Well gang, I did it. I reattached the stern rub rail - with 3M5200, per Ward Richardson's suggestion. It took me and two other guys to actually attach it. The key (other than cleaning out the channel in the rub rail as thoroughly as possible) is to squeeze the 3M500 in small doses and attach the rub rail from the center. One of you lines it up with the hole, there's another person - up on the swim platform - holding up at least one of the ends -- the one that will be sealed and seated first and then the other. And the third person has a putty knife or a big flat head screw driver to coax the rub rail on. When it's lined up with hole, that third person applies the rubber mallet. We did it about two-feet or so at a time: press out some 3M5200 with the grease gun -- not too much - maneuver/line up the rail to the edges both top and bottom - and apply rubber mallet. Tempting though it may be to really thwack it, don't. It can crack the rub rail. I would have provided pix, but turned out we need the third guy to help with the task. Oh btw -- the weather didn't warm up here (NYC until two weeks - which is late - and then only for a day or so of 55-degrees one day, 40 degrees the next.) Even though we had temps in the low 70s this week, I understand there's a one-in-three shot we're going to get some snow tomorrow. I tell you this because 3M5200 says it should be applied in 70-degree temps. I'm hoping the 10 days I had before launching that were in the 50s and low-60s were enough so it would cure. I was uncertain if the 3m5200 Fast Cure would set too fast to do the task. I shouldn't have worried. At the end of the day, with the three of us on it - it took under 20 minutes.
Thank you all very much - especially DougM, Mechone, Big Easy, Bluenose and Todds. Here's hoping we all have a good season. Here in NY area we started splashing this past Monday (5/4).