: Yes you can trim the cable and plastic cable housing to length. In
: fact, I used bike lube on the cable because of its waterproof
: abilities. The only problem I had was with the plastic skeg box.
: Once installed I had problems with lowering the skeg; it would
: bind, or buckle the cable. After studying the situation, I
: discovered the binding was due to high resistance from the
: raised white flanges on the inside of the skeg box (The flanges
: provide the resistance to keep the skeg in the up position. ) I
: took a flat file and carefully file down the flanges. In fact I
: had to do this several times to get the right balance in upper
: tension and ease of lowering. I believe saltwater has compounded
: the situation. You can research this forum to see some of my
: pictures. Everything seems to be working now. It really works
: great on the Guillemot L in improving tracking with tidal
: currents and windy crossings. I did a flush mount on the inside
: and used thicken epoxy filet. ( I ordered the skeg box version
: without the lip on outside of the box to aid in a inside flush
: mount installation.)

Great job with the installation.. I was worried with the lip version that the angle would not align with my hull slope. Here, one of my pics on this forum.
http://www.kayakforum.com/cgi-bin/Building/index.cgi/md/read/id/210239/sbj/where-and-how-to-install-skeg/