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Re: Skeg Report
By:Simeon
Date: 6/5/2012, 9:51 pm
In Response To: Skeg Report (mtkayak)

A thought around the pooling problem - why not adopt/adapt a maroske fitting to act as a drain?

: Thought I would post an update. I have been in the water enough
: time now since the skeg has been installed to give a good review
: of it's operation. Overall I have to say I'm very pleased. The
: skeg area seems to be just right giving a good balance in all
: wind conditions. Just deploy or retract until the right balance
: area is found. It's almost like having a steering rudder. The
: control box slider works great. The slider stops about 3/4"
: from either end leaving plenty of room to insert a finger even
: with gloves. The friction sliding action of the carbon fiber rod
: in the teflon tube is just right. It holds its position but yet
: moves very very smoothly. Make you go ooooh... when sliding it.
: The angle of the skeg in full deployment is still swept back
: enough that it does not hang onto any weeds yet gives you a low
: drag foil shape. Best of all there is no concern for a kinked
: cable. I have purposely run her aground, ran over stumps and
: lilly roots and it just pushes the skeg up without incident. I'm
: not saying it's unbreakable. Care should be taken not to back
: into something solid on the fine trailing edge and I would
: imagine if it had a good side impact it may break the skeg. I
: bet it would dump you first though.

: What I would do different:
: Not much. I think I would build the skeg box and skeg out of carbon
: fiber, only to reduce more weight. The CF pushrod and teflon
: housing is super light so it would make sense to complete the
: package. The other thing that I noticed is that I placed my skeg
: control box on the topside of the deck which pools water. It's
: no big deal and works very well there, but I might think about
: mounting it more over the sheer line depending on the hull
: design.

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Strip: Skeg build log for existing Great Auk *PIC*
mtkayak (Mike Trutwin) -- 1/25/2012, 8:40 pm
Re: Strip: Skeg build log for existing Great Auk *PIC*
mtkayak (Mike Trutwin) -- 1/25/2012, 8:46 pm
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Tom Selva -- 6/3/2012, 6:04 pm
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mtkayak -- 6/5/2012, 8:15 pm
Re: Strip: Skeg build log for existing Great Auk *PIC*
mtkayak (Mike Trutwin) -- 1/25/2012, 8:49 pm
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mtkayak (Mike Trutwin) -- 1/25/2012, 8:53 pm
Re: Strip: Skeg build log for existing Great Auk *PIC*
mtkayak (Mike Trutwin) -- 1/25/2012, 8:57 pm
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mtkayak (Mike Trutwin) -- 1/25/2012, 9:04 pm
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mtkayak (Mike Trutwin) -- 1/25/2012, 9:06 pm
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mtkayak (Mike Trutwin) -- 1/25/2012, 9:09 pm
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mtkayak (Mike Trutwin) -- 1/25/2012, 9:12 pm
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mtkayak (Mike Trutwin) -- 1/25/2012, 9:21 pm
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mtkayak (Mike Trutwin) -- 1/25/2012, 9:35 pm
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mtkayak (Mike Trutwin) -- 1/25/2012, 9:44 pm
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mtkayak (Mike Trutwin) -- 1/25/2012, 9:46 pm
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mtkayak (Mike Trutwin) -- 1/25/2012, 9:51 pm
Re: Strip: Skeg build log for existing Great Auk *PIC*
mtkayak (Mike Trutwin) -- 1/25/2012, 9:53 pm
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mtkayak (Mike Trutwin) -- 1/25/2012, 9:54 pm
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mtkayak (Mike Trutwin) -- 1/25/2012, 9:57 pm
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mtkayak (Mike Trutwin) -- 1/25/2012, 10:10 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 1/26/2012, 4:02 pm
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Mike Trutwin -- 1/26/2012, 10:42 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 1/31/2012, 3:37 am
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Mike Trutwin -- 1/31/2012, 9:05 am
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Bill Hamm -- 2/1/2012, 3:00 am
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Ian Cummins -- 1/27/2012, 5:32 pm
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Mike Trutwin -- 1/27/2012, 7:52 pm
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John Messinger -- 2/3/2012, 7:55 am
Re: Strip: Skeg build log for existing Great Auk *PIC*
mtkayak -- 4/2/2012, 9:51 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 4/3/2012, 4:11 am
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mtkayak -- 4/2/2012, 9:55 pm
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mtkayak -- 4/2/2012, 10:21 pm
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mtkayak -- 4/2/2012, 10:29 pm
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mtkayak -- 4/2/2012, 10:36 pm
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mtkayak -- 4/2/2012, 10:42 pm
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mtkayak -- 4/2/2012, 10:50 pm
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mtkayak -- 4/2/2012, 11:03 pm
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mtkayak -- 4/2/2012, 11:07 pm
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mtkayak -- 4/2/2012, 11:08 pm
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mtkayak -- 4/2/2012, 11:12 pm
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mtkayak -- 4/2/2012, 11:17 pm
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mtkayak -- 4/2/2012, 11:19 pm
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mtkayak -- 4/2/2012, 11:22 pm
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mtkayak -- 4/2/2012, 11:40 pm
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mtkayak -- 4/2/2012, 11:42 pm
Re: Strip: Skeg build log for existing Great Auk
Chris Harlan -- 4/9/2012, 3:30 pm
Skeg Report
mtkayak -- 6/5/2012, 8:51 pm
Re: Skeg Report
Simeon -- 6/5/2012, 9:51 pm
Re: Skeg Report
mtkayak -- 6/5/2012, 10:10 pm
Re: Skeg Report
Al Edie -- 6/6/2012, 12:36 am
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mtkayak -- 6/6/2012, 8:14 am
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John Messinger -- 6/6/2012, 5:53 pm
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mtkayak -- 6/6/2012, 10:09 pm
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mtkayak -- 1/18/2014, 11:15 am
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