Yes, you have a steel boat. I'm a metal boat designer and I would love to
have one exactly because you can have stanchions and gear as rugged as you
describe. Money makes it a choice between no boat and fiberglass for me
though. Fiberglass is plenty strong enough to be seaworthy but, even if I
do put larger backing blocks under my stanchions someday, I still won't want
people pushing on them routinely.

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Roger Long