Winch fasteners...

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Thanks for the input Brion,
I had this idea also floatting around for a solution. As far as fastening this new curved alum plate to the mast, would you try to somehow use the old holes, or new holes with rivnuts somewhere, then let the winch fasteners go into the plate, and sit inside the old "ghost" holes where the wrong rivnuts are.

Would welding a pad on be a sound solution, or would you stick with the alum plate idea?
Thanks, and masthead is a beauty, too bad it is mostly out of sight!!