My club had its final tourney of 2016 yesterday. The tourney was held on a river/reservoir that I'm not very familiar with.
I've heard stories of people losing skegs and damaging their lower units there, hitting rocks while running. So I went into this one with some hesitation.
I made the first run in the morning without incident. Whew
I have to admit I was pretty nervous as I motored a couple miles upstream, and relieved when I got there and shut the motor down.
It got even better when I landed a really nice Smallie in the first 10 minutes. But it went downhill from there
I landed one more small keeper Smallie and then a ton of shorts the rest of the day.
And later on I smacked a rock with my outboard at about 25-30 MPH. Ouch
This was the result.
I was figuring I'd have to have someone drop the lower unit, disassemble it and then weld a replacement skeg on. But I was reminded today that they sell skeg protectors/repair kits that can be bolted on.
Has anyone ever installed one of these? They look pretty easy to do from what I've seen.