Replaceable Wear Component

Abstract

A replaceable skeg system for a marine motor housing includes a housing for a marine motor and a skeg retainer affixed to its underside surface. The retainer has first and second faces spaced apart from first and second sidewalls symmetrically disposed about a midplane. A closed-ended slot cut into the first face is centered within the midplane and a second slot cut into the second face has at least one through aperture communicating between at least the second slot and either the first or second sidewall. A replaceable skeg receivable within the second slot includes a substantially planar membrane of a thickness, and has first, second, third, and fourth contours conjoined to form a perimeter. Proximal to the first contour, one or both lateral surfaces comprise a rabbet and a groove parallel to a straight portion of the first contour.

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