Russ - thanks for the west coast humour - yes we are lucky here to have our boats in the water year round - though it does have its downsides too in that the hulls never dry out and growth on the bottom continues even in the winter.
The torques I applied to the 3/4 inch bolts were around 140 foot pounds. After consulting some torque figures on this website, I looked up a value for 3/4 inch stainless bolts on a fastener website that had been recommended to me. I increased that value by about 10% to allow for the extra weight of the keel. The 4th bolt under the mast step is too tight and buried to get a torque wrench on so I tightened it with a beefy 1/2 inch socket wrench as far as possible to a guesstimated 40-50 foot pounds. Incidentally, 140 foot pounds was about as much as I could easily put on the torque wrench without adding leverage of an extension handle or torque converter. Chris
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