RE: [Paddlewise] Skeg Jammers

Raphael said: 
> Oh boy is THIS topic near and dear to my heart, especially 
> recently. I have had a kayak full of problems with the skeg 
> on my Gulfstream 2000, in spite of being extra careful to 
> keep it clean. I thoroughly enjoy the boat, but, if I were 
> ever to go on a very long trip away from any kind of 
> civilization I doubt if I would take a skeg boat.  I check 
> the skeg every time I take off, but sometimes a rock or 
> pebble gets in it at a beach launch. It's no fun to find out 
> in the middle of the ocean, as the wind picks up, that your 
> skeg has gone kaput.

Raphael,

I'm not sure how CD changed their skeg designs beside adding the rod and
shortening the length of the adjustment on the "newer" skegs, but my 1998 GS
(with the old cable type adjustment) has been relatively trouble free.

The biggest problems I had is that when someone tries to use it who is not
familiar with skegs tries to use it, they seem to always want to pull out
instead of sliding it forwards or backwards. This leads to kinked cables and
that causes problems to multiply.

Steve Holtzman
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