"Adjustable" can be a positive attribute, as in balancing the added tracking against the added drag and/or changing conditions and needs. "Adjustable" can be a pain in the ass, as in constant fidgeting and fussing because what you are manipulating above water doesn't bear referenced or consistent relevance to what's going on beneath the water. Part of the plus-minus arguments of rope-bungee vs wire-slider skegs has had to do with fixing in the field, bent & stretched cables, designs prone to jams, etc. Design changes have improved in recent years, or so goes the tale i nmost shops and brochures. I prefer the rope-bungee skeg set up on my Romany because, well, that's what I've got and that's what it came with...and I doubt that I'd make a boat selection based solely upon the skeg design. That said, it helps to 'index' your skeg mechanism so that you have some sense of what is or isn't happening beneath. Small tweaks may or may not be noticeable to different folk, different fits, differing conditions. I do find it helpful to have a clear sense of when the skeg is quarter / third/ half / full deployed. I check this from time to time in 'dry dock' to see how the set up is aging. Then again, the notorious tidal races of Iowa's inland reservoirs sooooooo require minor adjustments of my skeg..... -w *************************************************************************** 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 Mon Sep 08 2003 - 22:18:03 PDT
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