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    My buddy has cracked 2 straight skeg sporties on his Skater without ever hitting anything.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Action Dave View Post
    My buddy has cracked 2 straight skeg sporties on his Skater without ever hitting anything.
    yup... thats what ive seen/herd
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    Quote Originally Posted by Action Dave View Post
    My buddy has cracked 2 straight skeg sporties on his Skater without ever hitting anything.
    but there has to be a cause and a reason i dont buy it that anything just breaks on its own
    crooked motors off center line something if you hit something small at speed youll swear you never hit nothing when in fact

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    Quote Originally Posted by afr View Post
    but there has to be a cause and a reason i dont buy it that anything just breaks on its own
    crooked motors off center line something if you hit something small at speed youll swear you never hit nothing when in fact
    it's called side load ...STRESS! from serfacing a prop.
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    not rocket science
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    to but i still have a hard time beliving theres that much side forse going straight lol
    anyways moving as many boats as i have with a froklift like we do if you hit it just right they will and i have seen them pop right off with what looked to be just a tap

    i hope it never happens to me or anyone else but i have a lot of faith in the metal urgey engineer that everything stay together

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    the skeg is the only reason your going strait, it has all the force with out it youd make a u turn!
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    only at speed and on the surface but i cant tell you how many skegless boats i have seen runnin for years in the keys now we are not talking over 70 mph

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    Skaters like their lowers REAL HIGH

    Alot more forces on that skeg joint when it is up there, the worst is a single 21' Skater
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    kevin, I broke the swept skeg on my sporty but it ran WAY better than my straight skeg. I havent been able to hurt the straight one yet but Im not very hard on things I would have already cut it if I wasnt worried about breaking another one though.
    Why does everyone keep calling me Richard Noggin?? My name is George!

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    i run a sporty that was a striaght skeg. i notched it, and rolled it over, blunted the nose. i reshapped the skeg some. one of the best handleing cases on my allison. the pic in my signature i'm running that case. it has been 110 mph.
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    little help can someone post a straight and a swept pic,trying to learn kinda lost on this one
    thanks Donnie
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    I have always had better results with a swept back type skeg with a Bob's torque tamer that I welded in myself...

    my .02
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    Quote Originally Posted by Image 21 View Post
    little help can someone post a straight and a swept pic,trying to learn kinda lost on this one
    thanks Donnie
    this is a swept skeg



    this is a straight


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    Quote Originally Posted by Jay Smith View Post
    I have always had better results with a swept back type skeg with a Bob's torque tamer that I welded in myself...

    my .02
    Jay
    Would it be worth adding to the skeg and using the torque tamer for extra support/brace against cracking?

    Thanks for the pics AFR
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