I made up mounting pads for the stern pulpit from fiberglass

I did not have any more used deck skins to recycle, or the fancy stuff form McCallister-car so I just laid up some layers and used a hole saw to get the 3" cicrles I wanted;



THese were bedded in thickened epoxy. I used my gloved finger to radius the edges and sanded them once they dried.



The finished product not only helps keep the water from collecting around the mount, but actually works as a kind of external backing plate to help distribute compressive force applied to the pulpit.