....Yours will never be the same again.
Yes, agree.
But might help if you could post some pictures.
Not just of the bent/wonky pulpit. But also how it is attached to the boat. Might be via 1/4" bolts through the toe rail like mine. If so, using clamps between the pulpit mating points and the toe rail while moving to different spots than the original might re-align to acceptable. I had to do this on my 1980 Hunter 36. When installing a new furler, the drum interfered with a cross piece that was welded to my pulpit. After walking around my marina and observing that almost no pulpits on other boats had these cross pieces, the rational solution was to just cut mine off. But when I did, the forward part of my pulpit shifted 5-6 inches port or starboard (I can't now remember which). Looking for a fix, I observed that when clamping the pulpit mating points to slightly different positions on the toe rail the alignment got correct again. After marking the new attachment locations, it then was just a simple matter of drilling several 1/4" holes through the toe rail so that new bolt/nuts where in the right place.
As to the crimp bend: If not near a weld point, you could just cut the area off completely. Say 1" on each side of the crimp. Find some new SS pipe with an inner diameter that matches the outside diameter of your pulpit's pipe. Cut to say 5-6" in length. Slide it over the now cut-off section. On each side, drill an appropriate size hole so that you can screw in a self taping SS screw to hold the sleeve in place.
These might be inexpensive -- but still acceptable -- solutions. But all depends on how bad the pulpit has been damaged. And if you could get it back into OK but not perfect, that is acceptable to you.
