Valley Kayak Skeg Tube Splice Kit

Valley kayaks designed from 2010 on (Etain, Gemini, Sirona) come with a rectangular black plastic skeg control block which is bolted into its recess on the deck outside the cockpit with four stainless steel metric machine screws. The skeg cable and stiffener tube slide in this rectangular block and telescope out of it. This block also holds the control end of the skeg cable's poly tube sheath in place while allowing the skeg cable to slide through it. Older model Valley Kayaks (Nordkapp, Aquanaut, Skerray, Avocet, Pintail, Anas Acuta) had a different skeg control system and do not use these parts. The setscrew at the aft end of the rectangular Control Block keeps the skeg cable's poly tube sheath from disconnecting. The end of the poly tube has a brass ring compressed onto it and the setscrew touches the poly tube behind the brass ring. So if you were to pull on the poly tube, the brass ring which is attached to the tube will hit the side of the setscrew and stop the poly tube from c