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Old 11-12-2009
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"I can't wait to take a keel bolt out "
Only a Benetoy owner could say that. REAL keel bolts are more than three inches long, and permanently cast into the keel, unlike the terribly convenient bolts that Beneteau uses to attach their iron keels.
They're bolts, they're in the keel, all true, but they aren't "keel bolts" according to the general laws of this universe. There just has to be a better way to describe them.

Or perhaps real keel bolts should be called "keel studs" instead. Heck, I drink US-made domestic "sparkling wine" and still call it Champagne. :-)
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