Skeg controller

Finished fabricating the skeg controller last week.  Cut the opening in the deck, then shaped foam to fill the opening and establish the inside form of the box, taped it over and laid up carbon fiber and 4 ounce fiberglass to cover.  Once dried, a quick trim and epoxied into the opening.

I drilled a hole in either end, inserted a plastic plumbing tube as a guide for the stainless steel slide (a tube puchased from Online Metals), and glassed it in place.  If I did this again, I'd probably do it more like a Maroske fitting and remove the tube before glassing in the ends to seal the run.  This would allow me to use a heavier gauge stainless tube, as I would not have to worry about it sliding inside the plastiic plumbing tube.

I used a round metal file to create an opening in the stainless steel tube through which the set screw can engage the cable. 

The knob was fabricated from a laminate of the pine strips used for the boat.