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The hardest thing to find will be the left handed drills (well, a lathe to drill the guide bolts, but I guess that's not relevant in this case), Amazon is you friend. Much easier with larger, and clean, un-corroded, bolts though  Embarrassed
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The big trouble with these techniques is that they require skill, experience and practice. So if someone like me without those three attributes has a go the first few attempts tend to end badly. So in the trade you might give a youngster a scrap cylinder head to practice with. If the OP boat is wood I'd be thinking that my fallback would be to drill all round the screw to extract, then drill a large hole and plug it. New screw could then go in the plug.
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One inch hole saw, drill down side of screw, then glue in one inch Dowell, prefix mast foot in same place.
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Originally posted by JimC

The big trouble with these techniques is that they require skill, experience and practice. So if someone like me without those three attributes has a go the first few attempts tend to end badly. So in the trade you might give a youngster a scrap cylinder head to practice with. If the OP boat is wood I'd be thinking that my fallback would be to drill all round the screw to extract, then drill a large hole and plug it. New screw could then go in the plug.

Exactly. The guy in the (excellent BTW) video had it easy with all the tools including access to a lathe to make his drill guides, and sheared bolts with not a sign of corrosion. Not saying he was not skilled and a video of him waiting for penetrating oil penetrating would be worse than one of paint drying but.......

If other methods fail then I too would drill oversize and use a plug of new wood too.
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I agree that the techniques shown in the video are above average boat bimbling level but the purpose of linking it was to show the methods for overcoming problems that others had mentioned. I would imagine that it would not be too hard to make a pre drilled plate which could be screwed into place and would then act as a jig to drill the sheared screws out.

Personally, I like the hole saw suggestion. Simple and effective. Smile
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That video is excellent, I didn't want to suggest otherwise.

I agree WRT the hole saw technique if all else fails, an elegant solution.  Thumbs Up
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