Last year, P&H launched their new “kink-free” skeg system. The system combines the best of both worlds: the ease of maintenance of a rope skeg with the precise trimming found in cable skegs. Moreover, the system is lightweight and fully field maintainable. While some kayak companies are making things more complicated (pneumatic skegs, for instance), The P&H approach of simple solutions for simple problems makes a great deal of sense.
Like anything new, however, there’s a bit of a learning curve involved as people learn how the new technology functions.