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Hey she looks great!
9 times out of 10, its the clutch dog that is the issue.
You need to pull off the skeg to do this. It is not difficult though. Pull the skeg, lift the prop shaft assembly out, slide off the forward gear, then you can slide off the clutch dog, and slide on the new one. if in a pinch, you can flip the dog if you want, so that the damage is against the reverse gear. Since you are not usually going very fast in reverse, it sometimes works. Check the lugs on the forward gear though as well, to ensure it is not damaged, and in need of replacing.
There is also a way, to make an under cut on the lugs, to repair them. Im not a good enough machinist to do that though, so I can let someone else talk you through that if that is the way you want to go.
The other thing is, you will need to re seal the lower as well. Might be a good time to just get a re seal kit and do it all while it is apart.