Chuck Holst wrote: >No, I thought of it just before I wrote it. Here are a couple of other >thoughts: (1) The protective strip would have to be flexible enough not to >interfere with the deployment of the skeg. (2) It could interfere with the >hydrodynamics of the deployed skeg and add significant drag. The latter >could doom the whole idea. > >On my to-do list is drilling a small hole in the skeg near the end that >could be used to pry the skeg out with a screwdriver if there were a >significant jam. > An idea and a question. Here's the question; I'm also about to drill a small hole in the tip of my skeg, it's only a piece of thick polyethelene or something similar, so the hole is the easy part. Has anyone had any experience with running a piece of fishing line through the skeg hole and making a small loop, so someone could come up along side and be able to reach under your stern and have something they could get a grip on to give the stuck skeg a yank. This has been recommended to me but I'd think it would pick up all sorts of weeds etc. and be a source of serious additional drag. I'm slow enough as it is. :-) The idea; Develop a sliding plate that retrackes into the hull as the skeg is deployed and when the skeg is raised the plate moves out of it's housing and covers the skeg slot completely, giving better hydrodynamic drag when the skeg is up. Very similar to the idea behind fairings over a planes landing gear storage wells. The control of the fairing plate could be ganged to the skeg control somehow, or directly to the skeg itself. However our simple skeg is getting more complicated now and has more failure modes. Anyone know what kind of additional drag the open skeg box opening adds when the skeg is deployed and retracted, what ranges, maybe, rules of thumb? John Blackburn *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Dec 27 2002 - 08:59:42 PST
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