Drilling Cooling Pickup in Rudder

[Jmeans146]

Hello,

I have an older ABS v-hull that I use in a small creek/river. It is a lot of fun as the tight creek almost makes it like racing a jet boat up the river. The design of the hull keeps it very shallow, however I would like to shorten the rudder. It is using a typical TFL style rudder with the breakaway screw, and single pickup as pictured here:



Basically, I am looking for any advise on how to drill a new pickup hole higher up, so that I can shorten the rudder, as it is much longer than needed.

Thanks!

[Jesse J]

Since the hole runs up the entire back of the rudder, you could cut to your desired length and then taper the leading edge down to the trailing edge, making a bit of hook at the back.