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Re: Strip: Skeg for a Night Heron *Pic*
By:Tim Foley
Date: 7/22/2009, 3:03 pm
In Response To: Re: Strip: Skeg for a Night Heron (Allan)

I hope I do this right (the link) but check out Johns work at the address shown. Its that same concept, I did it on my night heron and it works great. You can always add or subtract from it.
Tim

: Another option is to make the external stem on the stern deeper than it needs
: to be so that it effectively becomes a skeg about 2 or 300 mm long but
: only about 5 or 10 mm deep. It is big enough to have some effect, but it
: doesn't actually look as if there is a skeg there.

: It is a bit like eliminating or at least reducing the rocker at the stern.

: Then when you discover that you didn't really need it, you can just plane it
: down and glass over it and no-one will ever know it used to be there.

Messages In This Thread

Strip: Skeg for a Night Heron
Darren -- 7/20/2009, 5:04 am
Re: Strip: Skeg for a Night Heron *LINK*
Holmes -- 7/23/2009, 3:07 am
Re: Strip: Skeg for a Night Heron
Darren -- 7/24/2009, 5:15 am
Re: Strip: Skeg for a Night Heron
Allan -- 7/21/2009, 9:37 am
Re: Strip: Skeg for a Night Heron *Pic*
Tim Foley -- 7/22/2009, 3:03 pm
Re: Strip: Skeg for a Night Heron
Allan -- 7/22/2009, 6:50 pm
Re: Strip: Skeg for a Night Heron
Darren -- 7/24/2009, 5:18 am
Re: Strip: Skeg for a Night Heron
Jerry S -- 7/22/2009, 6:06 pm
Re: Strip: Skeg for a Night Heron *LINK*
Tim Foley -- 7/22/2009, 3:05 pm
Re: Strip: Skeg for a Night Heron
Joy -- 7/21/2009, 7:29 am
Re: Strip: Skeg for a Night Heron
Bill Hamm -- 7/21/2009, 1:38 am