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Re: Strip: Unruly 14' Auk - Skeg? Keel? *Pic*
By:John Monroe
Date: 8/19/2003, 4:18 am
In Response To: Strip: Unruly 14' Auk - Skeg? Keel? (Pete Higginbottom)

I built this 12-foot yak using the sizes of Auk but a more rounded version. The tracking was terrible until I added the skeg you see in the picture. Now I can relax and enjoy the scenery instead of fighting the boat while paddling. I used oak for my skeg and epoxied it to the boat and put a reinforcing epoxy radius around the edges and it has held up fine for two years now.

John

Messages In This Thread

Strip: Unruly 14' Auk - Skeg? Keel?
Pete Higginbottom -- 8/18/2003, 2:15 pm
Keel
Myrl Tanton -- 8/19/2003, 9:11 am
Re: Strip: Unruly 14' Auk - Skeg? Keel? *Pic*
John Monroe -- 8/19/2003, 4:18 am
Re: Strip: Unruly 14' Auk - The Answer!
Pete Higginbottom -- 8/19/2003, 8:18 am
Re: Strip: Unruly 14' Auk - Skeg? Keel?
srchr/gerald -- 8/18/2003, 4:57 pm
Re: Strip: Unruly 14' Auk - Skeg? Keel?
Pete Higginbottom -- 8/18/2003, 5:12 pm
Re: Strip: Unruly 14' Auk - Skeg? Keel?
srchr/gerald -- 8/18/2003, 9:19 pm