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How bad is the damage ?
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Can we ask how you lost it. Boating stories have great potential!jethro said:That skeg is basically to protect the prop and more importantly the output shaft from damage. In a way it is nothing more than sacrificial. I ran a boat with no skeg at all for many years.
How much extra clearance do you get, and extra 1/2"? Remember, the prop isn't that much higher up then the lowest point on that skeg.JL8Jeff said:I snapped 2-3" off the skeg on an old Suzuki 25 hp on a 13' Boston Whaler when I clipped the side of a huge round rock in the Delaware River. We found the piece but I never had it welded back on because it gave me extra clearance. I've seen a lot of marks on that rock so I know I'm not the only one who hit it. #-o
Crazyboat said:How much extra clearance do you get, and extra 1/2"? Remember, the prop isn't that much higher up then the lowest point on that skeg.JL8Jeff said:I snapped 2-3" off the skeg on an old Suzuki 25 hp on a 13' Boston Whaler when I clipped the side of a huge round rock in the Delaware River. We found the piece but I never had it welded back on because it gave me extra clearance. I've seen a lot of marks on that rock so I know I'm not the only one who hit it. #-o
Crazyboat said:Can we ask how you lost it. Boating stories have great potential!jethro said:That skeg is basically to protect the prop and more importantly the output shaft from damage. In a way it is nothing more than sacrificial. I ran a boat with no skeg at all for many years.
nccatfisher said:I have repaired several that had various degrees of damage to them. Usually they were the result of motor toters that bounced off and the skeg hit the pavement or they backed into something. Surprisingly few were from actual boating incidents. That one there if it were mine at most would get smoothed down and a little paint on it.
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