Mississippi River Skiff: Skeg

We have given the hull it's first course sanding (40 grit).  At this stage we are setting the skeg.

According to Howard Chapelle's lines, it should be 6.5 inches at the stern and taper to 0 before station number eight.

Instead of a single piece of wood for the skeg, we are building it up of poplar strips.  The first couple layers are 1 inch wide and then they drop down to 3/4 s of an inch.

The strips are set in colodial silica thickened epoxy.  Several layers of kevlar will end up on the skeg.