: That is Nick Shade's Night Heron when trial tested it weather
: cocked quite a bit but the skeg helped. The skeg was tapered
: from 3/4 to 3/8 x16" long,if I was to do again I would
: increase the width to about 1" or slightly more. The great
: part is NO surgery and trial and error can be used very easly
: Best Nick R.

Nick,

I've just finished a Night Heron and used it twice so far. I have found that if the boat is allowed to just slightly drift either left or right it's almost like a rudder is hard over and the boat really wants to go hard right or hard left. Would the skeg partially solve this?