Thought about a new lower but yea it is a boat and spending is easy to come buy - I need to decide what is more important on the spending - want to upgrade to many things - motor, lower, interior, guages, stereo, etc, - I love my boat

Well, see it this way .,,,,,,,,if you whant to upgrade the engine ,you need a new drive anyways.,,,,,,,so do what you need first,,,,,,,,,NO,,,,,,the Drive. Not the engine.
Then gauges and then engine. At last a prop to fit the engine,,,,,,,,,meanwile youre wife/girlfriend dumpt you ,,,,,,,,but since boat is in superdooper condition ,,,,,,,,not a problem chicks love that ! LOL

What boat is it ? ,,,looks like a welcraft ?,,,,,,,,,,,or chriscraft scorpion?
Like 26 feet or so ?

By the way if you need parts ,,,,PM me i got everything, well almost.
And always need $$$$$ ,because ,,,,well ,,,,i have a boat.

Scott.

The cone is held on with some very tough epoxy. I've seen lowers that hit submerged hazards and were destroued, but the cones stayed on. The bondo job on the other hand...

Looking at the lower, it appears there's some crusty areas under the paint. And god only knows what that flat black paint is- maybe something left over from touching up the barbeque grille? Anyway, body filler isn't waterproof- not close. Submerged it's like a sponge. Water will penetrate just about everything so if it was left in the water much at all, the filler was doomed. West makes a filler that's much better. maybe PM glassdave for the number- it escapes me at the moment.

Okay, too much advise, let's send this over to uncensored and put some real cones in it Chris is on the money, fill and fair it with West system epoxy. Then paint a cool color like silver, everyone will think you have an XR.

That skeg would be scary at 55mph, not much in the water to steer with

I believe it was Bob Nordskog's cig 39, named CAM... it had detachable skegs. You could pull the pins and they'd drop out while running. I always wondered how it steered though.

I look at skegs and props the same as I do tires on my vehicles. I want to run the best. I would look for a used, undamaged lower to replace that one with. You only need the casing if you can find one. Otherwise, I'd buy a new casing. If you like the boat and are going to keep it then it is money well spent IMO.

Thats what happens when you "hone your cone" too much

I had a cone pop on my drive over winter. The void between the cone and drive had water in it and when the water froze it pushed the the cone loose. I had it tacked on filled the void with fiberglass resin, and used duraglass, so far so good.

Hey - Thanks for all the info - This is only a minor set back - Clean it paint it and fix it over the winter - still some good lake time left in Oklahoma - chao - chef26