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More accurate hole drilling
Practical Boat Owner
|December 2025
Gilbert Park scans a cleat to make a drilling template
Like many boat owners, I often fit new bits to my boat.
Some of them come with templates that make drilling holes more precise. The alternative is careful measurement of the item and translating it onto the boat -which for some reason always seems to be a little bit out or not quite parallel.

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