: Guys, please feel free to contact me directly for prompt, real
: world info on my products instead of getting it second hand from
: here.
: www.onnopaddles.com

: Dan, please do not put words in my mouth.

Sorry... :(

: I would never state something that has yet to be installed is,
: "100% water-tight out of the box."

: Direct from the installation notes for the onno skeg kit:

Actually... come to think of it, you never did send me installation notes! On either skeg install. It didn't really matter because it was so easy to install. I was simply going off our phone conversation and what you had on your website: "These Skeg Kits WILL NOT ! Leak, kink cables, require constant maintenence, detract from boat's appearance or bewilder it's user." I put two and two together and got PI.

: "Silicone seal the skeg pivot bolt ..... o.k to epoxy in place
: during above fillet stage but a little harder to pull out if
: ever need to. Either one is fine but the bolt and nut must be
: sealed."

I questioned that myself when I saw nothing sealing the bolt. So I filled it up upside down with water! After a half hour it didn't leak! I DID seal both ends with some Marine GOOP.

: Please also note that the SS hose clamp on top of the skeg box in
: Dan's photos got turned around somehow and not how I position
: it. ... This would make the clamp's screw / nut a real pain to
: turn ... I send the kit out with this facing fowards so a
: regular screwdriver can get to it from the forward facing head.

Simply put, I had to pull the tube off to remove a kink in the cable. The low-volume mod worked but kinked the cable. I pulled the blade and cable and deepened the notch on the blade. The direction of the hose clamp is a non-issue for this boat. The only way to ever reach it would be by making a hole through the deck. It is TIGHT back there and you'd never do the work through that 8" hatch opening.

Sorry if I stepped on some toes there Pat. I never meant to! You skeg kits are top notch.

Mele Kalikimaka!