Cutting your skegs off???? MPH gain vs handling loss????

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02-04-2011, 02:33 PM

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I use to run Imco shorties w/ skegs shortened to about 2"s on a roughly 75 mph boat. It had no ill handling effects at all.

02-04-2011, 10:46 PM

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i turned the skeg on my B1 into a shark fin profile

02-04-2011, 11:30 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Mbam

Suicide - the skegs had been cut off my #3's when I first got my Cigarette. It would swap ends any time it felt like it. I'm only alive because it was not that fast back then.

Marc,

Do you still have the Cig? Any plans on completing the resto?

02-06-2011, 10:43 AM

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Still have it, unfortunately it's low on the list these days.

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