The
skeg is designed to protect the prop by being the first point of contact when--not if--you hit an obstruction.
In many of my best spots, the
skeg on my motor is touching bottom while we're hammering blue cats.
We learned to dodge under the board as it flashed overhead, mindful of its sharp
skeg. To get a good ride, you had to wait for a wave that was free of boards or just be in a better position to start.
It is too heavy for a leash and the
skeg is triangular, solid and similar in shape to a shark's fin.
Kristiansen says one of the proposals under consideration is a
skeg, an appendage to the bottom of a ship's keel to help improve steering stability.
English criminals: "
Skeg" (theft, plunder), "Cribb"
Saturday 12.30pm-10.30pm Hip hop featuring Oshin the Nomad from 57th dynasty, The Breakin Bread foundation crew and
Skeg and Rob Life.
DALLAS CHILDREN'S THEATER, (214) 978-0110, www.dct.org The Island of the
Skeg, adapt: Linda Daughtery from Steven Kellogg.
The transom version should have a
skeg at the after end of the keel built up from 3" boards or cedar strip-stock.
A bulkhead or a section of the plating would be a task of its own as would making some of the parts such as
skeg, rudder, bollards, etc.
Scribe the bottom edge of the
skeg (Z) (Photo 7), using a compass to match the hull's profile.
This is actually a fail-safe built to protect you from another potential trouble spot: If you've drifted into shallow water, you might want that engine tilted up to putt back safely into the channel--and you surely don't want it automatically dropping your
skeg and prop onto the rocks.
Below the waterline lurks a thoroughly modern and rather aggressive looking deep T-shaped bulb keel and
skeg hung rudder.
There was a fresh gouge in the cement ramp, a broken piece of
skeg on the ground and a two-blade SS prop (formerly a three-blade) on what was left of his lower unit.--Boating World forum member wildbluejuander
