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#5396 - 02/26/13 05:40 PM Re: Rudders VS Skegs [Re: magooch]
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Wu approached the reef. Waves rose to 15'. BOOMERS ! Wind screamed from the East. A hard choice - SKEG or RUDDER - life itself at stake.

Writing this never experiencing a skeg I am CONVINCED the answer is skeg until of course you knock it off on a rock.

Is there a fore/aft adjustable skeg ? with variable depth ? on what hull ?

Not analagous ? the reference questions ' is the design flawed '?

A kayak is a kayak but a kayak hull with a skeg center board and sailboat rudder is ?

Wu may say YES YES !

in our next installment.

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#5405 - 03/03/13 06:26 PM Re: Rudders VS Skegs [Re: datakoll]
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No skeg on a round bottom Solstice. Ill try out a more exact approach to attack/trim weighing/recording fore aft cargo area loading. Maybe there's a skeglike sweet spot ratio ?

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