: Nasty crosswinds are common so I am installing a retractible skeg
: on my latest build a Night Herring HD.

: Where should the control be mounted? I am right handed so I figured
: the control box should be on the left side in between the shear
: line and the combing lip just forward of my hip location....Is
: this correct?

On all the commercial composite 'yaks I've paddled, the skeg control has been on the right, just fwd of the hip, recessed into the edge at or just above the sheer line.

Here's a G search of skeg control images:
http://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&biw=1366&bih=638&q=skeg+control&gbv=2

StephenHJ