Custom/Hybrid Rickter scupper versaplug install

I run these plugs on my B1, brilliant kit, don't leak and drain really.

New XFS comes with these for tray drains as standard. Main scupper is still flapped, but I might swap to one of these, nice link
 

shawn_NJ

Chasing waves.
Location
Daytona Beach
Here is mine. Super simple install with the smaller surface mount versiplug. Works REALLY good, and ski can float upside-down for minutes before swamping. With the flapper my ski would have sunk in seconds.

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shawn_NJ

Chasing waves.
Location
Daytona Beach
What did you use to mount the versiplug R with?

Cut out a piece of aluminum sheet with a hole saw to fit where the flapper went. Dont remember the diameter off hand. Then drilled it out to match factory scupper screws. @Breese08SJ had the material and did the super clean install while we turfed the ski. I know other guys did same thing with carbon fiber panels. I'd MUCH rather have the smallest possible drain hole.... for the times the ski gets away from you in the waves and is rolled upside down. Ideally I'd never run any scupper, but for a washout hull drain this is the safest compromise. I'm sure someone could sell these to all the Rickter owners with the automatic-sink flapper still installed.
 
Rickter are using Versaplugs as part of the 2015 XFS Competition Ninja hull from the factory, used to drain the foamless tray, seems like a fair endorsement to me..
Been running them on my B1 and RIB for years, work a peach.



Doubt it'll be long before they move to a large one for the main scupper ;)
 
Location
Stockton
No, the small ones don’t suck in exhaust… I have one on a new ski I have… versa plug “R”

jetmanic sells them…

I still have water in the hull at times…I do still have a working pump tunnel scupper installed too… I think the best solution is to install a stock siphon bilge system, but that can take some doing and expense… .I did it on a buddies ski and his is always dry…

 

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