Survey of available hardware
Here are a few that are available at West Marine, and elsewhere, I'm sure. If you find something that works really well, pass it along & I'll put it on the owners website:http://ecatalog.westmarine.com/full.asp?page=0257&LinkBackProdId=141211BTW - I had a similar problem occur in a bad storm with a very low tide - bent one of my stanchions that got caught under a pier. I had the stanchion fixed, and never had any water leakage from the experience.