In this study, the physical and superconducting properties of Bi 2 Sr 2 Ca 1-x Na x Cu 2 O 8+ (x=0.0, 0.05, 0.075 0.1, and 0.20) textured superconducting rods prepared by a laser floating zone technique were presented. The effect of Na +1 substitution for Ca 2+ has been investigated by Xray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, transport measurements, dc-magnetization, magnetic hysteresis and magnetic critical current density. The powder XRD patterns of samples have shown that Bi-2212 phase is the major one, independently of Na content. Transport measurements indicate that, in general, the transport critical current density of samples is increased by Na substitution compared with the pure sample. In all cases, a good orientation of grains with the growth axis was observed in microstructural studies. The best critical temperature, T C , was found as 93.3 K for the sample with 0.75Na substitution, under a DC magnetic field of 50 Oe in ZFC mode. It was also observed that the magnetic critical current density obtained from magnetic hysteresis curves by using the critical Bean's model, increases with increasing Na-substitution. The maximum magnetic J C value was determined as 1.35x10 5 A/cm 2 at 10 K for the 0.10Na sample. The maximum transport critical current density was directly measured as 1.3x10 3 A/cm 2 at 77 K for the 0.05Na sample.