‘Craig’ skeg extension

[Peter Smith 24Participant @petersmith24]

For Yabbie1

John, loving building your tug but the skeg extension is giving me problems.

You mention rectangular tube in your article. Other than soldering them together there is little or no information on making or fitting.

Please don't think of me as a pedantic idiot but I like to make parts as they should be. I was a patternmaker for many years and am used to making components as designed on the drawing. I am also a novice at this game.

Hope to hear from you,

Peter Smith.

[Peter Smith 24Participant @petersmith24]

[Yabbie1Participant @yabbie1]

Peter, it looks like I used two brass rectangular tube sections 8mm x 4mm approximately soldered together horizontally to form a square (photo p.18 of article). The bottom one longer and the top side filed off to run around under the keel for fixing. Fitted with a brass collar at the end for the rudder bearing and the void filled with fibreglass. I say looks like, because I can't remember exactly and it's hard to tell with the model all filled and painted up. In model ship building, the construction of details such as these is often left to the builder, there is no 'correct way' as long as it looks and functions as intended.

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