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well, if my solution to not being able to figure out how to put more photos into a single message makes anyone upset, let me know. And also let me know how to do it and I'll delete and edit all this into one reply. I apologize in advance.

But let me know any thoughts on my problem. I'm baffled how it was not doing this before I took it apart to restore the boat. Maybe it was forced into place and under pressure. I can tell you the old screw holes were quite large and needed filling.

Here you can clearly see the T post is too tall on this side too, so why I'm not having the same issue on this side with the forward railing end not touching the hull is beyond me. But even so, this T post being too tall is still not the best situation for fastening the railing to the side. Everything is much more relaxed in its place when the railing is not being pushed up in the middle from a tall T post.

OOPS, in post #7, I made a mistake, the railing is NOT against the hull on both ends on that side. I can't see the edit button on that post to fix that. I only see the edit option on the last reply I post.