. Any idea of the manufacturer's name on yours? If anyone has seen similar designs, let me know where to look.

iboats.com has the Spectrum Color gel coat repair kit for C-Dory white on sale for $21.24 right now. Item number is F5517000K. Looks like it is aimed at model years since 2000 or so. According to the Don Casey instructions reproduced elsewhere on the C-Dory site, some color matching is still...