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>Do you (or does anyone else on the net) have any knowledge of fixes
>for wear on the skegs of an old Potter14 or 15, said wear being due to
>beaching the boat? I crawled under my Potter (on the trailer) a few
>days ago to measure the rollers on the trailer and found that all of
>the gelcoat is worn off the forward ends of the skegs, and the paint
>and gelcoat on the rest of the skegs is scarred and thin.
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>This wear has to be from beaching. I know that gelcoat is not
>particularly resistant to beaching, and I'd like to feel free to beach
>the boat whenever it is convenient. Do you know whether anyone has
>ever installed wood strips (shoes) on the skegs to keep the fiberglass
>from wearing? If it has been done, how was it done?
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>It seems to me that oak strips about 3/4 to 1 inch thick, epoxied on
>to the skegs, would do the job. Do you (or does anyone else---Jerry?)
>have any thoughts about this?
How about just adding a new layer of gelcoat or epoxy or something? if you've
got hull 363, the original layer lasted a while, I'm sure a new layer would
be good for many years.
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