attached are a few photos of the mast step that was redone with the inserts. I first drilled down and deep into the step and filled with epoxy...it soaked up lots, I wanted to make sure it was solid and that the epoxy went into the deck, not just into the block on top of the deck, since im not really sure how they built it in the first place.
After that set I drilled in for the inserts, covered everything in blue tape and the screws with teflon tape, filled the holes with epoxy and inserted the inserts and screws. had some overflow (was expecting that) and done. The screws came out nice and easy.
The nextday I removed by cutting throught the tape with a knife. I will doing the same with the hatch slide/hand rail combo.
There is however a silver lining to every dark cloud. I get to benefit from the improvements and upgrades others have done along the way. 
You don't think your going to be getting away from a Chrysler Sailboat addiction that easily do you? 
