but the engineering solutions used are laughable. There have been several papers published providing data on strain gage instrumented keels. The bending loads are quite manageable. Here is another analogy: I have an unstayed mast, these have a proven track record. But would you attach them by bolting the mast step through the deck? Of course not, that would require reacting the entire capsizing moment over a few inches of deck skin. Yet that is effectively what these keels are trying to do. Instead the mast is buried 5 feet through the deck and to the keel, reducing the material stress to a very manageable level.

They are trying to use yesterday's keel engineering solutions on todays keel's, even though the problem is very, very different. As used, the keel bolts are just a fuse that pops when the loads get too big. The keel should not be a fused circuit - it needs to stay with the boat until the boat is destroyed.