Kayak Skeg Stuck? A Simple Fix

Is your sea kayak skeg stuck or does it get stuck? Does it seem like even if your skeg looks at a small rock that it gets jammed? Well, then have I got the product for you. Do you thrust your life vest knife into your skeg box and wiggle it around hoping to pop out a rock? Don’t worry because we have a product that will protect you from dulling your tool. It’s also cheap and almost free if you have some laying around your house.

This amazing skeg unsticking product is called string. Or more specific, it’s called cord.

It’s light. It’s stringy. It’s cord.

To make it work, you drill a hole at the end of your skeg. Then string it through and either tie a knot at each end or tie it into a loop.

So before your skeg gets stuck next time, drill a hole and install a string. All the cool kids are doing it.

But wait, is your skeg box too tight to fit a string? Don’t worry, because there’s hope. You can use a heavyweight monofilament like they do for fishing or even a couple of strands of electrical or CAT5 wire (as suggested on the Internets by Robin). Get creative if you have to.

But what if after all the drilling and stringing, you still get your kayak skeg stuck?

Act right now and get one of these products: an old butter knife (thanks, Keith), the grip of a multitool (thanks, Ken), a paint stirring stick or an extra long nose plug string used like dental floss (thanks, Tori), or an old climbing nut tool, such as the Nutbuster Nut Tool, or if you are Alan you can use a knife to look cool. Alan, you know who you are!

Still don’t like your odds? Then abandon it altogether and get a rudder just like Jeremy says. Well, he admits that his skegs have strings. But only under the pressure of paddling with a Greenland paddle.

So don’t lose any more sleep over stuck kayak skegs, because there are ways to fix it when your skeg gets stuck.