hahaahha most comments are from real life "experts", don't do this, that. I am sure they don't even have boats. Thanks for the vid. You did a good job. I can see the advantage for using the guard.
With the screw holes so close to the gear oil reservoir would it make sense to use aluminum or brass screws? A soft metal screw will sheer off - otherwise aren't you transferring any impact energy to the mounting points on the original skeg increasing the chances of cracking up through the gear oil reservoir? I'm planning on making my own guard as the skeg on the motor that came with my boat is pretty baddly abused - but I'm thinking I'll attach it as low as possible on the existing material. I'll be using this on a river, so hard collisions with unseen debris are much more likely than if I were in a lake - perhaps to most I'm being overly paranoid.
I have a pretty good chunk out of the front of my skeg on my 225 Mercury Pro XS. Would that be why my hole shot is suffering and it feels like it's cavitating? I've also lost some top end speed?
Thanks so much for your how to do video. I've been looking for some time now and I was surprised to see that one of your competitors will not allow for feed-back on their RU-vid post/advertisements. It was only after I saw the reviews on the Bass Pro Shop reviews page that now I see why… The one that requires adhesive showed a lot of one-star ratings. Those making the these ratings have the same complain, the skeg protector fall off once it went into the water making it a $89.000 loss. However, the way they advertise it they make it sound like the application is full proof, assuming one fallows all their instructions to the letter. I like your product because its basically pretty simple and does not take much to install. The fact that it has a hardware kit makes it a no brainer as far as it staying in place and attached. The only thing I would like to know is can one buy extra hardware to keep as spares ?? Thanks
@@vivimu I just put one of these on and I can see how it could be nothing but problems. The gap in the front looks like it will catch all kind of debris and also cause air bubbles interfering with the transducer.
I am not nocking the skeg guard but drilling so close to the area where the main support is I am not liking it. Just cant see drilling two hole 1/4 inch.
I just snapped the bottom 2” of skeg off in the drive way pushing boat backward up the ramp into my shed…. Forgot I had lowered it so the kids could ride their bikes past it. Far out. Are you still happy with this product. I hear that if you hit something big with these on, it can do significantly more damage and snap from the screw holes?
Guess I don't share some of your Hater's opinions. I think it's not a bad idea. Of course best thing to do would be ( Don't be hittin shit!).. But that's a crap-shoot. I see a lotta rocket scientists talkin "energy transfer, and, ruining your whole lower end. Question: If you hit something that F*^king hard, do ya really think you can blame the "Skeg-guard?".. C'mon!!
They have, is called a steering wheel.. if your using something like this on a boat that has a chance of coming in contact with a manatee in the first place, youd be in worse shape than any manatee youd run over and was probably all the sea grass you smoked that had you put a small outboard boat in with manatees in the first place.,
