Just made my own water pickup for BJ

[Joe007]

I have had my fullers for some time now so I changed out the rudder to make it off set and took off my steering fins and filled in the last step on the BJ... Since I did not want to cut up my fullers stock rudder assembly I went to the LHS and bought a piece of aluminum tube 5/32" and sqeezed in my vise to make the pickup more oblonged to make less drag in the water... Here is acouple of pictures of what I did....P6223239_edited-1.jpgP6223237_edited-1.jpgP6223238_edited-1.JPGP6223236_edited-1.jpgP6223234_edited-1.jpg

Joe

[Stephavee]

How much did it help to fill your last step in? I've been thinking of doing this myself

[Joe007]

It made my boat handle so much better. To me it is a must upgrade on the blackjack. And if you do the upgrade take off the turn fins you will not need them anymore.
Joe

[Stephavee]

I see you let the ends run further than the transom. Im assuming this was done for a reason?

[Joe007]

I did that to see if it will help keep the nose down in quick throttles and to keep the boat my stable on fast runs.
Joe

[jkypta]

what did u use to fill it in? it looks like plastic and how did u attach it?

[Joe007]

You can get plastic the right thickness at your lhs. I used balsa wood that I had. I used an opoxy based
Resin. I painted the balsa wood first and then used the two part opoxy to attach to fill in the step.