: Hi Bryan,

: Your Iggy is looking great.

: I see you have offset the skeg and seeing that made me wonder. So, here is a
: question for you and all the other designers on this forum. Has a kayak
: ever been built with a skeg, (or two) built so that one of the inner trunk
: walls is actually the chine/side of the yak?? I mean the skeg would be
: right out along the chine, and if there were two, it would look sorta like
: a surf board....

I built an exterior skeg with a blade on each side right next to the sides of my Chesapeake 18. Worked great and I lost no inside storage and all working parts were visible, easy to deal with and no jamming. I had a short verticle "horn" on one blade with a single release line to a jamb cleat by my right hip. The weight of the skeg blades lowered them. They flipped up if they hit any obstacle.
Randy