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Re: Why Through-deck skeg
By:JohnAbercrombie
Date: 6/21/2017, 12:21 pm
In Response To: Re: Why Through-deck skeg (Etienne Muller)

My skeg design using cable goes under the deck of the Hunter with room to spare.

Et:
It's this design?
http://www.etiennemuller.com/SkegProject.pdf

The low kinkfree profile is all in the hinge.

Using a swaged fitting is an interesting idea, but isn't there still unsupported cable when the skeg is 'down'?
As long as the control box end is quite 'loose', running the skeg into a rock/log/up the beach will just push the cable and move the control handle. It's a nice design. Depending on the cable diameter, with more friction in the cable tube it may be possible for the cable to kink, even with your very well thought-out design. And, we need friction to keep the skeg down.

The (unique) Reg Lake design runs the cable in a channel on one side of the skeg. The cable entry is low on the side of the skeg box, so there is never any unsupported cable.

BTW, low aspect ratio skegs (i.e. long and shallow triangles) can be as effective as a high aspect 'fin', and are inherently more rugged. A 'triangle' also changes its exposed area when adjusted, while a fin doesn't (much). The Reg Lake/Sterling Kayaks skeel and the Bjorn Thomasson thru-deck skeg are low aspect triangles so the geometry is a bit different.

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Other: Through-deck skeg experiences? *PIC*
JohnAbercrombie -- 6/18/2017, 1:07 pm
Re: Other: Through-deck skeg experiences?
Paul D -- 6/18/2017, 2:53 pm
Re: Other: Through-deck skeg experiences?
JohnAbercrombie -- 6/18/2017, 5:59 pm
Re: Other: Through-deck skeg experiences?
Paul D -- 6/18/2017, 9:06 pm
Re: Other: Through-deck skeg experiences?
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 6/18/2017, 8:29 pm
Re: Other: Through-deck skeg experiences?
JohnAbercrombie -- 6/18/2017, 9:37 pm
Re: Other: Through-deck skeg experiences? *PIC*
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 6/19/2017, 7:51 am
Re: Other: Through-deck skeg experiences?
Paul Sylvester -- 6/19/2017, 4:47 am
Why Through-deck skeg
JayBabina -- 6/20/2017, 8:12 am
Re: Why Through-deck skeg
JohnAbercrombie -- 6/20/2017, 11:35 am
Re: Why Through-deck skeg
Etienne Muller -- 6/20/2017, 12:26 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 6/20/2017, 6:22 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 6/20/2017, 12:19 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 6/20/2017, 6:13 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 6/21/2017, 11:44 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 6/21/2017, 12:21 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 6/22/2017, 3:10 am
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Etienne Muller -- 6/22/2017, 11:17 am
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Bill Hamm -- 6/23/2017, 12:34 am
Re: Why Through-deck skeg
JohnAbercrombie -- 6/23/2017, 10:24 am
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Etienne Muller -- 6/23/2017, 11:24 am
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Dan Caouette (CSCWC) -- 6/23/2017, 11:52 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 6/23/2017, 11:59 am
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Dan Caouette (CSCWC) -- 6/23/2017, 12:49 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 6/24/2017, 1:02 am
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Etienne Muller -- 6/23/2017, 1:20 pm
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Steve Solomon -- 6/23/2017, 2:56 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 6/24/2017, 1:05 am
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Bill Hamm -- 6/24/2017, 12:59 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 6/24/2017, 10:19 am
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Etienne Muller -- 6/24/2017, 3:28 am
Skudder *PIC*
Dan Caouette (CSCWC) -- 6/24/2017, 9:35 am
Re: Skudder
Etienne Muller -- 6/24/2017, 9:40 am
Re: Skudder
Bill Hamm -- 6/24/2017, 8:35 pm
Re: Skudder
Bill Hamm -- 6/26/2017, 1:36 am
Re: Why Through-deck skeg
Etienne Muller -- 6/22/2017, 11:22 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 6/22/2017, 8:17 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 6/23/2017, 5:23 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 6/23/2017, 10:32 am
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 6/20/2017, 1:33 pm
Re: Why Through-deck skeg
Paul D -- 7/5/2017, 4:57 am
Re: Why Through-deck skeg
JayBabina -- 7/5/2017, 8:17 am
Too Much Skeg
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 7/5/2017, 9:52 am
Re: Too Much Skeg *PIC*
JohnAbercrombie -- 7/5/2017, 11:30 am
Re: Too Much Skeg
JohnAbercrombie -- 7/5/2017, 11:34 am
Re: Why Through-deck skeg
Paul D -- 7/5/2017, 2:58 pm