I finally had a nice working weekend and with the help of Bob and Derrick, I was able to start some serious work on the railing. The goal is to remove the existing teak railing:

Original toe rail

and put an all aluminum toe rail instead.

The first step was to remove all the wood plugs:

Now the screw is showing under the plug (removed)

and unscrew the rail. The mid-point fairlead is shown here:

Opening a notch to check the fairlead

After removing the whole teak, it was time to do some clean-up, drill some bigger holes, clean everything with acetone and denatured alcohol, put some tape to close the holes and fill the holes with thickened epoxy. All went quite well but we realized that some holes are very hard to reach and we wont be able to screw the to rail…

Thanks again to Bob and Derrick for your help and many thanks to Dianna for loaning Bob to Med Viking!