A_Sails_Pace
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As an update to this - I followed the advice and started to clean up the worst looking bolt with a chipping hammer and Dremel with wire brush attachment.. after probably no more than 10 minutes of cleaning up, I hit what felt like pretty solid metal and I am already more reassured!
Matt, can I ask, did you have any hull/keel joint corrosion at the same time? I'm experiencing the same issue as you appeared to have had, only additionally I have a little corrosion around the keel/kull joint. My survey stated that all I needed was to clean up and re-paint the bolts and to sand back the keel/hull corrosion and to flexi mastic it. My worry obviously is that the two are connected? My bilge is usually nice and dry and the bolts are boned as well.
I hope I'm just overthinking and over worrying.
ASP