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Harry
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.
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?
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?
Regards
Tom Grimes
P-14 #363 Far Horizon
Muncie, Indiana
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