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Sea Kayak Skeg repair

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A helpful person dragged my kayak up a beach, unfortunately this resulted in my skeg becoming jammed with lots of gravel from the beach, which were exactly the right size to wedge between the skeg and the sides of the pocket in which it sits (ie the skeg box). A knife was used to prize out the gravel and the cord attached to skeg for this very purpose was pulled to release it. In fact it was pulled so hard that the skeg broke. The skeg had broken where it attaches onto the spindle. I had recently "helped" to repair a skeg on a Club boat. It was neccessary to replace the string that connects the skeg to the slider bar that controls it. I discovered that pushing a bit of string up the tube that connects the skeg to the slider was near impossible, the string, or I suppose I should call it a cord, was too flexible to push. In the end we cut the tube so that the cord only had to be pushed half the distance, then taped the tube up again when the job was finished, Due to this proble...
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Sea Kayak Repair: my attempt to fix my carbon fibre kayak

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On one disasterous day trip along the coast four calamities hit me. First a helpful collegue pulled my kayak up a gravelly beach, the gravel jammed my skeg and in attempting to release it, the skeg broke. Seondly, my beautiful, red and white, carbon fibre, Norse Idun Sea Kayak inadvertently made contact with a rock which resulted in a fracture and leak. On capsizing and rocks getting in the way of my poor attempt at a roll, I discovered that thirdly, my dry suit was no longer dry. Finally my "waterproof" VHF radio packed up, the charging point cover had undone and water had entered, killing the device. Its replacement travels in a waterproof pouch, although some people recommend taping the chargong cover instead. On the bright side, one of my fellow kayakers gained some rescue practice. This post describes my attempt to repair the hole in my boat. My poor fractured kayak. View of gel coat on outside of hull. The blue stuff at the top is a soft plastic release film ready to b...
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