Adding handrails to hardtop

LaReaLaRea Member Posts: 7,505 ✭✭✭✭✭
Has anybody ever added more safety handrails to a Rinker hardtop?  How, and where did you source the parts?

My 370 has really nice curved handrails on both sides, located at aft edge of the hardtop side.  However, if you are walking aft along the gunwale, there are no handholds until you get all the way to the stern.  It needs a second handrail along the forward edge of the hardtop side.  Also, when you enter the cockpit from the foredeck through the windshield, a small handrail on top of the hardtop would be really helpful.

The hardtop is a 2-layer fiberglass structure.  I'm guessing I'd have to drill a 1" access hole through the inside panel, through-bolt the handrail into the outside panel using 1" washers for strength, and then use a white plastic plug to cover the 1" hole on the inside panel. 

Anybody know where to get 7/8" stainless handrails that would match the boat?

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