Skeg guards

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• PickleRick Member Posts: 4,373 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 2023

  Skeg guards to me are only a fix for a broken skeg as they help the boat steer.  I couldn't bring myself to drill holes in an undamaged skeg. 

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• YYZRC Member Posts: 5,475 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 2023

  Agree with @PickleRick - to me, a skeg guard is installed by someone who was too cheap to have a new skeg welded on. 

  2006 390 EC
  2008 350 EC
  Georgian Bay

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• aero3113 Member Posts: 9,875 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 2023

  If your skeg isn’t broken, I wouldn’t drill into it. I would think they weaken the skeg if it’s drilled. I had a skeg break on me once while anchored with my 242. A boat came by and made a big wake causing my boat to bounce, I had the drive all the way up too. In the fall when the boat came out, I had a welder come to my house and weld on a new one. 

  
  

  
  

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• mbnarney Member Posts: 196 ✭✭✭

  August 2023

  I have mixed feelings on this. During the pandemic the yard mechanics took my lower unit and destroyed it having a new skeg welded on. Took 6 months to get all the parts together to put humpty back together. Of course this is south Florida and it's a crap shoot whenever you need work done. These guys came highly recommended.  I might lean towards the bolt on if I had to do it again
  
  

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• rasbury Member Posts: 8,971 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 2023

  I hate anyone working on our boat..always think they know more than me- and that's not hard- and mostly disapointed..

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