Just now took a look at this posting. Though my boat is not new or nice ('93 royalex old town penobscot),I wish I'd done something like this before I wore though the outer layer of both ends. I know that's what kevlar skid plates are for,but I was too cheap to spend $100 on a $300 conoe. ("...quit your cryin'...") Now I've bunged up a fiber glass strip on each end,not been happy, and then sanded that down' and put kevlar skids on over the whole mess. I've now got 30" strips protruding maybe a 1/2" from the original hull line. What is this going to do to the boat's performance?